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Creating Treasure Maps in Adobe Photoshop

Have you ever wondered how old treasure maps were made? Much of them is done through good image editing software like Adobe Photoshop. It is really all about the effects. A simple layout with the proper application of edges, burnt in this case. Though it may seem complicated at first, you may be surprised at how constant practice towards making it can lead to mastering the art of the many features that Adobe Photoshop boasts of.

Here is a good video to help you go about creating burnt treasure maps. Enjoy and master the art and you may be doing this quite more often.


Old Burnt Treasure Map Effect – Adobe PhotoshopFunny blooper videos are here

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The Relationship of Web and Graphic Designs

As previously mentioned in other posts, web design is a format subsection of graphic design. However, web design as it pertains to graphic design and web design in general are two different things, although they can be interchanged at times depending on the specific situation.

When a person wants a web designer, they want someone to create their website. This means that the person needs to have coding experience as well as experience with something other than graphic design software. Freelance web designers are the ones that actually carry out website creation.

However, a web design graphic designer is something else. This is a person that is in charge of actually designing the website. This means that they figure out the page layout, typography and create all of the original graphic design work for the website. A web design graphic designer might also have the knowledge necessary to go ahead and create the actual website after that, but even so that does not change the fact that the two occupations are defined differently.

If you need help thinking about it, think of it as being analogous to the relationship between concept artists in advertising firms and the tape crews that actually create the ad in the end.

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Choose the Right Graphic Design Format

If you are truly interested in becoming an overall complete graphic designer, you are going to have to work in multiple graphic design formats when you create your different graphic designs. There are different formats for different types of design and for most of these formats there are specialized skill sets and experiences that you need to have down before you can hope to compete in the industry at large.

For example, one subsection of graphic design that you see a lot in your day-to-day life has to do with the newspaper. The layout of the newspaper is in and of itself a challenge of graphic design, especially when you consider the overall page and the positions of the different elements on the page. Likewise, the creation of very beautiful text (i.e. typography) is another format of graphic design that you are going to have to get used to. Many of these formats are interchangeable between the online and offline worlds however, so getting used to a new graphic design format might be easier than you think.

To give you an introduction into the wide world of different graphic design formats, the next posts will cover four of the major ones, some of which may have already been mentioned in passing on this blog before.

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How To Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop

Using Adobe Photoshop can be hard if you don’t get the right tutorials. In fact, graphics designing does seem challenging and rewarding and it all depends on understanding the basics and features that come with the software to fabricate and create great image enhancing effects.

Among them include layering. Here is a good video that will guide you in using layering in Adobe Photoshop.