What type of education and experience do graphic artists need?
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now that depends on the type of job youre applying for. youre talking about what you need to get a job, right? the most important thing you need is a versatile portfolio. prepare a sample of your work to show off your best stuff to a potential employer. make sure you are clear on the types of software in which you are proficient. a formal education can help but if you have learned marketable skills otherwise and can prove that with a portfolio, you will be in good shape. any sort of experience will help make you a more attractive candidate as it is rare in any profession to be able to start anywhere other than the 'bottom of the ladder.' do not, however, think that any experience is too meek to show off: let potential employers know of work you have done for friends, family, any type of group, school, publication, or other employers. pick your three to six best experiences to brag about.
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Photoshop is an excellent skill to have. The following are all careers you can pursue with good/expert Photoshop skills (I think in logical order). Please keep in mind that the more "real world" experience you can show your employer, the better. I'd suggest having a portfolio of your work on the web. But anyway, career paths:\n\n1) Graphic Designer (If you have a good eye and creativity for designing that is)\n\n2) Technician in a Photo Lab. (I'd imagine this is more following instructions than creating your own vision)\n\n3) Teaching Photoshop classes to people. (There are several technical institutes that teach seminars, but you need to be really good and established to do this.)\n\n4) Digital Image Artist: If you develop a name for yourself within the digital artist community (by developing awesome desktop wallpapers, etc.), people might approach you for employment or in ideal circumstances, pay you for your work. Competition is tough. \n\nThe above is pure photoshop skills. If you learn some other complimentary skills, you can be any sort of designer (i.e.Web Design -> HTML/CSS/Flash... Print design -> Acrobat/In Design)\n\nBest to you!
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Depends on the position. Age shouldn't be a factor but not too young or too old...sorry to say. A BS is usually minimal requirement.\n\nAs a creative....Of course experience with creating ads, concepts, marketing etc\n\nAs an account rep...the ability to communicate, presentation skills, persuasiveness, professionalism, being able to work as a liaison between the client and creative dept. to come up with a successful ad campaign for the client. Advertising and marketing experience is helpful.\n\nAs an exec....to have many years experience in the creative development of advertising and managing a team of creative, sales, and rep employees with success.\n\nGood luck bored one :)\n\nMike\n========================
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If you want to become a web and graphic designer, you should have hands on eperience in many technologies, I suggest you to be more specific in what you really want to do, because high end graphics design will involve lot of creativity and more expensive to learn like (maya 3dMax) etc. whereas low level involves working in photoshop, coral draw, flash etc. web designer will generally need to learn basic technologies like html, XML, php etc and database technologies like Mysql, ORACLE, SQL Server etc. to design good websites. I suggest you to learn these technologies to start with and flash parallely so that you can complete the courses soon. Best wishes
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Here are a couple of sites I have found useful\n\nhttp://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/\n\nhttp://www.freeology.com/graphicorgs/
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All graphic designers use Mac as well as muscisians, artists etc\nIf you really want to become a graphic designer you shoul choose a Mac. My daughter went to school to become one and the school only worked with Macs (They can also get the program for pc 'quark express' as well as indesign etc)
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You might want to take a few IT classes on the side if possible. The world of information technology is booming and definitely a hot candidates market right now. Almost every company has an IT need as they all have web sites right now. You like Photoshop, you like graphics, why not get into programming? YOu could do GUI programming or UI programming which is what the users see more so than the back end stuff. This would be graphical, you would probably need to learn technology more than just photoshop such as ajax or php which are both front end programming and development tools. If you like interior design you could get a job using your design skills for online based tools and websites for designers etc...
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You need a degree in education with a minor in art. If you want to specialize. It can be a bachelors in most states. But you should contact a local college or university and find out the requirments in your state.
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Graphic Design is a major which you can design ads, logos, posters and web, you will design by different programs like adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Indesign...etc\n\nGraphic animation is similar to graphic design but you basically will design for video games and animation ads
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Computer Graphics can give us a clear view of the things you need to know fully.For example you can simulate an environment in which every thing happens like real using the computer graphics so graphics can make you feel things virtually real.
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You can check http://www.w3schools.com/ . It has lot of options to do graphic design using html, xml, perl-cgi. Hope it heps.
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I think Art sounds like a logical choice for you.  Within arts,  fields such as visual communication, time arts, etc requires substantial computer knowledge.  Also, double major is always a choice.  Since you want to be involved in business, you can start as an art major and then start business with your art degree.  A degree in computer science will help, won't hurt.  You will need to take few math classes for computer science including calculus and linear algebra.
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you need to take art after 12th.
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get a macbook pro.  this is the best computer for graphic design, and now it will run any games you want. with dual OS techolgy you can do any thing.
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is this what you're looking for?\n\nhttp://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10036591/How_to_Be_an_Artist.htm
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First you need to choose a school and get a degree by choosing a good school that will instill in you a good foundation.  After that you should build a great resume and portfolio that shows only the spectrum of the work you are applying for unless they ask otherwise.  \n\nSalary depends on where you live and what the cost of living is there.  For example, a graphic artist in Pittsburgh, PA will make around $25,000/year starting, one in Washington, DC might make $35,000/year, while one in San Francisco, CA might make $30,000/year.\n\nSalary will also depend on the job market where you are trying to get in, and the amount of skill and/or expertise you have to offer.  Honestly, from a hiring standpoint, if you're not good at it or didn't express that you are good in it through responses to questions and/or a solid portfolio, you'll probably be hired in desparation (if you are), and make the least possible as they will only pay you for what you're worth.
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A degree that focuses on the following fundumental skills:\n\n- HTML, SGML, XML,\n- Web page designs.\n- Web Server, HTTP\n- Front Page (any web design application)\n\nIt is nice to have a degree, but to become a web designer, all you need is to take classes that focuses on these specific skillsets. Most local colleges offers these programs.