Articles Tagged 'graphic'
Graphic Design Basics Part 2: Design Principles
Christian VasileIn the first part of the series we covered the basic elements of graphic design with shapes, lines, textures and color among others. Today we go a bit more in-depth and will take a look at the principles of design, which are very important to know because they're what separate the good designers from the amazing designers. Some of the principles we'll cover today are applied unconsciously, but they definitely exist and we will show you examples from the web to illustrate the concepts.
Graphic Design Basics Part 1: Elements
Graphic design is a very wide domain and getting a job as a graphic designer is not an easy task. Besides the many skills you will have to learn, getting a job on the web also requires personal attributes such as resistance to stress, creativity and self-motivation. But before your personal skills will be evaluated, the practical ones are the first to be looked at; and the most important, obviously. Therefore today we start a short series of articles in which I will talk about the basics of graphic design. Today we review the most popular elements of the industry.
A Graphic Designer’s Dilemma: How to Prevent Revisions & Other Client Issues
Rachel ArandillaTime is a freelance graphic designer’s biggest asset. We are paid per project basis. Unless we get a project done and approved by the client, we won’t get paid nor start on another project. Being a freelance designer is a job made in heaven or hell. Don’t you love the feeling of fulfillment once your design has been approved? Being recognized and praised for your work is the best feeling to have, but this is not always the case—some bosses are harder to please than others. We have been on that road before, on one time or another—clients demanding revision after revision, asking for changes and modifications. There are so many demands that you feel like every creative juice has been squeezed out of your head. What do you do?
Create Surreal Photo Manipulation with A Man Without Face
Mohammad JeprieFirst, I'd like to thank Joubert Quentin a.k.a hybrid-creation for allowing me to create this tutorial based on his image, Your Skull is Red. You can see his portofolio in DeviantArt or his personal site. Before we start, take at look at the image we are about to create below. In this tutorial we will learn how to create selection, adjusting color, and adding depth to image.
20 Design Related Audio And Video Podcast Sites
Dainis GraverisIt's very important to keep up with forever-changing design community - this profession requires regular learning, if You don't want to fall back. Audio and video podcasts both are popular at the latest time because of iPods and other media audio and video players. Video podcasts is great way to easily learn new skills and communicate with reader with visually appealing presentation and audio. Audio podcasts are very useful, because You can for example go somewhere, training, but do both things in the same time. I listen podcasts for example while training, running or just moving from point A to point B. I am amazed how many great and professional podcasts are out there so I am presenting to You 20 useful audio and video podcasts.
