Connect to your computer. Your creative pen display comes with the Cintiq display stand and a variety of accessory parts. The product parts and accessories are packed together in the accessories box. For a list of the components, see About your Cintiq 22HD. For instructions on setting up the stand. Oct 18, 2017 The Cintiq 22HD's combination of a 21.5-inch HD, wide-format LCD and Stylus Pen Input from Wacom® enables photographers, designers, and other creative professionals to work naturally and intuitively directly on the surface of the display with Wacom's pressure sensitive pen technology.
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It’s just a share about my first impression and real experience. You will see the plus and minus I met as a Cintiq new user. 22HD or 24HD? Two different format. The Cintiq 22HD is the tablet I started to target. Then I saw the 24HD Touch for sale, second hand at with a reasonable price. It was worth considering.
I asked opinion to my friend, designer at Adidas about which tablet would fit me better. He owns the Cintiq 22HD, saw people using the 24HD and he especially knows the way I sketch (we was classmate for 4 years). He warmly advised me the 22HD as it’s much easier to manoeuvre.
You can rotate the screen. The 24HD is awesome, but really big and heavy (40kg) and you can’t rotate it. We concluded that getting the 24HD was like buying a luxury Porsche that would be hard to control.
The day after I went to a IT shopping mall to look for trying these tablets. Touch or no Touch? I had to choose between two version of the tablet: a Touch and non Touch. Take note that the Touch version is about 15% more expensive!It makes the Cintiq like a big Ipad. You can Zoom in and out with your fingers, make also a keyboard appears. According to Adrien it is really common to have a conflict between the palm recognition and the pen. It means your palm would accidentally draw on your canvas.
Kind of irritating. Why paying more for an option I may end to deactivate? What you see on the picture below (I took it from Wacom official website) is actually impossible. You can’t use the zoom when your pen tip is on the screen.
I guess it was also the first day the guy met the Wacom as well. The shop gave me an offer. The price of the 22HD Touch EXPO model for cheaper than a NEW 22HD without Touch.
Plus, I could bring the tablet immediately (any new Cintiq in Singapore needs to be preorder, there is no stock in any shop). The expo model was out for 2 months in a non crowded shop. It was in a great condition except some finger print on it. So I took the offer and bring back my new 20kg toy at home with ”a banana smile”. FIRST IMPRESSIONS AFTER UNPACKED I though I would be more excited.
It was a mix feeling of Wow! And intimidation. Will i do a good usag e of that machine? Time will tell.
Cintiq or not Cintiq I aim to improve my skills. ? Monster Size The tablet is wider than my shoulders. You rotate it like a truck steering.
My Asus EP121 vs the new Cintiq22HD. Plan to get a Cintiq? Plan a big desk. The way each device is oriented when I draw on it. My desk being against the wall, the corner of the tablet was bumping it when I rotated it.
So I shifted the desk of 15 cm form the wall. I recommend a deep and wide desk to set up your tablet and your computer. If you need to sketch on paper you can just put the Cintiq back in vertical position. The Cintiq 22HD in vertical position allows you to free some space for sketching on paper (Impossible with Cintiq 24HD).
PEN CALIBRATION When you plug your tablet, you need to calibrate the pen to the screen. It was really easy, and relevant. The Wacom Companion or my Asus tablet EP 121 tend to have the pointer getting further from the tip when you get near the border of the screen.
It was annoying, as you loose in precision. So I kept drawing only in the center. With the Cintiq 22HD, the calibration is perfect, anywhere on the screen.
DIFFERENT SURFACE FEEL OF DRAWING Wacom provides a set of nibs. The felt nibs give a sensation closer to drawing on paper. Inclination and rotation of the tablet Being used to Screen tablet, I though I would adapt very fast to the Cintiq. But my first lines was clumsy. It get better after few hours of practice.
I tried the tablet in multiple positions. I am not able today to draw with the vertical position. A small inclination bother me.
It happens that the 22HD can’t be fully horizontal. I need to practice some more for my arm to adapt to the new angles. I am used to rotate the paper fast when I sketch.
My previous tablet is portable so I could rotate the screen easily. Now, I feel more restricted in my movement. I can rotate the screen, but it is now a XL one. To avoid drawing “like a contortionist”, I moved myself on my wheel chair to adjust my body position.
Let’s see in the next few weeks how I will adapt better. The custom side buttons Wacom added some side buttons. You can use them as shortcut for your software.
Undo/redo, save. Any functions you need for Photoshop.
I though it was a great idea but after testing them for few hours, I have just deactivated the functions. Because I am so used to the keyboard shortcuts. Plus there is not enough buttons to cover my 12 main shortcuts I use the most. I will slowly try to input some side functions such as the screen capture.
Left hand on the wireless keyboard for the shortcuts, right hand for drawing. I feel lucky. Most of the shortcut I use for Photoshop are on the left side of the keyboard. Left side: I use the letters C, V, B, N, S, T, A, Z, F, D, TAB. For the right side I only use 3: I, +,.
I recommend you guys to practice Photoshop and Illustrator with the shortcuts. It won’t be natural at start for sure! But in my opinion, it’s worth it. You will save a lot of time. Conclusion about the touch option The tablet can detect the presence of the pen few cm from the screen. When detected, the touch option is automatically deactivated. It is quite smart.
However, I felt that it is not as reactive as I wish when I want to zoom in or out. It is not as good as Ipad. I feel kind of excited having a such bigger digital workspace. Today is Day 1, I notice that I have lost in fluidity, flexibility of movement and speed.
It is not as intuitive as I though at start. I am going to continue to practice more at it, and get familiar to this wonderful machine. If you already a Cintiq user, please let me know about your experience. Feel free to leave a comment. This is a sponsored link.
Hello John, I did not had the chance to try it yet. However from what I saw from artist reviews on Youtube, it seams solving most of the big issues its predecessors have (Wacom Companion).
I did tried to sketch on the Wacom Companion, and it was really decceiving. Anyway, this version seams to be great, I would highly recommend you to make a try! Make sure the pen is not jittering, no lag when you use a big brush on Photoshop, that your nib and cursor are matching with precision, and there is no big gap appearing when you nib goes on the side of your screen. The extra thing is make sure the battery life is enough for you. To me it’s still too low. I wish having a tablet I could bring all day without charging.
Note that the charger seams not too big, still pretty ok to carry. If you need portability, I may consider the 13″ though. Cheers, Chou-Tac. Hello Renau, I never heard about issue with the screen because of the Touch. My Wacom Cintiq 22HD has the touch, and I personally never use this function. I simply deactivated it. It’s actually working very well, but it happens I do palm conflict sometime, and it irritates me hehe.
(Even though I am a pretty zen person) It’s to me just a question of being used to it, and I have been personally trained using Photoshop or other softwares with the left hand on the keyboard to get all the shortcuts I need. If your daughter is already an experienced user of Photoshop, I would recommend her to use the keyboard. Otherwise, she can start training with the Touch, it is a great function for zoom in and rotate the Canvas. ? Hope it helps! Cheers, Chou-Tac. Bonjour Chou-Tac, I just bought my very first graphics tablet. It’s a second hand 21UX (2nd gen).
It bigger than I thought! I really didn’t sketch much on A3, so it looks so big. But actually it feels natural, and having all that extra space on the tablet is great. I’m just learning my way around Sketchbook Pro. I just focusing a lot more on my sketching skills, and hope that developing sketching skills on paper and tablet will make me a more valuable industrial designer.
How are you going along with yours after 2 years?