Unit 03

Having a omputer is one of the most important pieces of hardware you need in the creative media sector, weather you are a graphical designer or a web developer. Graphical designers can also use hardware like scanners and printers to help with there work but web developers dont really use these as everything the design or create is based on the internet instead of hand drawn sketches for example. A web developer would probably prefer to use programes such as photoshop or inkscape.The best way for either of these to communicate with clients would be through a mobile phone or through email.

When creating ideas and designs for others to use and/or publishing them online, there is always a risk of people stealing or copying your ideas and claiming them as there own, which is known as copyright. If you create an image for example and get copyrighted to your name, it beomes illegal for anyone to use that image without first receiveing your permission or without paying for permission or the actual rights to the image. This does not just go for images but anything you ever create yourself such as logo's, music, even names for a company or slogans and more. Some websites allow to download and use some ideas people have created with out payment for 'free' or 'free for personnal use'. The difference between the two is that 'free' means you can download it and do whatever you like with it, but 'free for personnal use' means you can use it but if you used for a piece of work that was going on the internet for example then you cannot use it without getting the creators permission first.