Graphics Tablet Solutions (Solutions (Muska and Lipman)) at Dominant Systems Book Store

Graphic tablets are becoming compulsory for designers and graphic hobbyists of all ages and interests. A piece of hardware consisting of a drawing surface similar to a mouse pad and a pressure-sensitive pen, a graphic tablet is used to create drawings and illustrations from scratch, edit and manipulate existing photos, or record signatures electronically. This book teaches users to choose, install, customize, and optimize their hardware for their design needs. Also included is information on basic drawing techniques, creating illustrations and Web graphics, using shadows and depth, and creating weather and nature effects.

Customer Reviews & Comments
The book is well written and adequately illustrated and is a good beginner's guide to image processing as well as providing good general guidelines about the use of Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Power Point, Corel Draw and many other programs. The problem is that it is supposed to be about tablets (like the Wacom Intuos, etc). There is really only one chapter (Ch.2) that refers to tablets in a very general way. From there on you go (very well-done)overviews of the basic principles and tools used in image processing and manipulation. You are told, for example, about the Clone Tool. But you are not told anything specific about how using the clone tool with a tablet is different from using it w/a mouse. No tips, no settings, no illustrations, no reference to the tablet (or its pen) at all. And so it goes with every single tool and process for 11 chapters. If this was a beginner's book on image processing, I would give it 5 stars. It is interesting, well organized, well-written. But it was the only book I could find on "tablets", it even has "tablets" in the title; and I was expecting it to address the issue of "tablets" at some length. It doesn't.

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