Pen tablets and Photo Restoration

If you've never used a pen tablet instead of a mouse for your photo restoration projects, you simply can't imagine the difference it can make to your work.

There are tremendous subtleties of movement, gesture and pressure that you can make with a pen that are simply impossible with a mouse. And despite nearly 20 years of mouse use, I still feel like I'm drawing with a bar of soap when I'm forced to use one.

A good pressure sensitive pen tablet feels totally natural to use after a bit of practice. The marks you make on screen change in density or size depending on the amount of pressure you put on the pen and strokes become much more fluid.

Although larger tablets are expensive you should avoid buying the smallest sizes as they just don't give you enough space to gesticulate as freely as you would if you were using pencil and paper. If you can afford to, go for an A5 (6x8") sized tablet or larger, you won't regret it.

There are several makes of pen tablet available but Wacom are generally regarded to be the best and I don't hesitate to recommend their tablets.

-Mark