Wacom Graphire Blueberry - digitizer > Reviews

Advantages: Precise control, easy to use and ergonomically exceptional.
Disadvantages: Takes a bit of getting used to and sometimes find yourself trying to write on paper with the pen.

The Wacom Graphire is an excellent value tool which takes using a computer to a new level of intuitiveness. My opinion on this product focuses on the Pen tool rather than the cordless, batteryless mouse the tablet also comes with - I'm hooked on the pen and have hardly ever used the mouse. This review is also based upon the tablet having run under Windows 98/2000 and XP. I've never used it under the Mac although the disc you get is hybrid and contains ... Read review

Advantages: Good low-end pressure sensitive tablet
Disadvantages: It got lower resolution than Wacom's other board

...have over 1k level (like WACOM intuos), but I could never tell the difference. If you are one of those people who once upon a time played with microsoft paint trying to draw something with your mouse, you will realised not only it is hard to draw with a mouse in any precision, the colour of lines are also annoyingly uniformed. Pressure sensitivity allows different shades of one colour on a continuous line. The result is like a real life pen ... Read review

Advantages: Usefull in Adobe Photoshop
Disadvantages: none

...the spell of is the Wacom Graphire (USB version). Boy, what a gadget she is….. This device is a graphics tablet incorporating a cordless / battery-less mouse and pen. Yes that’s right, unlike other makes the Wacom Graphire requires no batteries so you’ll never run out of power at that crucial moment. As far as size is concerned, (remembering the old age saying; “it’s not the size, its how you use it”) its not ... Read review

Advantages: Inexpensive, complete kit, USB and it all works.
Disadvantages: Slightly iffy build quality, perhaps, but I haven't broken it yet.

...may very well see the Wacom Graphire Graphics Tablet on sale for around £75. Not cheap, is it? but then, not too many years ago, a graphics tablet, even one as small as the Graphire, would have been in the mid three figures. OK, loads of computer peripherals have dropped in price with advances in technology and so forth, but here is a product which boasts pressure sensitivity to over 100 levels, comes with a stylus (of course) but also with a ... Read review