tricky designing

Life is all about survival of the fittest and hard work is the only thing that can keep you alive and successful in this world. Along with difficulties, you have opportunities too. Selecting the right field in which a person can bring the best out of him is very necessary. It is the best opportunity for him to decide his career. Graphic designing is a very popular field these days and people are taking graphic designing as their career as this field is very demanding and long lasting these days. This field is very good for creative people and a waste of time for those who are not creative at all. A graphic designer needs to think differently.
The designing field can be subdivided into two categories- web designing and print designing. Both of these fields require working on computer with some tools. A web designer needs web designers tools. A good graphic designer needs a good computer and high end creativity. No matter, which field you are in, you need to design something very much different and creative form existing designs. You need to be very good at working with designing tools you use.
Take web designing, which is all about totally digital work, everything done on computer. It has a very strong competition as there are many types of websites available on internet. A web designer needs to have a good knowledge of HTML as well as should be updated about advancements in HTML. If you feel uncomfortable, then this field is not for you.
Next is Print designing, conveying message through print. It includes creation of graphic logos, hoardings, banners, newspaper advertisements, magazines, book covers, cards etc. The design should be attractive, creative and simple in conveying the message at its first look itself.
Both categories of designing are for advertising and it is all about the corporate world, so design must leave a good impression. An aspiring graphic designer can study graphics from colleges or institutes. After finishing studies, any graphic designing company will hire you or you may work as a freelancer too. You have endless options in this field. As soon as you leave your graphic design college, you start getting opportunities and you can start your own business too. It is recommended to do job before starting your own business. Freelancing is an opportunity in which you can work according to yourself and have endless earnings.

Adobe Photoshop is the graphic editing software which was created by adobe systems. It is one of the most popular software used by every designer in graphic designing. Every graphic designer who enters the field of designing should learn the tools and techniques of Photoshop designing. Now the question arises how to design in a Photoshop? Once we start exploring the Photoshop, we can easily think beyond our creativity and as you create design each day, you will get to know the more usage of tools. Moreover, you can come up with more new ideas. In Adobe Photoshop software we can design business cards, logos, poster, brochure and many other things. By using creative tools, we can make great designs which will not only impress the clients but also enhance our ideas which we could apply in our creativity.
Adobe Photoshop has many tools which helps you to make your design creative like brush tool, eye dropper tool, crop tool etc. Photoshop gives you the wide variety of options which helps you to make your design innovative and turns your pictures into masterpieces. For e.g.: In old times, photographs used to be black and white, and in today’s modern world if we convert those black and white pictures into colored photographs by using healing brush, clone stamps, patch tools and others, we can make old photos look new again. If you know how to apply these tools, you can easily impress the clients. In Photoshop, images and text together works better, they looks more attractive and it looks more artistic. We can make use of strokes, drop shadows, emboss, contrast, brightness, exposure to make the design eye catching. There are many Photoshop brushes available that can help us making the art work in very artistic manner which gives the special effect on the layout.

Photoshop is a kind of all-rounder software and is the greatest software of all time in graphic designing sector. It can be easily said that each and every designer of world depends on Photoshop for completing the designs. Not only the photo-editors use Photoshop but graphics designers of print and web also uses to Photoshop often.
Many people all over the world have dilemma that there is no software which can help them design website in minutes and the truth is that Photoshop can do it. Photoshop have become the software for everyone from print designer to web designer. The use of Photoshop in web work is getting more and handier because of its simple fact “easy to use”. Photoshop have gained the top position in race of web designer tools not just because of its easy use but also because of the fact that it makes you free to design anything you want. Photoshop allows you to create graphic logos which you can directly put in website design.
If you want to study graphics for web or print designing then please be very choosy while choosing the graphic design college. Once your basics are clear then you can do whatever you want to do with Photoshop, you can easily add effects wherever you want to. If you really wants to become a core graphic designer then first of all you have to expertise in Photoshop. Web is demanding more and more everyday and to beat every designer in web sector you have to learn Photoshop and its tricks. You have play with Photoshop everyday to expertise in it and find new ways to use it.
One of the major reasons behind Photoshop being key web designing tool is that it makes images lighter and more optimized which is very important in web designing. Your website should not be having too much heavy images and too much heavy data and to reduce to file size Photoshop gives you many tools. For optimizing your website Photoshop gives you unlimited number of tools and options, you can do it in whatever manner you to just keep some basic standards of web in mind.
Apart from general website, you can also design 2.0 websites from Photoshop in its latest version i.e. Adobe Photoshop CS5. Just go through some good book of Photoshop and practice new trick every day, you will get to know what all can Photoshop do soon.

Resources under stream of graphic designing were never limited and believe me it will never be. If you have graphic designing skills then you can conquer the world as you want. If you don’t know that what as a designer you can do after your regular job to earn more money than this article is for you as I am going to tell you an entire new and successful way to do so.
Doesn’t matter if you have your regular designing job or you run your designing agency, you can do this work in both conditions and the work is participating in online designing competitions or contests. Yeah, this is entire new way by which designers are earning more money and design needed people are getting their designs done at responsible amount.
You can join as many as you want designing contest online and can participate in any contest of your choice. All you have to do is to give your best shot each time participate and defeat all other competitor. The amount prize uses to be appropriate in most of the cases, there may be cases where prize amount can as huge as your monthly income or prize amount could as low as in pennies, it is all your choice that which one you want to opt.
Google our somewhat and find out top designing contest websites or my recommendation is 99designs.com and microburst.com. You can sign-up there as it uses to be free at most of websites, build your profile carefully and give each information up to mark. Try to fill your profile as much as you can. You can put all of your graphic designing portfolios under your profile to make your profile more interesting and these portfolios could contain the work you have done under graphic designing companies. Now the question comes that how to choose the project and how to start working on it?
To choose a project you should be keeping some basic points in mind. Firstly, project should be fitting your expertise and should not be something which you cannot do. You should always bid the project under your expertise because that will add a lot of chances of you winning the project. Secondly, do go through the providers profile carefully, read the reviews and confirm that the provider is not a kind of spam people. Thirdly, do check out all the points of project carefully and checkout that is there any point which is high questionable in project description.
Now, before starting any project please make a note of all the requirements of project provider. One thing to understand is that you have to work according to the need of provider or you will be wasting your time. Design according to brief given by provider and try add creativity as much as you can under that border line created by project provider.

Graphic design portfolio plays very important role in career of every graphic designer. Question here is that why graphic design portfolios are so important OR why designing companies or advertising agencies always ask for graphic designer portfolios at the time of interview?

I simple words, they just want to see your previous work and capability. Well… portfolio is something which represents your whole career till the date and which represents your work in front of whole world. A Graphic Designing student who have just passed graphic design program also use to have his/her own portfolio, which uses to be made under the curriculum of the course. The work or assignment which students get in college uses to be the elements of his/her portfolio. Any type of work/project you do under graphic design program, you should keep it safe and secure because you will be adding it to your portfolio at the end of the course.

Graphic Designing is very open and vast field, it allows you to do work while you study and that’s why more and more students are getting in to several kind of part time jobs. This helps student in exploring field before getting in to it and gives s feel to student that in what kind of market they will heading after studies. Apart from this, internships, trainings or part time jobs done at the time of studies use to help student to make their portfolio more stronger, student can put their training/internship work in their portfolios and make it more stronger. This all gives a practical view to the graphic design art of student.

Coming to the point, “why graphic companies lay so much pressure on portfolios?” Companies which are related to graphic designing or advertising use to give portfolio just because of one major reason “to see your ability”. Designing companies or agencies use to have experts of graphic designing and by your portfolio only they use to get idea of your capability, they may take you to another round of interview after your portfolio inspection but 70 to 80 percent part of interview use to get over with the end of portfolio inspection.

Apart from designing and advertising companies, other companies also prefers you to get your portfolios along with you at the time of interview just because of the reason that they want to see your past work. They may hire some known creative personality to interview you for them and in that case also your portfolio will be an important factor.

Now, what you should do to build your portfolio?

Lots of people use to ask me this question and my answer uses to be as simple as “show your best”. Your portfolio is going to represent yourself so do not add anything which you tried to make or some other blunder of your work. Each and every design of an artist doesn’t uses to be highly creative or in simple word “every design of yours cannot be a good design”. So, try to make your portfolio free of your designs which were part of your rough work or which you don’t think are up to mark or which so not appeals other.

Simply, your portfolio should be having your best work because that can only make an positive image of your ability in interviewer’s mind.
Cary case of your portfolio is also important, don’t use any common carry case for your portfolio because you are graphic designer and you have to be different from the world. You can yourself design the carry case of your portfolio, this will not only make your portfolio look good but will also give interviewer a feel of your creativity.

Coming to the point of “form of portfolios”, by this I mean that what form of portfolio you need to have with you. Many companies over the world don’t like huge prints at time of interview, all they want is your work on some CD or Pen Drive, for them you can make some kind of presentation (flash or PowerPoint) of your portfolio and make a CD of it. While applying online, lots of companies asks for online portfolios, in that case you can put your portfolio on social sites or blog or you can buy your domain name and make your own portfolio website.

Just make a search over the Internet with words “graphic designer portfolios” or “graphic design portfolios” and look how many results you get. Obviously you will get result in thousands and each one having its own USP but the point is that how much it cost to each one of the designer to get that.
Thing I want discuss is starting of designing any graphic design art, initial stage of every design uses to be very confusing and complicated all the time. This has a reason behind it and that is the fact that you have to start with scrap each time you want to create something different and creative. All you use to have is software knowledge and your experience and you have to make a entirely new design with your limited knowledge.
Once you are a professional graphic designer, you will get daily new job of designing something, especially employees of graphic designing companies use to get a new design daily. The target of design use to be creative and different and for that initial stage of designing uses to be very critical. A designer has to start the design by keeping many things in mind such as client’s demand, theory focused or balancing. The initial stage of each design use to play key role in completing it creatively. If there is a team of graphic designers who have completed graphic design program and have experience in same, then also they will have to face this initial stage, most common question of team-mates uses to be “let’s start…you have anything in mind”?
Team work is good, you can create something with mixing all the ideas in to one jar, everyone use to have his own thinking, all have to be done is to put all the good points in to that mixing jar. Well, coming back to point of article, at very initial stage of design you should be clear with what you want and what your client want. You should be having a very clear image of demand of client and its possibility because many times client use to demand such design which uses to be impractical and useless and if that is the case then please sort it out with your client first. Following are the points which can help you in getting started with a design :
1. Draw rough art on paper, this is important part. Every designer should try to draw design on paper before software because paper gives the feel of freeness and leads to idea of our need.
2. Get the background done; this should be part of initial stage if your design needs background. It will do half of your work because it will make you clear of color scheme and other such elements of design.
3. Think about the need of client and think what can be done with that, actually that should be your very first thing while thinking as it will give you some idea for starting.
4. Playing with text in starting use to help a lot, just try to get some text placed and try to play with font and size, this will complete a large part of design. Keep in mind that all design use not to be text centric and in same manner this trick cannot be used in all designs.
5. Try to put all needed points on a table and think over then again and again, This will help you to generate more ideas for startup.
6. If you have a co-partner or some other creative person then do not forget to consult him at this stage because of the simple fact that everyone has his own level of creativity and mixing is always good.
All above points use to make it a lot easier for graphic designer to make graphics and design, combining graphic designs. Visit regularly for more updates on graphic designing, see you soon.

The field of Graphic Designing was not so demanding in past time ever as it is in today time and it is expected that demand will increase drastically in coming time. Graphics designing is one of the some sectors where jobs are in bundle and job seekers are less in number. Graphic Design business comes with lots of work in regular way and it is a kind of forever work. Due to a lot of work, this field is getting more and more rise in freelancing world and there could be much reason behind this rise.

Firstly and most important reason is great quality work and lower price. A company use to outsource the graphic designing work to freelancer just to make it sure that they will not be spending money on equipments and settling other thing, all they will do is spending money on freelancers who will just make them cost of design. In this way, companies use to get there designing work done at least cost possible. Many companies over the world use to freelance the designing work just because of the fact that they do not have money and space to make one separate department of graphic designing or advertising and that is also the reason behind making of a lot of graphic design freelancers and designing studios.

Second reason behind rise in graphic design business of freelancers could be more pay of freelancer then a company employee. As a freelancer, a graphic designer use to have unlimited number of opportunities to earn by himself as he can uplift as many project as he want. But in regular employee, a person has to be bounded with regular company work only with fixed salary. This is the reason behind more and more designers going to freelancing graphic designing business.

Talking about great software of Adobe for Graphics Designing? How about inDesign, have you used it? inDesign is One of the Adobe’s most wanted software as every second graphic designer who use to work for print needs it. It should be known that inDesign is of no use for website graphic design and in web graphic design there could be some little bit use of inDesign in rare case but for the a web graphic designer doesn’t need to learn it, inDesign is only for print graphic design business.
inDesign is software made especially for publications of books and magazines, do keep in mind that it doesn’t works like photoshop or illustrator, it is book or magazine formatting software. There are many more software for the formatting of magazines and books but indesign is a software which provides some facilities which couldn’t be find anywhere else.
inDesign CS5 is out there in market and have lots of improvement considering graphic design art. inDesign gives you predesigned templates which helps you to make a new design in some minutes. Adobe introduced the first screen system in its all software which give you shortcuts to create anything you want and same is the case in inDesign, you get all of your options like create document or create book or create library on the very first screen if inDesign, you will also get option to open files from that window.
Unlike other softwares where you use to add the pages manually, inDesign gives you the option to pre-plan the number of pages you want to include and you could increase or decrease later.
inDesign could make you do some kind of illustration, yeah it is not illustration software exactly but small scale illustration which do not require too much could be drawn in inDesign. It is recommended that if you have some major illustrations to include in your book or magazine then make them in Adobe Illustrator and call them in inDesign because Adobe Illustrator is best for illustration.
I will personally recommend you to go through Lynda Indesign Essential Training Program if you are starter and want to learn inDesign properly as they are the best in designing & programming tutorial industry. So, it was a brief about Adobe inDesign, i will be back as soon as possible with another designing software.

A graphic Designer has job to be surrounded by designing software and tools 24*7. To be an good graphic designer you need to have good knowledge of graphic design related software and tools. The plus point for graphic designers is that there are numerous numbers of software or tools which they can use but this comes with great confusion of which one to chose and which one to avoid. An good designer will always be keeping best and latest software or tool with him and will keep himself updated with use of them.
A short advise to all the starters – go with the best. Yeah, going with the best software will always help as they use to be famous all over and people use to have habit of them. If you want to get in to the graphic design business than make this as your habit.
Adobe Software family – it doesn’t matter in which part of world you are but if you are a graphic designer then Adobe Software family must be your first choice. Adobe is the king in making graphic designing software from past many year or we can say that they are there from more than a decade and it seems that there is no competition for them in future even.
Talking about Adobe, very first software comes in mind is Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is best in photo-editing software but fact is it is not just photo-editing software now as it can be used for almost all types of designing nowadays. People use to say that they do not use Photoshop ever for print graphics designing but they are wrong from their basics as which some sense and some creative mind you can use Photoshop for almost all the print purposes. For website graphic design also Photoshop is great help as it has made website graphic design work as simple as to copy-paste-type-slice. Photoshop have proved itself an ALL-Rounder and best software of all other in all field, no matter if it is print or if it web or if it is Photo-Editing work.
Now comes the Adobe Illustrator, if you really wanted to get in to the world of graphic design art then this software is must for you. Adobe Illustrator is software which is used worldwide for making digital illustrations and all other high definition print designs. The pen tool of Adobe Illustrator is famous all over the world and is very helpful in drawing anything on screen, any other software do not have any competitor of this tool. Adobe Illustrator gives you unlimited options to make anything you want to.
Will talk about more of the Adobe Software and other designing software in later posts of mine, i don’t want to make one article including everything in it as it may get uninteresting and will get too lengthy. Will be posting for software as soon as possible and will be waiting for your comments. Till then take care of yourself and yeah…be creative!!!

For a graphic designer photoshop is a software which have more than enough to provide or we can say that whole of the graphic designing business could be done just with the help of photoshop. Photoshop came in market a long time ago but it is ruling the graphic designing world since then. I have been using photshop for almost all of my work, I do prefer illustrator or corel if I am working for high scale print but in certain situations, I have used photoshop for the same purpose.

Using photoshop daily and practicing new effects or tricks daily only could make a perfect hand on photoshop because this software gives you a new thing every time you work on it. People say that they have enough of photoshop but on the real side they do not know even the ten percent of whole photoshop designing. A graphic designing firm uses to depend a lot on the photshop and the reason is simple in form of photoshop ready to help anytime. I personally prefers photoshop at large scale, yeah you can face some problems if you are designing for big scale printing but that could be handled.

If you want to get hand on photoshop and you are a starter then first of all you need to do is “open the software everyday”. Well, I am not just telling you to open it and close, I am telling you to open it and try it yourself everyday, that way you will be getting your personal experience on the software.

Another way to get hand on photoshop is “getting a e-book”. There are thousand numbers of e-books available in market or on internet, just get some with the best reviews and go through them, practice the techniques of them and you will get some more basic knowledge of photoshop. And to be very franl, learning from books and e-books only gives you some sort of knowledge and it could be old in compare to the new techniques, you have to be very careful while choosing any book as many of the available are just a peace of shit.

Another way to learn photoshop could be by learning it from online tutorials. Internet is available to each and everyone nowadays and internet is filled up with the free online tutorials of photoshop. There are many artist and graphic designers sharing their tricks and techniques online, you can just search out Google for such kind of blogs or websites and learn photoshop. Do it very carefully as many people uses to post fake tutorials just to fill their blogs and that could waste your time.
So this was it, we have discussed some of the very basic ways to learn photoshop and further coming posts will be having more detailed knowledge on designing software.