[Phire2]

Sorry, this question has probably already been asked, but I would appreciate it if someone could spare some time and explain something to me. I'm interested in purchasing a tablet, however I do not understand how a person would use the tablet in shading. I don't think anybody actually manually selects each color in the palette? That would be painstakingly slow. Does the pressure sensitivity allow it to determine how dark or how light a color comes out?

[DarkORB]

pressure lets you select a lot of things. and opacity/darkness is one of them. however, another useful tactic is to lock the opacity at 20% or around there, and layer on the colors.

the real strong points in tablets are the ability to natrually draw. pressure really helps for things like painter, or specific tasks in photoshop. it's all around a good buy, imho.

[crazybread]

To answer your question: YES! the tablet acts more like a pencil (at least to me it does), so change the size of the brush to change the thickness and by pressing harder you leave more color on your page. You'll figure it out. Do your self a favor and get it!

good luck!
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