About Photoshop

1. Photoshop is, undeniably, one of the greatest software applications around. It has been around in one version or another for the last thirteen years, which is longer than I’ve known what CPU stands for.

2. To create a new layer set, expand the Layer menu and select New-> Layer set.

3. The new layer set dialogue box will appear and prompt you to enter a name for the new set.

4. Once you have OK’d this box, a folder icon will appear in the layers panel, just drag and drop related layers into this folder.

5. This is useful to organize your working environment and to apply styles across ranges of layers.

6. This functionality extends to slices in Image ready. Slicing an image also decreases page load times; a couple of slices download quicker than one large image.

7. Residing in the toolbox that appears to the far left of your workspace, and denoted by the knife icon, the slice tool is essential for creating click-able rectangular regions of your image.

8. It is powered by Photoshop’s sister product Image ready (which comes bundled with the latest release of Photoshop), and needs to be used in Image ready to make the most of its potential.

9. Nevertheless, Photoshop lets you add actions when the region is rolled over or clicked, and can be extremely useful in the creation of roll-over image-swaps or expanding menus on image-driven web sites.

10. To create a slice, select the slice tool and drag a rectangle across the appropriate part of your image. That’s it. You can right-click the slice and select Edit Slice Options to add URL, ALT and other information to the slice.

 

History Of Graphic Design

1. A pictogram is an image that represents an object. Pictograms are useful for conveying information through a common “visual language” able to be understood regardless of one's native language or degree of literacy. So that means that anyone in the world familiar with a drinking fountain should recognize the pictogram above.

2. In late 19th century Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, the movement began to separate graphic design from fine art.

3. The name "Graphic Design" first appeared in print in the 1922 essay "New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design" by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century.

4. Raffe's Graphic Design, published in 1927, is considered to be the first book to use "Graphic Design" in its title.

5. The rebus is a pictorial image that represents a spoken sound. Today the rebus is mostly used for amusement however it was a critical link in the development of the phonetic alphabet starting in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

6. In the 1920s, Soviet constructivism applied 'intellectual production' in different spheres of production. The movement saw individualistic art as useless in revolutionary Russia and thus moved towards creating objects for utilitarian purposes. They designed buildings, theater sets, posters, fabrics, clothing, furniture, logos, menus, etc.

7. An ideogram is a character or symbol representing a complete idea or concept. An ideogram is like the perils of tipping a vending machine.

8. Before any graphic elements may be applied to a design, the graphic elements must be originated by means of visual art skills. These graphics are often (but not always) developed by a graphic designer.

9. Technically the term logotype means a symbol comprised entirely of typography. Frequently the term logo is used interchangeably with symbol.

10. The page layout aspect of graphic design deals with the arrangement of elements (content) on a page, such as image placement, and text layout and style.

 

Graphic Design

Want to know how to design? The basic elements of design include colour, line, shape, scale, space, texture and value and these are the fundamentals that make up any work. If you ever start a design course this will be the very first thing that you are taught, guaranteed.

Color has a huge impact on the mood of the design. A predominantly red color usually represents strong emotions like love, anger, passion, while blue can make the design feel calm, cool and peaceful. Color contributes to the unity of a series of flyers, emphasizes important information and leads the eye through a design.