Read this review BEFORE INSTALLING this TABLET. Since there is NOTHING to manually install. The previous reviews for this product on Amazon seem to be old. Even though the Tablet comes with instructions to install the Tablet Driver first - Don't! All you need to do is: (I have Windows XP) 1) Plug in the Tablet into your USB port Windows will recognize it automatically and install it for you(Plug & Play) 2) Insert a fresh battery to the MousePen (By pulling it apart NOT TWISTING IT - if you twist you would break it). That's all I had to do. Unfortunately I learned that the hard way.
Because initially I followed the instructions that came with the Tablet to install the Tablet drivers. The Driver on the CD would not install properly so I downloaded the XP Drivers from the Genius. which installed properly. But then the tablet did not work. Eventually I called their tech help and the guy told me to uninstall the driver and let windows install it automatically for me.
I would recommend downloading the Tablet manual. The Tablet box although large comes with very little documentation and the installation documentation is incorrect. By the way the batteries that came with the unit were good. I have had this tablet for a few years now, and the first few years was okay. However a few months back the pen for this tablet stopped working as it was made very poorly.
I bought a Huion rechargeable pen which works well with this tablet, except the tablet no longer registers pressure sensitivity. I am running Windows 7 64 bit and for awhile the work around was having to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for the tablet. It would work for awhile and then suddenly stop registering pressure sensitivity again, so I would have to do it all over again.
This past week the work around has stopped working and I have no more pen pressure, all my strokes on the tablet are the same size. This makes working in Photoshop or ArtRage EXTREMELY difficult as you need that sensitivity to vary line widths. I also have never have been able to get the hotcells to work. I will never buy another Genius product again. The support on their website is a joke, as the last time they updated their Windows 7 drivers for this particular tablet was back in 2013.
I love my Huion pen though, and it is very well built and easy to use. The next tablet I purchase will be from Huion. I have had this tablet for a few years now, and the first few years was okay.
However a few months back the pen for this tablet stopped working as it was made very poorly. I bought a Huion rechargeable pen which works well with this tablet, except the tablet no longer registers pressure sensitivity. I am running Windows 7 64 bit and for awhile the work around was having to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for the tablet. It would work for awhile and then suddenly stop registering pressure sensitivity again, so I would have to do it all over again.
This past week the work around has stopped working and I have no more pen pressure, all my strokes on the tablet are the same size. This makes working in Photoshop or ArtRage EXTREMELY difficult as you need that sensitivity to vary line widths. I also have never have been able to get the hotcells to work. I will never buy another Genius product again.
The support on their website is a joke, as the last time they updated their Windows 7 drivers for this particular tablet was back in 2013. I love my Huion pen though, and it is very well built and easy to use. The next tablet I purchase will be from Huion. This is god for beginner who are just starting to learn and getting familiar with drawing on tablet with results on screen.
This is very primitive tablet if you are thinking to purchase for intermediate drawing/art/etc using painter programs. Instead go for wacom. Surface of this tablet is plastic with no texture to imitate paper. Due to which its not realistic experience to draw like you draw on paper.
workaround: i used a thin sheet of paper on top of tablet and that gave me real painting feeling of drawing on paper with pen/brush. Read this review BEFORE INSTALLING this TABLET. Since there is NOTHING to manually install. The previous reviews for this product on Amazon seem to be old.
Even though the Tablet comes with instructions to install the Tablet Driver first - Don't! All you need to do is: (I have Windows XP) 1) Plug in the Tablet into your USB port Windows will recognize it automatically and install it for you(Plug & Play) 2) Insert a fresh battery to the MousePen (By pulling it apart NOT TWISTING IT - if you twist you would break it). That's all I had to do.
Unfortunately I learned that the hard way. Because initially I followed the instructions that came with the Tablet to install the Tablet drivers. The Driver on the CD would not install properly so I downloaded the XP Drivers from the Genius. which installed properly. But then the tablet did not work. Eventually I called their tech help and the guy told me to uninstall the driver and let windows install it automatically for me. I would recommend downloading the Tablet manual.
The Tablet box although large comes with very little documentation and the installation documentation is incorrect. By the way the batteries that came with the unit were good. I bought this back in 2010 and upgraded to a Wacom two years ago, so it has been a while since I used this. For around $40 in 2010, it was a good price to get a graphics tablet. I used it in Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 with Adobe Photoshop CS5. When I last used it, there were issues with Photoshop, which is the program I used it in most often besides Illustrator.
The pressure sensitivity often had to be manually reset every time I reopened Photoshop. It got annoying after a while. Also, Photoshop would occasionally not sense the tablet if it was plugged in -after- I started Photoshop. Last, sometimes, for no reason at all, it would begin drawing only straight lines in Photoshop. I could control where the line began and ended, and that was it.
Restarting Photoshop solved the last problem, but it was very disruptive at times. The tablet is made of plastic and feels flimsy at times around the edges. The pen is bulky and the area for drawing, I soon discovered, is a little too small to be comfortable. It is fine for beginning and playing and certainly enough to do a lot of things with (when you remember to plug it in before opening Photoshop), but any graphic designer or artist would eventually want to upgrade. I let a six-year-old cousin play with it in 2013. It still worked, and he was satisfied with it.
I never used the mouse, so I have nothing to say about it. As a note not directly about the tablet's quality or my experience, I cannot believe that people are trying to sell this tablet for $250 now.
For $250, I would definitely not recommend this. For $40 today, -if- the Photoshop issues are fixed, it is worth trying as a cheap tablet. One of my friends has a drawing tablet and I wanted one because I was thinking about going into graphic designing. I spent a while looking for different drawing tablets, and when I found this one, I didn't think it would be very good quality, because it was about $50 cheaper then most of the other pen tablets. I looked at it more, and realized that it might not be so bad after all, and for the time being, I would not be doing anything professional with it. I looked at the most recent one star reviews and the most recent five star reviews, which all proved their point well, but I decided to buy it.
The tablet came in the mail a day earlier then it was supposed to and I was so excited that I installed it right away. I installed all the drivers first, and then I plugged in the pen tablet. Both the mouse and the pen need a AAA battery to work, which are included in the package.
It was easy to put the battery in the mouse, but it took me a while to figure out how to put a battery in the pen. There is a small gray notch on the back of the pen which you have to press with a closed mechanical pencil, or something else small enough to press it. At the same time, you gently pull on the bottom of the pen and slide it so that the part is above the gray line that separates the two halves.
I was a little annoyed at first because I could not get the mouse to work. I then discovered that the mouse will only work on the tablet itself, which is bigger than I thought it would be and provides plenty of space to work with. I have used the pen tablet with Adobe Photoshop (which is included-trial version), Coral Painter (Also included- trial version), MS paint and Gimpshop. Some of the reviews warned me that the pressure sensitivity wouldn't work, but that is only if you use the brush tool.
If you use the pencil tool, the pressure sensitivity determines the opacity of the brush, the airbrush tool also determines the opacity, but never gets completely opaque, and the pen tool changes the size of the brush. The computer knows whether you are using the mouse or the pen, and each remembers the FG and BG colors, the tool and the type of brush. For example, if when using the pen you have the pencil tool with a 9 px brush, a FG color of green and a BG color of blue, and you switch to the mouse you can change to a brush tool with a 20 px brush, with a red FG color and a pink BG color, and then switch back to the pen, you will have the 9 px pencil brush with blue and green FG and BG colors again. When you use the pen, touching the pen to the tablet is like clicking. If you hold the button on the side and touch, it is like a right click.
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To move the courser around without clicking, hover the pen above the tablet, but do not actually touch the pen to the tablet. The sensor is strong enough to pick up where the pen is. Where ever you put the pen on the tablet is where it will appear on the screen. For example, if you put the pen in the leftmost bottom corner of the tablet, the courser will appear in the leftmost bottom corner of the computer screen. The same is not true with the mouse, the mouse acts like a regular mouse. I hope this review was helpful. I bought this item after reading the most popular on-line reviews.
Here's my take on it, and I suggest you read those reviews too before buying this product. I have used this tablet almost every day as an online whiteboarding tool (primary service,.) for my on-line tutoring business. All in all, it does the job I bought it for. This is the first tablet I've ever owned and my overall impression is that I got what I paid for. For around 50 bucks, I got a functional tool that tried to pass itself off as much more, but isn't. If you NEED an inexpesnive 8x6 tablet for whiteboarding simple drawing applications, as I do, use this and count yourself lucky you found it. If you want a first tablet, buy this.
If you're looking to get into serious illustration uses, or if you're a wannabe Photoshop ninja, this is not the tool for you. After a few months of using this thing, even with my own limited needs, I've resolved that when I can afford it, I'll get myself a serious tablet. The setup simply isn't comfortable for long-term usage, no matter how simple your needs. The Genius pen is all plastic, and the point on it is very flimsy. That means that getting precise pressure control out of it is not going to happen.
If you need even 256-level pressure control, let alone the 1024-level this tablet advertises, buy another tablet. There is no built-in eraser function on the back of the pen, as there is in many tablet PCs and graphic tablets.
The plastic of the pen gets very sweaty with long-time usage. Even with my limited applications, that means reduced functionality for me. The footprint of this thing on your desk (and it's heavy and yes, fragile) is about a foot square if you add in all the egregious edge space.
Don't even dream about being able to move it out of the way regularly - the USB cord connection to the tablet is as flimsy as it gets. Unlike what one reviewer claimed, you will NOT stop using a mouse when you buy this product, and that means that you'll probably be using the tablet mouse provided. The tablet mouse is truly as cheap as it gets. I've dropped it on to wood once at a 1-foot distance, and its controls are now iffy. It is advertised as having a scroll wheel. It has a cheap sliding button that also clicks the way the button on scroll-wheel mouse works.
You cannot modify any of the controls of the tablet mouse with the controlling software, as you can the pen. The.pdf user's manuals are translated Chinese-glish. Don't expect to understand much there if you're not an ESL professional. The plastic facing on the action part of the tablet lifts up like a hinged sheet that will stick to a sweaty hand.
Don't break it. There are no dead cells or areas, as other reviews mentioned. The software provided with the tablet only allows you to work and reprogram the top row of hot cells, not the side rows. They, apparently, are only printed there for show. The pen presentation software provided for Powerpoint is interesting.
Do not, however, think that you will get much usage out of the Annotate for Word function - stuff moves around when you actually put it into a document. So if you're an online teaching professional and you want to correct documents by hand without printing them out and scanning them again, this tablet won't help you. The batteries in the mouse and pen were not run down. Quite the contrary, the alkaline battery in the mouse registered on my battery meter at 1.6V, and the one in the pen at a whopping 1.86.
A premium alkaline battery (Duracell, Energizer) usually registers at 1.60. I've followed the advice of the most popular review here and used this thing with Windows XP, not Vista. Again, following the advice given, I downloaded the latest driver from the Genius website, confusingly marked 'Vista.' If you don't use the mouse or the pen for a significant period of time, the cursor WILL start jittering on your screen. If you leave the pen on the tablet, the cursor will similarly start jittering. Interrupting your work about every half-hour to deal with your mouse can get highly annoying. All in all, I couldn't have found an 8x6 tablet suitable for online whiteboarding work at a lower price.
I am happy with this item's performance, despite the general reality of its being as cheaply made as it is. For writing text and phonetic symbols on a whiteboard, it sure beats a mouse, and with a few days of practice, anyone can learn how to write neatly in straight lines. But when I can afford it, this thing is history and a serious tablet will be on my desk. I read Richard Nydegger's review, which was very good and informative, and bought the tablet.
As it turned out I did not need to take any of the steps Richard gave. I installed the drivers from the cd and plugged the tablet into the usb port when instructed and finished the installing of the driver and then rebooted the system and I had a completely working tablet. I opened photoshop and looked at the items I use most in the program and went into the pen tablet control panel which is in my system tray and clicked on the tab that says Hot Cells you will see a boxes in the cells that line up with the boxes on the tablet. In the hot cells menu click on any of the hot cells, (I used the side ones) and clicked on define and when in that tab I click on the key combo to press and for the tools in photoshop, (a single letter to select a tool), I only chose that letter, (I put these on the left side when I am looking at the tablet) and works well. On the top I followed what is written up there for the most part. For print I selected it to be 'save as'.
On the right side of the tablet I put the commands, for example a new layer is ctrl + Shift + N which will give me a new layer. When you have defined your hot cells click apply and you will have a fully functioning hot cell that makes it quicker and easier.
I separated things in the hot keys to avoid using my mouse as much as possible. I hope this helps for those who are having problems with the hot keys on the sides and top of the tablet. You have to set them. For the web 'www' last one on the top you will have to tell it to open your browser via the.exe file.
It will automatically open Explorer when I only use Firefox. I did not have to upgrade anything or change the batteries. I am not saying that everyone will have such luck, but hope this helps a little.
This is a price conscious tablet that gets the job done just fine. Works in Photoshop, Windows, and can be used for signing in Word, has some nifty features. Very slim and feels pretty good with hard surface rather than the old soft plastic cover types. Pen is sensitive and even though the buttons not as convenient as they could be, it works well with good tip. Does take an AAA battery that comes with. Once the driver is installed you can plug into any USB and good to go.
Nice that it is USB powered. Caution: I have a Dell 410 XPS with 8 external USB ports. Shortly after installing the tablet I started having boot up issues with my 2 year old unit. Got worse, took it to a local repairman, they said intermittant power supply and replaced. Brought home after it checked out at repair, and still wouldn't boot.
I did a little testing on my own, an low and behold the tablet was causing the failed boot up. Unplugged the tablet no problems. Plug the tablet back in and I couldn't even get to the Windows XP splash screen. Suspect the bios couldn't make sense of what it was seeing on the USB. So with some systems you may only want to plug it in when your ready to use it and not keep it plugged in if you are having any boot up issues.
I purchased this unit for two reasons. First, it's very affordable compared to the Wacom. Second, it has a mouse, which should help reduce the clutter on my desk.
If you are a professional graphic artist who needs to turn out quality work, then this unit is not for you. This is more for the casual artist or someone who rarely uses a tablet, and quality is not an issue. Here are some reasons why: 1. The pressure sensitivity is inconsistent. One second you're drawing great lines with the pen, the next second, the lines will seem very light.
So, you increase the pressure more an more, then suddenly you have a dark, fat line. This seems to be related to the angle of the tip. You need to keep it vertical to get the pressure sensitivity to work right. It's not as natural to draw that way.
Sometimes, the performance gets very sluggish after a while with Photoshop. When you first use it, the performance is fluid and smooth. After a few minutes of use, the cursor jumps or skips around.
The lines are still drawn, but the responsiveness is poor. My PC has 4GB RAM, and the image size was small, so it can't be due to a lack of memory. I can't pinpoint the reason why it happens. It could be the driver, Vista 32, or another program I have open at the same time. Here are some addional things you need to consider: A. If you only use the tablet mouse, the driver will cause some software to crash (blue screen of death) You will need to keep the regular mouse.
The mouse is tiny, similar to a miniature notebook mouse. It's pretty much useless for everyday use. You also need to raise it fairly high above the tablet in order to stop the cursor movement.
Much higher than a laser mouse. Invitation for wrist injury. The USB cable is short, so you'll need to get a hub. If your PC has a port in the front you'll be OK. Overall, it's not a bad deal if you're a casual user.
I had an old Wacom, but I only used it a few times. Not worth spending a lot for such little use. Since I didn't want to spend a lot of money for something I rarely use, this was the next best thing. The mouse was a complete disappointment, and is useless. I can live with using the pen in the vertical, but the occasional jittery performance is frustrating. Okay, Well funny thing happened right out of the box the mouse worked but the pen did not.
Well I loaded unloaded and was about to try new batteries and discovered didn't take the plastic off the battery. Well all you customer support people can add this to dumb ways customers cause electronics to malfunction. Once I unwrapped the batteries and reinstalled the drivers everything began working. So then I was looking for a good program to run with it and found ArtWeaver for windows and seashore for Mac. Now even if you are a good artist you are not doing masterpieces out of the box and to be honest I think it will be able to sketch with this. I however have no graphic design training on computers so this is a new idea but I am very excited. My sons girlfriend however has experience and can not believe the cost and the ability she uses Wacom I believe is what it is called and she thinks this is a very good product.
The software that comes with it makes it both Mac and Windows Friendly which is a huge plus because I have a Mac Air running on now but also have a Windows XP. I got all the downloads right off Genius site. If you homeschool and want to introduce a graphic art or have a homeschooler who wants to do that this is a good enough tool at a price that I think is very impressive. I have a future engineer that will use this and my last homeschooler going into high school this is going to be fun!
Just copy and paste the links will take you to the sites. Good Luck. I have not had an issue with this product but if want Wacom bamboo sorry you are going to be a little short on features. In all I still think it is great.
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