![]() So for a comparison point, i started learning digital in august of 2018 after coming from a traditional heavy background. I also bought a pack of 100spare nibs and they live in an old Altoids tin that it attached to my desk by magnet so I don’t lose them. In the box there was all the cables, the glove, something I’m forgetting, a click on stylus holder (very nice, alway forget it’s there and can’t find my stylus, but it is actually nice to have), the stylus, and stylus tub! The stylus tube had a spare stylus and 8 spare nibs, the top can be used as a stylus stand and can pull the used nibs out for you. Glove didn’t quite fit nicely though so I got a six pack on Amazon for like $4usd. Which is nice because my hand sticks to screen otherwise and I hate that so much. The drawing glove that came with the tablet helps reduce the friction between my hand and the screen. I just enjoy it because I can’t see every single smudge of the screen (unlike the iPad where I swear it’s growing smudges for its own entertainment). The screen came with a matte screen protector that is slightly textured. It’s only an issue when I’m trying to click on a teeeeny tiny box on my layers menu, but I don’t need that button often so it doesn’t bother me enough to get around to recalibrate lol. I’m like 70% sure I just need to recalibrate it since it started after a computer update. ![]() The only other concern is that there is a slight (very very slight) gap between where the nib is clicking and where my cursor is clicking. So I would still like a better movement range, but that’s not the tablet’s fault anymore. Which….honestly, I should have just gone all in and got a nice arm ($180usd) to make sure that I had a full movement range, but I went with a budget arm ($24usd) because I didn’t even know if I was going to like it. I want to be able to change my angles fast but at the 22r’s size, it’s not a one handed adjustment so I got a monitor arm for it. The stand that came attached is probably the only part I genuinely dislike. (Had to borrow a color spider thing from a friend, I thought it was the tablet that was off but it was actually my computer) I actually found that I needed to adjust my macbook’s (2010) screen colors because the XpPen was displaying much much better. Occasionally when my computer updates, I need to restart the driver or unplug/replug the usb C cable on the monitor and it sorts itself out! What that basically means is that my Drawing Monitor is currently my Main Monitor! It’s a champ! Netflix looks so dang good on it lol. I’m currently using a spare tv monitor I had lying around and my XpPen because Luna display would shut off while I was streaming and that got annoying fast. But it’s the easiest fix of just drop and drop that guides on the Tablet Software. That is an issue I have only encountered while using the Luna Display and I don’t think you’d run into otherwise. So occasionally, the tablet software needed me to remind it of where the tablet’s work area boundaries were. My Mac mini set up started with Luna Display (a module that basically turns my iPad into a computer monitor) and my XpPen tablet. I use two monitors while working (I don’t need to monitors, I just wanted to be able to see YouTube or see my iTunes playlist while working) but I currently have a Mac mini (MacBook started archiving all my software and refused to run programs so into retirement it went). The stylus is not heavy and is thicker than an Apple Pencil by a lot so, for me, it’s much more comfortable. I have the stylus buttons set for last tool/eraser and switch colors. I find the pen tilt is quite nice! I hold my pen a bit weird so rarely is the nib point 90degrees to the screen, and I usually have no interference or skipped lines. And then it was mostly tinkering with software settings.Ĭurrently, for the hot keys, I have use the bottom left five hot keys (eye dropper, save, new layer, undo, hand) and the scroll wheels(left set to canvas tilt and right set to zoom) the bottom right side buttons is set for Apple Music so I can skip songs while working. But I also read the whole manual so that’s is included in the time estimate. The process of taking it out of the box and drawing on it only took about 15 minutes. ![]() None of the hot keys really worked in a way that worked with me so I spent quite a while trying to figure out what I needed to be successful. It was bigger than I anticipated and I needed to get used to it. I use it about 2-12 hours a day :) my first impressions upon setting it up for the first time was this is great! But the first week was actually kinda rough trying to get used to it. I originally was going to get the XpPen 16inch, but some things happened and I went with the 22R
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