Short XP-Pen 22 review
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 3:50 pm
After many years of wanting something like a Cintiq I gave in recently and bought a XP-Pen 22 inch monitor/tablet. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015F ... UTF8&psc=1 I have threatened to build one but never did but I am glad I waited. At $600 it is a third of the price of an equivalent Cintiq. I had the money to get a Cintiq but just couldn't justify it as I thought it was a rip off. Wacom is always too expensive.
Everything worked out of the box with no issues. The monitor doesn't appear to heat up as I had read. The stand that comes with it works great although I am considering putting it on a vesa mount arm I have laying around. Monitor quality seems to be that of a standard monitor. It is a bit dull compared to my 30 inch professional Dell (2560x1600) but this is a good thing as it's much easier on my eyes I am spoiled I guess but barely noticed when I turned off my main monitor.
Out of the box it works fine but has a really nice calibration set up. It works with:
1, Verve! It is very flowing with Verve and really easy for me to sketch now.
2. Photoshop CS6. No problems
3. Krita. ditto no problems
4. Zbrush. Once again no problems
5. Sculptris. It is an absolute joy in Sculptris
6. Sketchbook Pro 7. Againnnnn Wait. What's this? It's offset! Damn. Every stroke was offset by a quarter inch lol. I tried reinstalling the drivers, changing xp-pen settings. Nothing worked. I searched for updates from autodesk. Yes there is one. I go to it and the link is dead. So I went to the web site and find the only way to get their new sketchbook pro is to SUBSCRIBE!?? wth? lol So I downloaded the 15 day tryout to give it a try with XP-Pen and yes. It worked perfectly :p. This is rather annoying to me. Sketchbook Pro 7 works great with my Intuos. The problem is having 2 different tablets attached to the system :p Not something I want to do and besides I had already uninstalled Wacom.
My impressions throughout were favorable mostly. The change from a regular drawing tablet to a monitor tablet was a level up for me.
Final thoughts. If this tablet makes it through 2 years of me it will have been well worth the price paid
Tom
Everything worked out of the box with no issues. The monitor doesn't appear to heat up as I had read. The stand that comes with it works great although I am considering putting it on a vesa mount arm I have laying around. Monitor quality seems to be that of a standard monitor. It is a bit dull compared to my 30 inch professional Dell (2560x1600) but this is a good thing as it's much easier on my eyes I am spoiled I guess but barely noticed when I turned off my main monitor.
Out of the box it works fine but has a really nice calibration set up. It works with:
1, Verve! It is very flowing with Verve and really easy for me to sketch now.
2. Photoshop CS6. No problems
3. Krita. ditto no problems
4. Zbrush. Once again no problems
5. Sculptris. It is an absolute joy in Sculptris
6. Sketchbook Pro 7. Againnnnn Wait. What's this? It's offset! Damn. Every stroke was offset by a quarter inch lol. I tried reinstalling the drivers, changing xp-pen settings. Nothing worked. I searched for updates from autodesk. Yes there is one. I go to it and the link is dead. So I went to the web site and find the only way to get their new sketchbook pro is to SUBSCRIBE!?? wth? lol So I downloaded the 15 day tryout to give it a try with XP-Pen and yes. It worked perfectly :p. This is rather annoying to me. Sketchbook Pro 7 works great with my Intuos. The problem is having 2 different tablets attached to the system :p Not something I want to do and besides I had already uninstalled Wacom.
My impressions throughout were favorable mostly. The change from a regular drawing tablet to a monitor tablet was a level up for me.
Final thoughts. If this tablet makes it through 2 years of me it will have been well worth the price paid
Tom