…. A brief look Back

COMPUTER GRAPHICS ARE GRAPHICS CREATED USING COMPUTERS AND, MORE GENERALLY, THE REPRESENTATION AND MANIPULATION OF IMAGE DATA BY A COMPUTER WITH HELP FROM SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE.

•1960 The phrase “Computer Graphics” was coined by Willim Fetter.

•1961 Student Steve Russell created the first video game name Spacewar

•1970s Most important early breakthroughs in computer graphics research occurred at the University of UTAH

•1980s Availability of bit slice 16-bit microprocessors started to revolutionize high resolution computer graphic terminals

•Orca 1000, 2000 and 3000 workstations, developed by Orcatech of Ottawa, a spin-off from Bell Northern Research, and led by an early workstation pioneer David John Pearson.

•The Orca 3000 was based on Motorola 68000 and AMD bit-slice processors and had Unix as its operating system.

•3D Graphics became more popular in the 1990s in gaming, multimedia and animation

•Orca 1000, 2000 and 3000 workstations, developed by Orcatech of Ottawa, a spin-off from Bell Northern Research, and led by an early workstation pioneer David John Pearson.

•At the end of the 80s and beginning of the nineties were created, in France, the very first computer graphics TV series: "La Vie des bêtes" by studio Mac Guff Ligne

WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN?

Understanding of Computer Graphic and Graphic Design …..

Graphic design is a creative process—most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form (i.e., printers, signmakers, etc.)—undertaken in order to convey a specific message (or messages) to a targeted audience

•Graphic Design as a discipline has a relatively recent history, with the term "graphic design" first coined by William Adison Dwiggins 1922.

•During the Tang Dynasty (618–907) between the 4th and 7th century AD, wood blocks were cut to print on textiles and later to reproduce Buddhist texts

Graphic Design is a strategic art

meaning that it is art that is planned to serve a particular purpose. Opposite of it's cousin, Fine Art, which typically is mainly based on/from emotions, Graphic design is usually analytical/structured.

In a modern sense Graphic Design is Visual Problem Solving

"How do I get people to shop at my store?" ... "I need a billboard." What kind of store is it? What are you selling? Where are you located? Are you upscale or middle ground? These are the type of questions that Graphic Designer would ask so that they can turn your advertising problem into a successful billboard.

Typically there are two types of designers:

•Print Editorial, Layout, Logo, Creative Photography, Packaging, Illustration, 3D Modelings

• WebInternet/Websites, Film, Animation, Coding

Graphic Design has a different definition depending on who you ask.

Graphic design is design.That makes it available to be used almost anywhere and on anything.

Graphic design can be referred to any discipline of art and the visual communication that is present. Graphic design is a representation of symbols, images and words in a combination.

Graphic design has a tendency to create the ideas in a visual representation. A graphic designer may use effects such as typography, visual arts and page layout to produce the best result.

some areas and use of graphic design

Architecture

Art director

Communication design

Concept art

Copywriting

Creative direction

Design

Desktop publishing

Digital illustration

Environmental graphic design

Industrial design

Information design

Instructional design

Interface design

Landscape Architecture

Marketing communications

Motion design

New Media

Technical writing

Typography

Web graphic design

…… …

………etcetera

There are numerous fields. Types of artists are as follows

•painters, •sculptors, •draughtsman (draw-ers),• sketch artists, •mixed-media artists, •textile artists,• illustrators,• photographers,• digital artists, •printmakers, •glass workers, •makers of fine jewelry

Let us try this . . . . .

What type of artist are you ?

Open your FB Graphic design Group and click link post under my account….find what type of artist are you.

PHOTOSHOP

A very short story

Photoshop has been a part of every web designer’s life since they picked up their first mouse.

For each version and major feature listed, we couldn’t help but think “did Photoshop ever exist without that feature?

On February 10th, 2010, Photoshop turns twenty.

Thomas Knoll, the PHD student, is still heavily involved with Photoshop years later

Thomas Knoll adopted his father’s photography habit throughout high school, while his brother, John Knoll, purchased one of the first Macs available to the public.

Fast forward to 1987: Thomas Knoll was a PHD student studying Engineering at the University of Michigan. His brother was working at Industrial Light and Magic.

February of 1990, Adobe 1.0 was released

Pen Tool

About The Pen Tool

The pen tool is one of the few tools available to you in Photoshop that works with Vector Graphics as opposed to Raster Graphics. Vector Graphics use mathematical statements and points in order to define their shape and other characteristics, and therefore are very scalable. In other words, vector graphics can be scaled to any size without ever losing quality.

Try . . . . .