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Tools Needed in Graphic Design

Article Category: Business

Author Name: Duane Hemings

Graphic design involves experts who make visual images such as logos and visual layouts of websites for professional or commercial purposes. They design art utilizing typeface and images in a creative way to convey a message. Here are tools needed in this type of field.

The most important tool for graphic designers is a computer, preferably a Mac Computer as it produces enhanced color calibration and is known to be the best to produce great designs. If a Mac computer is not available, a personal computer will do as long as it has the updated versions of Windows. Ideally, the PC should have a 21.5 or 27-inch backlit widescreen, sufficient memory of around 8 and 16 GB and a good hard drive of at least 500 GB. This is because numerous amounts of big design files shall be stored inside.

Various kinds of computer software will be needed to perform design projects such as animation/design program. These include programs such as the different Adobe versions, Corel Draw, Apple Final, Quark, Painter and Designer. A font program such as FontCatalog and Extensis, is also important so as to give access to different kinds of font and would make design work more enhanced. It is also essential to have a program on photo editing like Apple Aperture and Adobe Photoshop so that pictures would be easily edited.

Illustration tools, such as Illustrator and FreeHand, are also needed so that images would be created from scratch. These would make logos, illustrate images and draw backgrounds. They usually provide users the capability to draw shapes such as squares and circles as well as lines. They also provide these shapes with colors and they can distort images using shadow effects and blur.

Other tools for graphic design include photo tools which touch-up, manipulate and re-size pictures. An example would be an image manipulation tool like Photoshop that permits replacement of colors, smoothing rough images and altering the sizes of pictures. A digital camera and scanner permit uploading of pictures from different sources to computers.

Graphic designing also needs tools to do page layout work which require software so as to put into place advertisements, pictures or text. These tools, which include InDesign and Express, and they permit users to put into place all these three.

Graphic designers also work with 3D images thus they need 3D design software although traditional illustration software can still draw in 3D. This program can make complex 3D images with 3D layering and vector graphics generators.

Graphic designing can make charts, graphs, spreadsheets as well as different visual data representations. There are plenty of programs for such creations such as the basic Microsoft Excel and the complex Flowchart. There are also other tools available which can make graphic designing tasks easier.

Many businesses and companies make brochures, leaflets, websites and other informational materials that contain pictures and images. All these would help attract clients and customers and promote their brand or name. That is why they hire graphic designers to help them come up with promotional materials and tools.

Keywords: graphic design, graphic designers

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