Graphic Content: Doing Your Own Online Business Graphic Design A Change in Format When people think of artistic or creative people, some stereotypes may arise. The best is the commercial illustrator, sitting in the studio with an overflowing ashtray and coffee cup, in constant mental pain trying to meet a deadline. The worst is the mad genius in their low-rent studio in Europe or Greenwich Village, creating fantastic work, while they starve to death. In both cases, one doesn’t think too positively of the creative world as a profession. But, this just isn’t the case anymore. While there is nothing wrong with the inkwell-and-easel creative professional working away in the old style way (many still do it), the digital world has blessed us with new programs to help anyone be creative. So much so that now big visual publishing houses like Marvel Comics and countless global ad agencies employ these programs as the standard for professional visual creation media. As an online digital pro, this should perk up your senses. If you have creative interests, you now have a way of accessing them. And if you’re in business for yourself and like saving money, you should really pay attention. In online business, you can do both at the same time and have a lot of fun at that. With the modern changes in creative formats, the ability to create everything from handsome designs to your own web site design is at your fingertips. The tools are here for everyone, and they are to be used. The Artist in the Office When you come to the point in your own business ventures that you want to do your own great graphic work, you have to get into the mode of knowing what you need done and what programs you need to accomplish the jobs at hand. You might have a web site design program already installed, which you can use to fool around with your own web site design ideas and publish the best ones you come up with. But going a step further into more complex or specific designs often requires you to have more programs in your office. You might have some sketches or drawings for your newsletter and catalogue design. This might mean you need a digital artist studio program with digital sketchpads, color palettes, and manipulation applications. This can also work well for small graphic fare, like logo design and development, where you are creating singular graphic representations for products, letterheads, and content material. When working on bigger projects, such as poster and exhibit sign design, you might need a heftier program that incorporates photographic manipulations into the design. It all depends on size. Most of these programs that you buy today, such as “Abode Studio” and “Photoshop,” look intimidating and complex. But they aren’t. They are just big digital paint boxes with a ton of programs that require the user to spend time understanding them all. From there, you will know exactly what you need for any given graphic task. In any case, you are the artist in your own office, constantly forging and testing what is needed to create the best possible graphic material for your business. Further Creations
It might be a bit presumptuous to think that anybody can be a creative genius the moment they begin using these programs. In truth, it takes a bit of fooling around with the programs in order to first understand and then use them to properly create the graphic work you want. It doesn’t hurt to get some beginner’s help; think about taking a short course or get some tutoring with modern graphic design. Reading up on digital design is helpful, too. If you really get stumped, contracting out an outside designer to do some work for you or provide some instruction is never wasteful. What needs to always be constant is the notion that your graphic content and creations are in your hands. You have the power to make them how you want and the best new tools to actualize them onscreen. It’s a good time to be creative, and an even better time to make your ideas work for you and your business. To get more help on all your SEO, web site design, and web traffic needs, e-mail Numero Uno Web Solutions Inc. at info@numerounoweb.com.