Wacom Intuos-2 12x12" USB Graphics Tablet, with Pen, Mouse and Software for PC and Mac

Intruos 2 Pressure Sensitivity & Tilt:
Intuos2 features Wacom's unique patented battery-free, cordless (pen) technology. With 1,024 levels of pen tip and eraser pressure sensitivity, nothing unlocks the power of Photoshop, Painter, Paint Shop Pro, Flash and other professional graphics applications like Intuos2. All Intuos2 pens also support pen tilt and bearing for completely natural feel and control.

Photo Retouching:
Quickly and easily retouch photos using the the full power of pressure-sensitive control in Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro, Ulead PhotoImpact, and other photo-editing software. Modify exposure, sharpness, color, and many other image characteristics with Intuos's unique pressure-sensitive control.

Design & Illustration:
Use the intuitive control of your Intuos2 Grip Pen to create natural-media images in Corel Painter, precise artwork in Adobe Illustrator, and fluid animations in Macromedia FlashTM. More than 100 software applications are specifically designed to be used with a Wacom pen.

Office Productivity:
The Intuos2 Grip Pen makes it easy to annotate presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint; mark-up documents in Adobe Acrobat; write sketches, notes and text in Microsoft Office XP and with Apple Inkwell; and digitally sign your name.

Comfort and Ease of Use:
Intuos2 comes in 5 sizes for every work style from 4"x5" to 12"x18". The tablet connects to your computer's USB (or Serial) port with an 8 foot cable so you have room to kick back and work comfortably. It's easy to use a pen tablet because every point on the tablet has a matching point on the screen. When you move your pen over the tablet, the cursor moves in precisely the same way on the screen. Where you touch your pen tip to the tablet is where you click.

Quick Access to Shortcuts:
Each Intuos2 tablet features menu strip buttons above the active area of the tablet for easy access to your favorite shortcuts. The menu strip buttons have default shortcuts and they are fully customizable through Intuos2's software control panel. Pen side-switches can also be customized to generate mouse button clicks, keystrokes, modifier keys, or even to generate a pop-up menu selection of shortcuts.

Tracing:
Intuos2 pen tablets feature a thick, durable overlay so that you can easily trace photos and art. Because the Intuos2 pen works up to about a quarter inch above the tablet surface, many customers also tape paper and art directly to the tablet surface to change the feel of the working surface and for convenience. Larger tablets offer more working space to simplify this type of functionality with larger art and copy work.