drawing pad with pen for photoshop for macbook pro

Drawing pad with pen for photoshop for macbook pro pro#

Let’s go for it.ĭrag the main window of Lightroom to the iPad. So I said things were going to get cooler. This is why some photographers have a interactive pen display or similar drawing tablet to do heavy editing. In some cases I even need to edit it in Photoshop to mask it well. So I have to zoom in and remove bits of mask here and there using the erase brush. So very often I make mistakes and paint outside the area I want to edit. Sometimes when I’m using the brush tool to mask a part of a photo it’s really difficult to be accurate, especially when the area is small or not smooth shaped. Really cool, but up to here there is nothing new from having your second monitor at home. What’s more, because it’s an iPad it’s touch-screen, of course! You can edit a photo in the Develop module on your laptop just touching that photo on the Library Grid View on the iPad with your finger, easy. Once connected, drag the Lightroom Secondary Display to the iPad (Duet will fit the window automatically to the iPad) and you have your extra monitor.

Drawing pad with pen for photoshop for macbook pro pro#

I don’t have any lag at all with a MacBook Pro 2014 and an iPad Air 2 using Lightroom CC 2015 and 30 fps mode. Duet Display gives you various options of quality display and frame rate which can help you to avoid screen delay. The creators of this app say there is zero lag, and this will depend on the power of your computer and iPad. Also, it charges your iPad while you are using it, but you should have your laptop plugged or the battery will drain really quickly. Contrary to other apps which sync both devices through WiFi, Duet Display does it using the Apple Lightning cable, which is better as it can hold more data transfer, and you don’t need a WiFi network. There are various apps which do this, but I recommend Duet Display. However, if you have an iPad you can use it as an extension of your laptop screen. When you’re on the go you don’t normally take your heavy/big extra monitor with you. Drag this window to your extra monitor and this way the Develop module stays on your main screen and you won’t need to go back and forward between Develop and Library modules. Doing this will make a window appear and you can see the Grid, Loupe, Compare and Survey modes of the Library module and Filter View.

It helps me! How? Easy, using an option which surprisingly I haven’t heard a lot about: Secondary Display, under Window > Secondary Display > Show.

I don’t know how much productivity the Internet says that you would gain when using Lightroom, but having another display can help you browse the photos in your catalogue. Using a second display is said to increase your productivity by 50%. That’s why now I recommend Astropad to do all the fine retouching, masking, etc. Duet Display is not intended to be used as a graphics tablet, which is what I want it for with Lightroom, Photoshop or Affinity Photo.

There wasn’t any other app to do this at that time, however, Duet is far from perfect for this kind of task. Update: When I wrote this page I was using Duet Display for retouching, especially to help me when I had to apply the brush carefully on a small area of a photo.