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The 10 Most Popular Types of Graphic Design in 2023

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  Brand Identity design : this involves everything concerning giving a brand a visual identity, including logo design, business card design, setting the brand colors, patterns, fonts, style guide, and so on. Knowledge of skills such as marketing, digital marketing, and brand strategy is important to get really good at this.  Logo design : I had to set this aside as a category on its own because most people confuse logo design with branding, which is wrong. Branding involves so much more. You can decide to specialize as a logo designer if you want to, and you can offer it specifically as a service to clients as well. A logo is a design or symbol that a brand uses to represent itself.  Think of it as the face of a brand.  Publication design : This involves creating designs for books, book covers, magazines, and so on.  Packaging design : creating designs for the physical products of a brand like soap boxes, drink bottles, sachet designs, and so on. Web design : is the visual aspect of we
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The Best Free Design Software for Beginners and Professionals

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You've come to the right place if you're looking for free graphic design software to unleash your creativity. In this blog post, I'll impart to you my main 5 picks for the best free graphic design software that you can use to make staggering visuals without burning through your bank account. There is a free tool for editing photos, designing logos, or creating flyers. Here are my 5 main free graphic design software picks: 1. GIMP : GIMP is one of the most well-known and powerful free photograph editors out there. You can retouch, resize, crop, enhance, and transform your images in any way you like with GIMP. You can personalize GIMP by using layers, masks, filters, brushes, plugins, and other tools. Windows, Mac, and Linux can all use GIMP. 2. I nkscape : SVG (scalable vector graphics) files can be created and edited with the free vector graphics editor Inkscape. You can create logos, icons, illustrations, diagrams, and other designs with Inkscape. Paths, shapes, gradient
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What Exactly Are File Extensions?

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  What Exactly Are File Extensions?   Hey,             So you are probably new to graphic design or digital art and lately you've been seeing all these options of file extensions every time you try to save a file or download images or stuff like that and you don't really understand what they are? Or perhaps you are a client and you want to understand better what the files your graphic designer sent to you are used for?             A long time ago when I was just being introduced to the world of computers by my big brother, one of the first things he explained to me was file extensions and that single lesson helped me a lot going forward.             While some file extensions are software specific and can only be opened by that software, others can run across different devices and software. File extensions are usually saved as three letters added to the end of a filename after a dot (.) . For example: filename.jpg, filename.png. Each of them have their various uses an
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Mobile Phone Apps To Use For Graphic Design

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  Hey,  So you are considering using your smartphone for graphic design probably because you don’t have a computer right now or just as a backup device for when you’re on the go. If you have ever embarked on the search to find apps to use in making graphics you would discover that it is actually very difficult to find decent and professional apps especially on Android. For a couple of years now I’ve been trying out different apps to see how far I can go with creating good graphics on a smartphone and I was fortunate enough to come across some apps that actually can be used to create designs from scratch without using templates. I will be sharing such apps with you on this post, hopefully to help ease your search. I plan on updating this list from time to time as I discover new apps, so save the page and revisit any time. All these apps can be used together to have a complete workflow. Here we go: 1.     PixelLab : first on the list and one of my favourite graphic design app
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What You Need To Become A Graphic Designer

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    INTRODUCTION Some years ago I made the decision to start making designs professionally to make some "easy money” and that set me on the path to an interesting journey. If you are reading this then I assume that you have also embarked on that journey as well or at least you are considering it. Graphic design is all about communication, that should be at the back of your mind whenever you are creating a piece of design; know that it has to be functional, understandable and of course aesthetic. Getting started you probably don’t have enough money to get some of the best hardware and software just yet so you will need to know what is really necessary for now and then get more later in your career. Now let's get started.   DEVICES USED FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN A computer, a tablet, or even just your mobile phone, all these are viable tools to work with in the 21st century so do not limit yourself. Use what you have now and get the money to upgrade. You have to learn the b
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