Trouble using a tablet; any advice?

[RCIX]

I've got myself a handy dandy little tablet, and i'd use it to make some nice artwork, but the issue is that I can't get any reliability out of my strokes. The tablet is really sensitive to any slight swerve i make, and small differences in a single brush stroke would translate to, for instance, a massive difference in a straight portion. On paper it's not so much a problem as the small swerves are just that -- small, and can be fixed by being a bit more careful in drawing. Any ideas or tips?

[x4000]

In my experience, it depends heavily on the quality of the tablet. I used to have a low end Wacom tablet from about 2001, and it was always a ls you describe; I could never do anything with it well. Last year I got at Wacom Intuos 4, their newest thing, and it's like a dream -- literally like drawing on paper.

One thing I like about the new tablet I have is that it is 16:9 shaped (but actually overall is 6x4, including border, etc -- I have the smallest model). Anyway, that matches the screen shape of my MacBook, so positions on the tablet equate 1:1 with relative positions on my screen. Unlike a mouse there is no "sensitivity," because it's mapping tablet coordinates directly to screen coordinates. That's one enormous improvement over the older model I had.

Hope that helps some at least, though I know it's not precisely what you were looking for. If you do have a model of tablet that is not in 1:1 mapping mode, maybe you can try it that way.

[gamerman]

x400 is right. It's all about who made the tablet and how much you paid. I've worked with good ones, and I've worked with terrible ones. Sadly, I can't remember which brand was which, but it probably makes sense to spend more to get a good one.

[RCIX]

Hmm. It is a Bamboo model, maybe that is the problem. Thanks for the help