![]() The Contour Shuttle Pro has a footprint of only 8″ x 4.4″ (20cm x 11cm) so it doesn’t take up much space on your desk. Some people only use the pen for drawing with Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush or in Photoshop, but I use it for everything, replacing a mouse. I recommend putting your mouse or trackpad in a drawer, at least for a few weeks while you’re getting used to it, as it’s easy to drift back to familiar tools. The dials couldn’t be easier, because you turn one way to increase the selected slider value and the other way to decrease.Ī graphics pen takes a little longer to learn to use. The learning curve with the Shuttle is minimal, because there are only 15 buttons to remember (and I only usually use the top 9, plus the left and right buttons). The Contour Shuttle Pro can be used with practically any software on your computer, for example, the dial may scroll in your web browser, change the brush size in Photoshop and change the font size in Microsoft Word, and the buttons can be assigned to different shortcuts in each program. Likewise, the Wacom tablet can completely replace your mouse or trackpad in every application. You’re not limited to a specific screen layout (although you need to be able to see the sliders, of course), and all of the keyboard shortcuts work as normal. Unlike some of the other gadgets we’ll review, the Shuttle and Wacom tablet are very flexible. Some recent Wacom tablets have 6 buttons and 1 dial, which could be used in a similar way, although I generally just use the pen/touchpad. ![]() Unlike some of the other gadgets I’ve tested, you can’t access Develop or Local Adjustment Presets using the Shuttle, however since you already have the pen (or mouse) in your other hand, it’s not a problem to simply click in the Presets panel. The trick is to float the cursor over the slider you want to adjust (using a mouse, trackpad or graphics tablet) and then turn the dial on the Shuttle, which gives you access to every slider in the Develop module. This is much more accurate than trying to move the slider itself, which improves efficiency. You’ll find my favorite settings for the Develop module here. The Shuttle Pro has 2 dials and 15 buttons, and you can program them to suit your needs, using any of Lightroom’s native shortcuts. Can anything knock them off the top spot? We shall see! If they ever brought out a wireless version I would buy that in a heartbeat.For many years, my favorite Lightroom gadgets have been the Contour Shuttle Pro v2 and Wacom Intuos Tablets. Negative things would be it could take a while to set up to your liking, but there are a lot of options and ways to make things work.Īnd it is corded, which could be a deal breaker for some people. Also allows you to output a diagram of what I assigned for each program. ![]() Feels sturdy, lets you put labels under the top 9 buttons if you want to remember what have them set for. It's helped me speed up my workflow by just using this and the mouse.Īnd yeah, people will go on about keyboard shortcuts being superior, but this tool really works better for me. It knows what program you are in, and the buttons automatically assign for it. I can use it for so many programs, and each one can have its own customised buttons. The things I like about it are that is a decent size and your hand rests nicely on it. I'm using this tool to edit video in Davinci Resolve, and audio in Audacity on a windows machine.
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