[Kendeathwalker]

Ive got 2 monitors and Im finding that my tablet surface now represents the collective space of the two monitors than representing each one individually. Ive noticed with my mouse that it resets itself when It moves over to the other monitor, Is there a way to do this for the tablet? Or will I have to resign myself to just working with smaller strokes?


Any help would be great, thanks.
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[eyewoo]

My solution was to set the tablet (a Wacom) in portrait mode (twisted 90 degrees) and stack my monitors so theat the top monitor was represented by the top portion of the portrait mode tablet and the bottom monitor was represented by the bottom portionof the tablet... That way, all the tablet real estate was being used. (I use a flat LCD screen on top and a good CRT on the bottom)

Here's an image to demo...



I then use the top monitor for all graphic resources and the bottom for drawing and painting. Using Photoshop, note that I set the navigation window very large on the top monitor so that I can always see the whole picture I'm working on, no matter how much I've zoomed on the drawing/painting monitor.
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[Kendeathwalker]

Yes Ive discovered that what I originally intented to do isnt possible and Ive chosen a solution similar to yours. I just picked one of my monitors as a designated Painting monitor and the other for my reference, Then set the tablet to full screen on the monitor I paint on, Then to navigate my refernce photos I just have to use my mouse. I tried your method and I cant get used to the tablet being divided and how its forcing me to make smaller strokes. Thank you for replying.
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[Nag]

Exelent Idea Eyewoo.. looks like I have to rearange my desk.

[Capt. Fred]

I have just been lumbered with the same problem.

I use a sheet of graph paper under the overlay of my tablet, to help my optical mouse read the surface. When I had one monitor, tracing a square on the graph paper gave me a square in photoshop. Now, with a second monitor, I get a stretched rectangle when tracing a square.

Makes it particularly hard with getting angles right. a 45 degree stroke on the surface becomes a shallow 25 or something degrees on the screen.

Play as i did with the wacom preferences, I didn't manage to affect the mapping of tablet to screen.

[sedgemonkey]

I think eyewoo's got the right idea here, but doesn't that strain your neck to work with monitors stacked like that? Does having monitors side by side not work for you?
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[B0b]

the ratio of the monitors vs tablet work with them 1 on top of the other..

i only have my tablet scaled to 1 display when in photoshop, and just reach for my trusty mouse when i need to move to 1 of my other 3 displays

[eyewoo]

sedgemonkey... side by side takes a big footprint.

No strain on the neck... I'm mostly looking at the bottom monitor anyway. If a particular resource is temporarily being used a lot, I just drag it down to the bottom monitor for awhile.
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[Affected]

Well, you can set overlapping mappings in the wacom advanced mapping dialogs, so a really dirty solution would be to make two overlapping full-tablet mappings, one of which corresponds to the primary display and the other to the secondary. Then you'd need some way to change the stacking order of the mappings (send to front/rear) with a keystroke. I can't think of any way to do this except with a macro app of some kind, which may or may not be a reasonable solution. Of course it would be better if wacom provided support in the drivers for this kind of thing.

Edit:
actually, a look at the wacom faq's gives another possible solution: you can map pen and mouse buttons to "mode toggle" which basically toggles between mouse and pen mode, so you can draw in pen mode all you want and then press a button to switch to relative mode to access all of your screen area.