I guess the price of electronics is sort of universial around the world, but I probably would have gone for an used intuos at any opportunity instead of a bamboo. But that might be 5-6 year old experiences combined with cheap electronics speaking.
Besides that, I recommend spending a lot of time tweaking hotkeys in photoshop and even using autohotkey to generate custom hotkeys. Right now I got Alt on my first right click on the pen, and now I've placed a autohotkeyscript that switches between eraser and brush whenever I double-click the alt button. Going to add a third one for general undo, so I can get away with only one arm for a lot of work.
Beyond that, experiment with stylus controlled width and opacity. But I don't recommend using them both at the same time. Ignore opacity while using the stylus for brush width for pen-like brushes and ignore brush width when focusing on opacity for shader brushes and more realistic pencil-lines. Maybe a minimum brush size of 30-60% for pencils.
Also, lazynezumi is brilliant for stabilizing lines. I bought a license yesterday, since they began updating it this summer(It had been dead since around 2009 or so before that.)
Edited by duke_Qa, 17 November 2013 - 10:56 PM.