A Graphics Tablet is a great input device for working with GIMP. You’ll see what to look for (pressure sensitivity and size) and how to integate them into GIMP. My tablet is from Wacom, the market leader. But a lot of other good ones are around too.
There is more to tablets in show 104.
At the end of the show I have a essage for the German speaking audience. There is no German Meet the GIMP, but Berhnhard Stockmann (devvv) from Gimpusers.de and Gimpusers.com has made a nice video DVD about GIMP. Also a DVD about building WEB sites. Both are available for 29.95€ in book stores and online.
I gave the GIMP DVD to Boris form Happy Shooting, a German language podcast about photography. Boris (nsonic) and Chris (Tips from the Top Floor) are well known podcasters and as a team they are simply great. Useful information and a lot of “dumme Sprüche”. Just now there are no shows, Chris is trecking in the Himalaya and the SatPhone broke down.
The TOC
00:30 The Wacom Intuos Tablet on stage
07:30 GIMP and the tablet
11:20 Using the tablet
12:35 Brush dynamics
16:00 Advantages over the mouse
17:40 Good bye to all non German speakers
18:20 Promotion for devvv’s GIMP DVD
21:30 Second end of the show
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“I gave the GIMP DVD to Boris form Happy Shooting, a German language podcast about photography.”
Cool! Then maybe they will remember GIMP as an image editing software in the future. How often did I hear the sentence: “take a software as Photoshop or PaintShopPro or something similar”. Then I always scream “GIMP, take GIMP”
I’ve got an Genius mousepen 8×6 http://cgi.ebay.com/MousePen-8X6-Graphic-Tablet_W0QQitemZ220403533634QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3351130742&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116
Really cheap for what you’ve got but under Linux, it’s not realty greatly supported, I’m thinking to get a wacom when I travel to the US next august, here in chile there are over priced
Honestly – it would be my tip: Buy a Wacom. But they don’t pay me money, so I don’t tell it on the show. They could give us one of these each, couldn’t they?
http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/cintiq-21ux.php
Of course , if they pay a small fee to compensate the cost of a new server, we could talk about it a litle bit more
My low-budget-solution: Wacom Volito (phased-out model). Simple, small, cheap and very helpful. Active area in A6-format, in my eyes sufficient for photo editing. Pressure sensitive, of course (currently available at German Ebay section for 19,90 € plus shipping – B-Ware mit 12 Monaten Gewährleistung).
Erschütterndes Bekenntnis zum Ende der Show
… wer hätte das gedacht …
I’m fortunate enough to have a tablet PC notebook from my school. It does have a stylus and screen writing surface, I’m only able to use the stylus as a basic 1-button mouse under Ubuntu 9 Jaunty.
My tablet is I believe a wacom tablet built into the notebook. The notebook itself is an HP Compaq 2710p tablet PC.
Any suggestions on what I can do to fix the problem of the non-functioning stylus thumb-button and eraser tip under Linux? The tip and pressure sensitivity work great!
Thanks.
LaterZ!
Darren!!
No idea it this helps: http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/03/13/wacom-digitizer-tablet-on-an-hp-2710p-with-ubuntu-gutsy-works-fine/
Thanks Rolf for the URL. I made such a newbie mistake! My stylus’ eraser WAS working from the get go! Why was it behaving like the brush tool? Well, that’s because by default that’s the tool that GIMP sets the eraser of the stylus to! I had to manually switch the stylus eraser’s tool to the eraser tool and voila! It worked!
It didn’t dawn on me until after I thought about what I saw in your video – how you changed the eraser to some other tool in GIMP.
My stylus’ thumb button is only a single-button. It behaves only as the middle mouse button, not the right mouse button. What do you use more on your stylus’ thumb button – middle or right button?
Thanks again Rolf!
Now if I can just get my screen rotation and mouse orientation to work. Screen rotates fine, but the mouse coordinates are all messed up relative to the screen position of the mouse cursor…
LaterZ!
Darren!!
I’ve got a Wacom Bamboo and it is not too bad, but never really liked a tablet. It’s great for painting stuff, masks for example, but for the rest I prefer a mouse. And painting a mask with the mouse is not so bad as handling the menues with a pen
Wacom should be the only one, which doesn’t need batteries in the pen, is that right? They got a patent on this technique as i heard, so no other company is allowed to make tablets whith a pen without batteries. But I’m not shure on that.
The Intuos series should have a better build quality than the bamboo series. At least, the pen looks better than the pen included by the bamboo tablet.
Greatings
Fornit
Hi,
thanks for this episode so interesting and helpful. I see your podcast since a couple of months ago. I’m still at the 55th. But, I have see number 101 and buy a second hand tablet. I just have received it this morning and it’s fantastic. In Ubuntu it has been “plug and play”. Wacom Volito.
Thanks, and thanks again.
See ya!!
Alejandro from Lille (North France)
You forgot to mention the “devices window” ie windows -> Dockable dialog -> Device status
quite nice to have the overview when you have several pointers
Мне кажется очень полезная штука
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Впечатлило, однако!
we can help translate it in russian:)