Elements of a Good DesignWritten by Carla Ballatan
So you’re aspiring to create designs for companies advertising their crafts online? Hold on! Before chasing after your dream of being a ‘great’ and ‘well-known’ graphic designer…Let’s go over many names and title that associates with graphic designer and resolve finally who a designer is and what are elements of design you need to learn. According to an article, Chuck’s views on design, writing and marketing at www.ideabook.com/viewa.htm author narrates that he’s already into his twenty something years in graphic design business. Considering his long experience, Chuck’s been called art director, commercial artist, graphic designer, desktop publisher and graphic artist. Impressed with wide selection of titles? Let’s get on with definitions, though. Graphic designer is defined by Graphic Artist’s Guild as “visual problem solver”, graphic artist is a “visual artist working in a commercial area”, and art director is someone responsible for supervising “quality and character if visual work.” Don’t be led to believe that definitions tell what work is all about. Among various definitions, that of creative director’s, “whose responsibilities may include overall supervision of all aspects of character and quality of (advertising) agency’s work for its client” came close to what Chuck thinks a designer should really be… Now, if you are undaunted by close-definition and is really keen on being a graphic designer, you should know that design is a communication art. There are basic elements for creating good designs in order to perfect this art.
| | Review: Real world Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CSWritten by Maricon Williams
Photoshop CS is no doubt most momentous Photoshop progress which complements digital photographers. Real world Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS discusses exciting new features for general users, web designers, video editors and digital photographers. This book is authored by Bruce Fraser.Bruce Fraser is a noted author having co-authored penultimate Photoshop resource book Real World Photoshop from Peachpit Press. He is also a contributing editor for Mac World plus a regular contributor for CreativePro where he wrote his “Out of Gamut” articles. Fraser is also a co-author of Real World Color Management from Peachpit Press. He has also made a study of human vision and how it relates to reproducible color in photography and photomechanical reproduction. Bruce is a regular speaker and presenter at notable trade shows and conferences as well as Seybold and Thunder Lizard’s Photoshop Conferences. He has also consulted for an extensive series of major photographic and digital imaging companies. Adobe Photoshop CS is new version (Version 8) of Adobe Photoshop. It is a part of newly announced Adobe Creative Suite which combines new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS with ImageReady CS, Adobe illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, Adobe GoLive CS, Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and new "Version Cue" file version manager, which lets you track integrations quickly and locate files easily. Camera RAW part of Photoshop 7 Adobe Photoshop Camera RAW & JPEG 2000 Plug-in Bundle is now an integrated part of Photoshop CS. This has added substantial power to Photoshop CS. JPEG 2000 delivers superior quality for same compression ratios. Conversely, since no camera support JPEG 2000, support is available through a separate plug-in that ships with software.
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