View Full Version : Nice weather, rose, bad mistake.
OMG I feel so crippled right now. Yesterday night I had a second glass of rose (ran out of beer) and nicked it over my mouse & wacom tablet (huge mistake) And now only the back of the pen works & the mouse died out entirely....
So no more photoshop stuff from me in the near future.
I'm so frustrated right now...... just had to let it out.
bodydump
04-15-2010, 06:58 AM
That sucks. If you lived in the states you could probably find a lawyer who would sue Adobe and the wine company for not putting labels warning against drinking while Photoshoping. :hmmmm:
If you're lucky maybe you just need a new pen and not a whole new tablet.
I put the pen in a glass filled with rise. Hopefully it draws the liquid that is still in the tip. It might work again... it might. The back-end can still be used, but the side buttons & front tip don't respond to anything.
The mouse is not related, so hopefully just a new mouse & maybe a new pen.
I must add, I dried em off immediately & they continued working for a few hours. They just didn't respond anymore when I woke up..... good morning to me :mad:
Blondin
04-15-2010, 09:52 AM
Hope won't cost you too much to replace that.
By the way, are tablets a good deal ?
Didn't try any, i often want to take the plunge but not sure about the learning curve and if it is so much of an improvement for non-professional drawing.
It takes a little getting use too, but after that you won't ever use a mouse in any program like photoshop ever again.
They can get a little pricey the larger the surface on the tablet/resolution/etc. but with a decent one you can get very far.
I'm a fairly poor student, so no fancy stuff for me either. Lost the pen of my Wacom graphire 2 tablet while moving to another apartment. Then went on to a Wacom bamboo. I'd suggest to go for the last one as it is 'cheap' and good to work with.
Over here a bamboo tablet cost about 70-90 euros. But wacom tablet can reach prices up to a few hundred euros and above a thousand you get a touchscreen in stead of a responsive plate.
(seems like I will be replacing the pen for my bamboo...... costs about half the price of an entire new tablet if you include delivery fees :banghead:)
(that's 40 euros thrown away on a 4euro/bottle glas of wine I didn't even get to drink :banghead:)
SophT
04-16-2010, 02:52 AM
warning against drinking while Photoshoping.
You can photoshop without drinking? Didn't know that was possible...
Isn't the bamboo just the low-line made by wacom?
Yup, but it's good enough for me. Hell if you're used to using a mouse it is magical. I just don't have a few hundred bucks to spent on it. Maybe if I ever finish my education & I need one for my job.
Photoshopping without drinking (or similar)...... desperate times.
bodydump
04-16-2010, 07:56 AM
You can photoshop without drinking? Didn't know that was possible...
I usually drink gin while photoshopping. If I spill, its more like rubbing alcohol, which is good for cleaning electronics.
I usually drink gin while photoshopping. If I spill, its more like rubbing alcohol, which is good for cleaning electronics.
Beats my (Dutch, Grolsch, Heineken is by far not the best dutch beer around) beer, though a Single Malt whiskey from time to time is also nice. :stoned:
SophT
04-16-2010, 05:34 PM
heh I'm usually stuck with a 青岛 （qing dao）or tsingtao (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsingtao_beer#Beer_styles) I guess it's called in the West. 3.1% Alcohol content... but it only costs me 3Y for a 1.5L bottle (~50 cents). Cheaper than water actually.
>cheaper than water< Whahaha :rofl:
HAHA, I was about to buy a new pen only when I decided to pull the pen out of that glass of rise one last time to test it. And it works flawlessly again. :dancing2:
So THK is back in the game!