Online Seminars from Photoshop Tips & Tricks...

Cropping for Success

Last month we told you about plans to shift gears and (very much at the request of many, many readers) move the Design Center publications more deeply into the arena of actual design and design psychology.

Readers tell us they want to know WHY the design works or doesn't work. More importantly they want inspiration -- they want to be armed with ideas that can turn routine clip art, or client supplied photographs into persuasive visual design communication devices. They want to know how to organize those visual devices with typography and color to achieve good, visually exciting layouts... and good design.

It seems everyone in the DT&G/Design Center readership already knows how to click and drag... how to make a new layer, and how to outline type. In the beginning, a lot of you didn't know some these things. And eventhough the web has become crowded with Photoshop experts, and software wizards, the wide-open world of design is still as deserted as ever. It's almost as if they want to confuse design with mechanical art -- or replace concept with technique.

So, now -- since you've got the mechanics down -- we'll begin our journey into learning about the real what's, why's and how's of the visual organization skills of design.

At the request of many attendees from Macworld and Multicom, we're kicking off our adventure with the topic of Design with photographs. Some of the information will be familiar to you. It'll be a good refresher. And at the expense of perhaps being a bit elementary, we're going to deal with some of the most basic foundation skills many newcomers to design have forgotten or missed altogether.

(If you've taken my Publication Design or Creative Layout workshops, do you remember seeing these examples? Good.)

NEXT: Leading to conclusions

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