Designers will be confused at every stage, and designers with 5 years are no exception. A designer asked me, "I can't design for five years, and I can't imitate it", so I wrote an article to solve the problem for more designers with the same problem.
I have also experienced your stage, and found that I can't do design, and I doubt that I am not suitable for design.
At this time, I need to give myself a psychological hint and keep saying to myself, "I can do a good job in design because I have done too little."
Psychological suggestion is amazing. When you say I can't do it every time, you really can't do it, and you really can't do it well. Many times we scare ourselves off, not the thing itself.
We should hint in a positive way and in a positive way. For example, I told myself that I could do a good job in design, but I only had less actual combat time and more actual combat time. With such a hint, you won't feel anxious because you can't design.
Share some insights from my study of design.
Is it true that a lot of imitation is needed at the beginning of design?
You only listened to the first half of the sentence, and the second half was to imitate the excellent landing project.
In other words, designers should choose "excellent design and landing projects" when imitating works.
Why do you want to imitate excellent works? The highest level of works you can make is the level of the best works you have ever seen.
What you imitate is the level of a certain network work, then your aesthetics will stay at this stage. If you imitate the work of the Great God, then your aesthetics will be the height of the Great God.
When designing, we should be more competent than others, "the horizon should be higher than the design ability", and the aesthetics and horizon must be higher than the design ability, no matter what stage.
Why is it a landing project? This problem is ignored by many designers. Whether looking at works or imitating works, it is best to find works of landing projects.
Because many works are beautiful and artistic, but they are not landing projects, the design ultimately needs to go through Party A and be tested by the market. If you often imitate such works, your style and aesthetics will tend to such works, your design will deviate from the market, and your works will have no commercial value.
Let's talk about the reason why we can't design after five years of design. This problem is very common, and you are not alone.
After five years of design, I still can't design. I summed up five reasons:
The first reason: learning is too complicated, and you spend your experience and time learning new skills. You know a little about each skill, but you are not good at it, so it is normal for you to be an all-around rookie and not be able to do design.
The second reason: I have no awareness of learning and upgrading for five years, and I am very satisfied with the status quo with a relatively acceptable salary. It took a few years to find out that I could do nothing when I wanted to change jobs.
The third reason: I don't have perseverance, I can't persist in learning, and I make up my mind to study every time, but I insist on it for a few days and then give up. This is repeated, just like many designers want to read books, but they haven't finished reading a book in five years, saying that they have learned to draw a picture completely in five years.
Without perseverance, you can't learn design well. Learning design must be the same as learning for a period of time, and you should stick to learning well and change to something else.
The fourth reason: learn what you see. Too eager to learn, just learning without practicing, learned a lot of things, and can't design.
The fifth reason: there is no clear positioning and I don't know what I want. I have been looking for what I want for five years, but I can't find what I like.
How can I find what I like? This question is actually not easy to say. Let me say one thing: I like it only after I am good at it.
Many designers think they like it at first, but they don't like it when they do it, so you will fall in love with it if you do something well first, and the initial love may be a whim.
It's like when you were studying, you were partial to the subject, some liked it very much, some hated it very much, but did you really dislike it? You don't like it because you are not good at it.
The above five reasons are some common reasons that I have summarized. Let's take a look at what our problems are, and we must know what our problems are before we can change them.
This article was written by me before. For those who can't find the direction, you can have a look. To be an excellent designer, you must know 4600 words of knowledge (from thinking to cognition)
After working for five years, I think you have tried all kinds of designs yourself and know what you are good at. What do you like?
What you have to do now is to give up some dispensable skills, those skills that will not be used for a year and a half, and it is still practical to give up on skill selection.
Learning too much is not a good thing, but a hindrance to you. At this time, you need to get rid of its chaff and keep its essence. It is very unwise to spend a month learning a skill that is only used once a year.
For example, when many designers learn PS, they will learn all the functions and commands. Is it necessary?
There is no need to do more than ten common functions in design, and different types of designs have different common functions. For example, LOGO designers often use tools such as adjusting nodes, adjusting colors and shapes, while retouchers often use tools such as color matching, color gradation and curve.
You see, the PS is the same, and the tools commonly used by different designers are different. It is really unnecessary for you to learn all the commands. In fact, if you use more commands that you haven't learned, you will.
There must be a choice between the command to learn a piece of software, the learning skills, the brushing of mobile phones and chatting, and time is wasted by these dispensable things.
5 years have you ever thought about a question, how much time is spent on study, and is it a year?
At present, you need to give up some skills, choose a main skill, study deeply and study deeply, such as LOGO design. On the surface, you just draw a figure, which is the superficial skill that many designers learn.
In-depth, you will find that LOGO is a brand, a symbol bearing the enterprise/brand, and it is a visual system. The standard of good or bad LOGO is not beauty or ugliness, but whether it can be remembered, whether it can be applied, whether the logo is not in line with the market and so on.
If you stay on the surface every time you learn a skill, you can't design well and you can't design well.
What you learn should focus on your main skills, such as LOGO design, font design, VI design, cartoon IP design, all for better LOGO design. If you study e-commerce design at this time, it will go astray and return to the initial unfocused, chaotic and blind study. In the next five years, you will still ask, why can't I design?
The best way for designers to break through in five years is to "focus" and become a great god in one field, not an all-round rookie, but a specialized great god.
A very simple truth, even if you just design good food posters, you are a great god in the field of food poster design. What can you do? You are still a rookie.
Speaking of omnipotence and specialization, I'm going to say a little more.
Many designers have this confusion. If I have a single skill and find a job, no one wants it. So I can only learn many skills.
This problem is inherently contradictory. Successful people insist on doing one thing, but the market needs generalists. Most people will choose to cater to the market and live after all.
At this time, you need to separate your work from your development direction. What do you mean?
The job needs a generalist. It doesn't mean that you have to know everything at first, but that you will learn more and more slowly in the process of work. If you read the recruitment information, you have to learn the skills required by the recruitment information, then you will lose.
Skills can never be learned, new technologies are constantly developing, and new tools are produced every year. When can you meet the recruitment requirements of the company?
The longer you work, the more skills you will have and become a generalist.
Why should the development direction be separated from work? Work needs many skills, but you don't need them after work. Use your spare time to develop your main skills. When your main skills have achieved something, you have the right to choose.
You can choose companies that only need to do a single design. There are many such companies. Every designer of a good company only needs to design his own professional field, so that you can develop better in the professional field.
Can't cater to the needs of the company, more should consider self-development. If you can't jump out of this circle, you can only be an all-around rookie.
Whether you use your spare time or go to work, what I want to tell you is that you can be a generalist, but you need to spend more time studying the main skills. The main skills should be the same as eating every day, and the auxiliary skills can be dispensed with.
To sum up, break through at one point first, and let yourself shine at one point first. This light will shine on other aspects of you, and other aspects will become excellent. Why are excellent people getting better and better? Excellent people only succeeded in one thing at first.
The way for designers to get out of confusion in five years is to "focus" and find a point to break through.
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I am a thoughtful designer growth consultant: focusing on the personal growth of designers and empowering them.
What are the image processing software? 1、AdobePhotoshop
AdobePhotoshop, referred to as "PS", is an image processing software developed and distributed by Adobe_ystems.
Photoshop mainly deals with digital images composed of pixels. Using its numerous editing and drawing tools, you can edit pictures effectively. Ps has many functions, including images, graphics, text, video, publishing and so on.
2. Meitu Xiu Xiu
Meitu Xiu Xiu is a free photo processing software developed and launched by Xiamen Meitu Technology Co., Ltd. on October 8th, 2008/KLOC-0. It has iPhone version, Android version, PC version, WindowsPhone version, iPad version and web page version, and is committed to providing professional and intelligent photo and photo retouching services for users all over the world.
Meitu Xiu Xiu's picture special effects, beauty, puzzles, scenes, borders, ornaments and other functions can make studio-level photos 1 minute, and can also be shared with Sina Weibo, Renren.com, QQ space and so on with one click.
3, light and shadow magician
Software for improving image quality and effect processing; Simple and easy to use, you can produce the color effect of professional film photography without any professional image technology, which has many unique features, such as reverse film effect, black and white effect, digital fill light, stamping and typesetting, etc.
And its batch processing function is very powerful, and it is an essential image processing software for post-processing of photographic works, rapid beauty of pictures and printing and finishing of digital photos, which can meet the needs of post-processing of most people's photos.
4. Poster factory
Poster Factory is an APP software specially used for picture design, beautification, splicing and production. The poster factory was launched in public beta on July 24th, 20 14, and was created by Meitu Xiu Xiu officials and dozens of well-known designers at home and abroad. All the styles are in style. It has the most fashionable poster elements such as magazine cover, movie poster, gourmet menu and travel diary, creating a visual blockbuster in one second.
5. PhotoPos (graphic editor)
An advanced image and CG editing tool, which supports various image formats, scanners and digital cameras, including image enhancement and editing tools, Rich text tools, special effects, layers and masks, textures, scripts and batch operations. PhotoPosPro is a high-performance digital image processing and browsing software with advanced features such as layers, masks, scripts and batch processing. It supports most scanners and digital cameras.
Reference source:
-Graphic editor
-Meitu Xiu Xiu
-Magic Hand of Light and Shadow
-AdobePhotoshop
-Poster factory
Without ps, how to make a new media map for the real estate and home furnishing industry? Ps is the abbreviation of Adobe's Photoshop professional drawing software, which requires certain professional knowledge to master skillfully.
The following kinds of software are simple to operate and easy to use. It is recommended to download related apps or Baidu to try to enter related online websites:
1, figure driver App
800,000+template, the operation is very simple, and the gif picture is beautiful.
One-click matting function, and then add the background text of the material, etc., and you can draw the picture after adjustment.
The membership fee is cheap and the cost performance is super high.
2, figure monster
Gif animation | video |PPT|H5| WeChat typesetting.
Many exquisite templates meet the needs of different scenes.
The posters of food and beverage are all good.
Suitable for marketing promotion activities.
It is best to upgrade to membership.
3. Love design
The first picture of WeChat official account | Mobile phone poster | Marketing long picture | WeChat official account second picture.
Course cover | Horizontal version with pictures | Square QR code | Vertical version with pictures.
Simple and easy to use.
It is best to upgrade to membership.
4, maker stickers
You can do PPT, invitation, recruitment, logo, resume, business card, etc., with diverse styles and good looks.
Members are expensive.
5. Meitu Xiu Xiu APP
It provides useful functions such as image beautification tools, portrait beautification, text addition, matting software, jigsaw puzzles, batch processing of image size, background color change of ID photos, image compression, etc., as well as poster design, graphic design, advertising design, sticker materials, borders and other rich contents.