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[Photoshop] - Graphic Design Style; Any Suggestions?
Hey guys, I'm new to graphic art designs and such, but I know basic style I want to persue. I draw my designs first, scan them, and then use my Limited Edition [which is worse then normal PhotoShop] PhotoShop to edit in colors and 'depths'. I'm more into the edgy, unclean, out-of-the-lines styles, where you can see the artist's... moves, and I was wondering if anyone had any comments or suggestions for my designs. Opinions are definitely welcome.
[Sorry if PhotoBucket pixelizes the design. I hate it.]
Haha, thank you!
I always love doing things with pencil and paper, just doodling or anything and I'm computer-addicted so I thought I'd try to combine both. =D
those are good start, francesca...
another idea is to invest on Corel Painter X and a Wacom Intuos3 Tablet (plus 6D art pen).... i am sure you will love these toys. perfect for your drawing interest.
I like the mean ice cream cone. I did a vector version.
hey abandon, if you don't mind me asking.... how did you do the vector version?
i am just getting into the business and i have a lot of experience with photoshop, but not a lot with illustrator. i have the CS3 version of the adobe suite and i am trying to learn illustrator to use it to create designs for printing t shirts.
i have some drawings/pictures that are not in vector format that i would like to convert. so far, the closest thing i've found in illustrator is the "live trace" option.
i tried using that with the ice cream cone, it was in vector, but looked nothing like the one you did.
To covert a drawing like that i usually open the image/jpeg in my program and trace around/copy the design manually, something like the ice cream would not take long at all. Looks good
Lee
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I like the mean ice cream cone. I did a vector version.
That looks so awesome! Thank you for suggesting vectoring. It's something I've heard of and seen examples of before, but I've never actually tried applying the style to any of my art... I think I'll try that out.
Thank you so much! It's awsome.
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Originally Posted by frankiko
those are good start, francesca...
another idea is to invest on Corel Painter X and a Wacom Intuos3 Tablet (plus 6D art pen).... i am sure you will love these toys. perfect for your drawing interest.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely make sure to check those out since PhotoShop isn't really... working for me.
Those are great! Convert those babies to vector to clean them up and I think you've got some cool stuff.
I use a couple of free programs that are just as good as the commercial ones for this type of stuff (I should know, I've been doing graphics for over 12 years).
Check out Inkscape (for converting to and working with vectors) and Gimp (just as good as Photoshop, and even better in some cases).
3. Enlargen where necessary (but not too much as to reduce quality - you can enlargen it later without this problem)
4. Highlight the bitmap, right click and choose "Quick trace". This is usually the fastest and quickest trace type - used for easy designs. But your design may be too complicated, and so a finer approach is necessary. If so, undo your previous step and choose another trace option under the "Centerline trace" or "outline trace" option.
5. When you are happy with the look of your vector - go to tools > object manager. You'll then be able to see all the objects in your document, and specifically highlight the ones you want.
6. Delete your bitmap (it'll show as a separate object, and it's obvious to recognise as it ends with .gif or .jpg etc.)
7. If you want to edit your new vector image - you can "ungroup" the lines. Right click on your vector image (either onscreen or through object manager) and you can highlight where necessary.
Vector artwork allows you expand and reduce artwork without damaging the quality of it. It also allows you greater control of your artwork - for example, if you wanted to change a tiny square on your design, with coreldraw, all you have to do is click the "smart fill" tool, click the shape you want, go to object manager, highlight it, and fill the new object with a new colour. If you did this in photoshop, you'd have to use the paint brush, causing havoc with nearby lines etc.
Hope you crack it. It just takes time and patience.
Francesca, your designs are really good! I like them allot. I've done that, too, for some really special shirts - used hand-drawn art & scanned it. They came out great.
The suggestion for the tablet is a great one, too... it allows you to draw like you're using a pencil, but you're drawing straight into the computer.
Graphic Design Style; Any Suggestions? 
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