Beginner School Instruction

Graphic Design Class

The following lessons and exercises that will walk you through some of the basics that will help you learn the foundations of Graphic Design. They are aimed specifically at some of the tricks and useful techniques that are applied when designing web and print media.

Different Vector Approach

1. Open a photograph of your subject in Photoshop.

2. Goto Layer > Duplicate Layer. Click OK.
3. Make sure the duplicate layer is active.
4. Goto Filter > Artistic > Cutout. Adjust the sliders until you get a nice clean cutout effect. In this tutorial, I chose: Number of Levels to 4, Edge Simplicity to 4, and Edge Fidelity to 2.

5. With duplicate layer active, apply "Overlay" blending mode.

6. You should now have a nice looking vector effect for your photo.