How to Choose the Right Graphic Design Software

April 15th, 2009 | Posted under Graphic Design | 3 Comments »

How to Choose the Right Graphic Design Software

Graphic design is the art or process of text and picture combination to bring out a certain message. This is mainly done on book covers, newspapers, magazines, logos, for advertisement.
In order to design graphics, you need graphic design software; these are programs that enhance graphic design, therefore top graphic design software is a program that brings out quality and standard graphics these includes: adobe Photoshop, adobe illustrator, Corel draw, adobe PageMaker and many others.

Best graphic design software is chosen depending on:

Task- what are you designing? high quality graphics require software like adobe Photoshop and illustrator.
Operating system- can your current operating system support the particular graphic software? The software has to be compatible with the operating system being used.
Price- do you have enough money to obtain the desired software?
Memory- can you machine support the normal running of that given graphic software?
Features-are there the required features in that particular software to meet you end needs?

Adobe, Corel and quark express are the top graphic design software on the market today. They are mainly considered because of their professional page layout, their price and user interface.
Adobe graphic design:-we have different types of adobe graphic design including adobe PageMaker, adobe Photoshop, and adobe illustrator.
Adobe PageMaker:-this is top page layout software that can be used in businesses, offices, homes and schools for creating high and quality graphics.
Adobe Photoshop graphic software designed to meet the needs of different professional in different fields of operations such as photographers, graphic designers, web designers, and amateur photographers.
Adobe illustrator software that supports the use of lines, points, curves, shapes to create images on the computer.
Corel graphic design- we have only one graphic design in the Corel category, Coral draw.
Other top graphic design software include: acrobat, dimension, dream weaver, frame maker, front page, and shock wave.

Achieving quality graphics

In order to have quality graphics the user has to consider the following factors:
Creativity- designers need to be more creative that is how can they use the images and the text to bring out a message that matches the text and the image used. He/ she has to base on the right composition.
Quality- the designer has to base on producing quality graphics that can fetch good prices if they are to be sold and those that attractive to peoples eye.
Type of software- software that has many features is considered most as compared to the one with less features hence the designer has to choose the type of software that will give variety of features to the graphic being designed.
Time designers need enough time to figure on what they are to design and also spent enough time on the graphic in order to come up with appealing designs.
Skills do the designer have enough skill on graphic designing, skilled designers will automatically come up with high and quality graphics as compared to unskilled designers.
Type of software-the software has to be the one capable of producing high-quality graphics, for example Corel draw has the ability to produce quality graphics as compared to acrobat.

Technology is growing day and night and more quality graphic design software are being designed day and night. Designers are not limited to using only one version of the software.

How to use Marquee Select Tool in Adobe Photoshop

April 15th, 2009 | Posted under Graphic Design | No Comments »

How to use Marquee Select Tool in Adobe Photoshop

A relatively simple tool, Marquee select tool is used to select areas of an image that can be copied, cut cropped or selected.Therea are four options to select the different types of the tool;rectangle,elliptical single row or single column. Hold on the left mouse key and select on the drop down menu the tool to use. Select an area of the image you want to work with. Hold down the shift key and drag the selected tool to create a desired square or a rectangle, hold down the space bar and drag the mouse to move the selection and to continue resizing release the space bar. One can modify the selection through adding or subtracting from it and lastly apply different uses to that area.

5 best site design tutorial sites

March 7th, 2009 | Posted under Computer Advice, The Internet, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

You might not be the new Gucci or Versace, but that doesn’t mean you’re not capable of designing a website (by the way, I wonder if a website designed by Versace would even look nice). Although real skills can’t be taught, you can learn the tricks of the trade, so that you can come a long way when it comes to designing a website. Here are some sites that help you along the way.

Good Tutorials
www.good-tutorials.com
This website is literally packed with great tutorials for a lot of different programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash etc. The sad thing is that they often link away from their website in stead of opening the other page in an iframe. So hold shift while clicking, so that you keep the website open.

Tutorial 9
www.tutorial9.net
A great website that really looks stunning and that has a logo I really love (how can you not love a cloud). The good thing is that they are clearly more than a link gathering website, they really write the tutorials themselves. Great if you want to learn how to make impressive designs.

Tutorialized
www.tutorialized.com
This website does not create it’s own content, and is made up from content that’s gathered from other websites, but the great thing is that you don’t have to leave the website to view them all. They have a great index that will help you find exactly the effect that you want.

Photoshop Star
www.photoshopstar.com
More of a blog than a website, but still a very good one, because it’s very clear this guy creates his own tutorials. They’re not all good, but most of them are, and from time to time he creates something brilliant. Very educational.

Adobe Marketplace
www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/
Not so much a website that teaches you stuff, but a website that lets you cheat. You can download tons of actions here that will generate an effect for you, so that you don’t have to figure it out by yourself. Especially great if you want to use the same effect for a lot of pictures.