General Buying Advice re Wacom Tablet for First Tablet

Hi Julie,

I made the jump to a Wacom about 6 months or so ago and love it. I ended up buying the Wacom Intuos Pro Pen and Touch PHT-451. It is the small one of their range, as I didn't want to have it take up too much real oestate and the thought of my hand having to cover a larger tablet space was not appealing. The price point is more mid range, but I do not think it is overly expensive.

I like the fact that the tablet is a pen and touch version, making it a lot more versatile in my mind. It took me a while to get used to it, and I still haven't quite managed to figure out how to best use it when I need to use the brush tool (I always end up with the pop up box for changing the brush type!), but I keep persevering.

Overall, I really love my tablet and am glad that I went for the small size.

That's correct Tom, for some reason I forgot that not all of them come with wireless, so I should probably add that this was one of the must have features for me, as I work with a laptop only and so editing with the tablet is made so much easier when it is wireless.

Mind is the Wacom Intuos Pro small & wanted wireless for use with me laptop, shopping around got mine from Costco about £120, which was cheaper than most other places, compare this to my old ones was a bargain for what the pro is capable of doing so I personally would recommend it even if your thinking of going into picture editing.
Took me several weeks to find best settings & shortcuts to use with me stylist pen & tablet so now browsing web pages or windows is just a scroll of the wheel & buttons to page back/forwards another button for zooming & in pse you can do virtually everything from the use of the pen & tablet without using key shortcuts, tabs, layers, save, save as, its just endless what you can have as shortcuts with your intuos & is very user friendly for making new shortcuts in the intuos properties, however they do come with a default setup to get you started.