Wacom Intuos tablet

[overfifty]

Against my better judgement I bought a tablet and am trying to develop a pattern with it. The tablet doesn't accept my choice of brushes, and rather than pinpointing a spot on the image I get a wide streak of white or black from the edge of the tablet to that point. I've chosen brush size with both the pen and the mouse but I can't get pinpoint accuracy with the brush. Any suggestions? Thank you, Barry.

[GrayBeard]

For what you are trying to do I think you made a BooBoo in choosing a tablet!
I don't think the tablet has the computing power to do the jobs you are asking of it.
A full size laptop would have made a better choice....

I may have misunderstood your reference to "Tablet"!
I was thinking in terms of a "tablet" like a Samsung, iPad, etc.

~~~GB~~~

[overfifty]

Hi Graybeard. I've been using a laptop all along but was under the delusion I'd have better control on some aspects of pattern development w/tablet. From other discussions it appears the tablet and GIMP are incompatible and it's going back. Cheers, Barry.

[tdpainter]

I Use a wacom Bamboo Tablet and gimp and inkscape works great.

[EIEIO]

Barry - I assume the tablet you're talking about is a Wacom drawing tablet, not a computer tablet like an iPad etc. - is that right?

I tried one of those Wacom's last year and wound up sending it back. It misbehaved somewhat (don't remember now) but the fault was more mine - I could not get used to moving the pen w/o touching the surface so it kept getting confused (or I did).

I do all my graphic editing on the mouse touchpad on my laptop - no room for a mouse on my desk.

[overfifty]

Thanks all. I'm not sure what the conflict was but sometimes you just have to suck it up and admit defeat. Cheers, Barry.

[daveo]

sounds to me that the issue is probably a lack of memory
I did have some issues with my bamboo when using on the laptop (2gb)  similar to what you say Barry
When I upgraded to a desktop  (8gb) there was no problem at all.
Dave

[overfifty]

When I got this two years ago I made sure it was on steroids as I didn't want this sort of thing to happen.  I think it's something between GIMP and the tablet as the tablet works with Paint, Sketchbook and Inkscape. I can't see it being a lack of memory but thank you.