 - Quickly and professionally edit photos and create digital artwork with this pen tablet
- Cordless and battery-free
- 1,024 levels of tip and eraser pressure sensitivity for control
- Tablet active areas are optimal for use with widescreen displays
- Strategically placed programmable ExpressKeys and Touch Strip for convenience
List Price: $244.99
Lowest Price: Too low to display 
Product Description: The Intuos3 professional pen tablet makes it easy to quickly and professionally edit photos and create digital artwork by turning on the full power of Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and over 100 other leading software applications. Create universal settings for your pen and tablet or alter your settings by application for maximum productivity. Intuos pen tablets use Wacom's patented technology to give you the natural feel and superior performance of Wacom's patented, cordless and battery-free technology. Get the control, comfort, and productivity of Intuos3?and join millions of satisfied Wacom tablet users. Alternating between the comfortable Grip Pen and the ergonomic five-button Intuos3 mouse reduces repetitive motion. It's an easy and natural way to work. Intuos3 runs on both PCs and Macs. Also, you can use an Intuos pen to unleash new functionality designed for pen tablets within Windows Vista like personal note taking, email signing, handwriting recognition, handwritten emails, and pen flick navigation. Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-10
Great for Students
The 4x6 Intuos3 is a great device for those starting a college curriculum in graphic design or digital photography. It is easy to set up, and very easy to figure out. The pen is extraordinarily comfortable and heavy enough to feel like a real pen/pencil/brush depending on what you are used to. For me, the active area (light gray rectangle in the photo) is too small, but I am used to working on on paper sizes of at least 24x36. So there was some adaption time. The active area maps to any screen size easily. I use this device on a 12.1 inch widescreen (aspect ratio of 16:10) and a 19 inch screen (4:3) and it maps instantly.
The device is built very well. The tablet is very solid, the pen is as well. The mouse, however, is too light and incredibly square as well as being tied to the active area on the tablet. But as so many have said before, you aren't buying this for the mouse.
The price is the singular set back. It is not a cheap device but that is more than likely due to the included software. Mine came with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 (Windows) and Photoshop Elements 4 (Mac) each being $80 or more retail. The software CD also has a striped version of Nik's Color Efex plug-ins for Photoshop. The problem with this software inclusion is that most people buying this product have the big-boy version of Adobe's Photoshop in some way. A software-free version of this hardware should be made available.
Either way, this is a fantastic peripheral. Rating:
Date: 2008-06-03
I couldn't live without it!
I have had my Wacom Intuos 3 for three years now. I don't know how I ever lived without one. Once you get the hang of it you will never touch a mouse again. It makes any paint program a thrill to use. The eraser, is where it should be, on the top of the pen. It even has a nib with a little spring in it that mimics the feel of a brush.
Last year I had to learn Corel Draw. I had the need to vector images. Boy, does this help. I don't know how you can pull a node with a mouse. The black felt tip nib is great for this use.
Don't hesitate to buy this thing. I have the smallest size and I find it works great for me. Rating:
Date: 2008-05-29
The only worthwhile graphics tablet on the market.
This thing is incredible. The customizable/scrolling buttons are an extra plus, but the pressure sensitivity is the really impressive feature. It was an awkward adjustment at first, but now that I'm used to doing my graphics work with it, I couldn't live without it. Worth every penny, especially if you can catch it for around $200. Of course, the bigger the better! Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-29
Great Product but
This is my first tablet and I cant believe that I used to do photoshop with a mouse!! It does take some getting used to, but once you burn into your head that the pad area is the equivilant as the screen dimensions then all is well. I purchased mine at best buy for a little less than here for $199 and part of why I purchased it is that on the box it says under the software included "Includes full editions of creative software:" and the listed software is photoshop elements 6.0 , Corel painter essentials 4.0 , Nik Color efex pro 3.0 and some wacom brushes. Now the problem I have with this statement is, and a big reason I bought it, that it says full editions. The Nik software is NOT a full edition and only includeds six filters that are really pretty worthless because if you know photoshop well it can do those things on its own. So if your excited about getting a full version of the Nik color efex 3.0 (the newest version) just figure on buying it for the tablet itself. The Corel paint software seems pretty cool but I havent really played with it yet. If your using this professionally you probably wont care about the software anyway because you will have everything already. I do want to state again that the hardware is great!! Rating:
Date: 2008-05-09
Review of Wacom Tablet
I am enjoying the above mentioned product and am slowing learning hoe to use it while fixing photos.Bamboo Fun (Small) Black Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software |
