Graphics Design Apprenticeship

Now most of us here, I can imagine are here to learn and enhance our knowledge on photoshop. Maybe you are a photographer and use photoshop to tweak your photos, or just here for social fun as a hobby.

I'm on PSG today because..?
Graphics design is a hobby of mine, and it has been for a long time. I am here today as I would like to improve on my photoshop skills (self study), and hopefully one day have a career in this sector.

Now its your turn, why are you here today?

Ok guys so ill start by saying that I am new to Photoshop, slowly learning my way threw things as I go. I picked up adobes offer on Photoshop/lightroom so those are the only 2 programs i currently have to work with. I am on a paintball team and we got jerseys made. We had quite a few problems with the company printing them so they offered to throw a free banner in for us. The issue is that we didnt already have a banner designed and since the design cost would be on the company printing it now they came up with a pretty horrible design, they literally just took the front of our jersey and put it on the banner and it looks pretty bad. Im having a roadblock on how i could even design this banner so I was hoping to have a little input from everyone here. I will post our jersey below, their suggested banner, and then just a fun little mock up that I did trying to learn my way threw photoshop. Please note that on my mock up i used words instead of actual sponsor logos, i need to use logos in the actual banner but couldnt get it to look right with them in mine.

is there any design notes facility in Photoshop.Where my team can see what i have done on an ongoing work like how many pixels radius i used on a rectangle etc.. working in a team?? Thanks in advance.

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!!!!!!!!

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

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!

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?

Good Day/Night to all,

I'm here to ask a quick question. When using Photoshop to design a Tshirt for example, an all over Tshirt and you have the image size set to 300 resolution 26 Width, 29 Height and 7% zoom. Do I have to change the zoom to 100% to see how the design will actually look in person?

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.

Dear all,

I have a bit confusion about which software is the most suitable for designing a poster, brochure and flyer for commercial use ? I see that all of these software , Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrators can do it.

So please give me a good suggestion for which software to use.

Thanks and take care,