It’s not much of a contest. It all comes down to latency. I can’t wait to get my hands on the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
[H/T Loop reader Tom P]
The Apple Pencil vs. Wacom Cintiq
It’s not much of a contest. It all comes down to latency. I can’t wait to get my hands on the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
[H/T Loop reader Tom P]
Just an FYI, the person who wrote that piece is a former Apple employee.
I have a friend who is a packaging designer (you probably have some of the products he designed in your house). Was a Mac fanboy, then a NeXT fanboy, and jumped ship to Redmond. He freaking LOVES his Surface, it’s all he ever uses anymore and since it runs Photoshop and Illustrator natively, for him at least, it also slays the iPad Pro. First time I’d EVER heard someone rave about a Surface.
And she’s pretty qualified to compare the two.
Just fyi – she wrote that as a blog post that was picked up by Cult. I don’t think it was ever meant to be anything other than her (admittedly biased) opinion. No one is trying to hide the fact… her Apple credentials are in the byline as the first thing you read… (unless that was added later?) Then again – Cult of (mac android) is the last place on earth you’d ever want to pick up real news or advice on anything…
Good to start seeing some real world comparisons though… to me this is a no-brainer investment if it comes anywhere near the lag time of a cintiq – and she seems to suggest it’s better. The color, weight and parallax on the cintiq are the reasons I stuck with the Intuos – I never felt the cintiq was worth the investment. These are all reasons I’ll definitely be getting the iPad. I was sold on the keynote, I’m twice as sold now…
The biggest complaint I hear (no experience myself) is the heat. You don’t want that thing on your lap while running photoshop. Otherwise, it’s very compelling to have full versions of some of these apps at your disposal. But there’s also something to be said for apps built from the ground up for touch (and now pencil). This will be an interesting next couple years…
I’ve tested many Surfaces in my shop — the first one — and I do like Windows 10. However, make no mistake that it is Windows, which means you get to try to click on little buttons and bits and try to shuffle windows around if you are not in tablet mode. If that is what you want and you need the full Photoshop or whatever experience, then, yes, a Surface is great. I assume from what I’ve read the current Surface 3 is even better.
However, if you like iOS and how the apps interact, and how all of it can work with your Mac when you need to get things there to do the heavy lifting work, then this iPad Pro and the integrated Pencil is going to be a gamechanger for you.
This is not a Surface also-ran. It’s one more choice out there for everyone to look at and decide which way fits the way they do their work.
Doesn’t matter what she was formerly. The points she makes are valid considerations in themselves. Latency, display color and resolution, proximity of image to pencil tip, etc. should be observed by anyone before choosing between devices. I liked what I saw from the event videos of the iPad Pro. I like the overall package and the pencil and the new badass processor. I’m looking forward to trying out Adobe’s software, too. I’m glad Adobe was featured at the Apple event. That pretty much gives credence to their initial iPad Pro offerings.
doesn’t mean the comments are valid but yes it is nice to know details that might relate to bias.
If you like bloatware and renting software that has been tweaked, not natively written for your device Adobe is a good option. BUT, you can find alternatives to both PS and Illustrator at a fraction of the cost, that does the same thing and is written from the ground for the iPad. It had to the Office Suite and its happening to Adobe. The Creative and Office suite has been their better days.
Bloatware is one of the best causes of heat.
Post you W-2 and I’ll believe you otherwise its another Google lie. Hehe
“Alternatives” that “do the same thing”?
Really?
Full prepress support and all the print and web tools that Illustrator and Photoshop have?
Are you perhaps thinking of “basic image editing and vector art” instead of “the same thing” as Creative Cloud?
Your bring up a good point. I’ve been doing and teaching Prepress long before Adobe existed. If you know what you doing, there are plenty of great tools to do what the Creative Suite does. Direct to Print and the web has changed everything. It’s not the software its your skill. I did my first color separation with Illustrator in 1989 for a travel catalog. People laughed at me and said it could be done and I provide them wrong. Look where we are doing. I did my first photo color separation with ColorStudio. Back in the day, it kick PS butt. I miss that program.
I’ve really fallen in love with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. Every time I open them to work on something they give my work a new flavour. I’ve also found that I can often do everything I would want to do in Photoshop with them.
I’m sure that there are a few things that are missing, but I’ve been drawing in Photoshop since I was in the 10th grade, so … about 15 years now, so I’m pretty familiar. Affinity Photo already has a number of features that I’m like, “I’m pretty sure that’s not a feature I need but I’m guessing it’s for a professional.” They’ve done a really stellar job on those apps!