Couldn't get Bluetooth to connect. It's fun to play with but not really usable. Misses the odd bit of lines and jumps around a bit. Only program I could get the pressure sensitivity to work with was SketchBook.
Found one of the Intuos range on eBay for £25, it should be here by Thursday. :)
Did it arrive? Is it any good?
Nope, it didn't arrive. :C
I feckin' hate this when it happens (not that eBay are at fault here, in fact they're pretty good at sorting this shit out), you check out someone's profile/feedback ratings and all looks hunkydory, then your item never shows up. I appreciate that there's going to be mitigating circumstances sometimes, but for someone to just go silent and not respond to any messages when they're selling something and have taken your money is a little galling.
Still, I've opened a case with eBay and just have to wait a week or so for the seller to get back in contact, and if nothing comes back I'll get the cost refunded.
I'll start looking for another once the money's refunded, I don't want to order another now 'cos we'll be away for 2 weeks, and don't want to deal with the vagaries of the local sorting office when no-one's in to receive it.
I hate that. I ordered some stuff from Malaysia, never turned up. Contacted seller, they said they'd resend it. I fell for it, never turned up and the time to dispute on eBay expired :(
I'm sure I've got a 99p packaged stuck at Heathrow from months back. I think I chased it twice then just didn't bother wasting my time.
I found another ebayer who was selling the same Intuos tablet for ~£35 but had negative feedback on his one and only item as a seller, which seemed suspicious, so I passed on that one. I've been checking his feedback, just to confirm my apprehensions and though the person who did win the tablet hasn't posted anything, another item he's sold hasn't turned up. Dodged a bullet there.
I found a more reputable dude and got a tablet from him and I've been having a play over the last few days. It's nice. The pressure sensitivity works really well, I'm just getting used to the way the pen works with the cursor, using absolute positioning.
It's a pretty cool device. I have mine mapped to a 1080p + 21" CRT dual display ( used primarily as a mouse substitute) so as you can imagine it's a total distortion of the 4x5 tablet area. I found absolute positioning to be too annoying with having to constantly reposition the pen for different parts of the display. It's really, really good for the pen tool and stamp in Adobe CS and gimp. Not so much for bitmap drawing tools IME.
Not tried the pen and clone stamp as yet, but I'll give that a go tonight maybe.
I've been using it for shading in Photoshop so far and the pressure sensor works nicely for that.