It comes with two complete photo editing programs Ulead/Corel PhotoImpact 12SE and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, both of which are full OEM versions. The other software supplied with the M712 is interesting. ![]() I didn’t have the opportunity to test the Macintosh drivers, but I’d suggest the same precaution. Hopefully the updated drivers will be included in subsequent releases, but for now it’s a case of better safe than sorry. I’d suggest that if you buy this tablet, ditch the supplied driver disk and download the updated drivers straight away. However when I uninstalled them, cleaned up my PC’s registry and then installed new updated drivers downloaded from Genius’s website all the problems disappeared, and the device has been working flawlessly ever since. When I first installed the M712, I noticed that the pen response was very slow, and I also discovered a number of problems with other programs, which I quickly determined were caused by the device drivers supplied with the tablet. I’ve been using the M712 for about a week now, in place of my old A5 Wacom Graphire tablet, and I’m very impressed with it, although I have to say it didn’t start out that way. The drawing area can be switched at the touch of a button between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. This is a feature that is really not that important for photo editing, although artists who like to paint and draw using a tablet may miss it. The Intuos3 tablets only have 10 programmable hotkeys, and don’t have scroll wheels, but they do have pen angle sensitivity, something which the Genius tablet lacks. ![]() The pen offers 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity, which matches the Wacom pen, and the active drawing area is only a couple of centimetres smaller. It has a drawing resolution of 4,000 lpi (lines per inch), compared to 5,080lpi for an A4 Intuos3. Of course the technical specification isn’t quite up to the standard of a product that costs over four times as much, but it is surprisingly close. It’s even compatible with both Windows and Macintosh computers. It offers a big 12-inch by 7.25-inch (30.5 x 18.4cm) widescreen drawing area, a two-button pen, dual scroll wheels and 34 user-programmable buttons, all for the bargain price of under £90. The cheaper consumer-oriented Wacom Bamboo series of A6-sized tablets are around £30-£40, but are really too small and lack the resolution and precision for serious photo editing.įortunately there is now a viable alternative in the slim and stylish shape of this Genius G-Pen M712 tablet. An A4-sized Intuos3 costs nearly £400, and even smaller A5 models cost over £130. The big name in pen tablets is Wacom, best known for its excellent Intuos3 series, but professional-standard Wacom tablets are very expensive, especially for the larger sizes. It’s a lot easier to make precise movements with fingertip pen control than it is when moving your whole hand. They usually have several times the movement resolution of even a high-quality mouse, and making small precise movements with a pen places far less strain on your hand than the same action using a mouse. The best solution to both of these problems is to use a pen tablet. Even a good quality mouse simple isn’t accurate enough for pixel editing, and using one for a long period of time can leave you with an aching wrist, and can cause long-term health problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive strain injuries. By now you’ll also probably have realised that a traditional computer mouse is not an ideal tool for this sort of work. If you’re a keen digital photographer, you’ll probably spend a lot of time working with graphics editing programs, adjusting, editing and correcting your photos.
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