{"id":16457,"date":"2010-06-24T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/06\/stylus-recommendations.html"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:55:28","slug":"stylus_recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/stylus_recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Stylus recommendations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it I can draw more accurately with our 2-year-old&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcstuff.com\/items\/MD001.html\">Magna Doodle<\/a> than I can with an iPad?  Simple: it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/06\/brief_thoughts_and_a_question_on_styluses.html\">stylus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I tried a stubby Pogo stylus a few months back and had an instant aversion to drawing with a big, flat, round disk.  I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/products?q=ipad+stylus&amp;hl=en&amp;aq=f\">other styluses are available<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve yet to find a good set of comparisons.  If you&#8217;ve successfully used a stylus to draw on an iPad, I&#8217;d like to hear your recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the imprecision of drawing with a finger certainly raises the value of natural media brushes (e.g. a realistic pencil simulation).  Crappy input driving a high-precision line looks bad, but crappy input driving a deliberately crappy (sketchy) line looks more like <em>&#8220;I meant to do that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Update<\/strong>: Incidentally, just so people know, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/PS_app_frame_floating.jpg\">not completely incompetent<\/a> when it comes to drawing.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it I can draw more accurately with our 2-year-old&#8217;s Magna Doodle than I can with an iPad? Simple: it&#8217;s the stylus. I tried a stubby Pogo stylus a few months back and had an instant aversion to drawing with a big, flat, round disk. I see that other styluses are available, but I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}