Graphic Designers 101Written by Nash Ville
Being a graphic designer entails hardwork, dedication and passion for what you are doing. Some people might think that it’s just easy to do all those web and graphic designs. Well, it’s not! As a graphic designer, you have to cope with constant technological advancements so that you you’ll have a chance in tough competition. One of latest technologies today is full color printing. To know worth and benefits of full color printing is critical in graphics industry as it increases appeal of any designer’s artworks because it has amazing capacity to capture an audience and maintain viewers and readers. To maximize value of color in your printing jobs, it is necessary to understand way color is transformed from your monitor to paper it is printed on. When designing your graphics on computer, colors appear in RGB (red, green and blue) format. This is how your television set and monitor generate images. When viewing printed output on paper, it appears in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) format. It is essential to recognize effects that abovementioned change in color format has on your design if your project is color critical and colors must be as close as possible to your initial expected color. In order for your target color to match printed color, be sure to set up your file in CMYK format as printing companies will print directly from file without comparing it to onscreen image.
| | PHOTOREALISM WITH BERT MONROYWritten by Blur Lorena
Do you find it hard to distinguish between a real photo and a digital image? Bert Monroy, one of pioneers of digital art who created many software products such as Photoshop, ImageStudio and PixelPaint, introduces another break through in computer graphics, Adobe Photoshop’s “Photorealism”. From word itself you can define photorealism as something that is realized in photos. Imagine yourself in Atlantis, draw scene and make it look like a picture. Think it’s impossible? It can be made possible through Photorealism. Photorealism is not a new term. It came from a movement which began in late 1960’s. The movement specializes in painting scenes or objects in a style closely resembling a photograph. The true subject of a photorealistic work is not image but interpretation of observer on image. Richard Estes, who does street scenes and Chuck Close, who is known for his enormous portraits of neutral faces are examples of leading members of photorealist movement. Another method in photorealism is oil painting. Unlike Monroy’s photorealism, it is done manually. From name of a movement, word photorealism now became a computer term. Photorealism showcases Monroy’s personal methods in creating ultra-realistic images. It demonstrates a combined technique of Adobe’s latest releases of Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS in addition to paint or vector-based drawing tools. One of techniques used is setting of objects in Illustrator and dragging them in Photoshop for stroking and styling. It also includes techniques for creating smoke, grass, lighting, fire, reflections and mold. It is basically a tool for photorealistic imagery.
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