Modding with a tablet.

Before I got it I did all my gfx with photoshop and all my art on paper (irl materials, yes). Once I got it I started using Corel Draw for the drawing (give it a shot) and I tried doing gfx with photoshop but it was all like "wtf happened to PS". It takes some time to get used to the tablet, brush rotations / pressure and stuff. I must have destroyed at least a few pen needles cause everything came out twice as thin as before. So just go back to the basics a bit and once you get the hang of it you should be good to go.

And one of my friends, she has a bamboo, prefers to have relative mouse movement to absolute, so give that a shot too (personally I always use absolute because I have a screen over the tablet, so to speak).