New Media Toys xD

Bamboo Graphics Tablet

Today we got to use the new graphics tablets and scanners the creative media department got.

we were told that we can use them with some of our icon work (to scan them into the computer and edit them) if we wanted to, i however decided to just play around with the Tablet, to get a feel for it, so i decided to use it with Photoshop to practice drawing Japanese Kanji.

The graphics tablets we used were the

Waacom Bamboo Pen & Touch graphics tablet.

Unlike some tablets ive used in the past the Pen&Touch were easy to use, very responsive and caused very little lag with the program i was using it for (Photoshop).
they allowed for Direct Plug n Play, not having to go through any settings or enable the device before use (which was a welcomed relief).

And the scanner we used was the

Canoscan LiDE HQ.

The new scanners work a dream, so far there has been no instance of the scanners not working on certain machines in certain rooms, like the scanners we used before.
to get the scanners working we could use 1 of a few methods;
1.Use the scan button on the actual scanner.
2. Use the program installed for use with the scanner to scan your image into your desired destination folder.
3. Go into Photoshop and follow these instructions, head into File, go down to import and select Canoscan, this initiates the scanner and imports the image directly to your Photoshop canvas.