 For those of you traditional artists out there who are drawing and painting on paper still in this day and age You want to get into a digital drawing and want to get an electronic tablet for your computer I just wanted to say real quick. You do not need to buy a $2,000 Cintiq or even a $200 in Tuos You can get one of these old school Wacom bamboo tablets if you're wanting to simply learn how to use a tablet and See how it does for you and not spend a lot of money. This is the way to go Wacom is the biggest name in tablets. They make the best no question They don't even list bamboo tablets on their website anymore But you can still get them on eBay sometimes on Amazon. They're so inexpensive now That I have several of them that I keep as backups Although I think this is the one that I first bought back in 2009 I think this is still my first one although. I've gotten new Styluses a couple of times. I'll give you a closer look at the bamboo fun here It has four programmable buttons, which is all I need It has a zoom touch control here, which you Use by circling your finger back and forth. It works great for any other controls I have my keyboard sitting next to me. It's important that you get the model MTE 450 This is the model you're looking at right now It's very small very light. You can travel with it It has a four by six drawing surface What you may think is small at first, but I'm telling you it's not it's just fine If you've never used a tablet before you're probably thinking well, how can I draw? Something on the screen without looking down at the tablet Well think of it this way do when you play a video game Do you stare down at the controller the whole time? No, you look at the screen You quickly learn the feel of this space and that's why it's important for it to be small I know the impulse is to get one of those Cintiq displays where it's a giant display where you're drawing directly onto the surface of this giant touchscreen But I'm telling you your eyes are going to get really tired And I've seen artists use a Cintiq display the same way they use a piece of paper That they'll be hunched over it with their eyes Right next to the tablet and with the brightness of that screen They are burning their eyes out. They they suffer from something called tablet burn It's not something that I personally want and I think it's something you will not want either if you've never used a tablet before I've never been able to tolerate having a screen really close to me I'm always having to push the screens further back and further back and get larger and larger screens I have this on the table in front of me with my keyboard to my left And I do just fine. It's really like playing a video game I have bought other models like the bamboo pin and touch here And the just plain bamboo pin, but these are different. They function very differently I'm very happy with The the four programmable buttons and the zoom wheel and you notice those models didn't have the zoom wheel in fact Here's a pin and touch model right here. It has a little sleeve to keep the stylus in so you don't lose the stylus Uh, which is convenient, but I don't need it And uh, although the drawing surface is the same size, you notice there's no zoom wheel like I said And the control the four control buttons are on the side instead of the top, which I'm not used to And also here's the thing about the the later models for zooming They expect you to zoom like you would with a With your cell phone or with a touch tablet you zoom by pinching and And using your two fingers and it's dumb. It's just plain dumb I can't stand that at all If if you'd like to try that though, if you think that would work for you, this is the model cth 460 I've gotten the mte 450s on ebay Inbox with the stylus and everything for as little as 15 dollars If you keep looking you can not only get a really fantastic tablet that still works great with windows 10 the latest edition of photoshop and everything And not only can you get one for yourself, but you can get multiple backups like I've got That's how I would go $2,000 on a new Cintiq display. No, I would never do that I do have one other thing to say about the drivers that you use for the the 450 I would recommend using the original driver that was released with it Here's the the number right here. I always had my best luck with this one later drivers Always had some sort of problem. There was something about them that didn't work However, a couple of weeks ago when I finally upgraded to the latest photoshop, which is 2015.5 The old driver didn't work at all and for a while I was kind of stuck. What am I going to do? I know that the newer drivers don't work, but I went ahead and downloaded the latest driver For the mte, which is a few years old and it solved my problems Here's the number Of that particular driver and I'll include a direct link to it in the description below So there you go. If you're really wanting to try digital tablets for the first time Then get yourself an old model inexpensively And learn how to use it see how it feels for you. That's the way to go instead of dumping a lot of money into it I hope this has been helpful. See you next video. Bye Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe So you can come back next time. 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