This document discusses the hardware and software used to produce art and design work using ICT. It explains that companies use computers with large storage capacities and appropriate graphics software, also called image-editing software, to alter imported images using digital cameras and scanners. This software allows users to crop, rotate, flip, fill with color, view in 3D, remove scratches, draw shapes, add text, access clipart/photos, and store design libraries for reuse. Mice and trackballs are used to manipulate images.

1. Art and Design
Work
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2. Introduction
• ICT is used in a wide range of activities when
producing art and design work.
• We have already briefly looked at how CD and
DVD covers, posters, books and magazines are
published.
• Now we need to look at some of the hardware
and software that is involved when ICT is used
to produce artwork.

3. • Most companies that deal with this type
of work use computers with large storage
capacities.
• Many have to have appropriate graphics
software installed. This is often referred
to as image-editing software, as it is used
to alter the appearance of images that
have been imported into the software
using input devices such as digital
cameras and scanners.

4. FEATURES OF GRAPHICS SOFTWARE

5. This type of software often has features such as
the ability to:
• crop (i.e. remove a portion of) a n image
• rotate an image
• flip an image
• till parts of the image w it h colour
• look at three-dimensional views
• remove scratches from photos
• draw lines and other geometric shapes
• add text in a variety of fonts.

6. • The software will also have access to a
lot of clipart and photo galleries. In
addition, it will have the facility to store
libraries of designs so that the same
basis for a design can be used over and
over again.
• The devices used to manipulate these
images are either a mouse or a tracker
ball.

7. The End