Best Tool to use ! Mouse ? or Pad ?

Hello!  What are the tools that you find it more effective in using the photoshop ?
Is it just a normal mouse ? or do you use pad ( I do not even know if that is what's called..) ?
Can you please recommend which brand works the best for photoshop ?
i am just starting to teach myself how to do photoshop.
Thank you so much.

What works best for you can only be answered by you. You need to practice with different devices  and decide for yourself,. Yo mat find you want several.  I never like touch pads and turned off that feature on my ThinkPads that had them an just used the track point.  Which I prefer over a mouse.  Also for brush type tools I consider a Wacom Intuos tablet a must have.  On my current workstation I have both a Wacon Intuos Pro touch tablet installed and a Bluetooth mouse.  I don't actually use the touch feature on the Wacom tablet for much. I has setup some Wacom touch features for use but rarely t use the Wacom touch feature.

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