20% off Wacom Bamboo Create tablet

Once upon a time when I was really bored, I would play with the most basic PC app ever: MS Paint. That’s right: eclectic combinations of geometric shapes and various colors were combined to make the crudest drawings known to man. If I actually had any creative interest in drawing, that’s when I would have realized that one of these stylus tablets from Wacom would have taken my MS Paint skills to the next level.

Therein lies the fallacy though: tablets like these aren’t just good for free-hand drawing on a PC. The next big application for Wacom’s slabs is obviously graphic work in Photoshop, for which a copy of Photoshop Elements is included, but have you thought about note-taking? I grew out of pen & paper note-taking in 2002, but I also feel you lose something just by typing notes. This tablet has a texture to help simulate a pen & paper feel and includes the highly popular Evernote software to organize and share your notes.

Another neat use I have seen for these tablets is during presentations. Whether live or in a recorded webcast, presenters can simply record their screen and voice to present easy-to-understand visuals without spending lots of time creating complex charts and recordings. It works surprisingly well and opens up a lot of possibilities for communicating ideas.

This Wacom Bamboo Create Pen Tablet is one of the best bang for the buck stylus tablets out there, with its large 9 x 5-inch work area and bundle of included software from Adobe, Corel, AutoDesk, and more. Setup is also a cinch, so you’ll be up and stylus-ing before you know it.

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