Best Scanner for Art and Design
Whether wanting to scan in linework or capture full blown graphics, our choice of the best scanners out there for creatives has something for everyone.
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The Best Keyboards for Designers and Artists
These are our favourite keyboards for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom and more – with customisable dials, key lighting and keyboard covers with shortcuts specific to your apps.
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Best Tablet for Art and Design
What's better for art, design or illustration: an iPad Pro 2018, 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, including a look at the big three's various competitors.
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Best Monitor for Art and Design
Our selection of the best displays for designers and artists, including Lenovo, Eizo and more – plus expert advice on how to choose the perfect screen for you.
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Portability and power: how creatives can get the best of both with the P65 Creator
With all the visual specs any content creator needs, the P65 from MSI is the ideal laptop for artists and designers.
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Best iPhone apps for artists 2018: draw, sketch & paint on your iPhone
Our pick of the best iPhone apps (some are avaialable for iPad too) for artists, including Procreate Pocket, Adobe's Photoshop Sketch, Illustrator Draw, Autodesk's SketchBook and more.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Best Pens for Drawing: 10 Pens for Artists and Designers
Discover the best (non-digital) pens for linework, technical drawing, sketching, colouring and more.
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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.
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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.
