Anyone used their iPad as a graphic/pen tablet?

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I’ve been contemplating a pen tablet for a while such as one of the Wacoms, but I’m also thinking of updating my iPad so thought I could kill two birds with one stone.

I mainly use lightroom with the very occasional adjustment in photoshop (cloning or high pass filter) so whilst the iPad won’t be as flexible as a proper tablet will it be good enough? I’ve seen some videos using Astropad to control the iPad/LR and it looks good, but what do others think?
 
I use my Wacom Bamboo for bits and bobs in Lightroom.
I've been using them on and off for years - the small ones are very good and certainly not a poor relation to the pro versions.
I'd love a Cintiq but not the price :)

You could get a Intuos Draw small (S), white, refurbished product for £45 delivered from Wacom.
I bought one for my daughter - who enjoys drawing - it was like new, in a plain box.
https://uk-store.wacom.com/catalog/special-offers/refurbished-products

You can also get them used quite often with people who didn't get on with them - that tells you something about using a tablet - it's not quite as easy as you might imagine.

Astropad looks cool - but it looks like you're stumping $30 for the app and need an iPad Pro with pencil ?
Of course if you want the hardware then the app is cheaper than just the Wacom :)
 
AMcUK said:
I use my Wacom Bamboo for bits and bobs in Lightroom.
I've been using them on and off for years - the small ones are very good and certainly not a poor relation to the pro versions.
I'd love a Cintiq but not the price :)

You could get a Intuos Draw small (S), white, refurbished product for £45 delivered from Wacom.
I bought one for my daughter - who enjoys drawing - it was like new, in a plain box.
https://uk-store.wacom.com/catalog/special-offers/refurbished-products

You can also get them used quite often with people who didn't get on with them - that tells you something about using a tablet - it's not quite as easy as you might imagine.

Astropad looks cool - but it looks like you're stumping $30 for the app and need an iPad Pro with pencil ?
Of course if you want the hardware then the app is cheaper than just the Wacom :)
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That’s the thing, my iPad’s old and ideally I could do with a faster one and one with more storage so I’ve been contemplating getting one anyway. I think you can use the standard iPad with astropad and it also works with a pen I think. If I was to use the iPad to replace the MacBook for editing then I would certainly look at a Pro, but for use as a pen tablet I think the iPad might suffice.
 
I only skimmed their site because I'm not a Mac or iPad user - I don't think my iPhone6 would cut it :)

Hopefully an Astropad user will be along to give you better help!
 
juggler said:
I use a small Wacom.

I also use an iPad with a stylus for drawing - but not for image processing. I can't imagine that it could be anything like precise enough for me.
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Are you saying the Wacom is more accurate than the iPad?
 
juggler said:
Yes. That's no doubt in part due to the stylus. Maybe there are better ones than mine for the iPad.
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I didn’t know you could use others apart from the apple one :oops: :$
 
snerkler said:
I’ve been contemplating a pen tablet for a while such as one of the Wacoms,
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I've got a intuos cth-480, with wireless adapter, bought it and just can't get on with it.
If you want it let me know, it's free, with all the manuals etc
 
Gremlin said:
I've got a intuos cth-480, with wireless adapter, bought it and just can't get on with it.
If you want it let me know, it's free, with all the manuals etc
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Thank you, that's an extremely kind offer. However, I did buy an iPad last week as I can use it with Logic Pro too so I'm going to use the iPad for LR and see how I get on. Thanks again.
 
snerkler said:
Thank you, that's an extremely kind offer. However, I did buy an iPad last week as I can use it with Logic Pro too so I'm going to use the iPad for LR and see how I get on. Thanks again.
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You're welcome, it's not going any where so if you change your mind just let me know
 
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