what do you use to make your digital art?

I have seen some of the digital art on this forum and im just wowed at some of it, its amazing. I want to try this stuff out myself, and I was wondering what software, and hardware do you all use for it? Any scanners, digital cameras involved, anything like that?

adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, any 3d rendering program... maya or 3d studio max, some use macromedia fireworks, and sure people use digital cameras and/or scanners... but if you want to do stuff i would just recommend photoshop its probably what mainly is used here... since it is teamphotoshop =).. and anything over 500mhz for pc and 333mhz for apple with a good amount of ram atleast 128mb you will be fine... the programs are pretty expensive so be warned... but its worth it.

I got a pretty low end computer myself, I want to upgrade but being only 17 and no job makes that difficult. ;) atleast I got my trusty old photoshop 6, which runs just fine on my system.

466mhz celeron
256mb ram
GeForce 2 MX400 64mb

lol tool, you sound like a mirror image of me ;]
'cept i'm on a p3 600 with the same ram & gfx

yea to start out you don't really need anything high end all you really need is a working photoshop and google image search lol i unfortunalty have the same problem ... being 17 with no job... so like you i don't have much to make do but all i use is photoshop and lots of practice check out some of my work sometime... well anyways goodluck with photoshop i'm sure you'll make some cool stuff


p.s.
tool rocks

Photoshop 6.0, Wacom Graphire2, ColdFusion Studio 4.5.2.

P4 1.6Ghz
512 MB DDRAM + other things, too lazy to list.

photoshop 6.0 & ImageReady, Cinema 4D XL 7, Adobe illustrator 9 (cost me $50 :D), Canon N1240U scanner

All on a Dell: 1.5 P4, 256mb SD Ram, 19" monitor.

I personally use Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Image Ready 7.0, Macromedia Flash MX (for animation), Dreamweaver MX (for websites), 3D Studio Max 4.2 and Bryce 5 (for 3D)

I have a scanner and a graphic tablet also.

If I am to use lots of images I would go to http://www.istockphoto.com or http://www.freefoto.com

I have an IBM Aptiva PC with over 300mb SDRAM, 19" TFT monitor and a P4.

For beginners I would recommmend checking out other graphic design programs such as Jasc Paint Shop Pro before going onto photoshop, as they explain themselves in a very basic and easy to understand manner so you can get a feel of it quickly.

i got an athlon 850 with 512 ram and a m$ optical mouse
i usualy use a combo of bryce and poser for 3d and photoshop6 in post production... adobe image ready to slice and dice

i also like... if you haven't noticed... using 3rd party filters for a background and then making designs from scratch

and of course.. trusty winamp for all my audio inspiration

I have a imac. 512 mb(not sure anything else). I use the following adobe photoshop 7, adobe illustrator 10,bryce 5,lightwave 7,flash mx although I started with Photoshop 6