Photoshop – Graphic & Web Design

Godwin Appiah

Graphic & Web Designer

Montreal, QC

Ever since I could remember I’ve always been the creative type. Always drawing on anything I could get a hold of, which was something that kept me busy to the point where I was creating little comics in the back of the class with my friends.

Now, I specialize in Photoshop, Illustration, and InDesign. I have knowledge in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript which has led me to explore my profession and working with clients. Creating my own work and developing my skills as a Graphic & Web Designer is always a part of my passion.

Using Lightroom to Edit Raw Files

girl taking photo with canon — https://unsplash.com/photos/idIUCsynuS4

Picture editing can be quite tedious, with so many things to worry about such as colour cast, or hyper exposure… So here are some tips!

First you take your pictures, preferably raw, since jpeg formats lack the elaborate detail involved in creating seamless edits. Then, you could choose to edit it in the popular app photoshop, or you could go with Lightroom. Lightroom is an adobe program specifically designed for photography.

Optimizing Images: A Lazy Web Designer’s Guide

Choose your image optimization wisely

illustration of speed — © Sean MacEntee https://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5183175462/ Creativecommons.org 2

Look at your image. Does it have millions of colors like a photograph does? Use JPEG.

Does it have flat color, as in a vector-based drawing with flat colored fills? Use PNG (or GIF).

Avoid using GIF. Use PNG instead. It is the open source equivalent (and even better) that was made to offer an alternative to the proprietary GIF image format.
Wikipedia article

TLDR? Look at this table instead

File Format	Image type
JPEG	Photographic imagery
GIF	Flat color, limited color palette, simple transparency.
PNG-8	Flat color, limited color palette, simple transparency.
PNG-24	Complex transparency