Wacom tablets are pretty damn sweet <3 I remember one birthday some years back I got my graphite and got a hold of Photoshop (aah good times, good times) Upgraded to an Intuos recently and I gotta say, I'm lovin it. Tried Painter with it too, great program, great blending tools, cannot stomach the brush creation process though. One thing that definitely rubs me the wrong way with Photoshop is when you undo, it also affects the layer selection so now you're painting skin on a background layer aah wtf>< Can't go wrong getting a decent tablet though