Graphics and Animation

An Introduction
What are Graphics?
• Graphics are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall,
canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain.
• A pictorial representation of data
• Images that are generated by a computer are called computer
graphics.
• Examples includes drawings, line art, graphs, charts, diagrams,,
symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other
images.
What is Graphic Design?
“the art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements,
magazines, or books.”

“the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences
with visual and textual content.”
Graphic/Visual Elements
Elements are used in conjunction or opposition with each other to create visually
striking and impactful designs.
These graphic design elements include:

• Color
• Form
• Line
• Shape
• Size
• Space
• Texture
Design Principles
These graphic design principles include:

• Balance
• Contrast
• Emphasis
• Movement
• Proportion
• Rhythm
Modern-day Graphic Design
• Website design involves creating engaging and intuitive web pages
for users. This includes overall layout, color scheme and navigation.
• User experience (UX) design is focused on ensuring a website or
application is easy and satisfying to use. These designers emphasize
value, usability, adoptability and desirability.
• Motion graphics design —or animation—brings visual elements to
life through special effects, TV shows, video games and movies.
Graphic design job titles
• Graphic designer
• User experience (UX) designer
• Web designer
• Art director
• Creative director
Visual Element: Line
• A shape connecting two points
• Simplest but most important element
Visual Element: Line
• Lines can be
• Thick
• Thin
• Straight
• Curved
• Solid
• Dashed
Visual Element: Line
Lines can be used to
• Organize
• Connect
• Separate
• Decorate
• Emphasize
Lines in infographics
Lines in infographics
Lines in infographics
Lines used to put emphasis
Line as border
Line as decoration
Dividing Lines
The Photoshop Interface
The Document Window
The Document window is the large area in the center of the interface
where the image is displayed. It's also where we edit the image. The
actual area where the image is visible is known as the canvas. The dark
area surrounding the image is the pasteboard. The pasteboard doesn't
really serve a purpose other than to fill in the space around the image
when the image itself is too small to fill the entire Document window:
The Photoshop Interface
The Document Tab
• At the top of the Document window is the document's tab. The tab
displays the name and file type of the document and its current zoom
level
• The tab is also how we switch between document windows when we
have more than one image open in Photoshop
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The Toolbar
The Toolbar (also known as the Toolbox or the Tools panel) is where
Photoshop holds all of its tools. You'll find it along the left of
Photoshop's interface. There's tools for making selections, for editing
and retouching images, for painting, adding type or shapes to your
document, and more
The Photoshop Interface
The Toolbar's Hidden Tools
Photoshop includes lots of tools. In fact, there are many more tools
than what we see. Most of the tools in the Toolbar have other tools
nested in with them in the same spot. Click and hold on a tool's icon to
view a menu of the other tools hiding behind it.
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The Options Bar
Directly linked to the Toolbar is Photoshop's Options Bar. The Options
Bar displays options for whichever tool we've selected in the Toolbar.
You'll find the Options Bar along the top of the interface, just above the
document window.
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The Menu Bar
Along the very top of Photoshop's interface is the Menu Bar. The Menu
Bar is where we find various options and commands, all grouped into
categories. The File menu, for example, holds options for opening,
saving and closing documents. The Layer menu lists options for working
with layers. Photoshop's many filters are found under the Filter menu,
and so on.
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The Panels
Along the right of Photoshop's interface is where we find the panels.
Panels give us access to all sorts of commands and options, and there
are different panels for different tasks.
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Panel Groups
To save space on the screen, Adobe groups related panels together. For
example, let's look at the Layers panel. Just like the Document window,
each panel has a tab at the top which displays the panel's name.
Notice, though, that there are two other tabs to the right of the Layers
tab. One says Channels and the other says Paths. These are other
panels that are nested in with the Layers panel in the same panel
group. The name of the panel that's currently open in the group
appears brighter than the others:
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Where To Find More Panels In Photoshop
By default, only a handful of panels are displayed at first. But there are
many more panels available to us in Photoshop. You'll find the
complete list of panels under the Window menu in the Menu Bar