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Create an online portfolio Unless you are a web-designer, creating your own website is not essential, although it does give you some advantages. A website will help you to communicate your portfolio via email without sending attachments (clients will be suspicious of emails with attachments from unknown addresses—a link to a website is preferable). A website is also a good opportunity to sell yourself with some hard-working copy. Good copy can help you to win new clients, so buy yourself a good copywriting manual and learn the basic copywriting tricks of the trade. If you have no experience of designing websites, or you don’t have time to create one, don’t be put off, you can buy inexpensive templates online as a temporary solution. www.templateshome.com is a good place to start, where you can buy smart website templates for around $60. Buying a dot.com address and uploading it onto a website browser should cost around $25.

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’s don’t support background transparency Kerning: the horizontal spacing between a pair of letters in a word. Certain letter pairs look awkward together, so sometimes it’s necessary to move the letters closer together or further apart. Examples of how spacing varries with various letter combinations: AV, PA, AT, and AY. Kerning is often confused with the term “tracking” (see “tracking”). Tracking is used for spacing larger groups of letters or text. Pantone matching system: a color matching system allowing designers and print shops to more easily match colors. This is accomplished by referencing Pantone swatch books (guides) for the proper recipe of colors. This Pantone system is not perfect,

Understanding the basics of color theory is important and getting a feel for how to work with colors. Color can make areas of a design pop off the page or recede into the background. The use of texture can enhance the feel of a design. In print design texture can be the actual feel of paper or other materials. Imagery can also blend in with texture and is loaded with colors. Learning how to balance these is a delicate craft that will take some practice to apply well. Here are some resources on using color, texture, and imagery in graphic design:

Graphic design is all around us. It is in our morning paper, on our commute to work, and on the cover of our favorite books. The most common forms include:

Business cards for all have become the image of the internal functioning that the beholder has. Business cards have led to an all new era of having contact addresses in a set that can fit in the pockets when stuffed in the card holders. These cards portray an image that is not said and is implied. Business cards should however have to be little informative putting in only the essentials.Business cards for designers have to have the extra element in them as these are used by the ones who themselves are creative and are looking for an artistic bent on their cards. Cards for such creative people should also be very impressive to the naked eye on the first sight. We have provided several interesting designs that are of great use to the designers from whatever stream. One very important aspect is the color combination on the card that lets the eyes flow through it easily capturing every bit.If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our other articles on Designer Business Cards, Graphic Design Business Cards, Business Card Designs, and Personal Business

OurCourse What is graphic design? Effective visual communication of an idea or concept. Graphic design is a part of everything we see and touch

Graphic design is the practice of transforming messages into effective, powerful communications. Graphic design applications include logos and identities, ads, magazines, Web sites and interactive programs, and motion graphics and titles.

oday everyone is using social media in their job search. People make connections and share their work on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter — and with the recent explosion of Pinterest, there's a new player in the game.  The visual nature of Pinterest, which allows users to create virtual boards onto which they can pin images, is perfect for showing prospective employers what you've done so far.  Tons of users have pinned web images of creative resumes for inspiration. But a few innovative souls — graphic designers, photographers — have already started using Pinterest to extend their personal brand, uploading their resumes, linking to their work and creating an online portfolio. We got permission from these 7 people to post their resumes on Business Insider.

Adobe Photoshop is an industry standard for raster graphic manipulation, creation and editing. As a professional image editing software package, it comes with a number of tools for retouching photos. It offers a large number of filters and plugins which enable you to add cool effects to your images. Also, it has a premium set of image transformation tools. Among other things, the latest Photoshop version comes with enhanced vector graphics and 3D editing capabilities. You can easily create vector-based 2D images, for example website logos, and then apply them to a 3D object with excellent results. These extended features won't make Photoshop an artist's primary vector graphics or 3D animation application, but it is useful for some people to have it at hand and can be used instead of Adobe Illustrator or 3DMax for some basic operations.

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