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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 265232" data-attributes="member: 9521">There is no real "software" to speak up, it's basically a high tech mouse that's like a touch pad on a laptop combined with a pen, if that makes any sense. It's great for editing images and pretty much anything you could do with a pencil and paper. The learning curve is really one of developing dexterity and a mental adaption type learning curve as opposed to a software learning curve. Unlike a mouse, you cannot lift it up and re-position the cursor, the pad itself is an overlay of the actual screen. And by that I mean the left corner of the pad correlates with the left corner of your screen whereas with a mouse you can lift it up re-position the cursor. That takes a bit of effort to teach your mind to respond with the pen as you do with your mouse. The muscle memory you have developed over the years with the eye-hand coordination with your mouse is of no use to you with a pen and you have to relearn it all from the beginning, which will come along the more you use it. Fortunately there are tons and tons of tutorials and video demonstrations of the pad in action with Photoshop and LR. And after you wrap your head around the pen to screen interaction, the rest is a cake walk. Most Intuos models come with some cool drawing and animation software, too. Those are fun to just play with. That, combined with PS, allows you to draw/paint amazing pictures (assuming you have the talent that I don't have).</blockquote>

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