Wich laptop for photoshop

eriklansink · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:28 am Post subject: Wich laptop for photoshop

I got a qeustion for u all cuz i can't make up my mind. Wich laptop with touch screen is better to buy for photoshop? Like the wacom cintiq but on a laptop. I've bin searching around there is the Dell xt3 and serveral others but with the thecnoligy now is it maybe better to buy a tablet-pc.
can anyone help

Auieos · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:34 am Post subject:

Look for a laptop or tablet that includes Wacom technology/digitizers. It's the safest bet when buying specifically for Photoshop use.

Apart from that I don't have enough experience to give you firm suggestions on this topic.

Rarity · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:46 am Post subject:

You've got to remember one thing though if you want to go for a touchscreen over a cintique - a touchscreen registers every touch on the screen (also a hand that leans on the screen whilest drawing) while the big advantage of the citique is it doesnt.

eriklansink · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:53 am Post subject:

thnx for the advise but i also wanted to be mobile so thats why im looking for one

PlanetMyHero · Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:55 am Post subject: Re: Wich laptop for photoshop

glaston1 · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:35 am Post subject:

A touch screen isn't a replacement for a Cintiqe, or for a normal tablet. Touch screens use ir cameras to track movement. Tablets use pressure sensitive surfaces to mimic the way natural media works.
Touch screens are "capacitive touch" and wacom tablets are "passive touch".
Touch screens won't give you any of the features that a tablet/Cintiqe offer. Normal touch screens don't have pressure sensitive surfaces. Which is really the advantage and 90% of the point when using a tablet with photoshop. It's not only about using a stylus to draw and paint. You won't be able to touch your hand to the surface or get it very close. If you do, it will change the position of the cursor and/or perform a gesture operation. So you'll have to always have your hand hovering a half inch or so above the screen to even use a stylus for cursor tracking.

I use a Wacom tablet, and I can tell you that it would be next to impossible to use it with any degree of accuracy or efficiency if you couldn't rest your hand on its surface. Imagine trying to draw or write if you couldn't touch your hand to the paper.
You're better off buying a more powerful laptop and a small wacom tablet or cintique. Bigger tablets aren't better either. I bought a Wacom Intuos3 9x12 in 2007. It's what I still use. But I wish I would've got a smaller one. The 9x12 takes up alot of space on my desktop making it awkward to have the right arrangement of tablet and keyboard, many movements on the screen require a total re positioning of my arm and hand on the tablet surface, and there's no actual benefit to the larger tablet surface as opposed to a more moderate size. My 1st tablet was a Wacom Graphire 4x5. The 9x12 is better than such a tiny surface as 4x5, but really the perfect size is somewhere in the middle between those 2 sizes.

There's a stylus called the Pogo Connect, that connects with bluetooth to an iPhone4S or iPad2. It uses software to stop the screen from registering accidental touches from the hand. But it doesn't have all the levels of pressure sensitivity or angle detection that a wacom product has. And the applications you use it with have to support it specifically. There's several iPad and iPhone apps that support it.
But it won't be until the next release of Photoshop(only available through creative cloud) that photoshop will support iPads. And there's no telling how that's gonna work.

Henry Catherin · Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:41 am Post subject:

I face some question to visit this thread. What is wacom cintiq, why specially touch for Photoshop. As far i know we could use it anywhere at any way. Then there is something that have no idea of me, please clear me.

glaston1 · Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:23 pm Post subject:

A Wacom Cintique is a graphics tablet and touch screen display in one. The image in Photoshop is displayed on the cintique display and you can use a wacom pen to paint directly on the image.
The reason for the specific touch in Photoshop is because Photoshops tools, like the brush, eraser, etc, are made to use the pressure sensitivity of a wacom pen. So the harder you press on the tablet or cintique surface with the pen, the darker and broader the brush strokes on the image get. So it mimics the way that a natural media tool like a pen or pencil or marker works when you use them on an actual physical surface.
Normal touch screens on laptops and iPad/iPhone/Droid phones and tablets don't work that way. They only track movement on the surface through a coordinate system. They also track multiple points on the surface. So if you have a pen(stylus) touched to the surface at the same time as your palm or wrist is touching the surface, the device will track them both and move the cursor accordingly. Making it next to impossible to paint or draw with a stylus on a multi-touch screen device.

username18052 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 6:55 pm Post subject:

MacBook Pro 15.4" Retina display. 8gb RAM, 500gb hdd.

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