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There's a huge difference between learning "design" and learning "how to create graphics/how to use Photoshop". If you're wanting to learn how to design, find
by jeffclark 16y ago
There's a huge difference between learning "design" and learning "how to create graphics/how to use Photoshop".
If you're wanting to learn how to design, find as many design books as you can in the library. Not the Photoshop manual, but books like "108 essays on design". Find as many design mags as you can and read every article: Communication Arts, Print magazine, whatever. (Communication Arts puts out a few annuals every year: advertising annual (my favorite), photography annual, interactive annual, etc.)
Consume as much design as you can and write down what you like about what you like. Consume, consume, consume.
Then, just DO IT. Do, do, do. But without a computer.
Take out a piece of paper and design a landing page for your current project. Layout where your titles will go, where your form will go, etc. Photoshop won't help if you don't know what you want in the first place. Explain to someone why the form is on the left instead of the right. Explain why the title is so big and why you chose that much content.
Then rip it apart and make another. And another. And another. And just keep doing it and talking about it with people smarter than you and people dumber than you. Find online communities like Behance or Forrst or Dribbble and review/preview others' work.
Consume, consume, consume. Do, do, do. Talk, talk, talk. It's the exact same way you learned to program!