Best Mouse for Photoshop

I love the Logitech Performance MX mouse used with the smooth side of the Func Surface 1030 Original mouse mat.  Great combination.

Hi.

I second Mylenium's emotion. I've been using Logitech programmable mice for 10 years. Currently I'm using the MX Revolution (wireless). Still working after 5 years of heavy use. My previous Logitech mouse was still working fine after 6 years, but didn't like Vista when I got a new computer.

I have big hands, and the MX is a good fit. Righties only, sadly. It's big, heavy, and stable. It has a built in rechargeable battery, which I was leery of at first. But the battery last a long, long time, and it has never been an issue. It recharges in a cradle, and fast, which is good.

It's programmable, the most important feature to me. It has more programmable toggles and buttons than I use, but the ones I do use are golden. In addition to the normal mouse functions in their normal places, I have Shft, Ctrl, & Enter under my index finger. My thumb accesses Alt, Ctrl+Alt, & Ctrl+Alt+Shft under my thumb. The result being my right hand never leaves the mouse, and my left hand works the keyboard. It's fast and efficient, even when I don't know where I'm going. If that sounds too geeky, just program couple of buttons. The new MX is still $100 and is supposed to work with Mac OS® X 10.4 or later.

I know some folks like to keep it simple. Even if you don't program it, it's still a big, heavy, comfortable mouse with great performance.

A critical element in my mousing nirvana is the gel filled wrist pad. It reduces fatigue and the chance of carpel tunnel and such. And just as important, it stabilizes my wrist so my hand movements are more sure. The speed of the mouse is a factor too. My mouse is set to "Fast", with moderate "Acceleration". This way I can reach the whole screen without moving my wrist or lifting the mouse. Saves time and fatigue. And of course a good chair set at the right height and the desk at the right height help.

FWIW.

Peace,

Lee

(Logitech Marketing Dept: You know where to send the check.)

I'd also go for some gaming mice but not because of the weight but because on most of them you can change the resolution of the mouse on the fly using small buttons located somewhere on the mouse. Changing the resolution of the mouse basically changes the sensitivity of the pointer, the lower the resolution the slower the pointer will travel so you can work on small details easier.

The most important thing however for a mouse is to be comfortable to use so whatever mouse you go for make sure that you test it out in a store before you buy it.

There was a problem aired recently about a bug in Trackball mouse and Photoshop.  If memory seerves me corretly (and it does not always) believe it was holding the space bar and trying to move image. 

Would not work on several machines, but this was on a MS OS so don't know if it applies to Mac..

If you have a twitchy hand, you might wanna look into a Logitech mouse or a Microsoft gaming mouse. Some of them have extra weight to increase precision and/ or configurable mouse delay. Should not be a problem to get them running on a Mac via USB, you may just not be able to access some features like custom buttons. Logitech does offer special Mac variants of their products, though. I also seem to recall Logitech offering a trackball with an extra large, but slightly soft ball aimed at elderly and impaired users. Maybe that's worth exploring, too.

Mylenium

Sunny, I don't use a Mac, but I do get good results from a plain old wired "M-UVDEL1" Dell brand USB 2 button + scroll wheel optical mouse.  It's nothing special, but it just works, no muss, no fuss, no laser, no batteries to change, and it just goes on forever.  I've worn it smooth in several spots, and it works as well today as the day I put it into service, allowing me to do pixel-perfect positioning on a 3200 x 1200 pixel (multi-monitor) desktop.  Sometimes simple really is good.

-Noel