Toshiba AT703 is a quad core tablet equipped with NVIDIA's latest and strongest CPU Tegra 4. In addition to excellent performance, it is also equipped with a touch pen with 1024 level pressure sense. In this case, we have to use this pressure sensitive pen to test the painting experience on this powerful plate.
Generally speaking, people who draw pictures usually sit in front of a computer and use a digital tablet to draw like Xiao Bian (please don't despise Xiao Bian's piece of digital tablet...). An ordinary digital tablet is just a sensing area. If you use a special pressure sensitive pen to paint in this area, the corresponding painting action will be generated on the computer display screen. In this way, you must look at the screen with your eyes, and paint on the digital tablet with your hands. Many people may not be accustomed to it when you first use it.
It is a very fresh experience for Xiao Bian to use pressure sensitive touch pen to paint on the tablet. If you are interested in this tablet, you can come first《 Tegra 4 first test Toshiba AT703 hands-on experience 》Look around inside.
Now let's take a look at the specific appearance of this pressure touch pen.
The pen head is slightly flexible, which is used to detect the pressure feeling.
In addition, this pressure sensitive touch pen can't replace the pen head, which means that the pen head is worn and there is nothing to replace. Generally, the pressure sensitive pen of the digital board can be replaced.
The end of the pen is also a pressure part. It defaults to an eraser. If the drawing is wrong, it can be directly erased by turning over the end of the pen.
There is a function key in the center of the stylus. For example, clicking this function key in PS touch is a fast key to absorb color.
The pen also has a Toshiba logo.
OK, let's try to find out which software is easier to use for painting.
This is the "TruNote" that comes with Toshiba system. It supports this pressure sensitive touch pen best. There are not only many brushes, but also a natural pressure feeling. And the most important thing is that fingers can only touch some function options. If you want to paint on the screen, you must use a pressure sensitive pen. Fingers can't draw lines, which will prevent the palm from accidentally touching the screen and blurring the picture.
The test stroke, pressure feeling performance is good. The software also supports the direct export of text and pictures.
For example, write some words on the screen and choose to export to some note taking software.
It can recognize your handwriting and export it to the note taking software interface.
This pressure sensitive stylus is the same as the pressure sensitive stylus in Note2. If the stylus touches the screen, it can give priority to the control of the stylus, ignoring the control of the fingers, so that even if painting on other software, as long as the pen touches the screen first, and then put the palm on it, the picture will not be blurred.
The strokes of the software above are really good, but the functions are relatively few, and there is no layer, no picture deformation, or even zoom in and out. If you really want to paint, it is better to use some professional software. Xiao Bian tried many painting software and finally chose PS Touch (Photoshop Android version) after repeated measurement. This software editor has also been evaluated before. If you are interested, please visit here:《 Photoshop Touch 》。
PS Touch has a lot of tools that can be used to help you paint, which is relatively easy to use.
First of all, Controls Size is to control the size of strokes, and Controls Opacity is to control transparency. It's better to tick these two items, so that the pressure of the stylus can be better displayed.
When the touch pen is close to the screen, there will be a pen drop point on the screen to indicate the position of the brush.
As mentioned above, the inverted brush is an eraser, which can erase the wrong places.
Clicking the function key on the pen holder is the color tube function in PS Touch. If you pay attention to the strokes, you will find that there are many burrs in the strokes, which are not as delicate as those in TruNote.
In addition, the resolution of PS Touch seems to be limited to 4096 * 4096. If you are on a PC, the size of this point is very small, but the tablet cannot, and it is not recommended to open too high a resolution, otherwise it will be very stuck... Moreover, the layers that PS Touch can open are limited, and only 10 layers can be opened after minor editing.
Well, the introduction is basically finished, and then we will draw a picture formally. Let's talk about our feelings: it's really a sad thing in life to hold a touch stroke with low precision on such a smooth plate. The smooth panel is hard to paint, and the accuracy of this stylus is very low when it is really painted... and the most important time is limited, so it's better to paint directly after sketching!
Painful painting process... but also because PS Touch has layers, the coloring process is relatively smooth.
However, because it was the first time to use PS Touch to paint on the tablet, there were only 10 layers, so the original arrangement was disrupted when shading later. If you want to use PS Touch to paint, remember to save more layers.
Photos exported by PS Touch are found to have chromatic aberration after export... The effect is worse than that seen on the machine. In addition, due to the problem of precision and time, Xiao Bian did not draw very carefully, and many places were not repaired carefully, which was a shame.
Heard Wacom is going to launch its own tablet computer for painting? Combined with this unpleasant painting experience, if it comes out, I think the following problems must be solved.
- The touch of the screen and stylus needs to be solved. If the touch is too bad, the sales of these products will not be ideal.
- The precision of the stylus must be good enough, but it should not be a problem if it is produced by Wacom.
- The hardware must be good enough. If the hardware is not good enough, the drawing will be stuck seriously or the lines will be delayed... It will make you very painful.
- I hope that some special painting software can be customized. There are few easy to use painting software at present. It would be great if we could produce a painting software with low hardware requirements but basically complete functions and tools (how I hope to have SAI for Android tablets!). It is better to ignore the induction of fingers touching the screen and only recognize the induction of the stylus, so as to reduce the probability of false touch.
This painting experience is not really a good experience. Although this stylus has a pressure of 1024 levels, painting on a smooth surface and relatively low precision make painting more painful. If you don't need to paint or paint completely, you just need to go out and practice your hands sometimes. Xiao Bian still thinks it would be better to practice your hands on the TruNote that Toshiba brought with you.
In addition, I hope that I can test Wacom's painting tablet computer. I wonder if it can meet my requirements?
