I've been using graphics tablets for as long as I can remember. Due to having an illness that affects my joints and muscles, I find using a mouse quite painful after a short time. It was fantastic the first time I used a graphics tablet and pen. It's just like holding a normal pen, drawing or writing on a board which you hold in your other hand, place on your lap on put on a table next to the computer. I'll give a bit of background as I feel it's relevant to the brand. I've gone through about 3 tablets now, all have been Wacom. My last one was the Bamboo Fun tablet, and lasted just under 2 years before going awry. The connecting wire became loose and kept ...  Read the complete review

For working with photos and images in Photoshop or with vector files in Illustrator there is no substitute for a good graphics tablet. The Wacom Bamboo is exactly that, a good solid graphics tablet, it doesn't have some of the bells and whistles of the fancier models in the range and thankfully doesn't have their price tags either, but it does everything the average user will need. The packaging holds the tablet securely so no need to worry about how it has been handled in the warehouse or transported and it's all recyclable so you're not contributing to a landfill site if you dispose of it correctly. Installation of the drivers and software was a ...  Read the complete review

As a daily user of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, I had long been coveting a Wacom tablet, but was undecided which one to buy and how much to spend. In the end, I decided to plump for this one, the most basic and the cheapest, thinking I could always upgrade at a later date. Six months on, I am more than happy with my purchase. It's great, very easy to use. You need to experiment a bit, changing the settings, so that it suits you and so that it is pressure sensitive when you draw. It comes with a tutorial on its use and also ArtRage software. It has two buttons that work as a left and right click, though I don't use these and use my mouse at the same ...  Read the complete review

So I've been relying on my Trust Slimline Widescreen tablet for a while, but sooner or later it had to start to die of old age. But it didn't. Instead, I sat on the pen and snapped it, and two days later, when I was considering ordering a new pen, I spilt tea all over the tablet, and it was completely broken. It was useless. I couldn't bear using my mouse to do art, so I ordered a new tablet. The Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet. It came in a really nice lime green box, and everything inside was nicely packed and protected. So that ticks 'Good Packaging' off my list. But of course, it's not all about what's on the outside. The tablet itself is nice and sleek and very ...  Read the complete review

I bought this tablet mainly for drawing in Adobe Photoshop - I decided to go for Wacom as I had heard good reviews, and I wasn't disappointed. The tablet comes in a large box and feels high quality. It is very slim and easy to store when not in use - there is a slot on the right hand side for storing the pen, which is handy. The tablet connects to the computer via a USB slot - at first I had it plugged into a multi USB attachment, but it was very slow, so obviously needs to be plugged directly into the computer. The cable is long enough to attach to either side of a laptop. On the left hand side is a small light that lights up when the tablet is plugged ...  Read the complete review