Turn your MAC laptop trackpad into a drawing tablet

Want to buy a drawing tablet for your MAC notebook for your graphic design, but cant afford one? then this may be the solution for your problem. Pogo Sketch Stylus, from Ten One Design, this product can make any touchscreen or touch-pad that can take gestures, act like a stylus so this means you dont have to use your fingers and save's you a big bucks.

In my other post this is like the wacom bamboo pen and touch tablet. this can make your designing much easier and faster for it it like a pencil, making it a low-cost alternative to a drawing tablet. This means that graphic artist of the design may be able to go about drawing and writing naturally in illustration programs without the need for a costly tablet.

source: tenonedesign.com/stylus.php

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Wacom Bamboo review

note: video is owned by Wacom.(video sample is for Wacom Pen and touch.)

The Feel the need for speed, i recommend using Wacom bamboo tablets, feels like ordinary pencil you use in drawing for graphic artist and graphic designer. There are five different Wacom bamboo tablets, Bamboo pen, Bamboo touch, Bamboo pen and touch, Bamboo fun, and Bamboo craft. It could either be multitouch or pen or both touch and pen capabilities with gestures just like in your competitive computers out there. Now that the upcoming Adobe Photoshop cs5 brush 2 color mixing capability you will love this.

Check out the difference between all the Wacom Bamboo's:

• Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch CTH460 has both multitouch and pen capabilities. It has a 4.9 x 3.4 inch active touch area, and a 5.8 x 3.6 inch active pen area. Comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Nik Color Efex Pro software.(black only)

• Wacom Bamboo Touch CTT460 it only has the touch input, but the same as the form of pen and touch.

• Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL460 it only has pen input. It has a 5.8 x 3.6 inch active pen area, and the package includes Corel Painter Essentials 4.

• Wacom Bamboo Craft CTH461 for arts and crafts and scrapbooking types. It has the same size like pen and touch tablet. It also comes packaged with painting and photo editing software as well as scrapbooking tutorials, a subscription to Scrapbooking & Beyond magazine, and a library of craft embellishments. (silver only)

• Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch CTH661 also has multitouch and pen input, but comes in silver and sizes of up to 7.5 x 5.1 inches for touch input, 8.5 x 5.4 inches for pen. Comes with Corel Painter Essentials 4, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Nik Color Efex Pro software.

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Mud Man in Zbrush

Because of the post i made about the new release of ZBrush 3.5r2, i remember the first project i made way back 2008 using that 3d software, but didn't got the chance to finish it. As I'am just a beginner, plus the topology of the face is not yet that right to form the proper placement.

as a 3d designer, i suggest, if you want to study Zbrush 3.5r2 sculpting first learn proper topology, a Wacom bamboo tablet (not necessarily but most zbrush user do use this) and patience. Good luck! ^_^

This is also nice to integrate with Adobe Photoshop CS5 for texturing.

OT: you will see wheay as the sig for the work, its my screen name.

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Zbrush 3.5r2 review

All the mud's and the sculpting are paided off, the second release of zbrush 3.5 r2 has fixed some problems and put additional features. i want the new feature such as the new ZSheres 2 and ZSketch. New brushes such as Trim, Planar, Noise, Move, Spherical, Slide, Form, Flakes, and Crumple. For other features check it out below.

New Additions include:

* New “Auto Groups With UV” option added which allows for auto-grouping by mesh (shells) and UV (islands) combined continuity.
* Added option to allow object to rotate around its local center. To activate, press the “Align To Object” option in the Draw palette. Note: This button is stored when you save the custom config file.
* Added a 2nd Flatten brush (similar to the Flatten brush found in version ZBrush 3.1).
* A Preferences/LightBox option added to turn on or off LightBox at startup.

New Features Include:

* Increased smoothing strength of the default Smooth brush.
* Masking can now be applied with LazyMouse with or without Backtrack modes.
* Increased the tolerance to mouse/pen movement when assigning Hot Keys.
* The transparent button is now enabled even if the current tool contains only one subtool. This allows ghosted transparency to be activated when entering HD edit mode.
* The sampling value of the ZProject brush is now zero by default.

Fixes include:

* It is now possible to generate adaptive displacement and normal maps even when the mesh is partially hidden.
* The “Show Mask” option will auto-activate when applying masking in Transpose mode.
* ZBrush activation code has been updated to be less sensitive to hardware changes.
* ZBrush can now auto-group by UV Tiles even if the Tiles resides in the negative UV space.
* Fixed the 2.5D Blur brush with ZAdd mode.

source: Pixologic

i cant wait to use this software again. I'll post new updates if i take hold of this powerful 3d software, now this time i want to have a wacom bamboo so much.

Want to see an example of my 3d model? check it out here: Mud Man

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