What graphic design / animation courses should I take up?
I know wee bit of Corel Draw and Macromedia Flash and little of Photoshop which I learnt myself through its in-built tutorials, online and trial and error.
What I don’t know is how to enhance what little I know to make professional looking images (right now they look little amateurish).
I would like to
>> create logos
>> collages
>> create images
>> do simple animation and
basically be able to draw graphics and maintain my website. There are tons of courses available and I really don’t know which ones to take!
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If I sketch something on paper then scan it, or draw on a tablet, and then I want to take that and enhance it, add to it and color it on computer. What kind of software do I need? Would any graphic design software like Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator do that?
Addendum: I guess what I’m asking is how to change a scanned image into an editable graphic..
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