If you’re still following my little journey down the Graphic Design rabbit hole, you’ll know that I’ve recently started studying Graphic Design for beginners through a UDEMY course online. As I’ve had time to work through the first part of this course and complete example work or “proofs” as they’re called in the biz,š I’ve also spent a little time looking around for other classes or learning paths. I actually forgot all about PHLEARN which is yet another way to learn Photoshop techniques that can be applied to just about anything including Graphic Design. I’ve also found a heap of great resource websites and one particularly cool Graphic Designer that I discovered reading articles on Medium.
This guy is the real deal, and he is currently earning NZD 15,000.00 a month for the work that he does. What’s most inspiring to me is not that he is making wads of cash but that he is a real-world example of someone I can look up to as he lives and works in my home town.š What this means for me at least, is that it’s possible to make an excellent living from doing Graphic Design as a freelancer, even in my country. And that is my ultimate end game plan; to be working from home and earning money as a freelance journalist/editor/designer. My ideas may be big but I think dreams are meant to be followed and it’s something I am very passionate about.
So, to finish off, I just wanted to show you all the final proofs I did of the previous poster (the first proofs were examples of what not to do apparently), but I didn’t know that until I finished this section of the course lol šš
Annnyway here they are. In the first image, obviously the layer colour has changed to a much nicer, prettier blue from the purple and the gross green wedge at the bottom has also gone:
And finally, my last proof using a slightly brighter blue colour layer but I’ve added texture to the background with a texture brush so that the background doesn’t look so bland or flat:
Hi Xen,
It’s always tricky getting text to show up on a background image. And you can find a lot more of those texture brushes that you can download and install into Photoshop on sites like Deviantart. I got a few brush packs for GIMP along with some Fractal Art image packs.
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I’ve only just started using brushes but so many people swear they are awesome to use. I haven’t learned how to make my own yet, but it’s on my list š And yeah, I think topography is the hardest thing so far. Text can make or break a good design
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Hello again, the brushes are awesome to use but I found the Fractal Packs to be even more fun to play around with. Now I am by no means an artist but I tried my hand at doing a bit of art last year which is when I discovered those packs. You can see my efforts in this post:
https://ftsabersite.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/for-tyeths-foray-into-art/
The image that looks like a 1970’s sci-fi novel book cover was made using several layers of transparent Fractal Patterns (with varying opacities).
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Cool, I’ll check it out šš
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