Wacom will be showcasing its new mobile Cintiq Companion 2 (pictured), its range of Cintiq creative pen displays including the new Cintiq 13HD touch and the new flagship Cintiq 27QHD touch for high-end photography as well as its Intuos Pro range at The Photography Show. Wacom ambassadors Ian Sayers and burlesque photographer/retoucher Tigz Rice will also be present on the stand, providing expertise and knowledge to visitors on how to get the best out of leading digital imaging software packages using a Wacom tablet. The Photography SHow 2015 will be taking place from 21-24 March at the Birmingham NEC.

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Wacom at The Photography Show 2015

Wacom offers professional demonstrations and the ability to get hands on with its latest range of pen tablets, pen displays and creative mobile displays

Stand F51 (Hall 5), The Photography Show 2015, NEC, Birmingham, 21 - 24 March 2015 – Wacom, will be showcasing its new mobile Cintiq Companion 2, its range of Cintiq creative pen displays including the new Cintiq 13HD touch and the new flagship Cintiq 27QHD touch for high-end photography as well as its Intuos Pro range at The Photography Show 2015. Wacom ambassadors Ian Sayers and burlesque photographer/retoucher Tigz Rice will also be present on the stand, providing expertise and knowledge to visitors on how to get the best out of leading digital imaging software packages using a Wacom tablet.

Aimed at professional photographers and imaging enthusiasts alike, Wacom’s products offer photographers a convenient and effortless way to optimise their digital images on a computer. From correcting exposure problems and removing unwanted objects, to improving the colour of pictures or dramatically altering the style of a photograph, digital work is effortless when using the Cintiq range or Intuos Pro. Wacom’s solutions will be on display for visitors to test and experience and there will also be a full programme of presentations for visitors to attend. These will include hints and tips on editing, retouching and getting the best from Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

Cintiq Companion 2 – mobile 2in1 multi-touch creative tablet

Nowadays, photographers require high performance hardware and software that enables them to create in a variety of environments and on the go. The Cintiq Companion 2 is a powerful touchscreen tablet for professional creators of digital content supporting creative freedom by offering everything necessary for productive work whether in the studio, customer offices, coffee shops or on planes and trains.

The Companion 2 works either as a fully-fledged Windows 8® tablet with all the creative input capabilities of a Cintiq or will connect via Cintiq Connect to the home or office Mac or PC and functions as a primary or secondary Cintiq display. Users can instantly view images taken on the screen and begin re-touching straight away using the Wacom Pro Pen with its 2048 pressure levels and the full creative software programmes they are used to, such as Adobe®, Autodesk®, Corel®, Pixologic® and many more. Thanks to six customisable ExpressKeys™, Rocker Ring and Radial Menu, creatives can work faster and an adjustable stand provides comfort in any working position.

Cintiq 27QHD & Cintiq 13HD touch

Wacom’s new flagship Cintiq 27QHD and Cintiq 27QHD touch creative pen displays are the perfect tools for photographers. Both deliver the very best in pen-on-screen performance, spectacular colour and a whole host of features to enhance user workflow and comfort. Additionally, a large edge-to-edge glass screen provides a seemingly infinite surface with which to work on, enabling photographers to enjoy more space and freedom for creativity than ever before. The Cintiq 27QHD touch is the ideal solution for those who want to experience simultaneous pen and touch with the latest touch enabled OS software, providing a more intuitive and natural way to work.

The 27-inch QHD widescreen displays 1.07 billion colours and 97 percent of Adobe’s colour gamut, perfect for professionals with colour critical workflows such as photographers. When it comes to high-end creative production in image editing, the Cintiq is the creative tool of choice as photographers can be certain that the colours match the printing or other output phases of a project. This is thanks to precision colour matching with the Wacom Colour Manager, powered by X-Rite (purchased as an accessory from the Wacom eStore) that sets the colour and allows for fine-tuning to ensure a near exact match.

To help support a natural and intuitive workflow, the Cintiq 27’s new ExpressKey™ Remote, which can be placed anywhere on screen or desk, gives photographers more flexibility and power as to how, when and where customisable keyboard shortcuts and modifiers are implemented. As with its predecessor, the Cintiq 27 offers best-in-class ergonomics that especially benefit photographers who work long hours and have to be very precise. Professionals will appreciate the choice of stands that are available, allowing them to find their favourite working position for maximum comfort.

Wacom’s latest addition to its line-up of creative pen displays, the Cintiq 13HD touch, has a compact, slim and sophisticated design that can easily be connected to both Mac and PC computers. Perfect for photographers its wide-format, HD LED screen displays 16.7 million colours and the 1920 x 1080 resolution is particularly beneficial to those working with intricate images. The newly added multi-touch integration combined with the pen functionality enables photographers to discover a virtually seamless workflow that feels natural and speeds up production.

Further models available models: Cintiq 13HD, Cintiq 22HD, Cintiq 22HD touch.

Intuos Pro

The Intuos Pro pen tablet range, available in small, medium and large models, is the perfect tool for photographers and gives photo enthusiasts the power to produce professional results. The Wacom Grip Pen with 2048 levels of pen pressure sensitivity, a single gram of starting pressure and tilt recognition allows artists to create with the accuracy and precision of traditional brushes and pens, whilst improved multi-touch gestures enable users to pan, zoom and navigate their work intuitively.

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