GRAPHIC DESIGN: YOUR SMART PHONE CAN BE ALL YOU NEED TO START A CAREER IN GRAPHIC DESIGN

Shalom Solomon 22nd October, 2021

Technological gadgets are becoming sleeker, smaller and more portable with every new tech release.

Today, we use flat screen televisions instead of hunched backed tv sets. The flat screen tv sets even come with slots for DVDs and flash drives eradicating the need for a separate DVD player.

Smart phones are also replacing button phones or phones with keypads. Smart phones are also becoming lighter, sleeker and come with higher advancements such as powerful cameras, strong batteries, better speakers and so on.

With all these advancement in technology, I believe you will agree with me that the greatest technological creation of the twenty-first century is mobile applications. Mobile applications have turned smartphones to mini computers. There is this popular tech slogan “there is an app for everything”. The slogan connotes that whatever thing you need technology to achieve, there is an app for it. If you want to san documents, there is an app for it. You want to change the background of your photo, there is an app for it, you want to send automated mails at a later date, there is also an app for that.

In the same vein, just as there are applications to scan documents, edit photos, create documents and so on, there are also mobile applications for graphic designing. That means, you do not really need a computer or laptop to create graphic designs. There are mobile applications that can enable you create amazing graphic designs with your smartphone.

Why Should You Do Graphic Design With Your Smart Phone

With a Smart Phone Graphic design is usually done with laptops or computers but recently, with the trend of digital marketing, a new wave of graphic designers that design with smart phones are coming up.

There are also lots of courses online that offer to teach graphic design with mobile applications for free. Keep in mind though that you would need to be disciplined in order to follow through these courses to the end.

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So the advantages of learning Graphic design with your smart phone include:

1. Ease of Access:

Your smartphone is one of the most portable technological device in use now. Not only can you carry your smartphone around everyday, anywhere. That means you can work on your designs on the bus, while you're eating while chatting with friends, literally anywhere at all.

2. Mobile Applications

Mobile apps are the magic portions of smart phones. There are applications that are developed daily for almost everything a regular computer can do.

Recently, there are mobile Applications that come up to ease work for.graphic designers. There are mobile apps to remove background from images, convert colours from hex to RGB or CMYK, covert images from PNG to JPG and vice versa.

3. Cost Effectiveness

It is clearly cheaper to design with a smart phone than with a laptop or computer. A good laptop is way more expensive than a smartphone.

So, if you have a passion for graphic design, you do not need to wait until you save enough to get a laptop before you start. Your smart phone is really all you need to start out.