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I received this product at a discounted price in exchange for my fair and honest review. Whether you're new to digital art or looking for an upgrade, I highly recommend picking up a KAMVAS Pro, I got the 12" because it fits really nicely into my laptop bag (it actually fits in my cargo pockets of my "production" pants that I wear on set or in the woods), but all the KAMVAS Pro units have the same architecture and functional capacity. The programmable buttons are a huge game changer for me, my first pen display didn't have anything of the sort, so this thing blew my workflow up haha. Check out the video! It covers a lot of ground pretty quickly, and honestly there's a lot to go into with this unit. I've done a few of these "sponsored" tests for different companies, I'm always 100% honest about my experiences with the products, but wooooow - this one was a big one for me, the Pro 12 is legitimately the best product I've ever been asked to review and it's gonna be in my laptop bag from now on no matter what. If you're not into videos, see below. I'm pasting the writeup I made for filming, it's got all the thoughts I organized and put into the video in written form. ----------------------------------------- The KAMVAS Pro 12 is a graphics tablet made by Huion, it features a couple programmable functions along the side, tilt sensitivity, and a 1080p display with excellent color depth. The pen also doesn't require batteries or charging, which I enjoy because I never remembered to charge my pen on my old display, and the whole setup here can be packed into your laptop bag with your computer - in fact, I have this super fat Dell that's just huge and heavy and this tablet still fits in the bag with it because it's so compact. Real quick before we really get into it - I'll be releasing a video soon where I use this exact tablet to make a font based on handwritten notes from an old book, so you can see a little more of me actually using it in-depth in that video once that's out. For now, I mostly just wanted to talk a little bit about my experience with getting it set up since that'll apply to everyone watching rather than, say, just illustrators or just photographers. Now! Cables The cables are a little weird - one one end, we have the HDMI and USB that go into your computer and the power cord, and at the other end is just a single USB C plug that goes into the tablet. I know that graphics, sound, power, even ethernet can be transferred via USB C, so part of me wonders whether it would be possible to make this setup work with just a straight USB C cable the same way a breakaway box works. It would eat your computer's battery power faster, but, it would make the cable situation way simpler. Either way, the current cable situation works fine for me and my computer, though I could see it being inconvenient in the event that someone's HDMI and USB ports aren't close to one another. In that case, though, you probably have at least one USB C port on your computer, so you can probably get away with using a USB C hub for this, though I haven't tested that out myself. Setup As soon as I plugged it in, it went to the default extra display setting, meaning it duplicated my screen onto this one. I'd say probably the majority of people using a mobile solution like this as opposed to a desktop display will probably use that setting, but my laptop has a 4K screen. So, when it's duplicated onto a 1080p screen, it looks really bad and blurry. So I switched it to "extend my display" mode and it was fine. But, the little function buttons on the side weren't doing anything, and after a quick Google search I discovered that the tablet actually has software you have to download to get all the usage out of it. Actually, as it was being installed, I realized that the included instructions literally say that, it's the very first thing. So, yeah. Anyway, the program is super intuitive, but I should mention (at least for me), since I had it on "extend my displays" mode, the program tried to map the tablet to the full span of both my screens together instead of just the little one. That's not ideal for my purposes haha. But, it means that I could use the tablet to draw across multiple monitors, which is kind of a cool feature even if I'll never do that. Either way, very easy to fix, just pick the display you want the tablet mapped to using this little menu here, it couldn't be easier. Function I set up my hotkeys here a little differently than it comes from the factory; by default it's set so the scroll bar zooms in and out and these buttons control brush size, this one is an undo/redo, and this one lets you drag your way around the canvas. I switched it so these buttons control zooming in and out, this scroll bar here controls brush size, this one just does the undo command, and this one resets the whole canvas. I did some quick tests for the sake of the review, and I can pretty confidently say that it works very nicely - it's more responsive and more accurate than my UG-2150 that I use with my desktop computer. I might have to pick up this tablet's big brother and replace my desktop tablet if ti functions as well as this. By default, the pen was actually way TOO responsive for me, but it's super easy to adjust the sensitivity right here in the tablet program, so once that was dialed in it worked perfectly. I recommend turning the sensitivity down a little in general - maybe it's just me, I do tend to have kind of a heavy hand when I draw, but I think the pressure is a little hard to control by default and I find it a lot easier with this curve applied. Like I said before, I'll be talking a little more in-depth about using this in the font video, so that's about it for now. All in all, I feel like this tablet is a great example of how far this technology has come in the past few years - when I bought my first pen display, it cost more than double what this does, and it's not in any way portable, doesn't have tilt sensitivity, the pen has to be charged, it doesn't have any functions built in, and it's not even as accurate. My opinion may be a little biased because I'm comparing this to my older tech, but based on my own experiences this thing is great. I feel like a lot of people who would be looking at the KAMVAS series are probably either looking for their first graphic tablet or they're looking to upgrade to one that has a display from one that doesn't. I was personally looking to upgrade to something newer and more portable than my fat, old UG 2150 that has to stay on my desk. If you've used the KAMVAS Pro 12 and have some tips and tricks you'd like to share, leave me a comment and tell me about it