Posted by fungusamungus on 12/30/05 19:14

"Clyde" <clyde@world.comedy> wrote in message news:ApidnRxDl5pHzijeRVn-
> Funny. It looks like you didn't read my message. One thing I said was that
> I don't do anything that requires pressure sensitivity. That's why I don't
> need a tablet. So you are right, you can't do pressure without a tablet,
> but it's irrelivant for me.
>
> It does reduce one tool (not massively) in Photoshop. Then again, I'm not
> using all the tools in Photoshop anyway. There are lots of drawing and
> painting tools that aren't important to my photo editing.
>
> Tracing "when you are editing photos"?!? What are you doing tracing? I
> don't trace anything when I'm editing photos. It would seem that
> "retouching of promotional shots, gig photos etc" wouldn't require
> tracing. The only reason I can think to do tracing is in manually creating
> masks. However, that is the slowest and most painful way to make masks.
> There are many better ways to make masks.
>
> If you are doing a lot of tracing, a tablet would be a useful tool. I
> don't do tracing or need pressure sensitivity. Therefore, I have no use
> for a tablet.
>
> Clyde

I mostly avoided this thread, but the change in subject line made me read it
:)

I'd like to interject here though: I do freelance illustration, which often
includes comic books. I also covhort (sp?) with a lot of comic book
artists. I know a couple of guys who *ink* in Photoshop with only a mouse.
That even blows the "tracing" comment out of the water :] (these people are
quite good, I might add. And I'm not saying "inkers are tracers", but there
is a lot of tracing involved in inking).

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