Help With Graphic Design??

I'm having a design done for a 5 x 2 paper label. Here is what the label company told me,

Just ask your designer to add 1/8" bleeds on the graphic file size. If you are ordering a 5" x 2" , the graphic file's size should 5.25" x 2.25".

I printer out the design on my own printer, and the size is indeed about 5.25 x 2.25

I guess I'm confused about bleed. To compensate for bleed on a 5 x 2 label, shouldn't the file size be smaller, like 4.75 x 1.75 ?

Wouldn't a 5.25 x 2.25 file size print well over the actual label?

Thanks.

Hello, I am opening a new game studio and need a graphic designer to create logos, backgrounds and wallpapers.

I know asking for someone to do this for free is quite a lot I am willing to pay you once I get funding to produce our first game, so if your good you may be able to stay around to create design work for our production in games.

Here is a short description of our company:

We're a team of two who were founded in January, 2015. Our goal is to produce high quality, innovative works of electronic art. We are mostly interested in creating games that include rich, open world, multiplayer environment

If your interested in doing some free design work until I receive fundings, I would be glad to here from you. Post in this thread or contact me here
Luke.

Hey guys, another question to put out there.

Been in graphic design for a couple of years but never had that much of an educated background in the field so I often have questions concerning techniques / methods.

I was wondering if you guys could give me a bit of an idea as to how this sort of image would be replicated / produced in the first place.

I assume the artist worked from photographs to create the illustrations. Would these have more likely been hand drawn on paper and scanned in or done using an illustration tablet - or is it just too hard / impossible to say?

I have some illustrator experience but not as much as photoshop, always wondered about methods employed to create this sort of result.

Thanks in advance,

J

Hey guys, I've been looking around online for hours now trying to find the design on this shirt. I want to put it on a hoodie for myself, but I haven't been able to find anything close to it. Now, I understand that I'm new here and I'm not even expecting a reply, but I guess it's worth a shot.

The Design:


The closest looking astronaut portrait I could find:


The closest looking mickey mouse head (I would like the eyes colored in like the vintage style + the red tongue):


The mickey mouse hands in the design would be a plus but I don't know if anyone would do it.

If anyone is able/willing to do this, very very much appreciated. Thank you!

Hi guys, me and my mates just want the design that we can put on a t-shirt so i can get it printed. All i want is it as a jpeg or psd file on a blank background as i can put it onto the shirt my self. I would like the design to be based on the pic below. When i try and make it, it just doesn't fit in and looks stupid. The shirt will be white btw.


Thanks!!!
Matt

Hi All,

I need some help with completing my logo

I have managed to find tutorial to design most of the elements apart from one, a stem and leaves

So need to design horizontal beautiful looking stem with leaves at the bottom of my design imagine this:



Please some help would be really appreciated !!!!

Thank You!!!!!!!!

Hey guys!

I have a burning question for you all, this can apply to anyone on the forum, new and old, it's mainly a get to know you session, just to get an idea of who's who.

-What is your specialist design subject?
-Or what specialist subject are you currently working towards?

-How did you find yourself specializing in this subject?

-What has motivated you to keep at it?

-Do you have any examples of your work to show?

Your specialist area doesn't necessarily have to be including Photoshop as the pivotal tool here, your camera and a good lighting set up might be all you need.

For example, My current specialist design subject is 3D modelling and texturing for games.

How
I came across 3d Modelling as my main subject over a year ago in my A level Graphic Design course, I wanted to think outside of the box compared to my classmates, so I looked into using 3dsmax for some of the parts of my composition. I've been texturing game assets since 2012.
I'm on 3dsmax nearly every day, so I've been getting plenty of practice in, it was initially very hard to get used to, because I was so used to thinking in 2d, but once I grasped it, I had grasped it for life.
I was texturing game assets at the age of 15, my comprehensive knowledge of photoshop by this point had helped me achieve very high quality textures to upgrade the 2001 game Ghost Recon. The project too approximately a year of solid texturing after school to complete

Motivation:
My primary motivation is seeing the models and textures take form, and Every day I'm learning. These days I find myself more and more surprised at how quickly I can learn new things.

I've currently found my place in an Arma 3 modding team, building character models and accessories, as well as a weapon, for the game, and I have been previously approached by Indie Game Devs to help them with their character design.

This is my most recent project, and this is also my first weapon project.



Other work examples:


Textures:
Hand created face textures:


so the questions above are there to be answered. where do you stand in the creative arts?

Hey guys,

I hope you all don't mind me asking a few questions in this thread regarding a graphics design apprenticeship.

Well since I am a huge fan of photoshop, and love designing. I wanted a career out of it so I have decided I would like to do an apprenticeship.

Anyway, I'm just wondering what softwares I should get myself familiar with before I start my course?

I have Photoshop and inDesign already, any others? Be reasonable here though as design softwares are not cheap, please only suggest the important ones.

I lost my dog on Tuesday and next week I will get a remembrance tattoo.
It will be on my foot.
As I wanted a tattoo in henna colour, I made the design in that colour.
However, I read about the meaning of the different colours of lotuses and as blue stands for wisdom, I tried a design in colour.
Now that turned out ugly so I came up with yet another one.
Would like your opinion, which looks nicest? The tattoo artist likes the one with the blue.

Hello folks, my name is John and I am new to the forum! I mainly use PS for photography but wander into the graphic design side of things now and again.

Right now I am struggling big time angle text in a precise way. As you can see below I am to trying to have text follow around the angles of the surrounding box but I am having big problems lining up the text correctly and ensuring it remains the right height (via free transform) and creating the angle in the right place whilst keeping the height and text the same on both sides (via vanishing point).

Any potential solutions would be a massive help! I've spent the last 3 hours trying to find/create a solution and I am at me wits end

oh and I am using CC



John