Photoshop User - USA (2019-10)

Company: Wacom

Pricing: $649.95

Rating:

Hot: Affordable; compact; 1920x1080 high-

def display; 8,192 levels of pen pressure

sensitivity; programmable stylus

Not:

I remember when I got my first Cintiq Pen Display: It took up

my entire desktop, weighed a ton, and cost thousands! There

was no high-definition, retina-style screen resolution, but it still

revolutionized the way I worked on images, and interfaced

with my computer in general. The Cintiq series of Pen Displays

are unique: They allow you to work directly on your images via

a display and pressure-sensitive stylus, giving you a real-world,

natural-style workflow for painting and retouching that’s hard

to beat. They also have programmable buttons on the stylus

and tablets, depending on the model you choose.

A lot has changed in every department since my first Cintiq.

Trickle-down technology has lowered costs and boosted

features significantly. Now you can own a Wacom Cintiq

16 Creative Pen Display (15.6") for only $649.95; pretty

amazing, given what they’re capable of, and what they

used to cost. The smaller format of the Cintiq 16 is also consid-

erably more manageable for most desktops. The entire display

takes up a modest 16.6 x 11.2 x 1.0", and it weighs a little over

Review by Michael Corsentino

Creative Pen Display with Pro Pen 2

Wacom

Cintiq 16

> PHOTOSHOP USER

>^ OCTOBER 2019

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