EYE-HAND COORDINATION EXERCISE

If you use a mouse, you may remember how long it took to get used to positioning the screen cursor. Your Intuos2 Pen, likewise, will take a bit of practice to master the technique of positioning the screen cursor in Pen Mode. This may seem difficult at first, but it is more natural and faster than in Mouse Mode.

This exercise is designed to retrain your eye-hand coordination for using the Intuos2 Pen:

1.Open any graphics application. Use the line tool to draw a rectangular grid with line spacings of about 20-25 mm (3/4 to 1 inch). (You can use your traditional mouse to do this.)

2.Choose a free-hand tool in your application and use the Intuos2 Pen to draw a dot at each grid intersection.

3.Draw an X at each grid intersection.

4.Now draw a circle around each intersection. Your screen should look like this:

5.Clear your screen and make a simple drawing of your own. The more you use your Intuos2 Pen, the easier drawing and navigation will become. Soon, you may want to put your mouse away altogether.

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