This is a place to discuss topics about visual or graphic design. Requests for photoshopping or free work go on /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests or /r/ - Adult Requests as appropriate.http://graphicdesign.wikia.com/>What literature should I read to get into graphic design?The sidebar on the /gd/ wiki has plenty of book reccomendations.>What programs do I need to get started?VectorAdobe IllustratorCorel DrawInkskapeBitmapAdobe PhotoshopGimpComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Can somebody photoshop X? Can somebody make me a logo?All requests for photoshopping belong on /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests or /r/ - Adult Requests. /gd/ doesn't take requests or do free or even paid work sometimes. However, if you're new at something, asking "HOW can I X?" rather than "CAN YOU make X?" will give you better results.>Can I post some of my work for critique?There is usally a critique/What-Are-You-Working-On thread, and that is where work for critique go.>Can somebody find [font]?http://www.mediafire.com/download/027xjs3ujvyqxmd/Fonts.zipalso check out your local torrent site or the font-share thread.Remember to share and not just take. Also remember that using liscensed fonts in commercial works is a bad idea.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Hello, anons of /gd/.What is the general opinion, and your personal thoughts, regarding this particular program?It it easy to learn it?
real easy to learn. been doing things on this long enough. great thing for some basic projects. plus your comrades can easily join up and do shit together
>>463635Yes it is that good and easy
>>463635It's the standard for social media visuals.
>>463635I use it from time to time to this day, I don't think it's that good without premium if you want to do "advanced" stuff but it's great for beginners
Work in a print shop and it is a great tool for people who don't know what they are doing but would rather learn and save a money and it saves me time. Even for basic GD use I would still recommend it - you don't need indesign to make a booklet. It is SO much better if we have to edit their design vs the same kind of people that buy photoshop and send shit layering with loads of transparency issues. Once they finish their project I tell them to just share via canva for us to download. 100/10 UI is also not bad.
I made a wrench pixel art for fun. Any tips?
>>464511I'd take away all the corners on the outline just to see if I prefer it more that way. Just don't feel obligated to make the entire image only one way or the other, I fell into that trap for a little while.
>>464511kind of look like some perverted sex toy. the shading seems kind of random. I assume it's a pipe wrench. it doesn't have the qualities of a wrench. I think have the pinch thingy open would better communicate that it clamps down and the flat part of the handle should be longer.
it looks like amogus with a looong dick
It's pretty good. Try to use a more consistent color palette, think a little more about the silhouette of the sprite, and maybe use some kind of dithering.
I'm trying to make fluorescent or holographic gifs like this using GIMP. Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this?
that looks like a lot of work in gimp or shoop. you might want to try video editor.
>>464571If I wanted to cut corners I could technically just fuck with the hue sliders and record my screen, but if there's a video editor that can do this I'm perfectly good with that as well.
>>464572yeah, but that getting back to a video editor too.i suppose if you could break it down to 4 or 5 layers and do a timeline for a gif in say photoshop its be easy to grind out and not take too long.guessing it wants a video editor that can automate changes tho
What is a good color
>>448440Do you need money for a new keyboard? Yours is definitely broken by now
>>464354maybe you wanna switch over to tiktok if reading isn't really your thing?
>>448260>>448261#49fa98
>>448260a color that shuts up and does its job
any color that's not a metamer
What's this effect called?
>>463654Specifically it's ordered checkerboard dithering. There are lots of cool patterns out there to increase the total color depth in unique ways. As far as details go blue noise is usually the best for details. Depending on the hardware your working with the pattern can change. As an example on older 8 bit CPU's checkered dithering creates a harsh rainbow effect, so it's usually avoided.Got any dithering patterns you like?
>>463654Dither? I hardly know her
it's a moustache.
>>464345I’m partial to Floyd-Steinberg out of sheer nostalgiaYou can try a bunch at https://guysie.github.io/opendithering/
just remember, you have to scale your image up before applying ordered dithering
I've developed a high-end operating system concept inspired by Vista. What are your thoughts?
>>463583This is not an operating system, it's a desktop. If you want some actually good (but also a lot of bad) desktop designs, check the desktop threads on /g/
>>463583This looks like it's straight out of a 2003 Flash animation
>>463583design is how it works
>>463583Is there a command line interface to this OS?Personally, I like it as I'm partial to the nostalgia >>463601 references.As for this though, I think it needs additional colors. "menu" text could be updated, if you want to keep the full word, you need to tweak the typeface, try DIN or something like that maybe? I would go with an icon though instead. Good chance for you to make your own logo.Blur the lines on the background quite a bit and add washed out colors (high level of transparency). You'll still see the 'wavy' effect but it'll look a more interesting and will offset the hard grey color of the taskbar etc.^Apple, Windows, Ubuntu, all do this.
>>463583god that button thing is killing me
What font do you use for terminal stuff?I like OCR-A.
>>464200This is what it looks like in konsole. For my needs I think it looks nice and it's very legible for me.
>>464200courier
this onehttps://fonts.google.com/specimen/Workbench
>>464200San Francisco Mono for Terminal.app, MonoLisa on macOS, Berkeley Mono on Linuxall at 200% zoom, of course
what is the best alternative to Pinterest for designers?
are.na but the concept is far from pinterest
>>464365pinterest is the best unfortunately. i use binternet.canine.tools as a frontend for pinterest though so i dont have to deal with the annoying stuff
>>464368are.na works very well. I might pay for it in the future, but for now I plan on deleting my thing once I fill up on connections.
who the hell designed the 4chan banners, they are so simple yet so funshare some of your favorites
>>464495which ones don't you understand?
>>464495you just feel insecure and just fucking LEAVE.
>>464495They are 20+ years old, lots of inside jokes from the old days, some of them were alien enough back in 2007 unless you were an usual at /a/
Does anyone have the fo shizzle swastika one? I always thought that one was cute but it seems to have been removed.
>>464554Nevermind I found it.
>Company begins running egregious and borderline illegal business practices to scam clients>Look inside>2 Jeet CEOSEVERY FUCKING TIME
>>464516>Affinity design suite is free: no risk high reward>Pirating software is free: high risk same rewardbtw idgaf do whatever u like
I wish Adobe a very pleasant bankruptcy
offtopic question, but why are there so many indian CEOs lately? i thought they were just good as cheap labor with minimal skills as a lot of them get fake degrees just to migrate to europe or canada.why would you put a jeet in charge of a company? microsoft, ibm, xbox, etc. just to name a few, all huge companies and they all have indian ceos. are there no qualified whites and chinks or what?
>>464542Indian ceos love short term profits at the expense of the company. This aligns perfectly with american shareholders who also want to extract profits while gutting companies
>>464544this. They don't give a shit about the long run and will do anything outside of straight up committing fraud (jeet scam behavior) to please shareholders. They'll take your company and turn it into a full scale slop generator as soon as they have any control over it.
Many might say gd as a field has been dead for quite some time. I agree with the opinion that it's just expanded into other disciplines. Is this board dead because designers are busy? or could it be due to the new generation of designers mostly being interested in asking to achieve certain "styles", "aesthetics", and "effects"?There's plenty for designers to still talk about. What design ideas do you wish you could talk about with others?
>>464482/gd/ is a dead board because the retarded hipsters on this board chased away anyone who had even a fleeting interest in the subject because the "experts" hate themselves and need to make everyone else just as miserable.Every new trend is garbage.Every famous graphic designer is a fraud.Every redesign is shit.Every wip is trash that can't be fixed or iterated on.Unless you make a million sketches, don't even bother starting your computer or your life is forfeit.That's why this board is fucking awful. It has nothing to do with the profession as a whole, which by the way is bigger than ever. In my experience companies want redesigns left and right. My firm and all the other firms around us have never had this much work to do. GD is actually in a great place currently because companies start to identify the backlash AI generated content is getting.
>>464503ok Jessica
>>464482not many people like graphic design. i fucking love it. Also not many designers are that open to share how they do things either purely due to "art". Also everyone has a fucking opinion. I think people should feel like shit unlike >>464503Funny how I think AI is fucking great.
>>464505I just think non designers see graphic design as logo making.
>>464503designers do hate themselves, true.
Back when I was in my freshman year of college my school handed out free adobe accounts as a part of some sort of new educational projectBasically any student who was a graphic design/art major got a free planIt was a way to get more students into the programsFor the past 2 years since graduating I have had access to itWhen I first found out I still had access to my account after graduating I was confused but when I checked my subscription it said I had 5 years leftNo problem for me thenFast forward to last night and suddenly lost complete accessLuckily my files are backed up but now I have no access to AdobeSo how do I pirate the softwareI heard something called GenP worksWhat’s the best place to lookBut I heard if you had a subscription you can do it directly from your computer files
>>463840I understanding wanting to pirate to save a little money, and especially for privacy purposes. But if you're two years out of college, majored in anything to do with art or multimedia, $70/mo should not be considered a crippling expense or unworthy investment.If you do crack it, props to you. But if you can't, don't throw away your skills and education over not wanting to pay that.
>>464078this, actually. pirating it just becomes such a pain after a bit.
>be a copywriter>every marketing job now demands full Creative Suite expertise>even if you aren't applying for a graphic designer positionYou fuckers ruined my career.
>>464517naw, those job posters are just fucking dumb. totally different skill sets and expecting to find people who can do both is asking for failure.i mean, i can do both, but im a fucking unicorn. if you were a good writing and then told me you knew some design software, id laugh in your face. if you had some visual chops and said you could write, id laugh in your face.
>>464517>bro thought copywriting was a whole career
>be a copywriter>think you can make an entire career out of bullshitting bullshit for product descriptions
Are you a woman? Don't tell me you're actually a man and doing copywriting...
>>464519you are not a unicorn for knowing how to write as a designer in the field of visual communication.
is this stuff done with the doodles a reference to illuminated manuscripts? this was done by &walshare there any other examples of design from the middle ages creeping into modern trends?
