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Wacom's Intuos4: A Photographer's Perspective

I will start this off with a declaration - an awful lot of my personal photography time is spent in Adobe Photoshop. Over the years, Adobe and I (outside of the pen tool, which I have always hated to bits) have become great friends as I've expanded my vision and added atmosphere to what the camera's lens has captured for me. It's not that I suck as a photog (at least, I hope) - my pictures are usually straight, well composed, and not often blurry. But the art of post-processing, even just touch-ups, is almost more exciting than going out and taking the pictures. Moving from "what the camera saw" to a finished piece for me is often a long and tedious task of dodging, burning, selective blurring and sharpening, tinting, and many other things. In any given "final" piece that I consider print worthy, I probably invest six or more hours in post-process, running through ranges of filters, actions and tweaks - both commercial and personally created. With that in mind, I was excited when Rob asked me if I'd ever looked at using a Wacom tablet. After all, these things are designed to be a post-process dream come true. I mean, yes, I'm a photographer at heart, but absolutely no image to me is complete straight out of the camera.