

It is a graphics tablet, but not a screen tablet like the cintiq. Luckily, I still had my old wacom intuos pro. So, my cintiq was out of commission for the entire second half of my recent Genie Loophole project. Especially if you’re out of the warranty period.) (If you have one of these, do yourself a favor and buy a spare cord to keep around, because they break ALL THE TIME and wacom can’t seem to keep them in stock. Seriously, wacom? Seriously?!? And it took TWO MONTHS for them to send me a replacement because they were out of stock. I bought it because my wonderful wacom cintiq had ANOTHER 3-in-1 cord fail on me. There are a bunch of other cool features as well that you absolutely should play with. So, when you want to draw almost-perfect shapes or lines, but not so perfect that it doesn’t look hand-drawn, this does that beautifully. The great thing about these rulers is that you can adjust the precision. It lets you specify how much you want it to average out your strokes, so it’s totally adjustable for your preferences.Īnother totally useful things it does is that it has a ton of different types of on-screen rulers to help you draw lines, curves, shapes in perspective, spirals, etc. What it primarily does is smooth your strokes for you, which eliminates the regrettable stair-step pixelated lines you sometimes get if you’re zoomed out too far when you draw or when your processor is being stupid. I’d like to plug a Photoshop plug-in that I discovered a couple months ago and I think it’s absolutely wonderful. Seems to work, it’s not too pricey, and you can check if it works for your file before you buy. I would like to recommend PSD Repair for anyone who needs their PSD files repaired. That would also work, but I figured I’d spring for the download just in case it happens again. They also have an option to recover one file at a time online at $10 a pop. However, that should be much faster than starting from scratch, so I’m satisfied. I do need to go in and redo the spacing on my font and make sure that all my layer effects came through correctly. It did recover my file, which is worth $27 to me. And they offer a trial which recovers your image (proof it works) with a watermark (to force you to pay for it). Now, it’s not free, but it’s not too pricey either. But, luckily, I did find an App called PSD Repair. I’m not really comfortable working at that level. There were suggestions on how to do it by going directly into the code and manually fixing something. But, on a hunch, I searched the web for a way to recover the file. Thought I was going to have to completely re-do several hours of work. It didn’t recognize the file type even though it was saved as a Photoshop Document (PSD) file on Photoshop. I had a bit of trouble this morning opening a PSD file I’d worked on for hours yesterday.
