I often work zoomed in so I cant see the whole image. To prevent zooming around I just open a second window of my current document and keep it at 100% on my second monitor. Just go to Window > Arrange > New window.
Isn’t chode another term for the perineum? Or a penis?
As for the video… to me this seems obvious… It’s what I did when I built my own DIY Cintiq on the cheap. I had no use for it really, just a fun project for a bit of profit.
Can’t you just flip the pen for eraser instead of using a key?
You should try using one of your buttons on the cintiq as the alt key, that way you can alt+right click with the pen, to adjust the brush size, saving you a key for something else.
Also, i tried doing this on my windows pc (changing the workspace instead of changing which was the main screen) but then the confirmation boxes, new file boxes etc etc etc… all came up on the other screen, which I didn’t know how to change, that doesnt happen to you?
While I don’t have a cintiq (yet) I would definatly go with XGM’s method. Opening a “New Window” of a document is a sorta clone. What you do in one happens live in the other. I hold my intuos in my lap and use my left hand on the keyboard on my desk. I’m sure you know Scott, that [ and ] increase and decrease brush size and adding shift (i.e. shift + [ and shift + ] ) modify the brush softness. While the Num Pad can change your brush opacity or flow with increments of 10. 0 being 100.
I would LOVE to use CS4, but on both my home and work PC’s it lags and has issues and illustrator has some changes that just annoy me.
I’ve seen a few people do it both with mirroring and with dragging. To me mirroring seems to be a waste of desktop space as I don’t need to to see the image twice nesicarrily and the resolution difference can be an issue as you showed. Dragging and dropping the image where it is needed works better in my opinion, but takes a lot of extra time to move things around and bring up new toolbars. I do something different…
When I work with my Cintiq I always keep my main art board on the tablet itself, and I keep all my tools on the monitor to the immediate left of the tablet (running a 4 monitor setup). In the left hand monitor I expand the image preview/navigator window to fill the screen and place all the tools menus to the left hand side of that monitor right up against the edge of the Wacom’s screen. The keyboard is close to where I would normally keep my left hand so I can hit short cuts, but when I need the tool bar I have the top button on my express keys set to “display toggle”. That way my cursor just jumps to the secondary monitors and allows me to grab the tool I need then I just hit “display toggle” a second time to return my cursor to the tablet.
Don’t know if this makes sense, but it’s hard to describe typing it out without pictures….
are you running MAC or PC? I run 2 monitors ar work but have my tablet mapped only to one, as not to distort it, but I would love to toggle between the two for picking tools without grabbing my mouse.
I run photoshop on the wacom screen, rather then my monitor. As soon as I start up photoshop, it appears on my cintiq. I never have a need to move it to the monitor. What do I do with the monitor while working on photoshop? Why, watch movies of course!
Physically, my setup is a bit different from yours. I found working with the tablet and monitor side by side like that to be inconvenient. I have my workspace set up on two desks, arranged in an L shape. My tablet is on the right (since I’m right handed) and the monitor to the left. The desk with the tablet is about 6 inches shorter then the one holding the monitor, which makes it easier to use the tablet. The setup puts my keyboard in easy reach, so I don’t need to move it or myself to access it.
Hey Scott, have you tried raising your main monitor up and having your cintiq just inderneath? (visualize this set-up like a large DS). Don’t know if your keyboard would get in the way, but this arrangement keeps you from twisting about when you have to go to your keyboard.
Hi Scott, I span my Mac desktop across two monitors as well, but I have a different method of moving windows around that you may want to try:
When I want to drag a window to the other display like you did in the video, I click the middle mouse button to activate Spaces, displaying the layout of all my screens in one place. I then only have to drag the window a small distance compared to dragging at the native resolutions of the displays.
Travis: Running a PC. Monitor toggle aught to be one of the options you can set in the Wacom Preferences. With it you can either set it to jump the cursor to a specific monitor or you drag across all monitors like you would with the mouse.
I think so ScottyD, but you can add more video cards (depending on system).
omg thanks Foxxwoof. I had to get the latest drivers but I have been waiting for this feature for a long time. only complaint is that I can’t turn off both monitors in the toggle selection, oh well better than what I had before.
I know it would take quite a bit of time, and space, but is there any way that you could do a video showing how you make a comic from start to finish, leaving nothing out? I am buying a cintiq in the next month or so and am going to start my own comic, (actually already have probably 20 or so drawn in sketch books ready to scan) and was just wondering if I could get some a good how-to.
I often work zoomed in so I cant see the whole image. To prevent zooming around I just open a second window of my current document and keep it at 100% on my second monitor. Just go to Window > Arrange > New window.
Isn’t chode another term for the perineum? Or a penis?
As for the video… to me this seems obvious… It’s what I did when I built my own DIY Cintiq on the cheap. I had no use for it really, just a fun project for a bit of profit.
Can’t you just flip the pen for eraser instead of using a key?
You should try using one of your buttons on the cintiq as the alt key, that way you can alt+right click with the pen, to adjust the brush size, saving you a key for something else.
Also, i tried doing this on my windows pc (changing the workspace instead of changing which was the main screen) but then the confirmation boxes, new file boxes etc etc etc… all came up on the other screen, which I didn’t know how to change, that doesnt happen to you?
Either Scott follows Jeff Gerstmann, or Jeff Gerstmann follows Scott, or both. But that’s awesome!!!!!
While I don’t have a cintiq (yet) I would definatly go with XGM’s method. Opening a “New Window” of a document is a sorta clone. What you do in one happens live in the other. I hold my intuos in my lap and use my left hand on the keyboard on my desk. I’m sure you know Scott, that [ and ] increase and decrease brush size and adding shift (i.e. shift + [ and shift + ] ) modify the brush softness. While the Num Pad can change your brush opacity or flow with increments of 10. 0 being 100.
I would LOVE to use CS4, but on both my home and work PC’s it lags and has issues and illustrator has some changes that just annoy me.
Hey, where is your wallpaper from on your main display?
Yesss. Please scott, where did you get that wallpaper??
Yeah, same here. What is that wallpaper? Its awesome. Reminds me of Lazur, an amiga demoscene gfx artist.
I’ve seen a few people do it both with mirroring and with dragging. To me mirroring seems to be a waste of desktop space as I don’t need to to see the image twice nesicarrily and the resolution difference can be an issue as you showed. Dragging and dropping the image where it is needed works better in my opinion, but takes a lot of extra time to move things around and bring up new toolbars. I do something different…
When I work with my Cintiq I always keep my main art board on the tablet itself, and I keep all my tools on the monitor to the immediate left of the tablet (running a 4 monitor setup). In the left hand monitor I expand the image preview/navigator window to fill the screen and place all the tools menus to the left hand side of that monitor right up against the edge of the Wacom’s screen. The keyboard is close to where I would normally keep my left hand so I can hit short cuts, but when I need the tool bar I have the top button on my express keys set to “display toggle”. That way my cursor just jumps to the secondary monitors and allows me to grab the tool I need then I just hit “display toggle” a second time to return my cursor to the tablet.
Don’t know if this makes sense, but it’s hard to describe typing it out without pictures….
are you running MAC or PC? I run 2 monitors ar work but have my tablet mapped only to one, as not to distort it, but I would love to toggle between the two for picking tools without grabbing my mouse.
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Interested in the wallpaper as well.
Wallpaper source:
http://jesar.deviantart.com/art/Tiny-World-87966916
I run photoshop on the wacom screen, rather then my monitor. As soon as I start up photoshop, it appears on my cintiq. I never have a need to move it to the monitor. What do I do with the monitor while working on photoshop? Why, watch movies of course!
Physically, my setup is a bit different from yours. I found working with the tablet and monitor side by side like that to be inconvenient. I have my workspace set up on two desks, arranged in an L shape. My tablet is on the right (since I’m right handed) and the monitor to the left. The desk with the tablet is about 6 inches shorter then the one holding the monitor, which makes it easier to use the tablet. The setup puts my keyboard in easy reach, so I don’t need to move it or myself to access it.
I’ve seen that wallpaper before, in this collection of really interesting wallpapers, found here http://www.desktopography.net/
That particular wallpaper is in exhibition 4. Most of them are really high resolution.
Hey Scott, have you tried raising your main monitor up and having your cintiq just inderneath? (visualize this set-up like a large DS). Don’t know if your keyboard would get in the way, but this arrangement keeps you from twisting about when you have to go to your keyboard.
Hi Scott, I span my Mac desktop across two monitors as well, but I have a different method of moving windows around that you may want to try:
When I want to drag a window to the other display like you did in the video, I click the middle mouse button to activate Spaces, displaying the layout of all my screens in one place. I then only have to drag the window a small distance compared to dragging at the native resolutions of the displays.
Travis: Running a PC. Monitor toggle aught to be one of the options you can set in the Wacom Preferences. With it you can either set it to jump the cursor to a specific monitor or you drag across all monitors like you would with the mouse.
Does the Wacom take up one of the monitor spots? I currently have two monitors and if I got a wacom would I loose one of those monitors to the wacom?
Snook,
How do you tell photoshop to open on your cintiq instead of opening on your main monitor?
I think so ScottyD, but you can add more video cards (depending on system).
omg thanks Foxxwoof. I had to get the latest drivers but I have been waiting for this feature for a long time. only complaint is that I can’t turn off both monitors in the toggle selection, oh well better than what I had before.
I know it would take quite a bit of time, and space, but is there any way that you could do a video showing how you make a comic from start to finish, leaving nothing out? I am buying a cintiq in the next month or so and am going to start my own comic, (actually already have probably 20 or so drawn in sketch books ready to scan) and was just wondering if I could get some a good how-to.
Your comic is always an inspiration.