From here we have made mention over the years to the novelties that the virtual panorama offers us and that have been facilitating our work and helping to obtain more and more results. professionals. However, we have reached a point where our capacity has little by little been eclipsed in some way by the resources of technology itself. Now there are applications that have been increasingly refined to provide their users with the resources they need. From logos (which we have not included here by the way, because it seems to me unfair competition to the designer, honestly) to cartoons, 3D modeling or color palettes.
Can we speak of a kind of technological intrusion? Will the applications make the designer disappear? I think not, but there are times when I doubt, especially considering that each time these applications are specializing and promoting more and more. Will technology turn against the graphic designer? I think this is a debate that I would like to discuss in another article, for now today I leave you with clear examples of what I say. Applications that five years ago we would not be able to imagine would exist and yet today we use them daily.
- Adobe Capture: We have already talked about it on occasion and it is that with it you will only have to dedicate yourself to taking photos with your mobile device and it will automatically develop a color palette apart from the sample image that you just took. You can also create your own brushes and looks to integrate them very easily into your designs. Isn't it fantastic?
- Picture: Its operation is very simple. You just have to download the plugin and install it in Photoshop. Once you have it included in the application, we can download images without any of the distractions that manual searches and downloads provide. With Pictura we can instantly locate and use any image from Flickr. After doing our search and finding the image we were looking for, it will only be a matter of clicking and starting to work.
- 3-Sweep: It is a program developed by researchers Tao Chen, Zhe Zhu, Ariel Shamir, Shi-Min Hu and Daniel Cohen-Or, from Tel-Aviv University in Israel and Tsinghua University in Beijing. This software will allow the user to extract 3D models from 2D images. To do this, you will only have to easily trace the paths of each object on the image itself, by delimiting the edges of an object in a photograph the system automatically turns it into a 3D model that can be rotated, duplicated and transformed as you wish. Here is a sample of the project, which has not yet been published despite the fact that it has been years since its video went viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oie1ZXWceqM There is another very similar alternative that is available to users and it is called Smoothie 3d. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEHGUnpMxI#t=32
- Paint Tool SAI: This Japanese application has very little new, however it deserved to be in our selection for its extreme power compared to its lightness. Its weight is almost imperceptible so it can be used on any computer. It is aimed at illustrators and will provide us with tremendously professional finishes similar to those used by the artist Josh Galvez of whom we have already spoken on occasion. Without a doubt, recommended!
- Colorfull: The color splash effect remains one of the freshest expressive devices within the range of alternatives available to today's designer. From this application we can use the camera of our mobile phone and it will process our image to release some areas of color and obtain 100% surprising results. The result is professional, with a clean finish and best of all, we obtain it in record time. In addition to the colorsplash effect, it has other effects and options that will give our photographic composition greater dynamism and richness.
- Affinity Designer: It has been one of the most striking discoveries of the last year. It is developed for Mac and although it has the toughest competition that exists today in our field, the Adobe house, little by little it has been gaining the confidence of designers. And it is not just any vector drawing program. We are facing a tremendously powerful application that offers tremendously advanced tools and that although they do not resemble those proposed by Illustrator in terms of quantity, it does have a very positive point to consider: Its ability to process information and work with large amounts of data. We will be able to obtain tremendously professional results and in a much less time than we should invest with Adobe Illustrator.
- Duomatic: If the color splash effect is one of the most demanded in the field of advertising concept design, the double exposure effect is perhaps the most popular in the audiovisual environment and has even been used in the headlines of large renowned fiction series international and also within the area of video art splashing of course to graphic design and photography. With this application, which is available for both Android and iOS, we will obtain the best results. Its operation is extremely simple and it will only be enough to load two photographs from our library and proceed to merge both taking advantage of the lighting indicators. Through the software we can establish or regulate the level of fusion between both photographs, which gives us great power when working.
- momentcam: Traditionally, cartoons were the work of the cartoonist, but little by little design software and applications have been perfected to emulate the art of caricature as an expressive medium. We are aware that it is possible to develop our own cartoons from applications such as Adobe Photoshop, but they require certain knowledge and also a considerable investment of time, especially if we are starting from a photograph and we want to obtain the best result. This application for smartphones allows you to create cartoons from images and in record time. Caricatures from photographs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9eqn-sKR-w
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