need photoshop!!

CS4 from mininova is a virus nest, beware. My computer almost crashed last thursday because of that. (At least 11 viruses simultaneously)

What exactly are you going to use it for? From a graphic designers point of view everyone is obsessed with Photoshop despite the fact half the stuff people make in there are made using the wrong program all-be-it looking good.

Adobe Photoshop: Image manipulation/touchups
Adobe Illustrator: Vector based work such as logos, icons etc.
Adobe InDesign: If your going to make magazine covers or similar than this really is the program to use.

I wouldnt go for anything below CS2 either and huge pointer for CS4, when you save the file make sure you set the backwards compatibility correctly. CS4 PSD files will not work in CS3.

I'm taking a graphics design and Design concepts class ;D ;D I know what to do with most of them

maxkillz said:

I'm taking a graphics design and Design concepts class ;D ;D I know what to do with most of them  

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Cool, im doing graphic design at college. Theres a heck of a lot of people that just use Photoshop for absolutly everything.

If you took a freelance job online and was asked to make a magazine cover and you made it in Photoshop then there is little chance they will accept it.

I'm in class now doing the final project, I have to make a fantasy back ground with a person merged with an animal or object. I'm doing freedy mercury nerged with a monkey in outer space on a rocket ship on it's way to mars ;D plus a rainbow and water fall and some other stuffs

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I'm in class now doing the final project, I have to make a fantasy back ground with a person merged with an animal or object. I'm doing freedy mercury nerged with a monkey in outer space on a rocket ship on it's way to mars  ;D plus a rainbow and water fall and some other stuffs

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Woah, let me know how that turns out

Graphic design here at college if more to do with magazine, book covers, website etc. design. At the moment I have 5 different assignments going at once. Series book covers, poster for kew gardens, typography face (making a famous face out of just letters) and two other ones that I really cant think of right now.

The course im doing is basically teaching us everything about the programs and grapics in general (typograpy, colours, printing, serifs/sans serif etc.), the correct way to go about doing jobs for people and how to present it to the client.

I'm kinda stuggleing on finding the right images to build off of for the back ground :-/ monkey freddy is done though cant load is though, it's 290mb as a jpeg :-/

btw this is a college class just my teacher is more focused on illustrator and photoshop than anything else

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I'm kinda stuggleing on finding the right images to build off of for the back ground  :-/ monkey freddy is done though   cant load is though, it's 290mb as a jpeg  :-/

btw this is a college class just my teacher is more focused on illustrator and photoshop than anything else

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Make one? Theres planty of tutorials around if your stuck for ideas on how to make it, ok so most of them are Photoshop tutorials but then can easily be imported into Illustrator.

290mb is insane for a jpeg Three suggestions though, first being flatten the image before you save it. That will convert the layers into one layer (different to merging) while it saves and changes it back to how it was once its done saving. Second option is to downsize the image quality, the difference between the lowest high quality and highest high quality is minimal anyway and third option is to save as a different file type, jpeg is the best quality yes but there are others that are very similar.

I hate the difference between the American definition for college as it means something completly different here in England. College is pretty much like university for any Americans, from what I know the US has school and university right? England has school > college > university. I am at college now and im not going to go to uni.

When you say graphics class do you mean at a school for just one lesson a week or however it works for you or do you mean on a graphics course and doing graphics every day every week?

every day 8am-10:30am ;D, when I tried to compress it the image gets all messed up. lowest it will go is 40mb at 4361x3280 resolution but it's really grainy and the colors dont look right

I'm not too sure on American schooling myself, I grew up in South Korea. I think it's Primary, middle, high, college, then university. but it's very weird, In Korea you have to take entrance exams to get into middle schools on up and they test to see what areas you are good in and put you speciazed schools for it.

maybe bitmap format might work?

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every day 8am-10:30am  ;D, when I tried to compress it the image gets all messed up. lowest it will go is 40mb at 4361x3280 resolution but it's really grainy and the colors dont look right

I'm not too sure on American schooling myself, I grew up in South Korea. I think it's Primary, middle, high, college, then university. but it's very weird, In Korea you have to take entrance exams to get into middle schools on up and they test to see what areas you are good in and put you speciazed schools for it.

maybe bitmap format might work?

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If its not actually being used as a wallpaper or anything then try a PDF, the file size is down the the huge resolution, is it really nessicery to be that large? Bitmaps arnt really the best for images of that size but give it a try, I can't say what it will turn out like as I hardly use that file type at all.

What exactly happens when you flatten the image?

I guess we are lucky here in England, the only place you need entry requirments is to get into college which have different amounts of points needed for different courses. We still get graded like A*, A, B, C etc. and each one of those are equivilent to a certain number of points which can be added to the amount on each grade you get. I needed 200 points to get into graphic design which I didn't have so I had to do a art and design course for one year so that I had the right amount of points to get into the course I wanted.