Editing photos question

[TheGoofster]

Recently I've started doing quite a bit of editing of my photos using Photo Explosion. It's a good program, and it let's you do quite a few different things. But the one aspect of it that I don't like too much is the tracing. In order too trace something you have to use the mouse, and all too often, I just can't get a good trace of what I want (either too wide, too thin, crooked lines, etc...) It does have a few other options like shape, color or size tracing, but none of them work all that great either. My question is if somebody knows of an inexpensive alternative program that allows you to use a stylus or pencil kind of apparatus to trace images with. Or even something like this that can be plugged into your computer that works with / in place of the mouse for an existing program for doing this kind of editing.
I appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Thanks.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

It sounds like you want a tablet. I'm sure that there are many good makers, but I've always used Wacom tablets and have been happy with them. They even have some special monitors now that let you draw right on the monitors. My kids tried that with an ink pen once, but it didn't work as well as they'd hoped.

 

[TheGoofster]

It sounds like you want a tablet. I'm sure that there are many good makers, but I've always used Wacom tablets and have been happy with them. They even have some special monitors now that let you draw right on the monitors. My kids tried that with an ink pen once, but it didn't work as well as they'd hoped.

Thanks, that might be just what I'm looking for, and at 80 dollars (for the most basic model) that isn't too bad. I'll have to study up a bit more, but now I've some place to start.
LOL, about your kids and the monitor.