Let's see the tablet by parts!
1-Looks:
The Ugee is a big tablet, the measurements are 14'' by 8'', and the working area is 10'' by 6''. It's really big but enough for your desk, specially if you don't have much room for it. It has 8 expressive keys that can be mapped as your like and it's very easy to set up. The pen also have two buttons that can be mapped. In the box you'll find the tablet, the manual, the cd driver, the pen, ten extra pen nibs, and a pen holder. Two of the extra nibs came broken!
One thing that bothers me of this tablet is the mini usb port, the usb cable fits really really really tight, it's hard to plug it in the tablet, and it's even harder to take out. It connects well, I mean because it's working well so it makes the connection, but as it is so hard to take in and take out, I'm afraid it can break (the mini usb port).
The pen is a little bit thicker than I thought but it's fine, and it needs a AAA battery. The tablet is well built, it's sturdy and it looks amazing!
2-Driver:
I downloaded the driver from ugee.net the problem was that my laptop doesn't hace the winzip app and my windows didn't open the rar archive. So, I installed the driver from the CD that came with it.
When I first installed the driver, I didn't have connected the tablet to my PC, I installed it, and nothing happened, I connected the tablet and nothing happened, the Tablet Properties didn't show up. So, I deleted the driver, connected the tablet first and then installed the driver, I restarted the PC, and then the Tablet Properties Logo showed up in the tray, so I opened, I mapped the expressive keys and then I opened the program I use; Sketchbook Pro. And it worked perfect. I mapped the expressive keys for Brush Larger, Brush Smaller, Zoom In and Zoom out were already mapped as default (I let them liked that but nothing happened), I mapped the other keys to the Zoom/Scroll/Move Canvas wheel, Undo, Redo, and the Picker Color. I've been having problems with the expressive key for the Zoom/Scroll/Canvas Wheel, sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, it's well set up, so I don't know why it behaves like this. The other functions using the expressive keys work like a charm.
I also have a Wacom Tablet, and I have installed the Wacom Driver, I read before that you have to uninstalled other drivers before installing the Ugee driver, I didn't want to uninstall my Wacom Driver, so I installed the Ugee having the Wacom Driver in my laptop, and let me tell you that both work completely fine. I tried then my Wacom Tablet and continues working flawlessly. And also the Ugee tablet works fine too. The only different thing that I made is that when I use my Ugee tablet I plug it in a different usb where I use my Wacom tablet.
3-Performance:
I tried the Ugee Tablet with my Sketchbook Pro, the surface doesn't feel as a smooth as the Wacom Tablet, however it's really comfortable 'cause its size. Every now and then if I use the pen really light I get ghost lines, but if you press a little bit harder if will be fine, you'll get the right strokes.
OVERALL:
My drawings are Black and White Portraits, and the tablet is been working really well, the size helps a lot, it feels really comfortable, it's really thin and it's easy to find a case for it. I bought a 14'' laptop sleeve.
It has a price of $57.99 in Amazon which is really well considering the size of this tablet.
I would definitely recommend this Ugee tablet for professionals and hobbyist artists with a tight budget who are seeking for a nice and comfortable drawing or painting tablet for your digital art.
I'll give this tablet 4 stars just because the expressive keys doesn't work well with the Zoom/Scroll/Rotate Canvas wheel, the two broken extra nib tips and the mini usb port in the tablet.
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