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Adobe Photoshop

Different software packages will offer different

kinds of approaches to graphic design as well as some of them being free and some of them being paid for. Photoshop is the classic example of a paid program that offers what is considered in the graphics design market as the best program for creating and editing images. Although to get Photoshop you will have to make a large investment as its very expensive software.

What is Graphic Design?

Software:

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Advertisement: many businesses will utilize the abilities of graphic design to advertise and make there business well known for example logo's, some of the biggest businesses in the world use graphic design to make logo's that we all recognize today for example apple and Nike.

What is software: software in computer terms is a piece of apparatus that your cant physically see but has a massive impact on what one can actually do with a computer. Software are all the program's that you install and then use on your computer. without software your computer wont do anything. for example Microsoft office is a piece of software because it allows a computer to actually work.

How is it used in Graphic design?

graphic designers and graphic design as a concept are both heavily reliant on software to be able to produce the images that they produce. they are also reliant on the quality of the software as images will reflect how good a piece of software that has been used is, therefore the top quality program's used are the ones that come back with the best results. above and below are examples of Graphic design software.

Branding: branding is another form of graphic design being used for business purposes. many businesses will use graphic design as a means of marketing there products so for example businesses will use graphic design to produce all there packaging to make products appealing to the customers

Graphic design is the art of combining text and imagery together to produce a graphic that is the used to illustrate either thoughts or ideas.

Graphic design can be used in many different ways for many different businesses and personal needs. On the right are just a few example of how businesses use GD

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design

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Publications: publication companies are very dependent

on the use of graphic design for them to

actually be able to produce there goods which they are then going to go on and sell. So for example a magazine company wont be able to produce there goods without the aid of graphic design within there work most magazines will consist of an image designed by a graphic designer followed by a descriptive article telling us what it is.

Gimp

gimp on the other hand is a

system that is free to use and

can be quite simply downloaded off the internet. This is ideal for people who are just starting in the graphic design market and don't want to pay high prices for things like Photoshop or people who simply want to practice graphic design. this therefore means that if they suddenly decide they don't like it or cant get into graphic design then wont be wasting larger amounts of money

Photoshop in action:

Graphic Design:

Software and Hardware!

Computers components:

another piece of hardware that is fairly vital for graphic design to actually work is a computer, of course without a computer you cant install software required to actually create or edit a picture. a computer is made up of different components (software and hardware) that allows it to work for example RAM. the capabilities of a computer are very much dependent on what kind of hardware you are using and different people need different standards of hardware to aid them in whatever they are doing.

Examples of Hardware:

RAM is a piece of computer hardware that has a massive influence on how well a computer works. people who work lots with high intensity computer software like Photoshop and lots of multimedia will require a computer with very good RAM because without it, they will experience lagging work and they will have trouble operating smoothly with there work. what RAM does is basically stores all the information that is taking place on your computer so it has somewhere to stay whilst its working, so if someone has low RAM but uses lots of programs all at the same time there computer will operate very slowly, explaining why RAM is so important to the performance of a computer.

Hardware:

Scanner: a scanner allows someone

to take an image that has already

been created and then copy this

image onto a computer to then be

edited with software. This is ideal

for someone who only has a paper

copy of a picture yet wants it edited

as it allows them to then work on the

image.

Printer: a printer as most people are

aware is the output device that allows

someone to produce a final product.

after there image has been through the

whole process of being edited, a printer

will then allow the user to produce a

final paper version of their image.

different quality printers will have

different standards of finishing.

What is Hardware? hardware unlike software is the components of a computer that you can actually see and feel, hardware is what you will use to produce the image to then be tailored with software then produced finally by hardware again. Hardware comes in two different forms, input devices which are what you use to actually obtain the image your going to work on in the first place, and output devices which are the devices that you use to produce a final document. Examples of input and output devices go as follows:

Input Devices:

- Scanners

- Cameras

- Graphics Tablets

Output Devices:

- Printers (paper and 3D printers)

- Plotters

- Monitors

progress to the next slide to find out what each output device does!

Camera: a camera is the most

important piece of hardware

for graphic design. this is due to

the fact that a camera is how

someone actually gets the picture

they want to work on in the first

place, without a camera people

cant get pictures therefore don't have

anything to edit

Plotter: a plotter similar to a printer allows someone to produce a final product that they can touch and feel, although plotters take a fairly different approach to actually making these final pieces of work, a plotter similar to a printer will use a very small pen and selected ink tones, then with the graphic in mind, draw out the graphic onto a piece of paper.

Hard drive; similar to all pieces of hardware involved in making a computer work a hard drive is pretty crucial to it actually being able to run, what a hard drive does is allow all your work and anything else that needs storage space to work the space it needs. some computer will have bigger hard drives than other based on how much someone is likely to need to operate on that computer effectively. Hard drives usually operate on a gigabyte basis but now they are begging to offer terabyte hard drives for people who need massive amounts of storage space for there work.

Graphic Tablet: A graphic tablet

is an input devices that acts very

similarly to a standard piece of paper

that someone can draw on to produce

an image. These are used a lot by

graphics designers as it is much easier

to use than just a mouse when trying to

do things like draw curved lines and so

on.

Monitor: a monitor is a piece of hardware that will project a digital image onto a screen that can then be viewed by the user. Monitors are becoming increasingly impressive especially with things like touchscreen which all contributes to ultimately making life easier for people like graphic designers

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