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5 BASIC PRINCILPLES OF GRAPHICS AND LAYOUT

PROXIMITY
ALIGNMENT
CONTRAST
WHIYTE SPACE
REPETITION

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grouping elements together so that you guide the viewer/reader to diff parts of the message

proximity

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helps keep the design balanced

alignment

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puts emphasis on particular elements of a design and it draws the readers attention to those elements

repetition

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can make the presentation stand out and get noticed by adding color

contrast

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useful when you want to make a direct message to stand out above the clutter found in many graphic designs
very useful in design

white space

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are visual presentations of informations that use the elements of design to display context

communicate data quickly and clearly

infographics

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3 important elements of infographics

visual elements
content elements
knowledge elements

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visual elements

color coding
reference icons
graphics

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content elements

time frames
statistics
references

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knowledge elements

facts

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was the first to deeply investigate the capabillities of infographics

gallop organization

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5 types of infographic

cause & effect infographics
chronological infographics
quantitative infographics
directional infographics
product infographics

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these graphics explain causal relationships between various physical or conceptual stages

cause & effect infographics

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explain an event or process as it happened in time

chronological infographics

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convey statistical data to readers quickly and clearly

quantitative infographics

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these graphics includes charts, bar graph, tables and lists

quantitative infographics

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can navigate readers through information

directional infographics

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can be seen on notice boards at factories and corporate offices, conveying informations to all employees and visitor

product infographics

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three categories of visual infographic

static infographic
motion infographics
interactive infographics

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present information at once and in it entirety
ex: newspaper graphics and product manual

static infographics

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Play a major role in cinema and presentations. Information is presented sequentially and consistently

Motion infographics

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Information is presented according to the readers choice

Interactive infographics

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Infographics should be simple, clean, consider and clear

Simplicity is the best policy

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Emphasize cause and effect relationship of the presentation

nothing takes effect without a cause

Limit the scope of your information and draw your lines accordingly

Draw your boundaries

Color is the most effective tool by which authors guide and influence their readers. Color can give readers varied impressions, both conceptual and emotional.

think in color

makes the information more legible and determines the visual hierarchy of information

colors

tap your creativity: try diff combinations of typography, illustrations, images, charts, diagrams , and icons

layout is not just about typography

make sure you have clear idea of final size of the graphics as youre working

make it appeal in the eye

make infographics trust worthy by allowing readers to dig deeper into the data if they so desire

be verifiable

this deals with the file size. the more compressed the image, the more smaller the file

compression

2 types of compression

lossy compression lossless compression

reduces the sige of the image by discarding image detail

lossy compression

compresses the image without discarding any detail but the file size are larger

lossless compression

the simplest may only have one of two colors while the more complex contains millions

number of colors

are common file format for digital photos and other digital graphics

jog or jpeg

jpeg meaning

joint photographic experts group

TIF meaning

tagged imaged file format

generally used for professional photography, print publishing and graphic design use lossless compression so the file are really large

TIF

GIF meaning

graphics interchange format

this file type uses lossless compression and is generally used for image with less than 256 colors, like icons or logos offers transparancy and animation

GIF

PNG meaning

Portable Network Graphics

is a newer file format similar to a GIF but it supports more color

PNG

is a powerful and free piece of software that can handle all basic image editing tasks and much more beyond that. the fact that its open source and available for UNIX platforms , mac and windows make it extremely flexible

GIMP

GIMP meaning

GNU image manipulation program

it can completely make task such as red eye correction, resizing, cropping, but it also supports layers. the program is open source and a great collection of user created plugins is available from its online community

Paint.NET

this is the perfect tool if you want to create panorama images it works fully automatic and doesnt require user input the program can handle both horizontal and vertical stitching

Autostitch

with this software, you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and the program will merge all your photos into perfect composite image

Microsoft Research Group Shot

this software creates a personal and unique edition of paper calendar

TKexe Kalender

Is used to postprocess on your snapshots. The program comes equipped with more than 100 different settings stimulating kodak Cokin and Hoya filters

Opanda PhotoFilter

This program helps the user to create a mosaic picture from hundreds or thousands of photos

Photo Mosaik

• Morph, warp and distort images in a professional and high quality way. • It works as standalone application or as a plugin for various video editors, it offers advanced keyframing, blending and distortion tools for total control and can even do dynamic morphing with various input file formats.

Win Morph

This is the tool to give your digital images the final touch. Reduce noise caused by bad light situations, smooth skin in portraits, correct the midtones, and add saturation. Naturally, this will work best on bad images.

free digital camera enhancer

• With most programs, the simple act of rotating your JPEG photo into the right orientation and saving it causes a loss of quality. • does the job without recoding your photo. Rather it performs a special lossless block transformation which leaves the quality of your photo untouched.

Jpeg Lossless Rotator

• Online image sharing community and image host founded by Alan Schaaf. • No need to sign up for a free account. • Images from your computer can be uploaded to Imgur to be shared on your favorite social network via a unique URL, or within the Imgur community itself.

imgur

• A photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and spun out from Google+, the company's social network.

Google Photos

2 storage settings of Google Photos

high quality and original quality

one of the most useful photo resources you can use, mainly for its powerful automatic backup feature.

google photos

• an image hosting and video hosting website and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo on March 20, 2005. • The service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

Flickr

• is a Canadian online community, and marketplace based on photography, co-founded by Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev (artistically also known as "Ian Sobolev") on Halloween 2009.

500px

• American image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community dedicated to preserving and sharing the entire photo and video lifecycle. • Alex Welch and Darren Crystal - founder of the website (2003) • Trinity Ventures - funds the website • Acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007 • Photobucket to Seattle Mobile startup Ontela (December 2009)

photobucket

• The site was launched in November 2003. The main page has a file selection field, where the user may select the image file to upload. • The image file format must be either JPEG (JPG), PNG, GIF, TIFF (TIF), or BMP, and the file must be smaller than or equal to 5 megabytes (free service) or 10 megabytes (subscription service). Uploaded BMP and TIFF (TIF) images are automatically converted to PNG format

Imageshack

• Dropbox is a free cloud storage provider that you can use to store all sorts of different file formats, in addition to photos. • You can get a shareable link to a single photo file or even an entire folder containing multiple photos to share with other people.

dropbox

was founded in 2007, by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a startup company from the American seed accelerator Y Combinator.

Dropbox

• is similar to Imgur but without the trendy layout and or the convenient hyperlink shortener. • You can upload images without needing to create a free account first. • provides you with the HTML code to a direct link to your photo so you can share it easily.

Free image hosting

• (a product of Photobucket) gives users a fast and simple way to upload and share photos without having to create or log into an account. • provides you with a simple link you can use to share your photo anywhere.

tinypic

A very simple site that gives you free image hosting for life and something that most other free image hosting sites don't give their users: the opportunity to host adult content (as long as it also doesn't fall under the category of being violent, racist or illegal).

postimage

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