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Wacom technology makes a pressure sensitive tablet and stylus combination, which is a tremendous advantage to working with a mouse. So this is a type of a computer-input device that is far superior to working with a mouse if you do computer graphics. This is what my Wacom Intuos pen and tablet combination looks like, and you can see that they come in many different sizes from the 4 by 5 size, all the way up to I believe almost 2 by 3 feet, very large. Well that is the advantage to working with a Wacom tablet and stylus combination? If you are using a computer graphic application such as Adobe Photoshop, the advantages become obvious very quickly. With the immediate advantage of working very quickly with something we are all used to, essentially a pen type of input device as opposed to a clunky mouse, that's one big advantage. I tell my students that if you are comfortable with drawing with something like a rock, then you should stick with a mouse. But if you like to draw with pens, then you really owe it to yourself to try working with the Wacom tablet and stylus combination. In Photoshop, if I'm using something like this brush, there are many options for me to use my Wacom pressure sensitive tablet-stylus combination. I'm going to invoke the brush options here by clicking on this button, and the option I want to talk about here is a simple demonstration is this feature called other dynamics. And I'm going to enable the opacity slider to be related to pen pressure. The beauty of working with a pressure sensitive device, is that it delivers more information than a mouse. It delivers information about how hard I am pressing down. So now I am going to make one mark, notice my opacity is set to 100%, my flow is set to 100%, so it should be a very dark mark. But I can make one mark varying the pressure. So I can set out very light begin to press harder and then begin to lighten up on my pressure again. That is one mark, and you know it's one mark - if I choose undo the entire mark disappears. So you simply cannot do this with a mouse because a mouse delivers a constant value of whatever pressure and flow setting you have set for right here. You can of course do other things with a Wacom tablet-stylus combination. For instance, I can also enable the shape dynamics feature and choose to control the size based on pen pressure as well. So now a light, pressing lightly delivers a small size, and if I press harder I get a larger brush and a darker mark, trailing off to a smaller brush mark and a less opaque type of effect. So you can see that you have a lot of control, not just with the standard pointing type of control, but you can deliver pressure sensitive information as well, not to mention tilt information. So you could have one parameter of your brush be controlled by a pen's tilt and another by the pen's pressure. So it's a very valuable addition to your computer setup if you are a person interested in doing high-level computer graphics.