SOOOOOOOO

It finally arrived after much excitement and hard work I finally have a serious tablet.

THe intuous 4 is an amazing piece of kit and I highly recommend it to any creative, not only for it's value for money but for the very smart features that have been included to make an already great product better.

For starters with monitors going wide screen as a standard, wacom have released all the intuos 4's as widescreen tablets which makes browsing your pc or mac alot simpler albeit in a small way for creatives though it allows you to directly interface with your working area.

The 8 express keys and function wheel are excellent additions, and coupled with tiny oled displays make assigning hot keys a pleasure.

I can for example Ive set my express keys up in such a way that when I'am painting I don't even touch my keyboard. Brush resizing is handled with the the touch wheel which when you've gotten used to it works very well.

These are just some of the features available on the new Intuous 4 and there are some i haven't even tried out yet.

The only complaint I have with it, is the express keys, they are brilliant but they can be very hard to press down, this is especially apparent when your using an express key to substitute your space bar for scrolling an image.

Also it would be great if the included a feature to allow you to rotate the stylus, to adjust your stroke direction eg if your using a flat brush, it would be great if you didn't have to access your brushes to alter stroke direction.

However this could be more Painter Photoshop related than a Wacom issue.

I got mine through a reliable local online store called tech buddies [link] there service is great and they cater well for the digital art community of sa aswell as all other computer related goodies.