Is it better to learn Photoshop or Illustrator?
I would suggest you to learn photoshop first because of the following reasons.Its easier to learn than Illustrator.Its more fun.It can be used in daily life like photo editing, some special effects, simple 2D Animation, typography, collages, etc.As mentioned by everyone above, its much more useful because it has a wide range of its applications but Illustrator is limited to tasks like you will have to be specific that what do you exactly want from Ilustrator but if its photoshop, you can just take an image and can start applying randome filters and blend them and masking and you will get great effects or you could go through some basic and advance tutorials on youtube and you will be able to learn some basic ideas very easily.Tools are clear to understand than illustrator.You don't have to worry a lot about RGB & CMYK color while working in Photoshop.There is so much stuff to do like - digital painting, matte painting, digital makeup, create caricatures with liquify effects, create frame based and video based animated videos, design Web | App UI, create cool effecfs like rain effect, puzzle effect, using pen tool as path and converting them as brush to create glowing lines, amazing selection based on channels, layer mask & clip mask, creating seamless textures and applying them to other images and also on 3D modelsThese are only few things i could remember right now.
Which is better for web design Photoshop or Illustrator?
Hello,Yes I’m again here to share some thing interesting about this topic. For know which one is the better software for website design, you have to know the purpose of those software.Adobe Illustrator :this is a vector base software. This is use for logo design , Illustration, business card design etc. First of all at my opinion adobe illustrator is an great software. Easy to use. that means user friendly. This is a internationally use software for vector graphic design like logo design, Illustration, info graphic design, Business card & letter head design etc. I love this software.you can easily increase the logo size when you want. logo will not blurry. For logo design we specially use Adobe Illustrator for our international client.Adobe Photoshop :At my opinion This software is better for website design. This is a raster base software. Website is mainly all about image & text. we have well organize those in a website. So there have lots of option in photoshop to edit a image properly. Test effect.Internationally photoshop is use for modern website design. It’s a great software. User friendly. & in this software we also can slice the web page for html. this will be a great benefit.Please have a look. this website is made by photoshop :I hope this information will be helpful to you. hope you enjoy. Keep reading & keep knowing with me. For more info please visit our profile.Thank you ,KaruZone
Which is best for designing a banner, Photoshop or Illustrator?
In my history of designing banners, it has always depended on the content of the banner. Anything image-heavy generally leads me to work with Photoshop. If the banner focuses on text and/or simple illustration, then I always employ Illustrator. All thing being equal, I usually lean towards Illustrator, as I prefer it's ability to work with text.
Which one is better for graphic design: Illustrator or Photoshop?
This depends what kind of design you’re doing - they’re very different tools. One is a raster editor, the other a vector graphics editor.Our team has built a free vector graphics editor - called Vectr - which is an alternative to Adobe Illustrator.You can try/download Vectr for free here: Free Online Vector Graphics EditorRaster GraphicsRaster Graphics (aka bitmap graphics) are images composed of pixels. When you enlarge raster graphics, the pixels will become visible to the naked-eye and the image will appear “pixelated”.PhotoShop is a raster graphics editor. It is used to import raster graphics (like photos, in particular), and edit them. It’s certainly possible to do things like UI/UX in PhotoShop, but it’s better to do any graphic design which is not photo editing using vector graphics (discussed next).Wikipedia on Raster Graphics: Raster graphicsVector GraphicsVector graphics are scalable, and will not become pixelated as you resize them. This is because rather than defining the graphic as a set of pixels, with each pixel representing a single color, vector graphics are instead created by mathematical equations that actually generate the graphic.For anything other than heavy photo editing, vector graphics are generally the way to go.Wikipedia page on vector graphics: Vector graphicsSo, PhotoShop or Illustrator for graphic design?So PhotoShop or Illustrator? It depends what kind of design you’re doing. If you’re doing heavy photo editing, then you’ll want to go with PhotoShop. If you’re doing virtually anything other than heavy photo editing, then a vector graphics editor is a much better choice.
Is graphic design boring? I need help choosing a major?
I will simply give you the pros and cons. I am in my 4th year of college with a mass communication major and a graphic design minor, about to graduate. Pros- You get a great paying job with different corporations. There is a job market for this major. You can execute as much creativity as you want (graphic design isn't just logo stuff). This major branches out to different fields such as package design, poster design, photography, exposure to the adobe softwares (photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, indesign), you will find the knowledge extremely useful in everyday situations. this can range from making personalized price tags to sell your local art to designing and printing wedding invitations. Cons- it can feel like an office job at times (sitting in front of a computer screen all day), but remember- ONLY IF YOU DESIGN THAT WAY. You never stop learning. The software grows as you do, so you must update your softwares to keep up to date with today's styles. I will be honest- i HATED gd starting out. so I changed to mass com. so I could do multiple things from painting, drawing, screen printing, animation, design, etc. and still have it apply to my major just fine. This is a challenging major, but it is amazing to see all the work I put into it. I wish I could have taken more design courses because it is simply needed in the workforce right now. Unless you have direct connections to employers in the animation field, getting a job as an illustrator is way too competitive and downright impossible. Hopefully it will change in the near future, but it has screwed over so many people I know that are pretty talented to begin with. Think it over, and there is nothing wrong with switching majors between semesters- everyone does it... everyone. I tried the double major, but it turned out to just being double the workload which is not what anyone should be trying to do in a 4 year term. Sorry this was long, but hope it helped!
Any certificates in web design and 2D graphic design?
Not required , build a portfolio and register at freelance websites like http://getafreelnacer.com/ , http://scriptlance.biz/ ,etc, and start bidding for all web designing projects posted there.
Which is the best software to design logos, posters and banners?
As you might have noticed from many other answers, the options are diverse, but they all boil down to the Holy Adobe Threesome for print design: Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign (and their respective cheaper or even free equivalents).But it's not a matter of which one is best, or which one exclusively serves which purpose ? In some situations they work together, for some purposes just one of them is enough. So it varies !Photoshop is maybe the most defined one, as it works in a pixel based environment. So its mainly for editing and combining photos and scans, with one large image as a goal. This can be heavily illustrative (with wild dashes of paint, graphic smudges and textures, real-life imagery distorted beyond recognition, and all), but still: it will always be rendered as a pixelated original.Photoshop is gearing more and more towards creating layouts (e.g. for web design), but these are actually just comps to hand-off to web developers. These files and layers are then processed for extracting pixelated parts, and/or vector elements that will be rebuilt in CSS, based on Photoshop's specifications.Illustrator is a real Jack of all trades. It focuses on drawing vector-based imagery, but combines it with imported pixel-based elements and creating pristine texts, all in one page or multiple pages (wisely called Art Boards). However, it lacks brute force and sophisticated methods to deal with multi-page oriented projects like brochures, magazines, books, digital publications, that kind of stuff. That's where InDesign comes in !InDesign is the work horse and power house for the vast task of producing multi-page projects. Its refined features and myriad of methods to create and automate layouts, quickly, beautifully, and technically flawless, are unique. Just like Illustrator, it uses PostScript and PDF files as output, two technologies that have reached graphical perfection.So in conclusion: if you're dealing with logos, posters and banners, a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator could serve you well. InDesign might not be necessary for these single-page purposes. But as soon as you add "etcetera" behind your question, I'd toss in InDesign as well !
Web Banner Design Software?
Hello, I have been searching on the web for a while now and I can't find a good software to design web banners. I have even tried different ones on Download.com however, alot of them are just basic shareware softwares that you can expect to get... I have over 100 banners to design so it needs to be a good solid software. I know they are out there, and I don't mind spending the money for one, so if there is one you could recommend that would be great.... Thanks Alot....
As a graphic designer, if a client asks you to give them the original files (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) would you give it to them?
Totally depends on the contract. But all most always no.You see… the process you use to develop something is your “tricks of the trade” thus it is your intellectual property (IP). So you should not be sharing it.However, if the reason they are asking it because they need higher resolution file or vector image, then you SHOULD give that customer service. In that case what i usually do, i flatten everything and then give them the psd with transparent back ground. In case of Illustrator, i make the file as flat as possible and convert to pdf. converting to PDF helps because the layers of effects used cannot be decoded. This way you can tell them, “this is as good as original”.If their intention is to use part of the design and use it for something else then they should mention it before the contract or pay you for that extra usage. Sometimes clients agree ahead that, part of the design (for example, a character used on the brochure) have to be royalty free so they can use it in what ever they want.Just recently i developed a logo and some graphics for a program of Save the children. After the work was done (they were really happy about it), they decided to use the theme that i developed and get some animation works done with cheaper in house interns. So they asked for the layered version of the PSD. i totally refused calling it IP. They had to agree without much conflict (thankfully).