The Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch can also be used with the same £35 wireless kit as the rest of the Wacom range, which can help remove wires from your desktop and is great when used on the go with a laptop. This can be used as a launchpad for apps and comes loaded with four fun apps and a link to the Wacom Collection of similar drawing and sketching apps that work in conjunction with the tablet. Instead of the heads-up display, there’s the Bamboo dock.

While missing the wide compatibility and full-range customization present in the more expensive tablets, its affordable price makes it an efficient organization tool for various artists and those.

Keys – with gestures, say – you can also only select system-wide shortcuts and keystrokes along with Wacom’s default options, such as activating the Bamboo preferences. The Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch is a good option for beginner editors and artists, featuring Touch control options and good sensitivity and resolution. However, because it doesn’t have the heads-up display or function wheel of the Intuos, anything more advanced than simple shortcuts will still have to be done through either menus or keystrokes. The Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch CTH661 (199, reviewed here) also has multitouch and pen input, but comes in silver and is larger (7.5 x 5.1 inches for touch. Gestures can be managed and activated via the Bamboo preferences panel, but there’s no option to create customisable gestures as there is on the Intuos.Īs such, you’re limited to your system-wide ones, unless the app you’re using has multi-touch functionality built in.Īs well as utilising gestures, the Bamboo has four programmable express keys with a textured plastic surface that gives it the analogue feel that we felt the Intuos lacked. The Pen and Touch supports the standard gestures for rotating, zooming and navigating back and forth through web pages.

Wacom bamboo pen and touch