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It's when using layers that another advantage of the Companion becomes apparent - 8GB of RAM means no appreciable slowing down when using layers. (Obviously this doesn't work if you want the colour to blend with media already on the 'canvas'). Reducing the layer opacity gives you the capability to make much more subtle adjustments. I got around it by shading and blurring my highlights on a separate layer with opacity set to 50% or so, then merging down layers when I was happy with the results. ArtRage has layers just like Photoshop - use them! The chalk tool in ArtRage, even setting the pressure to zero and using as little pressure on the pen as possible, is too heavy for my liking. I've never used them, so can't really comment. The reason, apparently, is that people who use those nibs tend to press harder, making screen damage more likely.
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Wacom recommend not using felt nibs in the Pro pen on the Companion, which might be a disadvantage for some graphics professionals. Secondly, the coating used on the screen is apparently not perfectly scratch resistant. It's an indication to me that the Cintiq Companion is great at exactly what it's designed for - drawing and painting in the digital domain, but not so good as a general laptop replacement. This isn't an issue if you're creating using a pen and drawing using 'natural' media - who cares if a pencil stroke is bright and glossy? It is an issue, though, if you also want to watch movies on your tablet, or edit photos, or videos using Premiere as I do. Firstly, the screen is not as bright, vibrant and sharp as on a typical tablet. I found it a comfortable surface to draw on, but there are a couple of downsides. It means the pen is easier to control and not as liable to skid around. Imagine drawing with a fibre-tip pen on a piece of the non-reflective glass used for picture framing to cut down glare and you'll get the idea. Moving on, what else makes for a good drawing experience? Well, the screen texture on the Wacom is slightly matt, rather than the high gloss found on most tablets, like the Microsoft Surface 3. I was able to pretty much forget that I wasn't working with a real pencil on paper and just get on with creating, which is, after all, the goal. All in all, though, the combination of the Wacom pen and ArtRage is excellent. It's not that it doesn't work at all - using the airbrush tool the spray pattern becomes conical if you tilt the pen.
Why? That would seem like a pretty obvious implementation to me. This doesn't happen - it doesn't use the tilt info. that the more I tilted the pen over, the wider the line would become. One gripe with the pencil tool in ArtRage, though - the Wacom pen sends tilt information to the app, and I assumed this would be mapped to tilt in ArtRage, i.e. The individual range is going to vary from person to person - evidently I have quite a heavy hand, and I had to experiment a little with the settings to get it just right.
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The tip is very responsive to pressure - I found I had to tweak the settings in the Wacom management utility to get the full range of light to dark.
Turn the pen over and scribble with the other end, it's an eraser. It works - press harder, line gets darker, ease off, line gets lighter. Move straight to drawing on the screen - well, I selected the pencil tool first - the default selection at first startup is blue oil paint … god knows why.
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The old tablet PC touch interface was clunky and unresponsive, and the processing power wasn't up to using complicated brushes like watercolour washes without the marks lagging annoyingly behind the stylus. The combination worked very well, and I was able to do some interesting work, but there were some disadvantages.
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The result is work which can be more or less indistinguishable from that done on paper or canvas, without the mess and the expense of chucking materials at projects which might not work out! I love the feeling of being able to try out whatever I want without wasting paper - looking forward to trying it for lightning sketches when I drop in on the undergraduate life-drawing classes at college! I first used ArtRage on an an old PC with one of the first Wacom graphics tablets and then progressed a few years ago to an HP Tx2500 series tablet PC running Windows XP, which I later upgraded to the Windows 8 Beta release.
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For those unfamiliar with it, it's a drawing and painting package for Windows, Mac and iPad which seeks to simulate traditional media, including oil paints, watercolours, pencil, pens, pastels, and more. This is the package I've used most in the past, and the one I still intend to use most in the future. My main object in trying out the tablet, though, and the one I did manage to fulfil pretty well, was to give a thorough workout to ArtRage.
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