Gets your art and photography editing done faster and more accurately in Photoshop, Photo Director, or whatever photo editor you’ve been using. The Huion Kamvas 24 Plus is the easiest tablet I’ve ever used. The non-glare screen, the accuracy of the color, and the precision of the battery-free pen just can’t be overstated. For any visual design project, your creativity will soar with this easy-to-love display.

I’ve tried numerous tablets over the years, and they all did okay, but none blew me away until I had the chance to try out a pair from Huion. The Kamvas 13 is perfect for those ‘on-the-go’, as it slips easily into a backpack along with your laptop.

But for use in the studio or office – this 24” screen is the next best thing to gold.

Lots of my uses are for high-def, screen resolution projects (1920×1080) for YouTube videos, display monitors, and online editorial work.  That means with this QHD screen (2560×1440 resolution), I can work on my images full screen. That eliminates blowing up parts to check for sharpness, then shoving the enlarged image to another part of the screen to check that other part. Everything is done at 100% all the time.

I often do photoshoots with 1000 or more photos to sort through when I get back.  With the Kamvas 24 Plus, I can easily find groups of images that I need to work on while looking at more than 200 thumbnails at a time.

Then, with a single click, I can see the photo full-width, and start performing any subtle edits I need to do.

With Photoshop, I love being able to have two images next to each other to compare and contrast as I work.  Being able to see the original details helps.

I’ve set up my workspaces to see the image(s) on the Huion Kamvas 24 Plus screen, while I have all my tools, presets, layers, etc. set to display on my laptop screen. It saves so much time not having to move tool windows out of the way to see the whole image.

One of the top features of this tablet is its beautiful anti-glare etched glass screen, which not only minimizes glare, but also creates a pen-on-paper experience.

I just started using Boris FX Suite of tools recently, and with the large 24-screen, I can instantly see the minute detail differences each of their presets makes. 

The Huion display makes it so simple to see every detail that each of my software packages can create, that I find myself making all sorts of versions in seconds, and then I’m able to come back the following day to see which ones I like best. Here are a half-dozen versions of the same photo, created and saved in a matter of minutes.

With prior tablets, I never found them very handy for video editing, but I really enjoyed creating this latest Adobe Premiere project and being able to precisely place my graphic titles with the high-resolution monitor.  

I’ve also found myself using the display to playback finished video sequences on the Huion, while I keep the main tools on my laptop’s screen.  Seeing the video on a 2560×1440 monitor, which matches the 16:9 format of my video, is truly rewarding.  Its high resolution and large screen size enable me to pick out any slightly out-of-focus details which might be missed on a 13 or 14” laptop screen.

While I’ve had a chance to use it with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere and After Effects, Cyberlink PhotoDirector and PowerDirector, as well as Boris FX, it also works with these products.

I don’t do a lot of illustration or vector graphic work, but when I do, the pressure sensitivity of this pen is superb.  With brushes, you can adjust size and opacity by varying the pressure of the pen on the display surface. It has 8,192 levels of pressure, so press away. It’s battery-free so you don’t need to worry about replacing standard batteries or recharging the pen nightly.

With a greater than 220 points-per-second response rate, the digital pen PW517, with PenTech3.0 technology, instantly produces written text and drawings on the screen, without delays or visual disconnects.  

Lastly, the pen’s tilt is recognized up to 60°, enabling shading, sketching, and edging with the appropriate software.

What does it take to set it up?

Attaching the adjustable stand that comes with the display takes only five minutes or less. With just a slight lift you can release the angle adjuster tab, enabling you to raise or lower the screen from 20° (almost flat) to 80° (almost perpendicular).  The stand is very sturdy and the rubber feet keep it securely in place.

Hooking it up to your computer can be handled in one of two ways. If your computer has a USB-C port with DP mode, you can hook it up that way, along with one power cord connection.  If you don’t have that type of USB-C, you can also use the Kamvas 24 Plus if your computer has HDMI and USB ports, by using the included 3-in-1 cable.

I don’t, but if you have one of a number of specific Android devices, you can also hook up the display to your phone or tablet and use the free Android Huion Sketch software. (See the website for a list of compatible devices.)

In addition to the two USB-C ports on the Kamvas 24 Plus, there is also a USB-A port, which enables the connection of a flash disk or a connected keyboard.  

Digging deeper into the technology

Here are the highlights, but we’ll delve into each separately below. 

23.8” Screen

I’ve always used tablets that were much smaller before, and they required “pushing” your artwork around until it fit the screen precisely. With this size screen, you can easily work on your project at 100% resolution and not have to scroll at all.  Most of my editorial and photography and video work is all designed for 1920 x 1080 pixel screens – so I’ve got room to open the artwork and still have room for floating toolbars and the layer panel in Photoshop.

2.5K Resolution

This equates to QHD resolution (meaning a quarter larger than the already large HD 1920×1080).  Actual dimensions of 2560 x 1440 means that a standard 16:9 ratio video will fill the screen perfectly when it’s playing back. 

Minimal parallax

Huion has mastered the principle of full lamination, keeping the sensors as close as possible to the surface of the display. This minimizes parallax – the apparent distance between what’s seen on the glass layer and the sensors below.  This means that when you press down with the tip of your pen, your accuracy is greatly increased.   

178° Visibility

Even those viewing your screen sideways from an acute angle will still be able to see.  If you can view the face of the screen, you’ll be able to make out the detail of your art creation.

140% sRGB color gamut

This refers to the apparent brilliance of the colors on your screen.  100% is necessary to deliver the full spectrum of your creation, but if you are looking for overly vibrant colors, this will deliver far better than most monitors. The quantum dot technology also filters out harmful blue light to protect user’s eyes. 

My desktop background is a drone photo of a beautifully gradated sunset, and this monitor shows it off as brilliantly as I recall seeing it when I shot the photo.

16.7M (8bit) display colors

This merely means that the monitor is capable of reproducing all 256 levels of red pixels, 256 levels of green pixels, and 256 levels of blue pixels, so that every conceivable color can be displayed.

1200:1 Contrast ratio

This means your whites can be displayed twelve-hundred times brighter than your blacks. The higher the contrast ratio, the deeper the blacks, and the better the picture will look. If you are looking for a full representation of HDR content – this is going to deliver.

OLED technology

Simply put, OLEDs use organic molecules deposited on the glass to produce light. First, there were CRTs (the big bulky deep TV tubes), then there were LCD screens (the first flat screens), then LED’s – now OLED – an upgrade of even the formerly excellent LED’s. The advantage to you is brighter, more beautiful pictures and less power and less heat emitted.

Wrap up

The Huion Kamvas 24 Plus is not an inexpensive tablet, but for the serious prosumer or any working professional, you won’t regret adding this as a daily go-to tool for any graphic project.  I’ve just had it for less than a month, but it’s already a prized companion to my Lenovo 14” ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 laptop. While the ThinkPad is a fantastically able laptop, having the 24” display attached guarantees my work is top-notch and ready for publication before I send it off to the publisher.

Learn more here: Check out their website: https://www.huion.com/pen_display/KamvasPro/kamvas-24-plus.html or when you are ready to buy, be sure to visit their online store at  https://store.huion.com/products/kamvas-24-series.

Disclosure:  Huion provided us with a Kamvas 24 Plus so we could do this review, but there was no financial compensation involved. Opinions are, and always will be strictly our own.