Also the tablet requires quite a bit of pressure just to register you are actually trying to draw something. For example if you hold the pen on the tablet and draw a line just using the weight of the pen nothing shows up, you have to push down quite a bit to get it to draw a line, and to get it to draw a heavy line you have to apply so much force its hard to draw accurately.

Another irritating thing is the nib of the pen has room to move about, as you move your pen over to another part of your image to draw something the pointer on the screen follows it (which I thought was quite neat) but when you bring the pen back onto the tablet to draw something the nib moves and you end up drawing slightly down from where you wanted to.

Combine these little niggles together and you have one frustratingly difficult device that does nothing but hinder you when you're trying to work. I've given this a couple of days on and off but theres not a moment when I'm drawing that I'm comfortable with it.

The thing that most annoys me about it is that it didn't have to be this rubbish. These are just design faults, they could have easily corrected these and had a really nice piece of kit for 70 quid, its almost as if they set out to make it bad.


for the 'useless software' guy...   May 30, 2005
 23 out of 29 found this review helpful

right - let's get something straight here. corel art dabbler is free software. it's never going to be good software now, is it? think about it - most people using one of these is going to be using it with a more, shall we say, decent, piece of graphics software in mind, and not relying on the bundled appliation.
stop whingeing! you've just bought a good, reliable, cheap graphics tablet! if you want software that's not 'patently useless', then go for one of the wacom tablets - i'm sure they come with something better bundled with them... at approximately five times the price.
there really is no pleasing some people, is there?
i use one of these for photoshop cs/cs2 with both my G5 and my athlon (running a tweaked winxp). i've also tested it on redhat, and although it took a bit of work, i got it running very happily with the GIMP, too.
for everyone else out there, who has read this far, nisis make quite a respectable range of tablets for artistic applications - although the bundled software is, to quote 'patently useless', the hardware itself is thoroughly good, especially considering the price tag. the only defects that i ahve ever encountered with it is that the mouse is a bit on the crappy side; but in honesty, you surely haven't just bought a graphics tablet for the mouse, have you?


Useless Free Software with NISIS Graphice Tablet   December 29, 2004
 16 out of 28 found this review helpful

The software "Corel Art Dabbler" supplied "free" with the NISIS G6 will not run on my computer. I've 1Gb of RAM, yet it says there is insufficient memory available. A check on Task Manager reveals this is simply not true. The software is so old, it will not work with XP professional and Corel do not list it on their site as a supported product. How can they possibly "give away" software that is so patently useless? While one doesn't expect the latest version as a "freebie", I'm really disappointed that they gave me a product that is so well out of date. They do their business no favours.


Great tablet for a great price   January 23, 2004
 44 out of 45 found this review helpful

Admittedly I've never owned a tablet before this one, but I'm very pleased with my purchase! It was very easy to install on my Windows XP system and I pretty much got to grips with the pen in half an hour and realised how powerfull it is for graphics.

The tablet comes with a mouse, if you can call it that! For the rest of the mouse-using world this mouse is extremely hard to get to grips with as it uses the tablet as its sensor. (Sounds good until you try it out!!) The mouse also looks and feels like something thats come out of a christmas cracker!

Appart from the mouse this a great utility at a really good price for graphics people.


Nisis vs Wacom   April 30, 2003
 191 out of 192 found this review helpful

All in all a very economial and good value product that is recommended as an entry level full sized graphics tablet. I use an over sized Wacom Intuos at work on a day to day basis, so it wasn't hard for me to spot the Nisis graphics tablets short comings. I wanted to buy something that was cheap, affordable and could be used at home to work on art and phorgraphs. The Nisis appeared to be a good deal and so far so good.

It basically performs as you would expect it to, i.e. you use the pen for drawing pictures and spraying your digital paint, as opposed to using a mouse in conjunction with your creative software.

Overall the Nisis is a fine tool for the price, but it has the following problems and glitches that are minor:

1) The mouse is generally okay, but it has rough edges around the outer casing and can be a little annoying.

2) Pen pressure - if you hold down for too long and too hard, the active window starts to shake from side to side.

3) The tablet works with most commercial applications such as Photoshop, Flash, Freehand, etc but it has trouble working with open source apps such as the GIMP

4) The Function Buttons that are labelled on tablet - THE TEXT FAR TOO SMALL! to read.

5) Unfortunately No Transparency Sheet for doing underlay tracing is included with this model. Most annoying.

6) Sensitivity - As pointed out the pen sensitivity is not the greatest and the Mouse click emulation on the Pen .I.E. Right Mouse button clicking, is pretty clumsy.

Hopes this helps.