REVIEW: WACOM INTUOS 3 TABLETWritten by BLUR LOTERIÑA
Drawing or making any work art through a computer is a very tough job, especially for beginners. Using mouse in forming shapes, changing thickness, changing colors, erasing and switching from one command to other is lot of work and needs more time. To decrease time consumed and to eliminate unnecessary efforts, a tool was invented, digitizing or graphics tablet. A graphics tablet is defined as an input device, which consists of an electronic tablet and a cursor or a stylus pen that enables you to enter drawings and sketches into a computer.One of leading makers of graphics tablet is Wacom. Wacom has invented different tablets for different users who use different programs. Wacom has already introduced their latest technology, Wacom Intuos3. The Wacom Intuos3 consists of a tablet, a pen and a five-button mouse. The USB-based tablet is a flat screen where you make your drawing using a stylus pen. It represents screen of computer. Every point on tablet has a corresponding point on computer. The Intuos3 Grip pen is used to control your drawing. It is pressure-sensitive and has 1,024 levels of tip and eraser pressure sensitivity for an easy control. It is a cordless and battery-free pen with programmable DuoSwitch for comfort and productivity. It includes three nib styles; standard nib, stroke nib and felt nib.
| | New Collection of Paint Patches for Studio Artist 3.0Written by Carla Ballatan
New innovations regarding motion graphics for Synthetik Studio Artist are always welcome for easier creation of masterpiece art works that will exactly show what we have in mind, like paint dripping down canvass or slipshod scattering of paint or splattering patches of paint with very particular desired effects by artist. It is a great help that Dave Nagel, have always strived to write about and develop new paint patches to attempt more and more types of motion graphics to challenge and encourage more user-artists for Sythetik Studio Artist . Dave Nagel noted that not too long ago, he has written about techniques for creating write-on and paint-on effects for motion graphics. He further demonstrated what he wrote about by using custom brushes to reveal underlying footage, as though paint were dripping down or splattering across canvass. He also showed some methods of splattering paint around canvass. On his latest paint patches – Nagel Series 12 – he have expanded brushes he had used in previous tutorial. The newest collections of Studio Artist Paint Patches are 20 brushes designed to splatter and drip. These brushes are also designed to reveal source image, scatter contents of canvass and applies liquid strokes to artworks being created. Three primary categories characterize these new brushes: blow pens, reveals and drip paints. The blow pens’ use is to scatter paint on canvass. Reveals, according to its term, reveals source footage of your work especially for creating transitions. The drip paints are designed to create liquid strokes on canvass – paint splashes and drippings. These would help in making your artwork for lively and realistic.
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