Visual Graphic Arts

Chinese art has the oldest continuous tradition in the world, and is marked by an unusual degree of continuity of that tradition opposing to the equivalent in the West with Western collapse and gradual recovery of classical styles.Apart from paintings, the tradition of ink wash painting, practiced mainly by scholar-officials and court painters especially of landscapes, flowers, and birds, developed according to the individual imagination of and observation by the artist in the same way as in the West, but long pre-dated their development there. After contacts with Western art became increasingly important from the 19th century onwards, in recent decades China has participated with increasing success in worldwide contemporary art. Chinese art is exceptionally wee-known in the area of cerami...

Illustrating is one of the most in demand jobs today. If this is your career path then you have a lot of options--you can illustrate comic books, book covers, advertising campaigns, marketing collaterals like brochures, flyers, and leaflets, restaurant menus, product packaging, magazine articles and news stories and even medical journals. These are just examples as there are still so many industries and businesses right now that need the expertise of an illustrator for so many things.Nowadays, more and more skilled people including illustrators are no longer sitting through an 8-hour job and are going freelance. As a freelance illustrator, you get a lot of advantages. First, you get to own your time. For creative people, the freedom to manage time and not be constricted by hectic office sc...

Wall graphics are known by many names like wall stickers, wall decals and even, wall tattoos. This is a type of vinyl sticker that can be stuck to the wall or any other smooth surface. Some decals are meant only for decorative purposes, while there are others that have educational motifs. Cut using vinyl cutting machines, these decals have a layer of adhesive on the back that is used to affix them.Installing wall decals is not a tough process, as they are very user-friendly. Here is a step-by-step guide to help you apply your wall decals in no time at all.1. Preparing the Graphic Sheets The very first step is to prepare the decal for easy application. Place each sheet on a flat surface with the backing side up. In most case, squeegees will be included with the decal package. If there isn'...

Photoshop lets you correct color of your photos. This is possible with two options: Photo Filters and Auto Color. Using these options is quite easy. After the treatment, your photos will look much better than before.Let us first see how it can be done with Auto Color feature. You need to go to Adjustment and then choose Auto Color. This will automatically adjust the image color based on highlights, mid tones, and shadows.If you are not satisfied with the highlights, you should choose Highlights Clip to make necessary adjustments.Photoshop has another tool called Photo Filters to let you change your photo color. You need to go to Image, Adjustments and then choose Photo Filters. Settings for photo filter will appear in a sort of dialogue box. You will also see a preview box, which will show...

Do you have old photos that are a bit damaged? Maybe their colors are faded or changed. This happens usually to old photos or the photos that have not been stored properly. The good news is that there are many old photo restoration methods out there. The digital methods are much better.Can you restore any type of damaged photos?You can contact a digital photo restoration service to get you black & white and color photos, slides or negatives retouched and restored if they are faded, stained, scratched, mildew damaged, water damaged or fire damaged.How do they restore old photos?Actually, professionals use a computer and various apps in order to restore damaged photos. In the first phase, they use a scanner for scanning the original slide, picture or negative to get a high resolution photo t...

On the Internet, advertisement programs like AdSense are quite popular in the here and now. As a matter of fact, they are textual ads, and cost a fraction of the advertisement boards you see on roads and streets. For promoting a product online, these ads are an ideal choice. Apart from text-based ads, image-based banners are also popular nowadays.Some small businesses think that only text ads come under the category of contextual ads. This is actually a misconception. Let me clear the misconception. In the world of Word Wide Web, for your ad campaign, you get a list of keywords, define your region and lastly you get demographic information.Actually, the ad programs make use of your browser cookies in order to track internet users. So, when a user enters some keywords to look for informatio...

Adobe Photoshop offers tons of useful features to let you edit photos. But in this article, we will talk about a tool that you can use in order to remove an object or person from a photo. This tool is commonly used by professional photo editors. So, if you need to remove an unwanted object from your photo, you may want to use these guidelines to edit that object out from the photo.1. First of all, import the photo you want to edit and remove the unwanted object from.2. Select the Zoom tool. Now, click and drag to make the marquee surround the target object. Photoshop will zoom in on the image.3. Go for the Pen tool.4. On the toolbar, choose Paths.5. Keep clicking at brief intervals until the unwanted object is surrounded.6. Once you get back to where you began, click in the same box that i...

If you are into the field of graphic designing, you are probably aware of the two most common techniques professionals use: Image Masking and Clipping Path. The demand for these two services is on the rise in the outsourcing industry. Which one of the two is more valuable? In our experience, image masking has more value than clipping path. Let us find out how.Clipping Path:Adobe Photoshop features a pen tool, which is used for clipping path. Clipping is a technique used for cutting off an object from an image or photo, while Path refers to cutting out a picture or image. So, the term clipping path involves deleting certain objects from the image background.Clipping path technique is useful if you want to remove background from an image. The Pen tool is used for higher accuracy while placin...

Magento - Its Usefulness and ImportanceMagento is a must-have e-commerce platform that every entrepreneur should be thinking about. With this software, a business person can be able to create and build online stores that can be used to quickly and easily sell different types of products.Why is Magento useful and important?There is no denying the fact that Magento is a very important in the current world of business. Even though there are different platforms in the market, it should always be remembered that Magento has emerged superior to those platforms. The superiority of Magento has made it very useful and desirable in different parts of the world. Its importance is seen in the following areas:Open Source PlatformThis software grants its users and developers the permission to open up th...

India has a vast range of cultures, religions and history. It consists of various forms of arts including classical music, dance and paintings. If we talk about paintings, the sculptures in the ancient time were mainly made up of stone and metal. The first known sculpture of Indian art is from Indus valley civilization (3300-1700BC). After that, different kinds of paintings came into existence like wall painting, miniature painting, contemporary painting etc. Indian art is very pretty, colorful and vibrant just like the country India.These paintings and artworks are so beautiful that for some people it becomes a hobby and a passion to collect these masterpieces, they are known as Indian art collectors. Abstract art exists in the genre of art till 20th century. It justifies its name very we...