Re: [Gimp-gui] Recommendations sought for budget / midrange / best digitizers for gimp on linux

[marty <marty heavyreckoning com>]

Thanks Jehan, I'll hit up the users list.  You covered some great info 
and it will definitely inform my decision


On 06/25/2018 10:25 AM, Jehan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 2018-06-25 15:39, marty wrote:
> > Hi Gimpers,
> >
> > I'm looking for pressure sensitivity, as many levels as possible, and
> > one that works well with gimp/debianish.  Googling brought up many
> > issues for various models and my hope is that members here will have
> > some good advice for digitizers.  If anyone has feedback on what ones
> > they'd recommend for  budget, midrange, and best quality digitizers
> > I'd really appreciate.
>
> Mostly copy-pasting another message from the other day, as this is a 
> fairly regularly asked question:
>
> In our studio, we used Wacom Intuos 5 and now Wacom Intuos Pro, which 
> is basically the new version of the same model (just renamed to 
> "Pro"). It does work out of the box with any modern Linux 
> distribution, as do most Wacom tablets as far as I know (even the 
> expensive Cintiq ones). Maybe just don't buy the very last models if 
> they just got released but usually any Wacom tablet is supported 
> out-of-the-box maybe within 6 months.
>
> Now I don't want to look like I do marketing for Wacom. This is just 
> that we use these (and unfortunately don't have the funds to just buy 
> many different tablets for tests — though we would love to be able to 
> — so we just go with what we know). But we hear there are very nice 
> contenders nowadays, and in particular at much more affordable prices 
> (but that's not the only point; Wacom has quite a few quality issues, 
> despite its famous brand, as you can see from various reviews), and 
> many of them also work on Linux distributions. Though you should check 
> individually to make sure.
>
> There are a few nice forum threads on the topic. I kept this one very 
> interesting link from MyPaint forums: 
> https://community.mypaint.org/t/which-graphic-tablets-models-work-on-mypaint-1-2-0/269 
> (note: what works for MyPaint would most usually work for GIMP too).
>
> As for pressure sensitivity, most pro tablets from any brand sold 
> nowadays should do, I guess. Wacom usually announces much more levels 
> than their competition but it is still quite unclear how much this 
> race to pressure level is meaningful and most professionals would tell 
> you that after some minimum, they don't see much difference.
>
> > Given the technical aspects, particularly of pressure sensitivity,
> > with gimp/linux, I can't think of a better place to ask.  I know this
> > isn't the forum focus, but I'm not sure where else would be better, so
> > a pointer there would be great also if you have one.
> >
> > Replies off-list are fine if the admin doesn't want the chatter here
>
> Actually the gimp-user-list mailing list would have been appropriate: 
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
>
> For the next time, you'll know. Though it's ok, we can allow it for 
> this one time. :-)
>
> Jehan
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Marty
> >
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