Bamboo Fun (Medium) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse, and Graphics Software

by Wacom

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 11.1 x 0.5 inches ; 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000V9RL5M
• Item model number: CTE650B
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 13, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

Create Your World
Now there's a simple, easy, and fun way to harness your creativity. Bamboo Fun makes your computer your canvas, allowing you to freely express yourself by simply touching the pen tip to the tablet. Touch up digital photos, draw by hand, create artwork and paintings, and even write in your own handwriting.

Bamboo Fun includes full editions of valuable creative software to help get your creative juices flowing. Edit photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements, create artwork with Corel Painter Essentials, and apply photo effects with Nik Color Efex Pro. Bamboo Fun is available in a variety of colors and sizes.

Bamboo funs offers a more comfortable and natural way to work, enabling you to alternate between a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.

Edit
Bring out the best in your photos. Bamboo Fun's pressure-sensitive pen makes it easy to edit, retouch, and enhance and digital photograph. Create a collage with your favorite pictures, design your own unique borders, or write directly on your photos in your own handwriting.

Paint
Make perfect brush strokes without the mess. Bamboo Fun puts painting effects and artistic tools right at your fingertips. Control brush size, paint, patterns, and textures by changing how hard you press the pen tip to the tablet.

Draw
Bring your ideas to life by drawing, sketching, and illustrating with Bamboo Fun. Use the pressure-sensitive control of the pen to vary line thickness, and add shading and color with the natural feel of pen-on-paper.

Write
Express yourself. Write notes and email, sign your name, mark up documents, and enter handwritten text anywhere typed text is accepted. Combine Bamboo Fun with Mac Inkwell or Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to unleash pen-specific features and capabilities to communicate more personally.

Simplify
Navigate quickly and easily. Bamboo Fun makes it a cinch to move files, switch views, and work in applications. ExpressKeys provide shortcuts to your most commonly-used keystrokes, and the Touch Ring allows you to zoom and scroll with the touch of your finger.

Precise control with an active area of 21 square inches and 512 levels of pressure sensitivity on both pen and eraser.

Features

• Supports widescreen displays and has a textured work surface for a natural pen-on-paper feel
• Quick access to user-defined shortcuts with four Express Keys
• High resolution and report rate for outstanding accuracy
• Easy scrolling and zooming with finger-sensitive Touch Ring
• Detachable USB cable unplugs from your computer and your tablet for easy storage and transport
• Ergonomic design provides a comfortable supplement to keyboard input
• Includes one year warranty
• Free US-based technical support available

What's in the Box

• Bamboo Fun pen tablet
• Bamboo Fun mouse
• Bamboo Fun pen
• Pen stand
• USB cable
• Quick start guide
• Installation CD (includes tablet driver and electronic user manual)
• Software DVD that includes: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Win/4.0 Mac, Corel Painter Essentials 4, and Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 GE
• Package of 3 replacement pen nibs
• Available in blue, black, silver, and white

Product Description

Now there's a simple, easy, and fun way to harness your creativity. Bamboo Fun makes your computer your canvas, allowing you to freely express yourself by simply touching the pen tip to the tablet. Touch up digital photos, draw by hand, create artwork and paintings, and even write in your own handwriting. Bamboo Fun includes full editions of valuable creative software to help get your creative juices flowing. Edit photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements, create artwork with Corel Painter Essentials, and apply photo effects with Nik Color Efex Pro. Bamboo Fun works with any software, and is the perfect mate to those software applications with special features and tools that are designed to be used with a pen. Tablet Size - 11.0 W x 9.3 D x 0.3 H , active area is 8.5 W x 5.3 D

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wacom delivers with Bamboo Fun!, October 14, 2007

By 

Mark "Technology, Music and Movies" (East Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bamboo Fun (Medium) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse, and Graphics Software (Personal Computers)

Wacom has brought this technology a long way. This product is more affordable than the higher end Intuos3 models, yet powerful enough for many pros.

For me, the small size is perfect and will fit most users needs. The "medium" sized tablet is suited for hard core graphics people who need to work at the pixel level for large images. Those using this for the mouse also may prefer the medium size. Either way, the tablet maps to your screen size for any of these models.


This unit comes in a variety of colors and configurations. I prefer the look of the black tablet, but there are silver, white and blue ones also.
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Black Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) White Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) Black Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software

Upon plugging in the device, it works immediately! The pen works as a mouse or as a pen/brush for drawing applications. The tablet also has function buttons.

The mouse is nice because it allows you to free up a USB port if you're using a USB mouse. Power users will need more from a mouse though. If you're anything like me, you prefer a mouse with many more options than this one provides.

Installing the drivers and software allows you to access the settings and tools that make this device versatile and customizable. Be prepared to spend some time tweaking this unit to your likes. The Bamboo software allows you to customize the mouse or pen buttons. Left-handers will greatly appreciate this!

The software included with this device is a nice to have. Many people who buy this will already have or need full blown Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Elements gives you everything casual users need. The Corel application is nice to play with. But other than a few "macro" type functions I have yet to find anything I can't already do with Adobe. Perhaps newer users may find the Corel product more user-friendly.

Pros
+ USB connection
+ Works on XP and Vista almost plug and play - before software installation
+ Nice customizable software
+ Nice bundled applications - Adobe Elements and Corel Draw
+ No additional power adapter needed
+ Traditional or pen mouse for casual users

Cons
- The scrolling zoom function does not work uniformly on all applications
- The mouse with this model will not suffice for power users
- Default settings require a lot of adjusting for graphics editing
- The tablet would have been ideal with several additional USB ports

Overall, the graphic artist or visual junkie NEEDS one of these. If you are a casual user, it is worth getting one on sale.

Enjoy.

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love It!, March 30, 2008

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Bamboo Fun (Medium) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse, and Graphics Software (Personal Computers)

I love my Bamboo Tablet! I'm only 12, so the idea of paying 182 dollars of my own cash for something intimidated me, but I really wanted it, so I decided to splurge a bit. I ordered the medium, and although some say Small fits their needs, the Medium was perfectly sized for me. It is about the size of a sheet of paper, so it is really natural to draw on. I thought I would have a hard time drawing something I could only see on the screen, and figured it would take me a long time to get used to NOT looking down at the tablet. But I caught on really quickly- it wasn't nearly as hard as I expected!I love the texture of the tablet- it isn't too smooth, so it's a lot like the pencil-on-paper feel. Easy to draw on. It came with Corel Painter Essentials 3, which I loved sooo much!!!! Incredible! You can choose from lots of drawing settings- chalk, pastel, spray can, lots of different bristled paint brushes, multiple water-color brushes, pencils, crayons, and a lot more! Days of fun experimenting with all the different things and the versatility of drawing tools allowed me to create things such as sunset pastel paintings that looked much harder and advanced than they were to create.

The only problem I have with it is the pen- but it's just a minor pet peeve. I write holding the pen/pencil really low, so I always accidentally press the button. When you press that, it's a right click, so it can sometimes cause an error in what you were doing. But it probably won't for others, because it depends on where you hold the pen.

Overall, I would highly reccomend this to anyone- and even though I had my doubts at first, this was definitely worth the cash! Even my mom loves to use it once and a while!

Best Thing: No experience needed, you can pick it up and start drawing! Takes very little time to get used to it! I love this thing!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I am thrilled with this product, March 1, 2008

By 

Cala - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bamboo Fun (Medium) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse, and Graphics Software (Personal Computers)

I bought it wanting to find a small tablet for when I'm not at my main desk. This one fits perfectly with the small work area I have. I was worried at first since it didn't have full sensitivity as the other wacom tablets. But this still works great. Can't tell much difference drawing wise. Only disadvantage so far was that you can't change the settings on the pen and tablet for each different application.