Have you ever done something that you loved so much, that every time you did it, you would never get tired of it? Graphic Design is that one thing I could never get tired of doing. Graphic Design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines, which focus on visual communication and presentation. Before you learn about the field you would need to know the rules of thumb for Graphic Design. The five rules of thumb are audience, layout, typography, image, and color. Audience is addressing the correct target coward. Layout is grabbing and focusing the reader's attention. Typography is improving legibility and readability. Image is enhancing content and promoting the reader's interest. Color is evoking the appropriate reader's reaction (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/ET650_online/MAPPS/GDBasics.html, 2009). Knowing the rules of thumb prior to going into the field of Graphic Design, will assist in finding a job in Graphic Design. Knowing the rules of thumb as well as the programs will aid you. The field of Graphic Design has different occupations based on prior knowledge of each program. The programs that aid this claim are Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver.
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most well know image-editing programs. For those who do not know, Photoshop is a popular high-end image editor for the Macintosh and Windows from Adobe. The original Mac versions were the first to bring affordable image editing down to the personal computer level in the late 1980s. Since then, Photoshop has become the de facto standard in image editing (http://www.yourdictionary.com/computer/photoshop, 2009).
With Photoshop being such a high-end program, it has several different tools that editing and manipulate raster images. Raster images are a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color. (http://www.yourdictionary.com/computer/raster-graphic, 2009). Some of the commonly used tools are the Layers palette,...