How do I make designs?

[CODE-D]

What can I use to make designs online that I can sell?
I have ideas just no means to create and submit them so what can I use? Is there a free service? How do I use it?
Are there things I can buy thatll make it easier?

 

[Loop Stricken]

Designs for what, exactly?

 

[keve4433]

What can I use to make designs online that I can sell?
I have ideas just no means to create and submit them so what can I use? Is there a free service? How do I use it?
Are there things I can buy thatll make it easier?

If you don't have photoshop then you can use gimp which is free. Then you can upload to deviantart and sell prints or whatever from there.

 

[CODE-D]

Designs for what, exactly?

Tshirts and various other products.

 

[aba1]

If you don't know what programs to use I am going to go out on a limb and say that you have no training in design what so ever or any knowledge in copyright and working in the media field let alone web design and e-commerce. My recommendation is don't bother.

 

[Heronblade]

I suggest using "The Gimp 2.6" (GNU Image Manipulation Program)to begin with. It is a free competitor to the Photoshop series with nearly all of the same features.

Upgrade to Photoshop if you actually end up turning a profit on the business.

Beyond that, I'm not going to be quite as negative as Aba1, but you really should have a better idea of what to do if considering creating images for a living.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Designs for what, exactly?

Tshirts and various other products.

What everyone else says use GIMP, it's free, from there post on deviantart. If after that, you still want to sell artwork, take some classes, get a degree in graphic design.

Also, I make t-shirt designs for a living. It's more complicated than just drawing a pretty picture, you can't use more than around six colors in a design, but you need to make it look like your using more.

Also those colors will need to be separated so they don't touch each other.

Also, that artwork should probably be vector art, which in my knowledge, Gimp doesn't provide.

Also, if you make this wonderful ten thousand colored artwork in a raster program (like Photoshop) and hand it off to a t-shirt company, hoping they will do the leg work for you, they will secretly curse your existence.

Also, I imagine other forms of print media have similar rules.

 

[CODE-D]

I suggest using "The Gimp 2.6" (GNU Image Manipulation Program)to begin with. It is a free competitor to the Photoshop series with nearly all of the same features.

Upgrade to Photoshop if you actually end up turning a profit on the business.

Beyond that, I'm not going to be quite as negative as Aba1, but you really should have a better idea of what to do if considering creating images for a living.

I dont wanna do it for a living I just wanna submit designs to a website like zazzle and maybe get some extra cash.

 

[Erana]

Designs for what, exactly?

Tshirts and various other products.

What everyone else says use GIMP, it's free, from there post on deviantart. If after that, you still want to sell artwork, take some classes, get a degree in graphic design.

Also, I make t-shirt designs for a living. It's more complicated than just drawing a pretty picture, you can't use more than around six colors in a design, but you need to make it look like your using more.

Also those colors will need to be separated so they don't touch each other.

Also, that artwork should probably be vector art, which in my knowledge, Gimp doesn't provide.

Also, if you make this wonderful ten thousand colored artwork in a raster program (like Photoshop) and hand it off to a t-shirt company, hoping they will do the leg work for you, they will secretly curse your existence.

Also, I imagine other forms of print media have similar rules.

There is Inkscape, which is the GIMP of the vector art program world. Tends to be unstable for me, though I tend to make every program unstable.

I suggest using "The Gimp 2.6" (GNU Image Manipulation Program)to begin with. It is a free competitor to the Photoshop series with nearly all of the same features.

Upgrade to Photoshop if you actually end up turning a profit on the business.

Beyond that, I'm not going to be quite as negative as Aba1, but you really should have a better idea of what to do if considering creating images for a living.

I dont wanna do it for a living I just wanna submit designs to a website like zazzle and maybe get some extra cash.

Do you have an honest understanding of what persuing this will entail? For starters, there are probably also millions out there who have the very same idea as you.
I'm not trying to crush your enthusiasm or anything, but I promise you now that any creative industry already has tons of creative talent, and you have to also be as lucky as Gaenor to get a good thing going.

 

[bobmus]

I suggest uploading to sites such as Qwertee or RedBubble, though I'm not sure on the artist profit margins on such sites.