This makes it a joy to use and ensures it can be tossed into your laptop bag for travel. This 6.0 x 3.7-inch tablet measures only 0.3 inches thick and has a durable plastic build with rounded edges. Many big-name tech brands are going the way of "attainable" when it comes to pricing, and you'll find the Wacom One alongside the Microsoft Surface Go and the entry-level iPad. Screen Size/Active Area: 11.6 inches | Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 | Pen Type: Passive | Standalone: No The device is compatible with Windows 7, 8, or 10 (in 32 or 64-bit) and Mac OS X as old as version 10.10. This makes it less of a drawing-only tablet and more of a full-featured control surface for your design programs. You can harness six different assignable shortcut keys. In addition, the Artist12 gives you a full-high touch bar you can program to fulfill commands on your computer (XP-Pen recommends mapping it to the zoom-in/zoom-out feature). Because the pen is passive, it's not another device that needs to charge. The passive hexagonal pen (which feels very pencil-like) allows for 8,192 levels of pressure sensitivity to achieve the hand-sketched feel in your work. This makes it feel like you're creating art in the real world. What's great about having an 11.6-inch display inside your drawing tablet is that you don't need to look at your other screen while drawing on a separate surface-you're drawing on the device where your lines and colors appear. Still, with 72% NTSC Color Gamut accuracy, it focuses on reproducing your work with as much precision as possible. The touchscreen display-a 1920 x 1080 HD IPS display-isn't the highest resolution available. Please, for my sanity and your own DO NOT install this app.The XP-Pen Artist12 earns our top spot because of its compatibility, customization, and reasonably affordable price point. There are just so many better free options and applications than this site right off the bat and trying out this app is just a genuine waste of time. I can't understand the site, and on top of that even when it's colorful or "cute" I still find the overall appearance ugly, gross and unpolished. This app is so ugly, I am aware this is a petty complaint but colors don't match, the whole aesthetic of the site is inconsistent, from space to colorful to bland. Not only that but all selections and wording are confusing. When you select tools the selection pop-up will jolt upward or downward, always making you click the wrong tool or layer. Some of the names don't even describe what they are. Not only that but some brushes are just useless and not intuitive.
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