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Good Design isn't About Photoshop Tutorials
written by Allan Branch on December 9th, 2008
With so many Photoshop tutorials floating around everyone thinks they're designers. There's nothing wrong with tutorials or Photoshop but Photoshop isn't the foundation of good design. Good design is about visual balance, a font hierarchy, color weight, alignment and proximity, these pillars are how you, the designer, guide the viewer's eyes around the page to the places you want them to be.
Below is a simple design, but very effective. The spacing is clear and the alignments are perfect.
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Below is a simple design, but very effective. The spacing is clear and the alignments are perfect.
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Simple alignments make a difference.
See the consistent spacing?
3 Responses to “Good Design isn't About Photoshop Tutorials”
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Great Point Allan!
“Good design” comes in many forms. In my world of ecommerce, executing designs to solve a problem are what makes a “good design”. Photoshop is just the tool to help complete the solution.
I completely agree. Using photoshop (or Illustrator or whatever) doesn’t make you a designer as much as cooking dinner at home doesn’t make you a chef… go tell the clients.
And i don’t even want to go on the topic “logo design”...
Hmm, that second screenshot looks more like Skitch than Photoshop ;-)