"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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Yeah but everyone I know that has a Tablet unit... still has basically
the
same issues with it.


Well, I tend to try things out for myself. If you've tried a recent 500
dollar
tablet on a modern system, fine.
If you havent.....

Odd isn't it... the first one I bought was $1400 Cdn. In answer to your
question... I don't know what my brother paid for them but that price seems
reasonable... and yes I tried them on my P4.

As a side note.... it involved a job in which I had to extract a person
from the original background and insert it on an alternate background. It
was a devilish job since the backgrounds for the paste were of different
colours. I had to get the warm reflected tones of an indoor shot under
incandescent lights out of the parka and face and supplant the cooler
reflected blues of the daylight winter scene. I used the pen for the initial
mask outline and detailed mask adjustment on the Wolverine fur trim of the
parka.... I lucked out and it all came together rather well. Nobody who
viewed the final product printed on photostock had any idea it was not a
photo taken at that location. I used iGrafx Image app. to do the work.

CM