Hi there. Thanks for joining me. I'm digital artist, Aaron Rutten
and in this video, I'm gonna be going over the
installation, configuration and different ways you can control
the new Wacom Intuos
The old Wacom Bamboo is now the new Wacom Intuos
Pen And Touch. this is the small version and
this is the pen that comes with it. It has really cool Express Keys
here that you can use to perform different shortcut functions
it's a really nice looking little tablet. I review it in more detail in a separate
video, which have a link to
in the description here. this video is just going to focus on how to use the tablet and
how to get set up with it.
so what you should have after you unbox
is your tablet, your pen, USB cable
and a driver CD. I recommend that you download the newest drivers
from Wacom's website
so the way that you find the drivers is do a Google search for "Intuos Drivers"
and it should be one of the first links that comes up
Drivers for Wacom on Wacom's website. click on that link
you'll get to this drivers page and if you scroll down, you will see some different
drivers. you want to look for
the latest drivers for Intuos and you'll download either the Windows
for the Mac version. I'm on a Windows computer so I'd download the Windows
version
It will take a minute to download. Once it's downloaded, go to your downloads
folder, or wherever you
downloaded the file to, and double-click to
install the drivers. I'll take a minute to install the drivers
and then you'll want to restart your computer. go ahead and restart
and after you have restarted, continue with this.
and the next thing that we'll do
is we will ensure that our tablet is working properly
after the drivers are installed. so I'm going
to plug in
the USB cable here in the back and make sure that it's going the right way
and
there, it's plugged in
The Express Keys at the top and
and I'm going to put this other end into the USB port
on my computer. It doesn't really matter which one
and
since the drivers are installed, it'll just take a quick second to
do its thing with the computer here and recognize the tablet
and momentarily we should have functioning tablet.
you'll see that this white LED light came on and what that showing us
is that the tablet is powered on and it's receiving power from the computer.
And now it says, "Wacom tablet device software installed successfully."
so if we move our finger on the tablet now, you can see
that it's working.
It works as a trackpad would on your laptop, if you have a laptop.
you can also see that this blue light lights up any time I touch the pad
Or if I hover with my pen over the pad.
Our pen works by hovering slightly
over your tablet, but don't actually touch the tip to the tablet itself.
Just hover. When you want to do a mouse click, lets' say...
to minimize this window, you tap
with your pen. there you go.
you can also tap and hold and you can
move windows around. Double-tap to do a double-click.
you can use the top button on your pen here
to do a right click. And we can configure this
in some different ways. So what might be a little confusing about this
tablet to begin with is, when using the trackpad here
it doesn't matter where you really
put your finger down on your tablet. you're going to move your mouse.
let's say if I put my finger here and move it down its just going to move my cursor down or up.
My pen works differently. The pen works in relation to where you are
on your tablet. So if my pen is pointed here in the top corner
of the tablet, you can see that the cursor moves to the top corner.
But if I put my pen down here in the bottom left corner
you can see the pen moves down there. So the pen kind of points to the different
part of the screen in relation to where it is on the canvas.
The trackpad, however, just moves the mouse from wherever it's at
so that might be a little confusing to begin with
but you'll get used to that
so let's configure this tablet a little bit
after your driver installed, what you'll do is go to your control panel.
that's found here under the windows menu >
control panel. and then we'll go to the newly installed the Wacom tablet
properties
and we get this a window here. so what this is
showing us, first of all is
the Express keys and as I mentioned before, there
four Express keys that you can use to perform different commands
You can configure them to do different keystrokes
or clicks, you can go forwards and backwards, pan and scroll,
Show Desktop. All kinds of different commands that you can
set these to here. We won't set them quite yet
This is a very important area. This pen
tab here. We'll switch to that because
your pen has pressure sensitivity and so if you
tend to push down really hard, you might want to set this tip feel
a little different versus if you push down really lightly.
so I tend to draw a really hard and write really hard
so I set this to "firm" because I find that
it gives me the right amount of pressure. and if you push down
light or very firm, you'll see you get this little test
bar here. You can do the same with your eraser
and you can set some other things like the
functions on your pen.
Mapping is very important because if you're using two monitors
(two screens), you may need to set
your tablet to only work on one screen. Or if you prefer, you can set it to
span both screens. You can do that here.
And then you can select just a particular monitor, a portion of the screen or all screens.
There's a little 'Windows Ink' option here and if for some reason
you don't like this little
bubbling effect the happens when you click, you can turn this off.
And it won't do that anymore. I like keeping it off.
Next, we will go to 'Touch Options' and
'Pointer Speed' and this is again some ways to you can
kind of configure your touchpad.
Standard Gestures: if you watch this for a minute, it'll show you some
different shortcuts that you can use to
navigate and control what you see on screen here.
There are lots of different ones. And then there's your Radial Menu.
With your Radial Menu, you can bring up
different commands here and that can be configured
as you want it. We can also go to options here
and if there's anything you want to change, you can change it.
there's the hover click which is the default type of click. If you hold the
pen tip
close to the tablet and press the side button, you'll do a right-click.
That's how you do your right-clicks and I prefer to keep it that way (by hovering.)
You can also set it to
press the side switch and then tap to do a right-click
if that's easier. You can change the handedness
if you're left-handed or right-handed. I'm right handed, so I'll keep it on right.
And there's a couple of options here... "Adjust the pen pressure for compatibility with
older applications"
If you're using some really really old versions of Photoshop
or other programs you might want to check this.
Just leave it checked.
And "wireless tablet battery status"
this is only important if you have the wireless upgrade
The Intuos does have a little wireless kit that you can buy for it.
so we will go to this X here to close out the window
and apply our settings.
and now let's take a look at how this works
in Corel Painter.
so I'm going to make in New canvas here
and we'll just make sure that everything works.
So we'll take a brush. -- The scratch board pen
I'll use a keyboard shortcut of holding CTRL + ALT and dragging my pen.
And let's do some drawing and see here. Now if I push down really lightly,
you can see that I get this thin line. And if I push down
really hard, I get a very thick line.
that's the pressure sensitivity. And again, if you wanted to, you can
play around with this setting a little bit and change it. You can do that
in the control panel for Wacom.
Now if you want to use the multi-touch gestures, what you're gonna have to do is
you have to go to the Edit menu,
go to Preferences and
I believe it under general. And we'll check this
"enable multitouch compatible" box here.
And now if we go back to our control panel
and go to our tablet properties,
we can look at this standard gestures page
so we can see some of these different things that we can do. We have
two fingers we can swipe left and right to navigate. Let's try that.
We can rotate our page
and zoom-in and zoom-out.
It's a pretty cool feature actually. And I can draw a little bit
more. And zoom-in a little bit more.
Rotate
and draw. And if we want to reset our page, we can just double-click the
'Rotate Page Tool'. If we want to zoom back to 100%
just select the Magnifier and click on the 100% button here.
now
one last thing to mention is
there's a wireless kit that you can add to this
You kind of have to
take this apart a little bit to install it
There is also, hiding behind this
little piece a plastic here,
there is a set of three Nibs. That's these
little plastic pieces here
and those Nibs can be replaced.
that's the Pen Tip. These are called Nibs. These will wear down
over time. I find the it takes
six months to a year to actually wear this down a little bit
so these should last you quite a long time. you won't really need to buy any replacement Nibs
for a while.
This Intuos is available in a slightly larger size
and is also available
in the upgrade that is known as the 'Intuos Pro'
which can be bigger and has
some different Express Keys and
functions that are on the side. It's also
comes with a wireless accessory included.
so anyways, I hope that answers your questions about
how to configure and install the Intuos
and then get started with it. If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this
video.
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