Examples of Two Types of Hardware

Examples of Two Types of Hardware

In this blog i will be talking and describing two different types of hardware which can be used to create and edit graphics. There are a lot of hardware components out there that can be used to edit or manipulate images a few examples of these are listed below.

• Mouse
• Monitor
• Digital cameras
• The Keyboard
• USB drive

The two main types of hardware i will be looking at will be: The mouse and the Digital camera.

First of all i will be discussing The mouse and how i would use it to manipulate images in digital graphics. The first computer mouse was invented and created by Douglas Engelbart. In 1964, the first prototype computer mouse was made to use with a graphical user interface. It was developed for Microsoft windows. Engelbart received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels and a small single red button on the top it looked like the image below. since then a computer mouses have changed drastically in the way they are used and the way they look and feel in Digital graphics there is many ways that a mouse can be used to manipulate images a few of them are by stretching and distorting also my changing colour levels and hue and saturation and also my drawing lines and dragging them and moving these is near endless amounts of ways to manipulate images with the mouse. However the mouse has some advantages and limitations to what it can and cant do. The advantages of using the mouse is that it is light and very easy to move and it is not uncomfortable to use. The limitations of the mouse is that most mouses are wired and have a limed Lent of wire to use so the range of the mouse is limited.

Now i will be looking at digital cameras i also will be discussing The digital camera who created it what the first camera looked like and how i would use it to manipulate images in digital graphics. The very first digital camera was developed and created by Kodak engineer Steve Sasson December 1975. a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and it would save the images to a cassette instead of a memory card or CD it took approximately 23 seconds and then could only only viewed by placing the cassette in a custom playback device. The Digital camera has changed drastically over the past few years in many ways a few of these ways are the over all size of the camera the quality of the images images can be captured as clear as looking out through a window and then the over all amount of images can be save to a memory stick the number of images depends on the size of the memory stick and the quality of the image the better the quality the image the bigger in size it will be. In Digital graphics Digital cameras would be used to capture images and then they would be used to transfer the images to the computer via USBs then they would be manipulated using software on the computer. Some cameras have their their own ways of editing images by increasing and decreasing the brightness and contrast and also they can record or capture in a variety of affects including inverted, black and white, sepia and photo negative. The advantages of the digital camera is that you can go and capture a specific image you want and not having to look for it on the Internet that can take much longer. But cameras also have limitations as then cameras quality may vary in different lighting's and this may have some affect on the quality of the images.