Touch Screen for Art Purposes.

[1hope]

Anybody have an All In 1 touchscreen ? Could tell me if the touch can be used as a paintbrush for art and photo manipulation the same way as a mouse? This is something I have a talent for but a mouse is just to awkward. If not a touch screen, does anybody know what I can use? I have limited funds and it has to be from Dell. I appreciate any help - your answer may be saving me from making a mistake. Thank you.

 

[Sketcher]

I dunno, I've never tried one. Mice are clumsy for art purposes, unless you've trained with one and really know the Pen tool in Photoshop/Illustrator well. Wacom tablets are much better. I await the day when tablet PCs have the sensitivity to angle, pressure, and stroke that the Wacom Intuos line has had for years. That day might not be far off.

 

[elytron]

Wacom makes good drawing tablets. I own an older Bamboo model.

 

[1hope]

Guess I'll find out in a few weeks. I ordered 1 from dell. I think I drove the chat agents up the wall - I asked so many questions. Sound silly to be excited over a computer, but I wanted a computer I could do paint and photo manipulation with for years.

 

[morse86]

It could, depends on how professional. The biggest difference I think is resistive and capacitive touch screen. Resistive = the screen depends on press pressure, capacitive = the screen depends on touch (more expensive).

If you are a dedicated artist, you want to get a wacom (expensive)...eitherwise any touch screen would do.