ART GRAPHICS

05/26/2014 12:32

Graphic artists applying for positions in today's job market are expected to be familiar with computers and a variety of software programes in order to create the most appealing, up to date designs.

Graphic art software includes applications such as:

  • Adobe Dreamweaver – a tool that facilitates the creation of webpages and dynamic internet content
  • Adobe Illustrator – an application that allows artists to manipulate vector graphics
  • Adobe InDesign – desktop publishing software used for layout and design manipulation
  • Adobe Photoshop – a bitmap graphics software including powerful graphics editing tools that provide a large variety of editing functionality
  • CorelDRAW – similar to Adobe Illustrator, it is another vector graphic manipulation tool
  • PhotoImpact – a digital photograph editor
  • QuarkXPress – similar to Adobe InDesign, it is another desktop publishing software tool

Free Software

  • Paint.net - photograph editing capabilities with lots of plugins to expand use
  • GIMP - similar to paint.net and Photoshop

Beside computers and software, graphic artists are also expected to be creative with processing camera work, registration, crop marks, and masking.

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