Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog So let’s talk about Composition: Unprofessional Distracting Elements and/or Background: This really should be fairly easy to understand. It does apply mostly to photographs, though could apply to digital compositions as well. It’s one of those Photography 101 lessons to compose your photograph without things like; poles sticking out of the heads of your subjects, branches and dead leaves in front of your subject, body parts that don’t belong to your subject, etc. Remember; if it does not add to your overall image then it’s a distraction ... Read Entire Article
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Post for GCU Community Blog Let’s continue with a visual review and discussion of the areas listed in GCU’s Submission Guidelines. Today we’ll keep this series going with the second area in the COMPOSITION grouping of the Submission Guidelines which is: COMPOSITION: Balance of Elements The Submission Guidelines state this: A feeling of visual equality. Objects, values, colors, textures, shapes, forms, etc., are used in creating balance in a composition. Balance is a visual interpretation of gravity in the design. Large, dense elements appear to be heavier while smaller elements appear to be lighter. In art ... Read Entire Article Dash of Inspiration
Post for GCU Community Blog I thought it might be helpful to have a series that addresses each (or many) of the areas listed in the Submission Guidelines. I’ll to offer some visuals and perhaps more details that might be beneficial to offer a better understanding of these categories. Today we’ll start this series off with the first main grouping of the Submission Guidelines which is: COMPOSITION: Subject Matter ... Read Full Article & See More Examples Dash of Inspiration
Post for GCU Community Blog Many of us like to work with old vintage images and they’re a great source for greeting card designs, but leaving a vintage photo or image as is and using it with all it’s faults does not usually make for a good greeting card. Cleaning up and improving spots, poor contrast, scratches and in general poor image quality does not mean you are losing the ‘vintage’ feel of the image and ... Read Entire Article ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog The amateur photographer absolutely must have constant critique of their work in order to grow. It’s simply impossible to see what areas you need to improve unless you have a trained eye. Any photographer that isn’t taking advantage of critique by professional photographers is effectively stunting their growth. With the internet today, there is a wealth of sites where the photographer can get critique online by a panel of professionals ... Read Full Article & Get Links ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog To be successful, this is such a critical element in greeting card design. Though there certainly is some percentage of people who lean more toward blank cards so they can add their own heartfelt message, it is a minute percent of the average greeting card buyer ... Read Full Article Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog First let’s talk about the horizon line in visual art. If you’ve ever taken a beginner’s drawing class, one of the first things you’ll be taught when learning how to draw is to first establish your Horizon Line by drawing a faint horizontal line on the paper. In photography, the subject of today’s discussion, the same theory applies when framing through the viewfinder. A Straight Horizon is one of the first things taught in a beginning photography class ... Read Full Article & Get Tutorial Links ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Modify Images for Each Category There is no doubt that sometimes we are inspired to just create rather than design for a specific category. I’ve found that when this happens, I just create then I go back and use the categories which COULD work for the image as my guideline to make a unique fit for that category. Add elements unique to the category, change colors and message to suit each category. Here’s an example ... Read Full Article ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Customer Requests – Yes or No? First thing you need to decide is whether you wish to accept customer requests. There are a few things to consider here. I know not all of you can respond quickly. I think one of the reasons I have a good turn-around for custom requests is because being a designer is how I make my living, so from the time I get a request to the time the card is available in my Private Gallery is usually a couple of hours; so I’ve kept the customer’s attention and therefore make the sale ... Read Full Article Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog I never make a card without communicating to the review team through the Note to Reviewer field … and neither should you. We all wish review times would be quicker, well here is one way that if all artists used it, the reviewers would have less work to do per card. Let’s face it, the better we are at our job... Read Full Article |
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