GAOMON PD1161 11.6" IPS HD Graphics Drawing Pen Display with 8 Shortcut Keys and 8192 levels Battery-Free Stylus

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When you are using a Mac laptop, take MacBook Air as an example. You can buy a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter. Gaomon are one of the newest brands of drawing tablets, and although not as high quality as the market leaders Wacom, their tablets still work very well and are excellent value for money. Corel Painter includes proportion, layout, and perspective composition tools that are very useful for both painting and drawing. After setting up and calibrating, this tablet was a pure joy to work with. I love the fact that it has a screen that reflects what is shown on the computer. That way, you can alternate from looking at the computer to the tablet to refresh your eyes and posture, without taking a break. The people at GAOMON are amazing to work with if there is ever an issue. When you are using a desktop computer, make sure the HDMI cable should be plugged into the graphics card area, not the motherboard.

This means you must use the tablet with a computer and the connection is made by using a USB-2.0 cable. Yes, GAOMON PD1161 has an 11-inch screen size with a 1920 by 1080 pixels resolution. You will have 120% sRGB color accuracy plus 16.7 million colors (8-bit) output. The XP Pen only offers +/- 45 degrees of pen tilt support, although you are unlikely to notice this flaw in practice. I find programmable shortcut buttons to be extremely useful on a drawing tablet. They allow you to assign keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop or whatever program you are using, and can materially speed up your workflow. The Cintiq has a cleverly designed screen that minimizes parallax and makes the screen seem fully laminated, even if it technically isn’t. This makes accuracy much higher than the non-fully laminated screen of the PD1560.When looking at drawing tablets with screens, you need to start thinking of laminated vs non-laminated screens. Although the two screened graphics tablets shown in this article are both non-laminated, it is general better to get laminated screens (although you will pay a premium for this). Includes 90-day trial versions of Corel Painter Essentials 8 & Corel AfterShot Pro 3 as well as a 2-year license to Clip Studio Paint Pro, which is very useful for budding artists Since it is a pen display tablet, you will have to set duplicate/mirror mode. For Windows operating system, select duplicate mode and press ‘P’ as you hold the ‘Windows’ key. Mirror mode GAOMON mirror mode Two programmable buttons on the stylus offer shortcut options closer to your fingers. This in turn eases navigation and maintains your designing shortcut habits for more effectiveness. Shortcut Keys

Adobe Illustrator includes multiple drawing tools like Pen tool, Pencil tool, Curvature tool, Paintbrush, and Blob Brush tool, and if you’re a beginner, don’t worry, Adobe offers many useful tutorials. You can blend colors, or even change colors to their inverse or complement to achieve the most flawless drawing. Whether you want a screen with your drawing tablet or not is one of the most important decisions you need to make. With Adobe Illustrator, you’ll find different types of brushes, such as calligraphic, scatter, art, pattern, and bristle. When you are researching budget drawing tablet brands, you are very likely to come across Gaomon or Huion, two of the largest brands following in the heels of Wacom.The One has no programmable buttons on the tablet. while the PD1161 has eight, which are a massive bonus for assigning keyboard shortcuts and speeding up your workflows. Both have two buttons on their pens. For a smoother and easy experience, it not only has a lovely grip but also is lightweight(16g), for more comfort. GAOMON PD1161: Screen and Display image credits: GAOMON Store

The pen harbors 8192 levels of pen pressure sensitivity, and by this, you are awarded authentic and natural stroke production. Build Quality. When you look to more budget brands like Gaomon, Huion and XP-Pen, you often find tablets where they have cut corners in quality control – it’s not uncommon to see slightly warped drawing surfaces for example. Of course, you can easily get replacements, but this is an extra layer of hassle. Even when they are built correctly, they tend not to last for more than a few short years. Make sure your connection is VGA, DVI, Display port to HDMI adapter, not HDMI to VGA, DVI, Display port adapter. Both tablets have about the same percentage of sRGB colors, but the colors look much better on the Cintiq in practice.Wacom’s drivers and software are far superior than Gaomon’s, which can add pen lag and other negatives to the experience. If you want a hassle-free tablet, then that points to Wacom. There are two calibration stylus grasps and two calibration methods for you to try. Two stylus grasps

Close all art programs (like Photoshop) and anti-virus program (like Windows defender or McAfee). Make sure there is no anti-virus program running here in windows hided box. (You can still run anti-virus program after after the driver is well installed). The Intuos uses Bluetooth or a cabled connection, making it much easier to use with a laptop or desktop where your USB ports are inconveniently placed. The S620 must use a USB connection. Some of the notable advantages you will find in the GAOMON PD1161 include portability and the presence of an inbuilt screen.

Programmable buttons can be very helpful to assign keyboard shortcuts and speed up your workflow. Gaomon software only tends to allow one set of shortcuts to be assigned at once, while Wacom software lets you set a button to do different things depending on the program you are using on your computer. The non-printing Perspective Guide utility is especially useful for graphics design illustrations. Its Divine Proportion feature provides guides for adding a sense of proportion to pictures. Denis is an editor who has specialized in graphic design, illustrations and technology in the field.