Mobile apps - Tablets connect to computer or laptop

Another research I found, today, tablets can connect to computer to continue our works. We knew that there is digital drawing tablets (Wacom) easily to let designers to draw on the screen. This is a common thing for graphic designers and others, but I had a shocked when I searched some new thing from Internet which is, nowadays the advance of technologies and Internet, they can actually make use of an Android tablet as the wacom. For example, there is a mobile apps called GfxTablet, its Android app. The input driver must be installed on your PC. It creates a virtual 'network tablet' on your PC that is controlled by your Android device. So, you can use your Android tablet or smartphone to control the PC and, for instance use GIMP with your Android tablet as a graphics tablet (GitHub Pages, 2015).

Same goes to Apple, they also have an apps called Astropad turn an iPad to graphics tablet and connect to Mac. (image 1.0).   It's so cool. 

  

Image 1.0 (Astropad, 2015)

At this moment, many devices start to have drawing apps just to turn your tablet into graphic tablets. For instance, Samsung's Note or tablets start to have advance stylus and make it into nice drawing tool. Also, there's a new app called Photoshop Touch apps (Images 3,3.1 & 3.2). Based on expert Patrick says, "with the Photoshop Touch app, you have access to 'Layers', and this is a great feature to have on a tablet device, with this, I can easily edit my work as I go, but also take my work from my desktop and keep working. This is extremely useful (Samsung, 2012)."

Image 2.0 

 Image 3.0

Image 3.1

 

Image 3.2

References

Astropad (2015) 'Turn your iPad into a drawing tablet for Mac' [Online] Available at : http://astropad.com/ipad/ (Accessed : 15 January 2016) 

GitHub Pages (2015) 'GfcTablet', forum [Online] Available at : http://rfc2822.github.io/GfxTablet/ (Accessed : 15 January 2016) 

Samsung (2012) 'A day out with Galaxy Note 10.1', 1 November [Online] Available at : http://www.samsung.com/ie/article/a-day-out-with-galaxy-note-10-1 (Accessed : 15 January 2016)