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 Do literally anything with this image, repost in thread, next poster has to edit the last edit the last "corporate" aesthetic with soul. 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: >>433511 do any of you guys draw, like regular normal drawing? post your drawing? 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. VSTs are the last bastion of soulful UI design What's the best AI to creat professional graphics? Non of those free trial or discord shit. Vectorheart is an aesthetic that emerged in the late 90s but faded in the mid 2000s. Videogames like WipeOut and Ace Combat used this aesthetic for their menus, along with some album covers and other PS1 games.
As a fact, I can't get AI Image Generator to work with this aesthetic, they always make just a plain heart.
There seems to be little discussion for this so this is your chance to discuss the vectorheart aesthetic and post your unknown vectorheart artwork. Combining @StabilityAI #StableDiffusion generative powers + Human guidance and graphic skills* with tools like @Photoshop in a coherent workflow.
https://mobile.twitter.com/wbuchw/status/1563162131024920576 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. Why won't Kia fix their logo? I found the font I need, but I can't just put it there, need to make it fit there, im not a beginner, but I have no idea how to do that 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! If you could design a new logo for twitter, what would it be like? 
I enjoy making shitty oldschool gradient map gifs in GIMP. They're fun and easy - simply import an image & duplicate layers a number of times (or import a gif), select the full sat spectrum gradient, apply gradient map to every layer then move the hue wheel in increments on each layer, figuring out which values to use depending on how many layers there are. Simple, right? Only, the results have never entirely pleased me.
To show what I mean, I've included an example of this kind of GIF I've found on the net (on the left), combined with one made with my own method on the right. The kind on the left has more finesse to it. It just looks more aesthetically pleasing to me. It's clearly using a different gradient, but because of that it isn't something I know how to produce myself because anything other than full sat spectrum cannot be modified via the hue wheel to get the same effect. The image on the left seems as if the gradient itself is cycling.
Does anyone have any pointers? Or even pointing me in the direction of a tool to generate these kinds of images would be fine too. Vexillology/heraldry
Can't find the link to the old thread edition Hey I am trying to build a card game. Can you suggest me designs and you find interesting in card. Looking for clean and timeless designs I don't want the cards to be too noise in design like pic related. Finally I want to make card icons is there a program that will make me help that easily? Finally I need help in designing the back artwork of the cards. What should I use to make the tittle font, any vids you recommend me for logo design, I don't want to draw those from scratch. Suggest me other stuff as well, thanks. want to get back into photoshop but its 20 fucking dollars a month now? wtf do I do for my packaging design class, any tips appreciated Why is AI "art" so suspiciously hyped up by talentless hacks and coomers? It's not even real art, it's just generated from thousands of pre-obtained datas from the artworks of human artists WITHOUT their permission. And yet whenever you see it online, the tasteless niggers would swarm in and praise it like the Second Coming of Christ. (I hate the Antichrist)
What are you thoughts on this, anons? Surely I'm not the only one bored by this kind of design at this point?
But are we going to get something new? looking to hire a meme maker. we are on tg shadowwizardmoneygangportal. this is not a shill for my project, serious inquries only. must know how to make schitzo memes. What are you working on, /gd/? anyone got an adobe animate pirate i can yoink Just a simple design I whipped up with Illustrator in about a half-hour or so. I didn't have any specific idea in mind when I started so I guess my best improvised explanation is that it's some alternate universe Internet Explorer logo. Does it feel too 'empty' to y'all? Please let me know. Put anything your heart desires into his hands, I just need something hey /gd/ this is my cat rupert, i was thinking of creating a logo for him and wanted it to look in the style of mspaint, what do you thnk of my attempt?
feel free to make your own stylized rupert ITT we post graphic designs related to transportation .
Here's my city's transportation systems' graphic identity manuals (they're in spanish but you can use deepl).
https://www.semovi.cdmx.gob.mx/storage/app/media/Manual%20MI.pdf
https://www.semovi.cdmx.gob.mx/storage/app/media/Anexo%20Manual%20MI.pdf I need this to say waifu ( too ) network ( bottom)
I want it to be animated similarly
Any waifu girl can be put behind
I would want one this size
And one in a thumbnail size I can use as an icon somehow if the text could be visible that be great. The newsfu word is to be removed entirely.
Can someone do this for 8 bucks?
Yes I’m poor and have no art skill! Thx Made a crest/coat of arms for my army(army will be in the comments as 3d models what is /gd/'s favorite album artwork? I'm a graphic design student planning to get into figma for companies and enterprises. I know Figma is highly required and people pay a lot for designing landing pages and websites in general.
What are some good designers on Figma I can follow to use as inspiration and learning? Can anyone with experience explain the optimal steps one should take to making a career out of editing? I have extreme doubts that college is the best course for this career path considering how many film students wind up working at KFC. how can i fix the legs? they look autistic and the endings of the cloak need to be more well-rounded as well can anyone analyze this logo? it was used for a presidential campaing. it worked, the guy won. i find it striking too but cant analyze it properly. anyone can lay down its elements? why is the font like that like far west saloon or circus? is it fused with something else? why the bent bar as base? is it alluding at the sun rising? Design genius or overrated?
What do you think of his work? Why do most FMV games suck? 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 old file limit reached.
the theme is conversing with the Gods.
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>>426975 i have no experience in graphic design, how long would i need to practice in GIMP before I can design logos or offer a similar freelance service on fiverr? what book could i read to achieve this sooner Kerning the Cat Polls and Discussions Edit this image, do what ever the hell you want with it. brehs, which font?
I liked the right one but I'm afraid it's trying too hard. Find a better country logo (you can't). Does anyone have a crack for the adobe softwares? Out of college now and I really don't have the spare money to pay for the softwares I need. I need Illustrator, Photoshop, Aftereffects, Indesign, and a couple others. What political movements have the best-designed symbols? There are a couple thousand cards like picrel so it has to be a process easy to replicate once it has been done one time. How do I up my illustration game to make money online on asset sites. I want to make about 50k a year. What do you think about this toothpaste logo? How do you get clients as a freelancer? I heard the USA loves horses very much. What AI generator do I use to create images like picrelated that give the same impression as the og troon pic. How do people create a shining light rays background from scratch like pic related in either illustrator or photoshop?
Can’t find a good tutorial anywhere. ÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I SHOULDNT HAVE PIRATED PHOTOSHOP. IT WAS WRONG.
FORGIVE ME PLEASE. IT HURTS.
AAAAAAIIIEEEÉEEEEEEEE I need the black to be turned into a regular wojack to remove the political/racial aspect and isolate the philosophical component graphic design essentials? what should everyone read if they have any interest in improving at graphic design? Where can I find alternative/underground artists that want to share their artworks?
I'm talking about websytes, telegram/discord groups.. anything really, the less known the better how do I perform it in my sony vegas, tysm for help ;3 post vidya with the best gd How did they make this movie poster before photoshop? I started working on my first design [spoiler]i'm in college[/spoiler] How do I make those squares checkered? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQSxOiXTY-Q
this is so god awful, however whats the contrast filter used here and how was the 0:17 pulled? pretty epic Thoughts on new twitter design style. How is this style called? They don’t use typical corporate alegria like Facebook 
/g/ web dev here. How would you change my website's design?
It is a dating site that crosses over Speed Dating, Omegle, and Tinder called Swerve!. The name comes from the fact that you can match someone or "swerve" them which is slang for avoid.
The retrowave theme comes from speed dating being retro, the logo being one of those S signs to show a swervey road, and retrowave often having car backgrounds.
The site gimmick is that you get on it, make an account like tinder and choose you settings such as sex/sexuality/age/distance and whatnot, then click start and you're paired with people by the settings you've selected in a "speed date", which is just a one on one face time similar to Omegle. If you both match you can talk like on Tinder with messages or calling, or if someone swerve the call is disconnected and you both move on to the next person just like Omegle.
There is also an offline mode which is essentially just Tinder except instead of having 5 pictures and a bio you upload a 30 second to a minute video for people to go through, similar to those old "send your VHS tape in for people to date" things.
It's up at https://swerve.dating however I recently took the logo out because the css animation was lagging mobile users.
I've done everything myself up until now and am looking for creative people to give suggestions. Post your tasteless designs here so people with no taste can critique them does anyone know the name of this type of texture, which makes it look like something from a magazine? or is it just noise and grain? when I insert noise in my images they don't turn out the way I want. what will be missing? Are there any step-by-step tutorials on how to design a coat of arms or a seal in Photoshop, preferably in the same style as what you would find in a Wikipedia article? I have a bunch of Wikicommons assets, but I am a noob designer. What is this art style called and where can I find more? Been doing some searching but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Anyone got the name of it or similar fonts?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kxmxB2858yo&si=8OKZnBH3-0nr2YgZ Redesign It. From Scratch I'm not a graphic designer, just a bored dev that was experimenting with shapes. I made this shitty logo for a rave/techno thing I thought of on the fly. It's meant to say SEL30, I know it's not the most legible logo but I guess it fits the retrofuturistic thing this type of events often use. I was also thinking that of course there'd be a clearer typeface for other details, but this was going to be the logo.
It's my first time working with vectors to make an actual drawing and not some curves or a weird shape for a website. How'd I do? Do you guys know how to take an image apart and view the source image into separate layers on how it once was before it got uploaded? Looked for 5 hours on booble, but nothing. hey guys what do you think of my autistic art I am in the works on making a game. I've made Snake, Conway's Game of Life, and a few others, but none with spritework before. I am trying to make something that is 128x128 in size. Any advice for how to start? I am using GameMaker, and have the means to make the art, but stylistically, I have no idea how to start.
>pic rel is one of the monkeys from the game, but as it's extremely obvious, I suck ass Edit what’s at the end of this grocery store aisle. What course should I take if I want to create digital art like this?
Like pre-rendered 3D style 
>work at a content production company
>assigned to a team to create Black Friday ads. Client is a known retail corporation
>Style guide we’re provided has conflicting info for what color swatches we need to be using compared to the actual gradient assets
>gradient assets we’re told to use has different RGB values than the swatches listed in guide
>we reach out to the art director in charge of creating assets
>he says “oh it’s because your computers are set up with the wrong color profiles”
>gradient assets were made in an Adobe RGB (1998) working space, when our programs are set to sRGB
>guy gives us a .csf file for our color settings to be synchronized
>gradient colors still look wrong compared to swatches in guide
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is color profile really the issue here, or just the gradients not using the correct RGB values? Changing a color profile shouldn’t change RGB values.
I thought color profiles just change how bright a RGB swatch can look on your screen, and not the actual RGB values themselves. I have a $1.000 to spend on books, and i can only spend it on books (company money), what would you guys recommend me to get?
It would be cool if it would be about design or making your autistic communication better. what would you change about this to make it better? tryna design a poster or two I want to crop ±1000 pictures in multiple sizes for different purposes. (socials, website, so my luddite colleagues don't ask me to do it again and again)
You can achieve this in PS with recorded actions I suppose but that would still require a lot of framing.
I've found a Figma plugin "hypercrop" that is content aware and seems to do the job.
Is there anything else I could use, or how would you take on this challange? There's too much reddit /mu/ trooncore crap on this dead board let's have a thread for retro designs for VLC, VST plugins, Windows themes, dockers etc. I could never get the original art and even less in vector, so I just did it, in less than 20 minutes. from Perú. how can I be a video editor without a degree? I know about premiere pro little bit What steps should I follow to improve this photograph that has an excess of light, it was taken against the light and you can't see anything. Can I improve with photoshop or is it unrecoverable? Is it hard to get into digital art? She does look pretty much like the old American cartoon Zelda from the late 80s, doesn't she?
https://strawpoll.com/NPgxEPGwQZ2 how to achieve that sam hyde shizo aesthetic? I want to learn graphic design but I want to know what to expect. Aside from learning graphic design software and tools isn't it mostly just having good taste and sense of aesthetics? How do you teach that? anyone know what font this is? At what point does a simple photograph become an icon and a work of art? Post web design concepts for X got a question for anyone who can answer me (and if this is not the place could you tell me were to ask)
how do i take a pic and have it become another different pic when clicked on to enlarge. the idea is to have any pic replaced with this pic when clicked on ? 
Long & Stupid - I didn't make you read it.
What are your thoughts about tech relying so heavily still on the old analogue versions of what its symbolising? such as folders and disks.
In a way it feels as though Computing has missed out on having its own design culture because so much of their UI design is a hand-me-down from the real world which made sense when a GUI was new and you had to make it intuitive but I feel we might have really missed a chance to make this essential huge culturally important technology have its own language. its like making a sci-fi movie but everybody uses revolvers.
Just as a design thought-experiment, will or can we ever replace traditional file explorer folders and other similiar iconography? It still has to represent a container with something inside but I don't know why it has to be like its real world counterpart?, in 50 years, a lot of the imagery on computers will be from technology half the population doesn't know existed, like the save icon still being a floppy disk. Dunno if this is the correct place to ask such a technical question but whatever.
Say I have the RGB color of a background (green). I want to layer another color on top of it (the ?) with a given opacity such that the output color is a certain shade. I want to find the RGB color of the layer that goes on top, before any transparency is applied.
I've tried using the general opacity formula and solving backwards, but I end up with RGB values outside of 0-255. Anyone know how? I’m trying to figure out what good/ideal type families work for both a résumé and an online portfolio. I’ve used Garamond for years but want to try something else (maybe Avenir Next) - any thoughts?
Also is it better to have serif or sans serif typefaces for this purpose? Does anyone here have any tips on how to get clients? It seems extremely difficult to get them on Upwork and Fiverr since those places have a ton of competition How would /gd/ redesign this logo? https://web.archive.org/web/20140903063052/http://www.mediafire.com/download/027xjs3ujvyqxmd/Fonts.zip I made this for my game project. The design was meant to be a parallel version of Windows 2000. Feel free to redesign it or give advice on how to improve it. Are figma varibles worth using, or should I stick with styles? has anyone found a benefit to using them? Which ones took the most skill? They are selling AI generated "paintings" in full display. People can't even tell the difference until you look the up close at the artifacts.
It is quite literally over I want to slowly transition i to graphic design, i am an artist and i would love to try to make it my main source of income. I have no money currently to invest in it so i am going to try to learn it from the internet. The thing is i also have a shitty old pc with 1GB ram. will i be able to make anything on it? i currently have no understanding of the process but i'd love to try it. Can i effectively run any programs that are required, on this old boy? Do any of you use your own website to host your portfolio and do business?
Did you develop it yourself or use a website builder?
Do you think it's helped/harmed/not affected business? Is MDE/Sam Hyde's current art style cool or embarrassing? Sincere and naive or ironic? I want to make animation from that 2D plane alone. where you only see shadow of 3D object passing through it and not the 3D object itself. I have zero skills, would it be hard to do or easy, thank you Can anyone ID what font this is?
Thanks xoxo What would be a good font to create an interlinking letters logo like image attached?
I'm trying to go for sleek but not without character so most geometric sans kind of won't work, butI don't really know what to look for since I never created something like that. I'm going for the letter R and D, any suggestions would be appreciated lads. I've heard it's the FOSS Miracle-ware for Making and Editing PDF files, but I have yet to see anyone else try and use it.
It's basically to InDesign what GIMP is to Photoshop, and Krita is to Illustrator.
Do any of you Anons here have experience with it? Hey /gd/!
Does someone know about animation on photoshop? You see, I was trying to animate this lil guy there, and divided it into two parts: the hands and the icons above him. The hands animation looks super smooth, but the icons are kinda jittery, like they're in a different framerate and I can't for the life of me get it to play smoothly like the hands too...
Can anyone guess why this is happening? Im thinking about giving up on /gd/ Motion Design because I FUCKING HATE NETWORKING & most of the design sales community in my country is a social cult that I hate to participate in
what field should I transition into
If I wanted to play the social game I would have become a fucking politician or a manager & fuck my way to the top this networking shit is disgusting Designing a logo for a friend. Company will be named "Level 3". My intent is to make the Lvl (shorthand for "level") look like a 3 on its side.
Does that come across as the intent?
Is this enough or should I add the 3 (leaning toward the latter)
Also looking to jazz this up. Open to ideas. Fast Blender course. Whopping $800.
Does anyone has an access? I need a drawing of a gorilla like picrel for a project. However I suck at drawing, looking for something that looks ferocious and mean. What is the cat reading, can you answer it? >decide to the try a one week no Adobe challenge
>first 3 minutes of inkscape
>crashes when I open the text tool
And this is why we tolerate Adobe's jewery.
Software reliability comes first. 
hi, hope this is ok to ask here but i thought someone may have had the same problem in the past. i'm having an issue with photoshop.
it's been running fine until last week, but no when I start the app, nothing happens. It will show up in task manager but there's no PS windows visible. If I click it again, another instance opens in task manager, but that's it. then, only after about 5-10 minutes, the splash screen will show and the app then starts normally.
this is *definitely* not a performance issue, it's been running fine so far and this is a new, beefy PC.
> i tried rebooting
> i tried killing other PS / adobe related tasks in task manager
> i tried reinstalling
> i tried uninstalling and installing a different version of PS
> i tried resetting the preferences
> i tried uninstalling some fonts i installed last week - which was the only change i made recently
> nothing works, problem persists
other adobe software like illustrator and animate run just fine. i *did* install adobe premiere elements recently, which is the only change i made to this PC that i could imagine affected PS. i dont understand why or how though, and why it wouldnt affect other adobe software and persist after i uninstall premiere ...
if anyone has any ideas, please, this is a huge pain in the ass. are iPads good for a graphic design student? Ai has come to take your jobs. This is cruel but it's inevitable. I'm sorry and I hope none of you actually lose your jobs. Is there any site where I can make frame designs easy and quick. I tried with AI but it doesn't work.
Also any tips in creating small icons for trading cards. Finally do you know of any text font generator? I use Picfont but I want to know if there are other cool options.
AI generator used BTW
https://promptchan.ai/r/aChCm74pvacJu4mvDECBlXhzCWl2 hey GD
I'd love to know about some ways to make my hand-drawn images to film.
There is a short film 2-3 minutes I'd like to make, with 3-5 distinct images. Have you ever tried translating your pictures to film? Hey /gd/ - been having a rising amount of clients interested in logo design/branding, and I've realized that I either luck out and get a fantastic idea in my head, or I'm in trouble. Due to this, I need a "system" I can rely on to get things on track - do you use any logo design process? What are your main steps to start getting some good designs? Thank you! 
Hey, I find myself in an unusual situation and I'm seeking advice on how to handle it. I create illustrated pottery and have been contacted by a Chinese woman who owns a shop in China that sells various products from European designers. She's been a loyal customer for the past two years, though I have very little information about her or her company. While she's been a good and straightforward client, she tends to be a bit disorganized.
Now, she's proposing the idea of manufacturing thermo cups/boxes in China using my designs. She wants to sell these products and offer me a percentage of the sales. I'm uncertain about how to approach this situation. How can I ensure transparency regarding the sales figures? What steps can I take to prevent her from reproducing my designs without my consent? What type of agreement should we establish? If we're not considering a formal contract with legal involvement, is it even worth pursuing?
Given my circumstances, would you recommend selling my design? This opportunity seems promising for generating additional income, but I'm worried about worst-case scenarios, such as my work being stolen and no longer under my ownership.
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