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I've got photoshop on a PC and want to learn how to use it with my kids.
What graphics tablet should I get. Argos have a basic wacom for £50 or do I 'need' one with a screen?
Depends. My daughter managed fine with a basic Wacom. She's got a Cintiq 24" now as shes doing a BA in Animation
Yes was thinking buy cheap and upgrade if necessary. My 10 y/o wants to do computer game design or animation.
Daughter managed fine with a basic Wacom, then bought the 22 (not 24) recently. It's really improved her productivity (much quicker to draw with on screen)
Ive been using a Wacom Intuos 3 (slightly larger than A4 drawing area)for about 10-12 years, they're bombproof and, until the Cintiq came along, were pretty much de facto standard for the design industry.
If you're using a desktopPC with a decent sized screen ( or a monitor with your laptop) and have enough clear space on your desk they work very well to the point that I've never felt the need to get a Cintiq or similar for my home office.
TBH get the largest you can afford: for general photoshop/sketchbook duties an A5 sized drawing area is the bare minimum for decent work. Anything smaller will be very limiting indeed. Wacom also sell refurbished tablets on their website so might be worth a look.
Oh and try Autodesk Sketchbook, its free and far, far better than any other 2D sketching software out there. You can also both read and save out psd (photoshop) files on it too.
Photoshop is pretty intensive for what I'm guessing is to be a fun drawing activity with the kids. By all means keep at it with Photoshop, but my neice is a budding computer artist and she prefers Krita by a long shot - it's completely free and is much more for the "art and artist" vs Photoshop being primarily manipulation of existing images.
She uses an Intuos that's around A4 size, and I agree with above - get the largest you can, it'll be no fun scratching around on a 6" x 4" tablet.