There are many hardware tools digital graphic artists use to mention a few there are, graphics tablets, digital cameras, and scanners that I will cover in this post. Graphics tablets are used for image editing programs such as Photoshop; they are used to draw in more detail and are preferred by artists to drawing with the mouse. They can cost anywhere between £50 for a small, basic one, up to £3000 for a large, professional one, which can include features such as pressure sensitivity. They can be sized anywhere between A6 to A3. The main brand and industry standard for graphics tablets is Wacom. Digital cameras are also an important tool for digital graphics artists. There are 3 major types of digital camera’s; camera phones, which are used for quick photo’s they are convenient quick and easy however the quality is usually not very good, they usually cost between £20 - £600 depending on the phone their attached to. The lens is purely digital and these types of cameras have about 5 mega pixels. Another type of camera is compact cameras, these are priced between 350 - £300, they have fairly similar uses however take better quality pictures than camera phones but still aren’t as good as DSLR cameras. Often these cameras have around 10 mega pixels and have a mixed optical and digital zoom. The final type of camera I will cover is the DSLR these cost between £300 - £5000 and are used by professionals such as paparazzi and other job titles involving photography. They are very high quality cameras however also very expensive. The typical number of mega pixels is 20 onwards and they only have optical zooms.
