I still want to try out Intuos's 3 6D Pen :P The only buttons I use on the Intuos 2 is the the Pressure Senitivity buttons when I'm using painter. I should probably rebind some of the buttons on the 2 so I can stop moving over to the keyboard to zoom and select brushes
well in 3d/texturing I think the intuos3 buttons are pretty useless because i use way too many shortcuts that I can't program into the tablet buttons... But when I have Painter open and I don't need to concentrate on detailing because I'm just doodling, the bottons are sweet... I can actually sit back in my chair and put…
i dont know about the intous 3 but the concept artist at work has a new cintiq with the buttons and it is pretty cool.. he dosent even need the keyboard, all the shortcuts are on the buttons.. i have the older cintiq at work and i think for zbrush if i could map the shift ctrl alt and s keys to my tablet it would be…
I can't imagine how any of the "extra functions" on the Intuos3 would be worth any more to me than what I use at the moment on the Intuos2... personally I think the buttons across the top of the tablet are useless, I only ever use the pen buttons. I think I remember hearing that a lot of people ended up just disabling the…
i also recommend the intuos2, i've owned an intuos 1 and 2 and i've yet to actually use tablet buttons. I also dont like the feel of the harder plastic surface on the intuos 3 but that's simply a personal preferance. I know if you'd like to try drawing on a intuos 3 some apple stores have them hooked up to their display…
The other change was that they doubled the lines per inch of resolution on the Intuos3. Intuos2 has 2540 lpi and the Intuos3 has 5080 lpi. I don't know how that compares to a intuo2. I went from a graphire2 to a intuos3 and the extra lpi was definatly noticable. I don't use the side buttons hardly at all. I do like the…
I've got a 2 at home and a 3 here at work (god.. It's depressing that I can say 'here at work' at 6:30pm on a Sunday :P) Anyway, yea, the buttons, I don't use them. I suppose they could be set up to do something useful as the scroll bar on the 3 you can use with your finger and you can use it to change brush sizes, but…