B. Using Pressure-Sensitive Tablets

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One of the greatest tools you can buy to improve your work with Photoshop Elements is a pressure-sensitive tablet. These tablets (also called digitizing or digitizer tablets, or Wacom tablets), provide you with an input device that is in the shape of a pen. If you have never worked with a pressure-sensitive tablet, you will be surprised how easy it is to work on images with a pen rather than a mouse.

Not only is the shape of the stylus (the pen) something we are accustomed to, but the digitizer tablet is an absolute pointing device in comparison to a mouse (which is a relative positioning device). See the sidebar, ...

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