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eggbug enthusiast @aidan3/9/2023, 9:21 PM

somewhat considering investing in and using a display tablet for the first time in several years (i have a very rickety old cintiq 21UX that i rescued from my university gathering dust under my couch rn. it may just have to go to the big Free Geek in the sky, RIP) and man i genuinely don't even know what the display tablet landscape is like these days. i havent had to Shop Around for something like this since i got my wacom bamboo fun in like 2009 (complete with a copy of Photoshop Elements, lol)

alternately, maybe iOS sidecar is decent for this but i have no idea if it's even remotely possible to use with design/painting software. edit: i have an iPad which i use procreate on quite a bit and love it for casual drawing purposes! my problem is that i spend like 12 hours a day on my pc for desk setup/monitor real estate reasons and dropboxing files from iPad to pc for work stuff is a total headache, lol. opinions absolutely welcome on all this, btw

#my god the cintiq is 19 american pounds. what a dinosaur

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mint @mintexists3/9/2023, 9:25 PM

ios sidecar has some features specifically designed for painting software (pressure sensitivity for photoshop-ish tools, some other ones probably). havent used it myself but its def a use that apple has in mind

gay @mogg3/9/2023, 9:32 PM

both ipad and android tablets can be used as drawing tools for PC. they work fine but do have some noticeable delay.

current screen tablet market is now loaded with choices from chinese manufacturers that are decent alternatives to cintiqs and much cheaper. huion and artisul are okay brands if you desperately need a budget option.

i got to try all of them at least once and they all felt like viable options, but in the end i settled for a wacom redwood after using the intuos4 for years because turns out i don't like having my hand on screen and the buttons felt useless

Isidore Bloom @ligaratus3/9/2023, 9:46 PM

iPads are able to used as an ~autonomous drawing tablet with an Apple Pencil, and i think an iPad Pro might be equivalent to a decent tablet computer? my regular iPad 7 or something ancient like that definitely worked well for that purpose until my hands got too claw-like to draw often.

James Munns @jamesmunns3/9/2023, 10:02 PM

Another +1 to try an iPad or iPad Pro natively, especially if you have a friend with one, or an Apple store anywhere near you.

Tools like Procreate and Concepts are pretty incredible. I use mine (ipad air, not pro, original apple pencil) with concepts for all kinds of diagramming stuff.

eggbug enthusiast @aidan3/10/2023, 3:10 AM

oh i do have an iPad, actually! i suppose i didnt actually make that clear. its one of the first non-Pros that you could just buy a Pencil with and i do love it for painting in procreate but it's SO separate from my actual daily workflow (and very bad for my general drawing posture) that it's really hard to integrate into my figma/affinity pipeline, lol

~@modulusshift3/9/2023, 10:08 PM

I have heard that Sidecar works surprisingly well on its own. There's also Astropad Studio, which seems to be kind of an advanced take on the same thing? adjustable pressure curves among other things. but it is a $70/yr subscription.

Elaine Will @ElaineMWill3/9/2023, 10:48 PM

I could never afford a Cintiq. I bought a Huion Kamvas in 2019 for $500 CAD and I LOVE it. (I did have to replace the pens about a year ago, which was an additional $100, but still) The best part? It was sold as being 19" AND IT'S ACTUALLY 19". Cintiqs will typically say they're 18" or whatever but then you actually get them and the drawing area is more like 12" and I am not exaggerating in the slightest.

Lexie @lexiecon3/10/2023, 1:04 AM

there's a little bit of funkyness with colour accuracy which is my only real complaint but I've had my huion kamvas pro 4k for a year now and am very happy with it otherwise. I supplement with a more colour accurate monitor so it's not a huge drawback

🌹🦌@megafauna3/10/2023, 7:26 AM

I've been on an xp pen innovator 16 for a year and a half now and it's been really great, even after I've uhh. perhaps unfortunately dropped it on the floor a couple times? 5 of them maybe? from a desk arm before I learned to actually secure it down. completely unharmed besides a scrape on one corner

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