Adobe's Ink and Slide page is here: <a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/ink-and-slide.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.adobe.com/products/ink-and-slide.html</a><p>Coincidental timing as I have been looking at getting a stylus or Wacom tablet for sketching layouts and quick notes while at my desk. My Jot Pro with Penultimate has been a bit average, unfortunately.<p>At that <$250ish pricepoint, Wacom's main offerings appear to be the Intuos stylus or their non-pro touch surface line. In the case of the former, you're drawing on your iPad and your stylus is hitting the same surface as your "ink". Another benefit is being able to easily sketch on the iPad on the couch or wherever. Issue for me with this one is that it needs Bluetooth 4 and my iPad 2 doesn't cut it.<p>With the pen and touch line, you're anchored or near your laptop/screen and sketching is detached from the "ink" on screen. But everything drawn is right there where I'll likely want it in Photoshop, etc.<p>Not sure that this Adobe Slide ruler would be all that useful and the pen would come down to app support and responsiveness. From Adobe's video, it's hard to see what the lag on the pen is like. Ink requires a more recent iPad too.<p>Anyone got a current solution they're happy with? I'm thinking that I might need to upgrade my iPad at least.
“When a musician plays, if they have to constantly look through dropdown menus to find the next chord, the music would not be very good. It’s farfetched and maybe not possible, but we’d love for, some day, artists to play Photoshop, to stay in flow, to be expressive without interruption.”<p>I've been using Illustrator for a decade. I've fiddled with the key commands to make the tools I like to use a quick key press away. I've recorded macros and assigned keystrokes to them (and am currently swearing a lot because a recent update broke some of them). I've written little scripts.<p>And yeah, all this helps the flow. I work a lot faster then I did when I was first using AI.<p>I have been thinking about this lately, and want to survey my artist friends to see how many of them have also extensively customized the interface of their favorite art tools. I have an intuition that it's one of the signs of being a pro: you've explored enough of the deep set of tools within a modern art program that you can say "this is an important part of my process" and make it more accessible.
I wish Google put more focus on better supporting highly accurate pens in <i>all</i> Android versions. Right now only Samsung does that, pretty much, and even they have started losing interest a bit, I think, and they've made their latest Note tablets very expensive, too.<p>I was hoping Nvidia would launch another Tegra Note tablet with its cheap but very accurate stylus, but at 10", and for $300 or less, but it should've arrived by now, and it hasn't.<p>There's also Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805 processor, which promises "ultrasound inking" [1] of some sort, that seems like a pretty cool technology, but might also be supported only by a few devices, at most. So I think it's ultimately up to Google to make a bigger push for this, but unfortunately I think Google has <i>zero</i> interest in this.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9w2oEWZ-mY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9w2oEWZ-mY</a>
I guess this is the result of Adobe's Might & Napoleon experiment: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKXTKZor3A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKXTKZor3A</a><p>Too bad about the name change, I thought the name Napoleon (because it's a short ruler) was charmingly clever.
I'll stick with my windows tablet and Sketchbook Pro. It already has compass, ruler, French curve and perspective available with the stylus or my finger. The whole point of an iPad is portability, not add-on gadgets. The software interface looks cool though.
There will be a flood of products that take advantage of the touch "pressure" that iOS8 will allow developers to access.<p>This stylus from FiftyThree also looks promising: <a href="http://vimeo.com/98146708" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/98146708</a>
I would marginally be considered a "professional artist" and I am salivating about these devices after seeing them in action. For me, the combination of accurate stylus, retina display, and that slider thingy are a dream come true!<p>Sure, the iPad software that accompanies these programs is pretty wimpy, but I can easily work around these limitations with some post processing. However, every artist's workflow is different, so other people might have more difficulty working around the limitations.
I don't really like the feel of using these. I would much rather just tap two points draw a line and drag it where I want it. Why not use an entirely new design to make use of the technology?