Computer Graphic Artist

Graphic design is a form of communication using text and/or images to present information. The art of graphic design embraces a range of mental skills and crafts including typography, image development and page layout. Graphic design is applied in communication design and fine art. Like many forms of communication, graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created, and the products (designs) such as creative solutions, imagery and multimedia compositions. The designs are applied to static media as well as electronic media, not always in the completed form. In commercial art, client edits, technical preparation and mass production are usually required, but usually not considered to be within the scope of graphic design.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Graphics
3. Typography
4. Digital Images and Editing
5. Computer Graphics
6. Rendering
7. 3D Computer Graphics
8. Computer-Generated Imagery
9. Special Effect
10. Motion Capture
11. Rotoscope
12. Computer Representation of Surfaces
13. 2D Computer Graphics
14. Shading
15. Rasterisation
16. Raster Graphics and Vector Graphics
17. Adobe Photoshop
18. Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks and QuarkXPress
19. Adobe Flash

Saul Bass's poster for the film, The Man with the Golden Arm - a highly regarded work
of graphic design. The film was also notable for its groundbreaking title sequence, also
by Bass.
Graphic design is a form of communication using text and/or images to present
information. The art of graphic design embraces a range of mental skills and crafts
including typography, image development and page layout. Graphic design is applied in
communication design and fine art. Like many forms of communication, graphic design
often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created, and
the products (designs) such as creative solutions, imagery and multimedia compositions.
The designs are applied to static media as well as electronic media, not always in the
completed form. In commercial art, client edits, technical preparation and mass
production are usually required, but usually not considered to be within the scope of
graphic design.
Although the term 'graphic designer' was first coined in the 20th century, the story of
graphic design spans the history of marks of humankind from the magic of the caves of
Lascaux to the dazzling neons of Ginza. In both this lengthy history and in the relatively
recent explosion of imaging in the 20th and 21st centuries, there is sometimes a blurring
distinction and over-lapping of advertising art, graphic design and fine art. After all, they
share the same elements, theories, principles, practices and languages, and sometimes the
same benefactor or client. In advertising art the ultimate objective is the sale of goods and
services. In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas,
expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience." "Fine art refers to
arts that are 'concerned with beauty'…"



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