Tony RuthInterview
Illustrator
Adapted from Tony Ruth's interview on Uses This, published 18 January 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I use a Logitech LX7 Cordless mouse and a nasty old Mac Pro keyboard that has nice big clunky buttons because I must have a keypad for inputting number values or I'm kind of useless.
I use a MacBook Pro 2.26 GHz Intel Core Duo with 2Gb of RAM as my mobile station, with a Wacom Cintiq 12WX.
An iPad 3G; which was a gift from Core77.com.
The small stuff: An iPhone 3G.
A Canon G10, which I don't really do justice to but has made me enormously happy because I don't scan sketches anymore, I just photograph them and the clarity is more than adequate to work with.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Design
I'm totally dependent on Photoshop CS3 for all of my image processing and illustration.
Some final art will get polished in Illustrator, but that's rare.
I'll use Sketchup for quick mockups and underlays if I'm doing something that needs accurate proportions.
Other
Because I do a lot of information sifting, I use Bridge for file automation, using actions and scripts written in Photoshop.