Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Creative Small screen big enough for LR?

[Zack S]

Lightroom Version Number

6.14

Operating System

1. Windows 10

There is a used Wacom Intuos Bluetooth small for sale near me on Facebook market place for $45. Thinking about getting it to use with my laptop and LR. Is this tablet size, 6x3.7 inches large enough for most users? Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Creative Pen Tablet (Small, Pistachio Green)

There is also a Wacom Intuos Pro medium for sale near me for $130. Wacom Intuos Pro Creative Pen Tablet (Medium)

Thanks
Zack

 

[Conrad Chavez]

I have used a small Wacom tablet with Lightroom Classic. How well it works can depend on the difference between the active area of the tablet and the size of your display. For a laptop or a desktop HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, a small tablet might be OK.

If you’re using a large display set to a relatively high UI resolution, like a 27" 4K display, it can be difficult to use a stylus on a small tablet to hit some of the very tiny controls in the Lightroom Classic user interface. This becomes even worse if you are using a small tablet across multiple displays. For this reason, I often use a mouse or trackpad if most of what I’m doing is clicking or dragging Lightroom controls. But I will definitely use the tablet if I’m using the Spot Removal tool, or painting with the Adjustment Brush or in the mask of a Graduated Filter or Radial Filter.

 

[Zack S]

I have used a small Wacom tablet with Lightroom Classic. How well it works can depend on the difference between the active area of the tablet and the size of your display. For a laptop or a desktop HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, a small tablet might be OK.

If you’re using a large display set to a relatively high UI resolution, like a 27" 4K display, it can be difficult to use a stylus on a small tablet to hit some of the very tiny controls in the Lightroom Classic user interface. This becomes even worse if you are using a small tablet across multiple displays. For this reason, I often use a mouse or trackpad if most of what I’m doing is clicking or dragging Lightroom controls. But I will definitely use the tablet if I’m using the Spot Removal tool, or painting with the Adjustment Brush or in the mask of a Graduated Filter or Radial Filter.

Thanks for the reply. 90% of the time I will be using a laptop 15 inch screen.

 

[rhynetc]

Go for the small...

 

[Zack S]

Go for the small...

Thanks! I asked this same question on DPR and also got a lot of votes for the small.

 

[davidedric]

Small works well for me. This may be blindingly obvious, but because the tablet maps to the screen, when you need to work on the detail you just zoom in.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Small would get my vote too. Medium for dual monitors.