Learning to use a Wacom ?

[Raymond Lin]

What is the best way to learn how to use one of these?

I have a Wacom Intuso 5 Medium for 5 months now and only used it sparingly as i guess I am used to the mouse. However, since I have it, as I bought it for some specific brush work in PS, I might as well learn how to use it in general workflow. But my problem seem to be the most basic one.

With a mouse, when I move the cursor to one end of the screen and if I am out of mousemat space, I simply lift up my mouse and move it to the centre and move the mouse but the cursor doesn't move to the centre of the screen.

I keep doing it with the pen...or something similar when moving the cursor, forgetting that the tablet is a reflection of the screen so that moving around is anti productive.

Is this something you get used to? and do you eventually know where to move quickly and accurately?

 

[Raymond Lin]

The biggest challenge is the accuracy of the click.

With the mouse once you are over a certain pixel, you are there as long as you don't move the mouse, which is easy as it is on the desk, still and stationary.

With the pen I am holding it and I almost feel like I am shooting a gun or arrow at a target and need to hold my breath before clicking the pen/tapping the tablet to make that click command. Breath and I will move the cursor.

How do you overcome that?