Scanner Usage and Tablet Usage

Scanners:

Scanners server a useful part in the daily lives of a publisher and graphics design artist. It allows them to put their thoughts on to page and then onto a computer where they can recreate and present their work done outside the realms of Adobe.

A publisher may draw up designs and page layouts well as potentially even some logo work on a piece of paper because the use of a tablet can be difficult or they don't have access to it. With a scanner this is possible by scanning in the image you want on your computer, scanners take the image whilst projecting a light along it to make it bright and as clear as possible then send it from the scanner to your computer where it will be saved, usually as a .svg file. The file then is openable in an image editing software (backgrounds for photoshop and graphics for illustrator) in which the owner would use tools such as the pen tool or brush tool to recreate and make the images they made on their piece of paper but then digitally recreated for use in their publication.



Here is an example of a piece of scanned in work and a piece of work done digitally, though not the same image, you get the idea of how both look different why a publisher would use a scanner.





Tablets:

Tablets play a bigger role in graphics creation than publishing, these allow the user to draw on a program such as photoshop or illustrator with a stylus which imitates the use of a pencil onto the paper but in this case is actually a stylus onto a tablet surface.

After an image has been scanned into their computer and opened on a image editing software, instead of using things like the pen tool to create their lines and digital version they take to it was a brush tool and start redrawing the image on their computer whilst using the scanned image as a guide on which to follow. Tablets also can be used without a traditionally drawn piece of work being used as a guide as well as this they have capabilities of acting as a mouse too utilizing the stylus.



This is an example of someone using a graphics tablet in order to creat something on his desktop. Tablets are used in major publishing companies, by graphic designers and people all over the world such as art hobbyists.