Bamboo Fun (Medium) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software


Manufacturer: Wacom
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Features:
  • Package contains - Bamboo Fun pen tablet and pen, Bamboo Fun mouse, pen stand, package of 3 replacement pen nibs, USB cable, quick start guide, installation CD with tablet driver and electronic user manual, software DVD that includes Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Win/4.0 Mac, Corel Painter Essentials 3.0, and Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 GE.
  • Great for digital drawing and painting, touching up photos, or writing in your own personal script
  • 512 levels of pressure sensitivity to more accurately mimic physical drawing
  • Compatible with all major software
  • Works with both Windows and Mac operating systems

Description:



Bamboo Fun (Medium) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Reviews:

starsMy favorite traveling companion
I love this tablet! She believes, how you draw on paper! The notices seem nearly cleaner! I am particularly vernarrt into the fact that she has a mouse in addition.


starsGreat product !
This is a large starter tablet. It is enough small, with you, if you are mobile on a laptop and.....also to take, which was the attitude a Brise. It would recommend degrees in high for people, would use the graphic software. It forms with it many more simply.


starsWacom delivers with Bamboo Fun!
For those looking at these with fresh eyes, Wacom has brought this technology a long way. Most people shopping for Wacom tablets probably have owned similar products in the past. This product is more affordable than the higher end Intuos3 models, yet powerful enough for many pros. While I have struggled with rating this product a 3 or 4, it is definitely a good product.

First of all, the "medium" sized tablet will look large to most people. This size is perfect for hard core graphics people who need to work at the pixel level for large images. However, most users will find the small size probably fits the needs of occasional graphics use. Those using this for the mouse and function keys may prefer this size. Either way, the pen function will map to your screen size for any of the Wacom models.

This unit comes in a variety of colors and configurations. The mouse is nice because it allows you to free up a USB port if you're using a USB mouse. Power users will need more from a mouse though. If you're anything like me, you prefer a mouse with many more options than this one provides.

The Bamboo software also allows you to customize the buttons. Left-handers will greatly appreciate this!

Upon plugging in the device, the mouse worked immediately! The pen also works as a mouse or as a pen/brush for drawing applications. Be prepared to spend some time tweaking this unit to your likes though. Installing the drivers and software allows you to access the settings and tools that make this device versatile and customizable.

The software included with this device is a nice to have. Many people who buy this will already have or need full blown Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Elements gives you everything casual users need. The Corel application is nice to play with. But other than a few "macro" type functions I have yet to find anything I can't already do with Adobe. Perhaps newer users may find the Corel product more user-friendly.

Pros
+ USB connection
+ Works on XP and Vista almost plug and play - before software installation
+ Nice customizable software
+ Nice bundled applications - Adobe Elements and Corel Draw
+ No additional power adapter needed

Cons
- Medium size is large for casual users not using the mouse
- The scrolling zoom function does not work uniformly on all applications
- The mouse with this model will not suffice for most users
- Default settings require a lot of adjusting for graphics editing
- The tablet would have been ideal with several additional USB ports

Overall, the graphic artist or visual junkie NEEDS one of these. If you are a casual user, it is worth getting one on sale. You just might want to lean towards the small one. The small model with pen only will meet most users' needs.

Enjoy.



starsDefinitely for advanced users, not so much for the rest of us
This is periphery, which complicated abilities has and made possible, in order to accomplish a multiplicity of the functions, which are referred to digital photos and graphics. There are two parts to this product, to the actual physical enclosed tablet and to the software. The tablet may do a feather/spring, which has the functionality of a mouse and a more, including which right and left clicking keys uses. The feather/spring to touch is at the beginning of a little clumsy, particularly because the starting point of the feather/spring on the tablet changes the output positioning of the cursor on the screen. This is definitely meaningful, since it is necessary for in the situation its, on the tablet with a driving point of the reference to draw, but, if you use, the feather/spring for normal mouse works, it lasts when, in order to receive used too. The made available mouse does not have typical functionalities of a wireless mouse and supplies use beyond this. There are also customizable keys on the tablet, similarly the hot keys, you on your keyboard for grazing the net has and make its email, etc. accessible. Permits in particular zooming inside and out, which is very handy when working in the illustrations, which try, to perfect her. The software, which will provide with the product, is quite also advanced, and possibly this should have given me concerning a tip is, how user friendly the product for beginners was. Corel may manufacture creative work and has a multiplicity of the tools at your removal. This is, where I found the feather/spring, in order to be most useful, and I tried even to cause hand written notes and was quite successful. Photoshop supplies tools, in order to improve your digital photos and to change it in the creative ways. My experience with this software is limited, therefore I had a hard time to extract serious use of using the tablet in this climate. I can see, like specialists or serious users of using the feather/spring and the tablet, around illustrations to change would profit. In my case I could see the usableness of Photoshop, particularly with nik the color Efex add you on, but I did not understand, how one contains tablet consumption in this process. The installation of the drivers for the small articles and the software Suite was direct and although it took some minutes, it was complete the free controversy. I think that bamboo its user leader with further ideas up, as one could improve definitely the tools in connection with the tablet used. Entirely, I believe the fact that users with previous knowledge find this periphery very useful but the remainder of us is probable by its complexity to be overwhelmed.


starsA Sophisticated Graphics Tablet
You are not misled by the name: the graphic tablet "of the bamboo fun" by Wacom is not the toy of a child, nor it is a genuine version of Wacoms other models. It is a fluegge tablet for use with air-dried clay brick Photoshop, Corel painter and other plot routines, in whom a mouse or a contact surface for accuracy is too clumsy. The tablet can be used with the contained feather/spring or the wireless mouse either (using the tablet as A glorifizierte mouse document). The bamboo fun is not completely compatible with Mac and Windows platforms and, since it runs away gate USB of your computer, needs it batteries. If this is your first time with a tablet, prepare you are to spend some hours received used to the device, not because of its complexity however because of the method of shifting the cursor the screen, not trusted. They must learn also, like one the contained software, the air-dried clay brick Photoshop of elements 4,0 and the Corel of painter features 3 used (specified versions refer to Mac OS X.) The Downloading of the driver and the software away of the enclosed CDs lasts time. As soon as you will however do this you by the energy of this smooth looking, silver tablet surprised. The work surface of the tablet is ¾ 8 "by 5 ½, a plentiful size for most people, and it corresponds automatically the size of its screen, a characteristic, which can worry first, if you keep, to waive too and for the conversion of your mouse used, but, which is once wonderful, you used for it. The "note ring" for you zoom shot in and from your work with the note of your finger makes possible and can be also used to increase web pages and documents. Other note keys help with forward/bake navigation, with the decrease and during the screen cleaning. The edges are circled and smooth to make, in order to lower incommodity. The feather/spring does not have to affect the edition to draw in order to shift the cursor on the screen, although it must affect the surface, in order. Clicking, around a web page, a screen or drawing to steer can be completed, either as one the point on the tablet surface knocks or more clicker on the side of the feather/spring uses the comfortably set. Fairly like a material pencil, the opposite end has a "eraser." The feather/spring seats comfortably in the hand as if a material letter instrument. The mouse was however large and clumsy for my smaller hands too, although it quick circuit between drawing and more general computer navigation permits, since you do not have to separate the USB cable. Systems requirements: Windows 2000, Windows.xp or Windows Vista for PC; Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher, with a Intel or an energy PC processor. Installation of the contained software (Photoshop, Corel and Nik color Efex requires a DVD drive. The bamboo fun is a high quality graphics tablet, which should fulfill most computer artists and the Photoshop Junkien.


starsNice Functionality for Serious Users
The Bamboo Fun Silver tablet has certainly surpassed all of my expectations. I wasn't actually sure how the product would work, but I found it a powerful tool for photo editing. My only concerns- if you are not a technically sound you may have difficulty understanding all of the tools that are at your disposal.

Likes-

-Nothing uses batteries! Once you plug the tablet into your USB port there is not a need for any additional batteries. In fact, the tablet makes a very nice wireless mouse!

- The pen is a bit awkward at first - I still need to develop the motor skills to see my pen strokes transferred to a screen - but it is an effective editing tool.

- Adobe Photoshop and Corel draw both come with the package. Both software packages provide you with top-notch photo editing capability. Photoshop will allow to make customized photos and add text - while Corel gives you the ability to draw freehand.

- The zoom feature on the tablet works like a charm. it works the same as the dial on a Video Ipod.

- Once you master the pen - you can use Corel Draw to paint in the same manner as a canvas!

- Programs installed without any issues on my MAC.

Concerns-

- While I like the functionality, design, ergonomics and such I wonder how often I will us the tablet. Unless you are a serious photo editor the Bamboo tablet may be overkill.

- There are SO many options it will take many hours before you are fully able to maximize the Bamboo tablet's capabilities.

Final verdict? If you enjoy photo editing or doing paintings/crafts the Bamboo Fun Tablet is for you. If you are more of a casual editor who may modify an occasional Christmas card this may be a little more than you actually need.



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