After being inspired by Kevin Cornell at Bearskinrug I finally decided to try a drawing tablet, one of those magical designer tools. I bought a Trust 1200-V2 Wireless Scroll Tablet from Amazon for a fairly reasonable £40, which was an absolute breeze to set up, windows picked it up without the need to install the drivers, which is always nice.
My main complaint with it is that I was unable to (logically) get the tablet to map to anything less than both of my monitors, which was rubbish because that meant the tablet was being stretched horizontally; so you couldn’t trace anything without it becoming distorted. I say logically, because last thing yesterday I somehow managed it, so my tablet maps to my primary monitor and my mouse continues to work across both – it’ll take me a bit of time to get used to swapping but it’s definitely worth it. I will try and figure out how I managed to get it working, so I can at least make a note of it for next time.
Now all I need to do is learn how to draw… I’m currently at Rory’s standard of drawing, which of course is amazing!
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Dude, how did you get this to work…..
I found your blog on a 6th page of a google search. and haven’t found a solution for this problem yet.
By Wouter Klijn — 9 Sep, 2007 @ 11:02 am
Wouter, the next post to this one is my write-up of how I managed it, although I can’t gaurentee it will work for you.
Trust Wireless Scroll Tablet & Dual Monitors
By James Gregory — 9 Sep, 2007 @ 11:12 am
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