![]() ![]() It’s easy to drop into a bag with your laptop, not just because it’s small, but because it’s flat. If you travel a lot or like to work at coffee shops and libraries, a small tablet provides the most portability. The other end of the tablet size continuum is the small tablet. If you’ll be using a large graphics tablet constantly, you might decide to move your keyboard to an under-desk keyboard tray. A tablet that big can end up competing with your keyboard for desk space, especially if your keyboard has a numeric keypad. The large Wacom Intuos Pro tablet is 16.8 inches by 11.2 inches. Large tablets are a lot bigger than a mousepad, so you have to clear off a lot of desk space to make room for one. If you think you’ll be using a graphics tablet to trace sketches or other physical art, the large tablet size is more likely to be big enough to hold an entire sheet of paper.īut the large size comes at a price, and it isn’t just that the Intuos Pro Large costs almost twice as much as the Small size. If you create art on paper and canvas or you prefer to create digital art with gestures that move your entire arm, a large graphics tablet might be right for you. So, at least in terms of the hardware, even a small tablet has more than enough resolution to control every pixel on a typical 27-inch diagonal display (2560 × 1440 pixels).Ī tablet of any size can map its active area to control all of a large display. Computer displays typically don’t exceed 3000 lines of resolution across their entire width or height, but Wacom says their Intuos Pro tablets have a resolution of 5080 lines in just one inch. If you’re new to graphics tablets, you might wonder if a bigger display needs a bigger tablet, but most graphics tablets have a much higher resolution than your display. Controlling a Big Screen with a Small Tablet For example, on Wacom Intuos Pro tablets, you’ll find four light corner marks that indicate the active area of the dark tablet surface. Keep in mind that the active area of a tablet is typically smaller than the area that appears to be the drawing surface. You’ll often be moving across the entire surface of a tablet just to move the pointer around the display, so with a large tablet your hand may travel much farther than it would with a mouse or trackpad. This means that if you position the stylus at the top right corner of the tablet’s active area, the pointer instantly moves to the top right corner of the screen no matter where you last left it. With a stylus, when you move the pointer, it starts from the absolute coordinates on the tablet that correspond to the display. In other words, it moves relative to its last position. What does that mean? With a mouse or trackpad, when you move the pointer it starts where you last released the mouse or lifted your finger off the trackpad. A mouse uses relative positioning, while a graphics tablet uses absolute positioning. You move around the screen differently with a graphics tablet than you do with a mouse or trackpad. Graphics tablets deserve a closer look because the size relationship between a graphics tablet and the screen is less direct, but still affects how you work. I’ll be talking about graphics tablets that replace your mouse or trackpad, not the pen displays that let you draw directly on the screen or standalone tablets such as the Apple iPad. Once you decide to buy one, a big question you might have is which size you should get: small, medium, or large? The answer is not always what you might think. A graphics tablet with a pressure-sensitive stylus is an essential purchase for many creative professionals. ![]()
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