| Have you ever come across an poster so good you | | | | professional designed posters, ads and movies. |
| just felt like taking home?, or seen an ad so funny you | | | | Luckily there are several useful applications which can |
| though of many places within your house to place it?. | | | | produce high quality image results by using a simple |
| As the internet grows, more and more content | | | | concept, templates. Have you ever stopped and |
| becomes available, not only in text form but through | | | | carefully seen a "Most Wanted" poster placed on a |
| video and pictures as well. | | | | wall?, if you have then you might have noticed that this |
| Web surfers who visit social networking sites such as | | | | particular image is composed by two layers or |
| forums, photo sharing sites as well as video sharing | | | | sections, one is the picture and the other is the layout, |
| sites have come across some pretty impressive | | | | after applying an additional effect the image and the |
| poster designs but the only problem keeping us apart | | | | layout can be fused together to create a uniform look. |
| from this content is our design limitations. Most uses | | | | Software designers know these differences and have |
| think of design applications such as microsoft paint | | | | created easy to use tools to design professional |
| which is very basic tool for doing basic drawings and | | | | looking posters through a template system. What this |
| sketches, other image design, manipulation and | | | | basically allows users to do is to drag an image into a |
| modification tools include applications such as | | | | design using a template which will be modified through |
| photoshop which is known for producing incredible | | | | a step by step sequence. Using such applications one |
| image effects at a professional level. | | | | can create funny, motivational and all kinds of posters, |
| At these point most users start to experience the | | | | for instance, an employee who constantly complained |
| problems of design knowledge limitations, advanced | | | | about his boss being late created a "most wanted |
| image manipulation software such as photoshop has a | | | | poster" and hung it on the wall to make a point to his |
| high learning curve which can take months to master | | | | boss; online users tend to do the same through |
| so the average enthusiast can get discouraged rather | | | | message boards so there are several uses for such |
| quickly, but the fascination with image manipulation | | | | applications without having to invest in extremely |
| remains as we are constantly bombarded with | | | | complicated and costly solutions. |