This is so cool!
I knew the trackpad on the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro were good, but good enough to use a stylus?
I had no clue!
Here are the details:
Turn Your MacBook Trackpad Into a Writing Tablet Surface
First, you’re going to want a stylus.
Perhaps you already have one for your iPad. If not, you can grab one just about anywhere, in all kinds of different shapes, sizes and prices.
Then, you’ll be able to do this:
But you’ll find this to work kind-of — meh.
You’ll also want to get your hands on Inklet.
Inklet
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As you can see, Inklet will give you a robust trackpad experience with advanced palm rejection and handwriting recognition. Plus, it works with just about every program you could ever want it to to:
- Pixelmator
- Acorn
- Art Rage
- Aperture 3
- Lightroom
- Photoshop CS4, CS5 (CS3 lacks pressure sensitivity)
- Photoshop
- Photoshop Elements
- SketchBook Pro
- GIMP
- Inkscape (enable extended input with caligraphy tool)
- Formulate Pro
- Skim
- Scribbles
- Corel Painter
- PDFPen
- Illustrator CS4
If you’re wondering if it works on the Magic Trackpad for you iMac users, it will. However, pressure sensitivity is limited.
All in all, $24.95 is a small price to pay when you compare it to most drawing tablets. Depending on why you want drawing capabilities, this may be the perfect solution!
Learn more on the Inklet website.
[via Apartment Therapy]
Anon says
This application does NOT work. In order to exit, you will need to restart your Mac. The application is not intuitive; probably this is the reason why it is NOT sold through Apple’s store. The app crashes often, requires you to purchase not any, but a proprietary stylus (WHY???). In my view, this is a waste of money (and time).
Buy a proper digital drawing pad. it’s more expensive, but it’s likely to be a more robust, stable and intuitive application…and the one that is LEGALLY SOLD via Apple store.
Eric Dye says
‘Legally’ sold? Wah?