1, software
Be sure to apply software tools skillfully first, otherwise your best ideas will only stay on the surface. Photoshop, coreldraw, illustrator, the mainstream graphic design software on the market now.
If you think you have learned too much software, you can learn it selectively. Many designers use PS+AI to complete the design, many designers use PS+CDR to complete the design, and some designers use PS+CDR+AI. I suggest learning some software.
2. Color matching
As we all know, any design works need the participation of color, whether you are graphic design, web design or other designs.
Color matching has rules to follow and rules to follow. We say that we can be willful in art and "honest" in design. What's more, painting needs to learn color, not to mention commercial graphic design.
Color You need to master the basic knowledge of color, such as hue, lightness, purity, similar color, contrast color, adjacent color, separation complementary color and so on. There are also colors designed based on the market positioning and culture of products, and so on.
3. Layout design
Layout is the layout of the picture! Generally speaking, it is a means to arrange the elements (graphics, images, words, colors) in the picture reasonably to make people feel good and comfortable.
We should consider composition, balance, point, line, plane, priority, level and other factors. Let the audience capture the theme and information (communication) that our pictures need to convey more quickly, intuitively and obviously. Many of your ideas, ideas and considerations based on the product will be displayed.
Step 4 print
Learning printing is not to make you a printer, but to better represent the design works on the computer as tangible finished products.
Many designers' works are either chromatic aberration or do not meet the printing standards after printing. Then I just don't know what materials to choose and so on.
If designers don't understand printing, many will increase the printing cost. Learning prepress knowledge can make your work taller and make you a mature graphic designer!
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If you want to be an excellent graphic designer, you need to learn a lot. If it is a 0-based partner, it is better to find a training institution to study systematically!