Wacom Intuos M Black – Drawing Tablet with Pen, Stylus Battery-free & Pressure-sensitive, Compatible with Windows, Mac & Android, Perfect Tablet for Drawing, Graphics or Remote Working

I bought this for someone who is a hobby user of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023. She was well above basic skills but below that of an a confident intermediate user. I think this is a level that a lot of users of photo manipulation software users get to and stay at when using a mouse to produce their more creative work.This specific Wacom Intuos drawing tablet has increased her confidence and skills exponentially in the 5 weeks she has been using it and she is turning out some seriously impressive and imaginative Photoshop images.The software is straightforward to install on a good quality, up to date laptop which has a decent amount of RAM.The stylus is light, accurate, comfortable and the size of the working area is spot on.I am seriously impressed with this tablet. Yes there are cheaper, smaller tablets but making the jump to this one is well worth it.

I'm rather enjoying using this graphics tablet. Having had a Wacom Bamboo previously this was a natural upgrade path. As expected from a Wacom tablet it works incredibly well, accurately, and responsively. Being wireless is also a massive plus being able to hold it in one hand while scribing with the other, I get a more comfortable view of what I'm doing on screen.The Bluetooth connectivity seems to be good contrary to the medium tier review tag. When turning on the tablet it takes about 3 seconds to connect to my computer, then ready for use. Didn't have any problems pairing it up to Windows 11 Pro either.The only thing I would have like to see different is the charge port being type C USB instead of micro type B, just for durability longevity and the reversible direction wire. For a 2020s era product type B USB is just archaic.

I’ve used a Wacom Pro for years and tried to replace it with this, but ultimately it didn’t meet my needs. It’s a great little tablet and works perfectly. If, like me, you don’t use all the buttons, you will like that you can disable them on this, as well. My two criticisms are 1. It doesn’t come with a stand for the pen, so I worry that it’s more easily lost than on other tablets and 2. The tablet can only be oriented in a landscape/horizontal layout. I prefer to set up my workspace with the tablet oriented in a portrait / vertical format and I set boundaries with the Wacom driver. I tried and looked for more info online and could not, for the life of me, figure out if there was any way to do this. It was not possible in the custom settings panel and ultimately I returned the tablet because it just didn’t work in the layout that I needed. But, if you are happy with a landscape orientation, then this will not be an issue for you. Overall, it’s really affordable and works incredibly well. It’s accurate and has excellent pen sensitivity. Very good value for the price.

The first thing you notice is that it is smaller than you think. The box contains the tablet, which has rubber studs on the back and four mappable buttons along the top, the stylus, and a USB cable. Software is downloadable from the Wacom website. It's a cinch to set up - you can pretty much just plug it in and use it straight away, but the software allows you to remap the buttons on the tablet for your own chosen functionality, configure the screen size (important if you are using multiple monitors and have your desktop extended across them all, as the tablet assumes that the complete width of all your monitors is a single screen, unless you tell it otherwise in the app) and so on. The stylus doesn't use batteries and has some spare tips inside - just unscrew the barrel and they're stowed inside.It takes a bit of getting used to. As soon as you hold the stylus over the tablet it works as a mouse, and if you tap on the tablet surface it registers as a click, so if you really take to it I suppose you could even ditch your mouse. Of course, the tablet works with graphics software such as Photoshop and Gimp, but it also works with the likes of Microsoft Paint, Paint.Net and Windows Ink within Windows 10. For my purposes (sketches during courses) I found that Microsoft Paint or Windows Ink were absolutely fine. Sure, these "lesser" packages don't support pressure sensitivity whereas the likes of Photoshop do, but for me they were perfect. The hardest thing to remember is that as you draw on the tablet, nothing appears on it, just on the screen, but after a little while I found that it became second nature. Weirdly I did find that if I tried drawing in Paint.Net with the tablet some things didn't work so well, such as if I wrote with the stylus, or tried to draw freehand circles, but it was fine in other programs.If you're a trainer like me and you want something that will let you doodle on the screen, present courses remotely with a virtual whiteboard, or if you fancy dabbling with photo editing, this tablet is small, light, portable, and doesn't break the bank. Of course, bigger and snazzier ones are available, but this one was a brilliant buy for me.