Board: /gd/
"/gd/ - Graphic Design" is 4chan's imageboard for graphic design.
This is a place to discuss topics about visual or graphic design. Requests for photoshopping or free work go on /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests or /r/ - Adult Requests as appropriate.
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http://graphicdesign.wikia.com/
>What literature should I read to get into graphic design?
The sidebar on the /gd/ wiki has plenty of book reccomendations.
>What programs do I need to get started?
-Vector
Adobe Illustrator
Corel Draw
Inkskape
-Bitmap
Adobe Photoshop
Gimp
-3d
Blender
Cinema4d
>Which program is the best for X?
It's usually subjective if you pick a program in each of the right categories above. Use vector programs if your making a logo/icon/illustraton, use bitmap programs if you're messing with a photo or stock image. Gimp, Inkskape, and Blender are free alternatives and have the same function as the paid programs but the paid programs tend to be used more in a professional enviroment.
>What font is used in this image?
Try these sites before posting a tread asking for fonts:
http://whatthefont.com/
http://www.identifont.com/identify.html Give me some good reasons why CARI is not a good source of information for design and why should be avoided like the plague . They do some research at least unlike aesthetics wiki in which makes things up. If they are bad what can be done to fix it? It's ugly. It's the ugliest shit you could possibly make.
99% of homophobia is due to this abomination. If the gay flag were cool, if the colors actually complemented each other, if it had some cool lesbian animal symbolism or something like that people would LOVE the gays.
I try to tell this to people but they're in denial Does anyone have a rotating animated solar system project in Maya
I just lost all my work due to a crash and my boss needs something like it promto
It doesn't need to be textured so does anyone have a file? Which one do you like the most? This link is down, does anyone have a copy of fonts.zip from the pinned thread? Request and share non-free typefaces and identification of typeface samples.
> Previous thread
>>429862
> Older threads
archived <dot> moe/gd/search/subject/Font%20Share/
> Font identification
Before you request, do your due diligence by running your font sample through a font identifier;
whatfontis <dot> com
fontsquirrel <dot> com/matcherator (be sure to enable the myfonts setting)
myfonts <dot> com/whatthefont
If you're not getting a clear read then put your sample in PS, separate the letters and colour it to be pure black on a white background.
> Font requests
First of all, check;
vk <dot> com/board178186634
graphicex <dot> com
> Uploading
catbox <dot> moe is great for uploading small-sized zips containing fonts, especially since it doesn't expire.
If somebody helps you then pay it forward! I have a yard sale coming up and I am planning to put posters up everywhere to advertise it. What are some things I could do to make a genuinely interesting poster design for a yard sale? I know this is probably a silly thing to ask for advice on, but yard sale posters are always so boring and simple. I genuinely think having a poster that is fun/interesting to look at could make a difference. I heard that calling companies and annoying them with your stuff is what you have to do to get a foot in this industry
I don't get it personally. Why don't people take E-Mails seriously, they just ignore it. Why is making a call so important, what makes it so different? Then you should know that at the current year of 2023 graphic design is pretty much dead. I was a professional gd for almost 10 years working in both studios and on my own and I can't really find a job anymore. It's not even because of AI to be honest, its because of how the industry works and how bad the corporate environment has become.
There's still web design, 3D and VFX/motion design(primarily 3D too) and if you want something similar or easy to transition then chose one of those but I'm not sure for how long they will be relevant themselves because of the AI which is basically a final nail in the coffin of gd. Of course there are and will be exceptions and maybe you will get lucky to find some obscure local business that needs you, but if you are young and looking for a career in the future you should stop consider becoming a graphic designer. This profession is dead. Former designer at Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times. Now, she does "design goodness" for Homer, Frank Ocean's design magazine.
She apparently got ahead being a minority woman who makes designs that "challenges the power old, white men have over every day [non-white] people," and people laud her for it.
Is she the real deal or just a DEI LARP? I set my project to RGB mode, and I’ve made sure I’m not just selecting the layer mask!
However, I still can’t get Photoshop to change one color (in this case, black) to another color (gold).
I’ve tried everything I could find online, but nothing is working so far!
Please help! How bad are these? Can they be saved?
I'm not really a graphic designer. I thought it was good enough but I showed it to someone and they didn't even get what it was supposed to be. 
pic related was my search on duckduckgo for "vapowave gradient pixel art" (NOTE NOT EVEN THE CORRECT SPELLING)
and there you have it. a watermarked "Oh you need this gradient thingy I made in about ten seconds and slapped a big VectorStock® on it and called it a day waiting for the eventual "busy but clearly too busy to ever dejpegnoise your malarky lengths of what exactly?
You see this shit? Its a jpeg of something that could be more easily generated with slight to little (which is already eons above the average graphic designer) effort in MSpaint. (not dogging paint btw, that was an actual good for humanity win by microsoft with that genius softwae)
no im talking about the endless brainless revolting race to exploit peoples laziness on google images. What? So I need to pay to use your fucking checkers? Give me a fucking break with your art degree on your wall bitch.
now in the next post, you will see, after many sharpen layers and some color curve adjustments, just what im talking about, this shit is so psychologically primal subversion tactics it makes the amount of jpeg noise hurt my SOVL OI VEY Can anyone give me some ideas for a logo design with the word vivafication in it hey friends, what do you think, any opinions? i tried to remember as much asian as i could so that the cover could look as artful as possible. it's just a compilation of awful tracks i made over the decades and i wasnt even in asia i was in pittsburgh and whatever, but i was, however, asian I was watching a Minecraft ARG video when I saw this font (the image) and I liked it
Does anyone know what it is? I think its a bold variation of something
Thanks! Is it retarded to use fountain pens? how to master the basics of composition, color and typography. give book/video course recommendations What is the next big aesthetic wave after Flat Design going to be? How much longer will Flat Design last? Explain yourselves, /gd/. pls rank from best to worst How do I cope knowing that the best logo ever is ruined by a retarded ideology?
Nothing comes even close to the swastika. It makes me depressed to the point of giving up logos completely. ITT: We post mid-to-late 2000s graphic design styles, visual trends, and aesthetics.
Anything between 2005 and 2012 (or anything that is reminiscent of that era) is welcome here. THIS IS NOT A Y2K THREAD. DO NOT POST Y2K HERE.
Previous: >>445568 I would like to use a seamless tileable image as the background for a website. What are some good options to choose from?
Pic related is the type of thing I'm looking for, it's the background from YTMND. Need help with facebook banner for my aunty's small business, im trying to meet SEO requirements by having it be seeable in in mobile devices (meaning that a fraction of each lateral side will have basically no relevant info)
am i over doing it?
i know the amber must be in the center, but then how do i integrate the whole "amber sale" thing smoothly?
a square is too rough, and a circle is not consistent with the brand's jewelry-like patterns aesthetic.
white is blends too much with the background, and black looks cheap, any graphic design principle i am missing? I made a website - aphantasia.io
You don't have to tell me how it looks - like crap.
But how would you enhance the UI and UX to feel more polished? I need a logo for company Botanic Artsy, it basically sell plants. I need suggestion for fonts, color schemes and logo. I'm really confused. Hello /gd/ can you please tell me what are some good books on graphic design? I have to come up with a design for a website and I'm not used to designing things. I have 25,000 images like pic related. Old timey engraved images. I found them in old books from Internet Archive before it went belly up. I cleaned them, vectorized them, converted them to backgroundless PNGs. Where can I sell them? I'm trying to get 250 - 300 USofA dollarinos a month. Etsy? What image service should use? Do they even exist anymore?
Also, you have a freebie in pic related. I'm trying to recreate the distress on this text. Any ideas? I tried with some difference clouds at first but realized it's very grid like on the original, not so random. Illustrator is making a beeping sound whenever I select a white object.
It only started this morning. I don't know what happened. >all women but me and this fag
>tattoed goth oversocialized whores abound
>if not that, then they're retarded tumblr users
>if not that, just retards all around
>IF there is another guy, it's some fag who wants to draw tatoos or tranime
I want to fucking kill myself. I have to do trade school classes to escape military conscription but after the first day, i'd rather go to the fucking army or commit suicide. I can't stand being around these worthless nobodies who think they're going to change the world. I don't plan on pursuing graphic design because it's a dead profession but I did have a passion for it and was autistic about typefaces and logos way back when. AI just had to roll around just as I was planning to pursue it as a profession. I had to go through with it because as I said military and because I don't want to work a wagecuck job if I can help it. You get gibs for being a student too so that's another plus. but I know i'm going to piss away 2 years of my life for nothing. you gotta be fucking kidding me with this garbage Which of these is purple and which is violet? You're my only hope, /gd/. Am I the only one who misses this style of t-shirt design? Pictures, simple geometric shapes, scattered text with not much meaning, no attempt to look vintage?
I swear they stopped making modern designs like this, it's all vintage or back prints. Umfortunately I have no idea where to find this style on a shirt. I just love the vibe. >should we stick with our unique, soulful, colorful mascot that stands out from the crowd?
>that's so yesterday, let's change it to generic clipart of testicular torsion instead there's no other place to post this shit, so here it is.
Post your delightful autismo thoughts on your PSA of choice, stay safe. I made it better, can still use some work though. my mommas friend told me she would pay me 10 bucks for a birthday collage photo with her pic, i could just smash the pics and write "happy birday!!!" in comic sans but i feel like i should tryhard this time, someone give me examples of kino bday cards collages etc this shit is not centered Image limit reached edition
>>436245
No gay reddit NAVA shit Hi awesome graphic designers, recommend me a carpet for this room (preferably circular)
I was thinking a simple yin-yang or Lina Cavalieri but it‘d probably be ugly af Best fucking console UI of all time, everyone and even their grandmas knew how to use this thing. Client didn't want it. Maybe you'd do? i'm so fed up with fucking vegas pro
i'm using vegas pro 20 and Sapphire OFX plugin
and it's always freezing and fucking crashing when i try to use any fucking effect or transition so i need to save my project every 2 - 3 minutes
also when it's unfreezing my project going crazy and having green screens glitches and shit
i even updated from 8gb to 16gb ram and it's still doing this shit like what the fuck how do i fix this? More ram? 32gb ram???? Delete fucking Sapphire? My videos ain't even long man i'm so fed up with this shit I have a Wacom tablet but I can't draw for shit.
I can't look at the screen and draw at the same time.
Should I just pick a tablet with a screen, even if it's more expensive? Post'em (extra points for foreign /rare) > Be me, Design student, shy, strange, dumb, 20
> Now, jaded, no longer an incel and a bit far right. Due to bad experiences in college
> How do I navigate design world without letting my prejudice by my negative experiences in design influence my work or opportunities what is a WEBP file and why is it suddenly everywhere? first up, cattle decapitation Magazine ad for a watch. I liked my previous iteration before my professor told me to change stuff. Everything shown has to be included. Not sure what I can do to make it look better. Any advice? Much appreciated what is /gd/'s favorite album artwork? This is it. Graphic design can now end as a discipline.
The pinnacle has been achieved. It's all downhill from here. I work for figma - give me your hot takes / feature reqs / q's.
in b4 ligma >go to uni for animation
>half the professors insist on using picrel for animation
are they mentally challenged? this is actually the single most unintuitive way to animate things, probably because it wasn't made for that desperately looking for patch mockup psds What's the meaning of the red stripe? I'm trying to make a 31-EDO keyboard and am stuck on deciding how it should look like.
An octave has 31 keys and the white ones, for now, correspond to the regular piano white ones
Any suggestion? I could try to not make it look like a piano eventually So a stationary company reached out to me asking if I’m interested on doing some contract work for them. I said yes, however they want to do a paid test run.
The first task of the test run they are looking to establish an email welcome flow. They have a basic welcome flow with one or two emails but not enough to capture the entire email funnel.
That’s all the info I was given. Based on that, do I just go ahead and start designing, or should I ask if they have specific copy in mind?
I’m used to doing design work where a creative brief, copy, brand guidelines, and access to a DAM platform with licensed graphics, logos, and photos to work with are already provided for me. But this while I worked for production agencies.
Should I ask the client for all of this info, or is the client expecting me to come up with my own copy and graphics? Give it to me straight, lads.
How is the move from Adobe to Affinity?
And how does Affinity square up with Photoshop? What do you guys think of the Logo for Humpty Dumpy? Is it a good logo and does it need a redesign? No Jaguar thread? What in the actual fuck. Make some shitty cover art?
>Make some shitty cover art!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Random
https://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days examples of schizo designs? tried my hand at it in audacity, then did some extra work in PS. what do y'all think? Talk about designs that are /gd/-rated kino.
Share your favorite designs you think are good and tell us why they're good or ask for feedback.
>Tools
https://toools.design/
>Type inspiration
https://anothergraphic.org
>Random inspiration
https://behance.net/
https://dribbble.com/
https://designspiration.com/
https://cosmos.so/
https://savee.it/
https://soot.com/
https://are.na/
>Random design principles
https://principles.design/
>Books
"The Fundamentals of Graphic Design" by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris"Grid Systems in Graphic Design" by Josef Müller-Brockmann
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte
"Thinking with Type" by Ellen Lupton I mean this gold thing. Tried to recreate it with photoshop liquify but thats just not it. I'm being paid to design the logo and interior design for a medical college
So i'll be creating a new logo for this dna research program as well as the images/colors/accents for the entire lab and office space
I've never done a project this big before so i have no idea what to charge
Have any of you done something this big for this big of a client? and what was your compensation? they are asking for a number and i don't know what's reasonable to ask for WHAT ELSE DO EMPLOYERS WANT??
I can't believe that I spend my whole day, reading your terms, answering your questions with long ass paragraphs (which is redundant since the info is already in my resume). spend hours making a short video presentation, which has to be one take, so about an hour to memorize and get it right. Uploading documents and self identification shit, making a couple of graphics to show my abilities, have to kiss ass and be presentable, all for a job that I don't even want in the first place. I HAVE to work for you because I don't want to Die of hunger!! "Why you want to work for us?" I don't. Nobody does.
I have a decade of experience, wore many hats, making me overqualified for the position, speak three languages and you still won't hire me. "Not good enough" What the fuck.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT???
I studied for you, I've wasted my life in 9to5's for you, dedicated all for job security and still not good enough! How do you market your services and get clients. >Company handed out this software for free
>Fully functional, no paywall
>Decided it must be a scam and didn't trust the company
>Retards installed the update
>Surprise, surprise, got baited and switched to a subscription called Linearity Curve with no refunds
>Still have the original Vectornator, works perfectly.
>Was clever and got free software out of the scam
Anyone else or am I the only one who didn't fall for it? ITT: Share your favorite or most hated YouTube channel banners and branding, rate the picks of others, or share your channel artwork. Share designs and graphics utilizing noise. what is the "science" behind Vice City art style which adds so much sovl to it. Is it just a color palette? It has that 80-90s japanese cartoon vibes in in hi /gd/ this is my cat rupert i made some artwork for his grand birthday tour, what do you think? a picture of him next to it for reference its what the title said i used after effects for this since idk where else to put it i hope this dosent bother anyone Feeling unproductive AF this past year. Everything I make feels like garbage, desu. Thinking of quitting in 4 months and taking a 3-month break for personal development, maybe make the switch to UI/UX after. Anyone been through a phase like this? How’d you get your groove back and start making stuff you’re proud of? my portfolio’s solid, but all I’m landing are these small freelance scraps. Can’t seem to score an actual job. Should I rework my portfolio? Puff up my experience? Switch up the location? halp pls. Finishing up poster project for a class. At the bottom we're supposed to include the qr code and info as shown. That's how I currently have it, but it looks ugly. Any suggestions? (Can't change the font) I've never had that before. When I just expand a text field, for some reason it either compresses the text automatically or expands it, and that's without pressing the CTRL key. Please help Im a chud vexiologist enjoyer and this is my flag >no entry level jobs
>no intermediate level jobs
>no jobs whatsoever actually
How am I supposed to navigate this shit how do you turn rotoscope into animation? Which country is this stop sign?I can't find it because of the unusual s and o Hey /gd/
I have a question, if I produce images using illegal versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, do these images have any metadata that can be tracked to see if they were illegally produced?
and how do I remove such metadata, I tried googling this shit but it doesn't come up with any real answers on this topic
I'm just getting to the point of completing my 4th as well as 5th gd project for my portfolio and want to upload them all to Behance but also still not cause any problems for potential employers.
thanks
Also post your questions/queries I thought this board was supposed to be for porn??? Does anyone want to design merch for Duolicious? I'll shill your designs and give you 100% of the profits for the first few months.
I know I could use AI, or Fiverr, or Dribbble, or other stuff like that for designs. But all the AI tools I've tried seem hesitant to emulate even the innocuous facets of Twitch culture, let alone 4chan. And I doubt it'll make designs that work well for embroidery, badges, and anything which isn't a direct-to-garment print. Fiverr's work quality is trash and no one replies on Dribbble.
If you're interested, could you post ITT and/or email your portfolio to [email protected]? HALLOWEEN AIN'T TIL MAÑANA >With this technology a 2D vector drawing can be arbitrarily rotated in 3D, resulting in a 2D vector art representing the object from the new view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfct0aH2COw
Graphic artists are officially BANKRUPT AND FINISHED. With this a single dude with some SVGs can create an entire animated film. How does it feel to never have to redraw an SVG ever again? Haters will say we need to ban this technology! their excuse is that it reduce splastic consumption by 84% but it literally just a white cube that doesn't even display the product and no, they aren't making it cheaper.
this has to be a joke hi /gd/, since my portable photoshop has been disabled by those adobe shitsacks i didn't really find another vrs., i tried just two minutes ago and downloaded a trojan and freaked out lol
has anybody got a safe link?
inb4
>learn x/y/z software
i am in a rush and i can use photoshop decently, i will eventually get to another one. any suggestions? Is this the goat of upscaling anime pictures?
or is there something better now with new AI tech? Are they any resources or guides explaining how best to caption videos in terms of pacing the cuts in the captions to match the cadence of the dialogue versus pacing the captions based on the strict visual appeal of each individual captioned phrase/segment in and of themselves, or grouping captions based on linguistic clauses? Do literally anything with this image, repost in thread, next poster has to edit the last edit The color scheme is black, white and yellow. Somehow, The two main images in the center have to be combined. Thanks who the hell designed the 4chan banners, they are so simple yet so fun
share some of your favorites We need to do something about ugly UI epidemic. I've spent years doing UI, UX, and graphic design. I want to start building some web stuff myself, but I'm daunted by the steep learning curve. HTML and CSS come pretty easy, and I understand the fundamentals of flex. Jumping into this side of things isn't so bad.
But I'm daunted as shit by JS. Suffering through the initial Hello World tutorial sounds brutal, and even beyond JS, merely setting up and maintaining a workspace (vscode, the terminal, installing packages, git, etc.) looks painful.
Anybody know of a decent video course with a tolerable instructor and a focus on modern techniques (flex-centric, good JS framework)? I want to change the letters from WB to SF on this logo. I want the WB style font used for SF. Can anyone get that done? constructive criticism only,,, this image is uncanny for some reason i feel disturbed If you have any free AI tools you've found on the web can you please share it with me here? For example stuff that does image enhancement or let you change things like the hair of someone, generate images etc... This will be very helpful Not sure if this belongs here but since it's regarding photo manipulation (which counts as graphic design) I might as well try.
So I like this genre of edits of women called "Natural/Modular Body Magic", which basically means that they look like they either had their heads magically removed or that they never had any at all but they can live just fine without them (like dullahans), but many of them are pretty shit so I wanted to make some good ones of my own, the problem is that there are no good tutorials online on how to make them, so I was wondering if you guys could guide me on how to make them.
Pic related is more or less what I want to achieve, something that looks relatively natural and organic, rather than just a quick and sloppy MS paint job. I'm on my 4th semester and I always wondered why so many fags and trannies study this career, any answers? I came to work at 8am and had an unreasonable request for a flyer design by 9am, I just used AI to create an attractive text centerpiece and sent it for approval, they love it, what does this mean foe the future of the graphic design career? I a broke GDer for 12 + years embraced the AI satanic demon sold my soul to a production house that makes ads & now im making so much money making shitty ads using templates & ai
these greedy fucking markets don't give a shit about your art these fucks are soulless demons time to sell my soul a LITTLE & use these fucks to fund my reset while I slowly move into /3/ From a designer point of view, is pic related an aesthetic combination of colors for clothes?
Two colors per outfit + an optional third for accessories (not on the image).
3x2 on top and bottom, from left to right
Which other 2 color combinations would be acceptable. Please provide #hex started doing contracts last year using this piece of shit china-tech. use ricoma How do I even make a good poster that doesn't use copyrighted material.
How to I circumvent copyright law and do as the big guys do, steal and get away with it.
I am not da vinci nor picasso, I wanna STEAL AND GET AWAY WITH IT!
Stealing small vector designs, cool pictures, famous person pictures, etc, etc, etc,
What do you all use that Makes me able to LEGALLY steal. Even if it's AI, isn't it real? I don't know how anything works or what to do. Is there anything like the Blender Doughnut to help get me started? Do you have any suggestions for a beginner project or something fun to do? WHY ARE THE CAPTCHAS SO DARN DIFFILCULT?????? Is MDE/Sam Hyde's current art style cool or embarrassing? Sincere and naive or ironic? Super disheartening to see this. Any designer could have done an illustration, any number of local artists could have created a piece for this event. It's a seminal event that marks the reopening of Detroit’s Michigan central. Truly monumental moment for Detroit, highlighted by the crazy opening concert directed by Eminem and it wasn't worth getting a person to do the poster? Very sad.
This is one of those moments in the history of ai that I will look back on with genuine disgust.
A soulful event with a soulless AI facade. Any good starter book or video recommendations? Any advice is also welcomed Vexillology/heraldry
Can't find the link to the old thread edition Since the other thread ( >>449649 ) reached the image limit, let's start a new one
I generated these last night, first time I've tried to make photorealistic images
Pretty satisfied with the results, even though you can still see some minor anatomy issues if you look in detail
I used this : https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-dev?prediction=dp0wbxy1esrm40ch3z6tby9z34 What's your design boogeyman and how did you overcome it? Where do you pirate all their shit? I haven't downloaded software in years so i'm just looking for help with that how do i make something like this You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 
