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- Slide 2: I have been interested in graphic design from a very young age, and quickly realized this is the career path that I wanted to follow, so I could tailor my studies towards this. At High School, I studied art and design, and then digital art in private school. To be honest, I was mostly self taught, my studies just helped me set briefs that I could work around. I started creating digital images just for fun and it seemed influential when my artwork was good enough to be displayed in the school website. I find inspiration in everything around me and sometimes it's hard to explain where my ideas come from but I'm just glad they do. I’ve always seen myself as someone who worked in the realm of ideas and who was susceptible to influence. Today, people end up telling each other about my work and that influences me a lot to create more and more graphics in the future. I believe that a successful design is not just “looking good’, but a well thought and structured design that helps to increase the value of design from year to year. My life is filled with colors and every color has a meaning, it may represent sadness, happiness, etc. Just like my designs, or in contrary, I can say that my life influenced my work. I believe that if you enjoy the work you do, you can call yourself lucky and I’m lucky that I can express myself through graphic design.
- Slide 3: This picture is created in Photoshop by applying the general cinematic effect. This movie effect is a great way to make your photography look extra special and unique. As you can see, this effect turned my picture to look like movie poster. This is a very interesting Photoshop technique. You can convert your ordinary, boring photos to make them look like they were straight out of a Hollywood movie. The three important features are: colour mood adjustments + depth of field effect + film effect.
- Slide 6: This may look like a scan or a painting done in Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter, but in reality it is a vector drawing made entirely in Adobe Illustrator. All drawings are composed of closed paths (shapes of solid colors) drawn with the Pen Tool. Vector design can be created in many different programs. However, the two most popular are Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Flash. Each have their positives and negatives. Personally, I use Adobe Illustrator to create my vector drawings.
- Slide 9: This CD cover was created in Adobe In Design and Photoshop. When it comes to any type of layout, Adobe In Design is usually the first option to consider. All it takes is a few minutes of studying the layout of a CD/DVD cover and you're well on your way. I did this by combining some unique features in Adobe In Design and Photoshop. This is one of the truly great things about graphic Design. You can take the best features of more than one program and make them work together and have the best of both worlds.
- Slide 10: 1. Veerle , Pieters . \"How To Become A Graphic Designer \". . A Digital Dreamer. Copyright © 2008 . . November 28, 2008 <http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/> 2. Steven , Gottlieb . \"Yearly Income Of Graphic Designers\". . PayScale. ©2000‐2008 PayScale, Inc.. . November 28, 2008 <http://www.payscale.com/> 3. Bureau of Labour Statistics, U.S. Department of Labour, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008‐ 09 Edition, Graphic Designers.. October 1, 2008 <http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos090.htm>


