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The best iPad stylus for artists & designers

Create beautiful, precise artwork on your iPad using these 6 styluses designed for sketching, drawing and painting.
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- Hardware,
- Graphic Design & Branding,
- Illustration,
- Adobe,
- Adonit,
- FiftyThree,
- Sensel,
- Wacom
10 Best Photo Editing Apps for iPad

Discover the best iPads apps for professional-level photo editing on your iPad – including photography apps from Adobe, Affinity, Google and more.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Photography,
- Adobe,
- Apple
The Best Drawing Tablet

We compare the best graphics tablet for artists, designers and illustrators - including both Wacom tablets and less expensive alternatives.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design & Branding,
- Illustration,
- Adobe,
- Wacom
Best Tablet for Art and Design

What's better for art, design or illustration: an iPad, an Android tablet or a tablet PC, convertible or 2-in-1 from the likes of Microsoft, Dell or HP? We compare your options here.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design & Branding,
- Illustration,
- App Store,
- Apple,
- Dell,
- HP,
- Lenovo,
- Samsung,
- Wacom
Digital artist Mike Campau's dystopian scenes reflect a growing mistrust with social media

Social media is starting to get some pull back, and rightfully so, says Mike.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Adobe,
- Wacom
Best cheap Wacom Cintiq alternative drawing tablets

Don't have £1,900/$2,000 for a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24? Here are six much less expensive pen display options for drawing, sketching and painting.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Graphic Design & Branding,
- Illustration,
- Photography,
- Video,
- Dell,
- Wacom
Best desks for designers 2018

Whether you work at home, at a studio or in a shared workspace, here are desks that will be sure to make your working life easier.
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- Hardware,
- Life & Style
Best Keyboards for Designers and Artists

These are the best keyboards for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom and more – with customisable dials, key lighting and keyboard covers with shortcuts specific to your apps.
- Topics
- Hardware,
- Graphic Design & Branding,
- Illustration,
- Adobe,
- Apple
Inside the iMac Pro - Apple's most powerful Mac yet

We spent the day with Apple and some its key application developers including Adobe and Maxon - and more than a few iMac Pros - to find out what this pro Mac is all about.
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- Hardware
14 brilliant Christmas gifts for designers and artists: books, small gifts & tech

We’ve found the best bespoke crafts, helpful tech and latest books on illustration, design & inspiration.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design & Branding,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Printing,
- Amazon,
- Harper Collins,
- Huawei,
- Moleskine
AMD vs Intel: we put the most powerful desktops for designers and artists head-to-head

In a battle of the 16-core-chips, we test AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 1950X against Intel's Core i9-7960X to see which would be best inside your next desktop PC.
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- Hardware
Where VR, AR and mixed reality is going next

The only UK studio working exclusively with the Microsoft HoloLens, Fracture Reality, describes what MR will look like in five years time. You may be surprised.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive Design & VR,
- Microsoft
IBC 2017: The future of animation, video, AR and VR

We look back over the IBC 2017 show in Amsterdam – where groundbreaking new tech for producing motion media will brings us more realistic VR and AR, purposefully less realistic animation and a (thankfully virtual) exploding chicken.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive Design & VR,
- Video
Best Pens for Drawing: 10 Pens for Artists and Designers

Discover the best (non-digital) pens for linework, technical drawing, sketching, colouring and more.
- Topics
- Hardware,
- Graphic Design & Branding,
- Illustration
Siggraph 2017: Fresh realtime entertainment, robotics & live experiences

Ian Failes scouts out the latest technology in animation, VFX, VR, AR, robotics, gaming and live experiences at the annual CG conference.
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive Design & VR
How Apple has made creative pros happy again

The new iMacs, MacBook Pro – and forthcoming iMac Pro and Mac Pro – make Apple a serious contender for desktops and laptops for designers, artists, editors and animators again.
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- Hardware
New iPad Pro: everything you need to know about the new 10.5- and 12.9-inch models

The new iPad Pros feature brighter, more colourful screens that respond faster to touch and the Apple Pencil - and there's a 10.5-inch model to replace the 9.7-inch iPad Pro.
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- Hardware
Draw on paper and screen at the same time, with the new Wacom Intuos Pro Paper Edition

Illustrator Pete Fowler discovers why the new Wacom Intuos Pro tablet is perfect for multi-disciplinary artists.
- Promotion
These old Apple Power Mac G4s have been converted into portable bars

Ross Mackert tranforms old Mac towers into something super-stylish you can make a martini in.
- Topics
- Hardware,
- Life & Style
How Little White Lies' creative director designs and illustrates with Wacom's new tablet

Timba Smits is both a designer and an illustrator - so tries out the new Wacom tablet that lets him work on both paper and on-screen at once.
- Promotion

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