Drawing Tablets for Apple Computers

Pen Display Tablets For Mac

Shopping for an Apple-friendly combination drawing pad and pen tablet display monitor solution? With the cost of both pressure sensitive computer drawing pads and LCD monitor panels plunging, we're starting to see Mac compatible pen tablet displays becoming more affordable than ever.

Low-Cost Pen Monitor	Premium Pen Display
XP-Pen 10" Drawing Monitor With Mac HDMI/USB Cable	Wacom Cintiq LCD Tablet > 13" 1920x1080 HD Pen Display

Mac Compatibility Of Computer Display Tablets

The Apple platform is well supported across all the major manufacturers of computer monitor drawing pad hardware. In general MacOS 10.8+ seems to be the minimum recommended OS version to be running.

Affordable LDC Drawing Pad	Big Screen Drawing Monitor
Ugee 19" Drawing Monitor 1440 x 900 Display Resolution	Huion 21.5" IPS Display Tablet With Cables & Mac Adapter

There's certainly no shortage of pressure-sensitive, LCD drawing tablet aware Mac OSX apps, including: Adobe Photoshop, Elements, Illustrator, and Creative Suite. There's also Corel Painter, Manga Anime' Studio, Pixelmator, Maya 3D, ArtRage, Gimp, Autodesk Sketch, Ink2Go, and many more.

As with standard USB and Bluetooth wireless drawing pads, some display tablets may include extra, programmable shortcut buttons on the border of the display tablet itself to access your favorite and most commonly used application-specific tool features. Otherwise you can simply interact directly with the apps tool palette and menus on the graphic LCD display screen.

Benefits Of Drawing Tablet Display Artwork

For many years, there was a physical and visual disconnect between traditional drawing pads for Mac and what you saw on your Apple computer's display. But these LCD tablets integrate both features so that you can sketch and paint directly on the display's surface for a much more accurate and expressive interaction. Whther you're 3D modeling, doing photographic touch-up work or illustration, drawing directly on the pad display is a compelling feature. It also extends your monitor workspace to a second display so you can keep your primary display free for other applications or toolbars.

Over the years the resolution and pressure sensitivity of drawing tablets has gone from 512 to 1024 to 2048 levels of sensitivity. But now, even ordinary cheap drawing pads for Mac all seem to feature 8192 levels - as do the above LCD monitor drawing pads. For artists and retoucher's, these directly translate into precision and expressive actions and guestures to capture the stroke. Some integrate MULTI-TOUCH capabilities so that you can leverage both the drawing pen and your fingers to control and navigate your Mac graphic application.

Mac Computer Display Tablet Connectivity

The most affordable LDC pen displays connect via USB 3.0 But many pads offer multiple video interfaces from a standard DB-9 VGA, to DV-I to most commonly: HDMI standard video ports. It's important to note which type of video output you have: You may need a mini-Display port or ThunderBolt display adapter dongle separately depending on your particular Macintosh model and what the tablet comes with.

LCD Pressure-Sensitive Display Tablet Manufacturers

For premium and high-end professionals, most wil gravitate towards Wacom who has long dominated the Apple computer drawing pad market. But be prepared for sticker-shock. Most of their LCD drawing pad displays range from $500 up to nearly two grand with their latest 2nd-generation Cintiq Companion series hardware.

For more affordability, look for LCD computer drawing pads from XP-Pen, Huion, Ugee, Turcom, or Parblo which offer great hardware at far more compelling prices. XP-Pen and Huion in particular have become top players in the Mac compatible computer drawing pad and display market, giving Wacom some much needed competition.

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Drawing Tablets for Apple Computers

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