What is Infographic?

The term Information graphic or

Infographic is a photographic
presentations of data and information that
use the different elements of design to
make data easily understandable at a
glance. Infographics make complex
messages become more visually
appealing to the viewers.
Visual Message Design can help with
effectiveness of delivery of a message. It
can lend assistance in presenting your
ideas clearly.

Some Tools For Creating Infographics

1. Biteable https://biteable.com/infographic/

2. BeFunky https://www.befunky.com/features/infographic-maker/

3. Visme https://www.visme.co/make-infographics/

4. Cacoo https://cacoo.com/

5. Snappa https://snappa.com/create/infographics

6. Canva Infographic Maker https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/

7. Google Chart https://developers.google.com/chart/

8. Piktochart http://piktochart.com/

9. Infogram http://infogr.am/

10. Mind the Graph https://mindthegraph.com/

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Principles of Visual Message Design using Infographics

1. Be unique
Be creative is one of the most important aspect of designing an
effective infographic.
2. Keep it simple
Make a design easy to understand. Straight to the point and
focus more on the message.
3. Less is more
Focus on what matters. Keep your text minimal will most likely
produce more impact than a page full of words.
4. Sharing
Share it with your friends. It is the most important and effective
thing to do in making infographic.

Tutorials and trainings in Creating Infographics using Piktochart

1. Visit youtube website. Open your favorite browser and type
inwww.youtube.com in the address bar.
2. Search Infographic Tutorials. Type in piktochart infographic tutorials in
the search bar.

3. Watch Tutorials. Select a video and start watching tutorials.

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 The website below is considered as on of the worst design website of
2018 by https://www.loungelizard.com/top-5-worst -website-designs-of-
2018/. As a student who knew the different Elements of Design and Principles
of Design, what advice can you give to the creator of arngren website to
make it more attractive?

APPLICATION
After the discussion, In what way or where do you think you can you use this
basic principles and elements of design?

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Lesson 2: Use Image Manipulation Techniques
INTRODUCTION

The questions above are some of the few questions that comes
into mind when we talk about Photo Editing Sofware. The picture above
is the Graphical user interface (GUI) of GIMP Photo Editor that we will be
using throughout the lesson 2. Before we go further, you need to answer
the first activity of the lesson.

ANALYSIS

1. How do you manipulate text and images?

2. What is the best image format to be use in your projects?

3. What is the best resolution in creating your projects?

Activity 1: Different ways to manipulate images

Image manipulation is an art that involves enhancing or modifying

an image using different methods and techniques to achieve desired
result. By using image

manipulation on your photos, you can remove blemishes on your face,

change backgrounds, smooth out rugged areas, and so on and so
forth.

Different ways to manipulate images

1. 5.

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4. 8.
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ABSTRACTION

Photo editing and designing software allow you to manipulate or edit

images. In order to perform image manipulation, you need to have basic
knowledge of image editing operations such as cutting, cropping, replacing
and more.

For this, you need an image editing software for image manipulation
practices.

The followings are some examples of image editing software:

o Adobe Photoshop
o Gimp
o Corel Draw
o Pixlr Editor
PAINT.NET
o InPixio

Online File Formats for Images and Text

Image file format refer to how data associated to the image will be
stored. It can be compressed to decrease file size of the image. There are
two different compression you can choose when enhancing your
images: lossy and lossless compression. Lossy compression reduces file
size by removing redundant information means that some data from the
image file is lost. While Lossless compression retains values and manages
to lower file size.

Common image file formats

Name Extension Color Compression Common Uses

Joint .jpg, 24- Lossy Used for Online photos
bit and / or
Photographi .jpeg artwork
c
Experts
Group

Graphic .gif 8– Lossless Animated graphics like

bit banner
Interchange ads, email images and
social
Format media memes

Portable .png Up Lossless High-quality transparent

 to web
Network 24-bit graphics. Considered as
best
Graphics image file type for web
graphics.

Tagged .tif, 24-bit lossless Primarily used in

photography
Image .tiff and desktop publishing.
File Format

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Image resolution refers to the number of pixels in an image or the

detail an image holds. It is identified by the height and the width of the
image. A pixel is just one unit of the whole digital image it is the smallest
unit of an image. The higher the resolution, means that there more pixels
per inch (PPI), resulting in more pixel information and creating a high-
quality, crisp image.

What is GIMP?
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for
GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is
free software, you can change its source code and
distribute your changes.

GIMP means "GNU Image Manipulation Program". It is free

software to download at http://www.gimp.org/. GIMP was
built for

a Linux system, but it can also runs on any platforms like Windows and

Mac OS.

Gimp Tutorial

Download and install Gimp Image Editor

a. Open your browser and

visit http://www.gimp.org/.

b. From the GIMP website, click on the button that says

“Download” to proceed to the download page.
 c. Scroll down and look for the Current Stable Version.Click
Download GIMP directly.

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d. Choose where you going to save your GIMP installer and Click
Save. Wait for the download to finish, it may take some time.
e. To install the GIMP application, Double click or Right Click on the
file installer to start the installation.

f. Just follow the on screen instruction to install the GIMP.

g. For more detailed instruction on how to download and install

Gimp in your computer, please visit youtube website and type in
“How to download and Install Gimp” in the search bar and click
search. See picture below for the guide.

Crop and Resize an image.

a. Open GIMP photo editor and click on File>Open to open the
image you wish to crop and resize.
b. The image opens in a new editing window.
Select the rectangular icon from the GIMP
toolbar.

c. After select that tool, move your mouse to

the image window and create a selection
that you wish to crop.
d. Then, select Image>Crop to selection from the
menu bar or you can also right click the image window and select
Image
 >Crop to selection.

e. To resize the image, you can click Image>Rescale Image.

f. Enter your desired width and click Scale. The image will then be
resized and automatically rescaled using the width you entered.
g. If you are satisfied with the result, you may now save you file by
clicking File > Save as.

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h. For the instruction on how to crop and resize an image, please

visit youtube website and type in “gimp tutorial resize and crop
image” in the search bar and click search. See picture below for
the guide.

Color Adjustment.

a. Open GIMP photo editor and click on File>Open to open the

image you wish to adjust the color.
b. Click Colors > Levels from the menu bar or right click the image
window and select Colors > Levels.
 c. Click on textbox beside Channel to view the four options: RGB
(Red, Green, Blue) and alpha.

d. You can adjust the red channel by selecting it and changing the
value or adjusting the input and output level.
e. You can continue adjusting the color levels by selecting the
“Green” or “Blue” channel options and then dragging the
triangular slider buttons for the preferred effect.

f. If you are satisfied with the result, you may now save you file by
clicking File > Save as.

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g. For more tutorials about applying color adjustment on an image,
please visit youtube website and type in “gimp tutorial Color
Adjustment” in the search bar and click search. See picture
below for the guide.

Brightness and Contrast.

a. Open GIMP photo editor and click on File>Open to open the

image you wish to adjust the brightness and contrast.
b. Click Colors > Brightness-Contrast from the menu bar or right
click the image window and select Colors > Brightness-Contrast

c. A new dialogue box will appear so that you can adjust your
settings.
 d. You can adjust the "Brightness" and "Contrast" by clicking and
dragging the scrollers left or right or by entering a value into the
text boxes.

e. You can click on “Edit these Settings as Levels" to bring up the

"Levels" pop-up window.

f. The "Brightness-Contrast" is a simpler version of the changes that

you can make with "Levels". "Levels" gives you much more
control over the editing process.
g. For the instruction on how to apply color adjustment on an
image, please visit youtube website and type in “gimp tutorial
Brightness & Contrast” in the search bar and click search. See20
picture below for the guide.

Text Tutorial.

a. Open GIMP photo editor. And Create a new document by

clicking File>New. Just accept the default value then click OK.
b. Open the Type tool by clicking on the black "A" in the Toolbox
window or by just pressing the letter “A” in your keyboard.

c. Select the Philosopher font type. If you don’t have philosopher

font you can download it here
https://www.ffonts.net/Philosopher.font?text=ABCDEFG
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d. Type the word “Google” in the image window.

e. Highlight 2 letter “G” and change the color to blue. Next,

highlight the first letter “o” and change their color to red,
highlight the next letter “o” and change their color to yellow
lastly highlight the letter “l” and change their color to green.

f. Don’t forget to lock the transparency when you’re done.

g. The next step is to convert the text into an image. Right click on
your google text layer and then click "Discard Text Information".
 h. GO to your google layer. Right Click>Duplicate Layer,
lock transparency and fill the layer with black.
i. Open Gaussian blur by click Filters>Blur > Gaussian blur

Do a Gaussian blur of 10 pixels.

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j. Select the layer that contains the colored Google logo and Open
Bump Map by clicking Filter>Map>Bump Map. Enter the following
information:
Azimuth: 90
Elevation: 45
Depth: 7
Leave the default value for X offset, Y offset, Water level and
Ambient.
k. For more tutorials about Text and Text effects, please visit
youtube website and type in “gimp text effects” in the search
bar and click search. See picture below for the guide.

Image Manipulation (Bear on the Road).

a. Open GIMP photo editor and click on File>Open.

b. Locate the 2 images (European brown bear and road). If you
don’t have these images please download it here:

Bear :https://pixabay.com/photos/european-brown-bear-brown-
bear3336849/
 Road :https://pixabay.com/photos/road-scenery-destination-4125391/
Select the Free Selection Tool from the tool bar.
c. Go to the tool option, and tick on Feather edges.

d. Change the value of the radius to 10

e. Create a selection in the image(A) then
press CTRL+X to cut the selection and go
to the nextimage and press CTRL-V paste
(B).

2Figure 2
Figure 1 :A :B

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g. You can used the move tool to adjust the bear image.
h. Erase the unwanted outer image by using the Eraser Tool
from the tool bar then go to tool option and select the brush
size.
i. Click and drag the outer image to delete.
j. Finally, click on Colors>Hue Saturation

k. Adjust the saturation.

For more tutorials about image manipulation, please visit youtube website
and type in “gimp manipulate images” in the search bar and click search.
See picture below for the guide.
Combining Text, Graphics, and Images

Combining text, graphics, and images in your design will make your
message clearer.

Transparent shapes
o Add simple opacity to your shape to see clearly the text you
want to
emphasize. It adds an elegant and focal point to your design
Fonts and Shapes

o Used the right font size (not to small and not to big) and font type
in your design and combined it with a nice shapes.

Text and background

o Organized your design. Make used of the different text
alignment on an image(s).
Clean and clear background
o Less is more. Focus on what matters. Use a clean and clear
background for the message to be readable.

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Summary 5

Elements of Design - Elements of Design are the materials or tools to

make different designs or Arts.
Line –Lines are defined by points moving in space.
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Shape –Shape refers to the area that an object
occupies
Direction –Applying motion to create the visual
illusion of movement.
Size (scale) –Size is basically the relationship of the area occupied by one
shape to that of another.
Texture –Texture refers to surface appearance of an object given by the
dimensions, form, thickness, arrangement, and amount of its basic parts.
Color –Color is light redirected off objects
Principles of Design - Principles of Design are the rules that help you organize
and place the materials to make arts or designs.
Balance –Balance in design is the state of equal relationship
Symmetrical balance occurs when identical weights are on equal sides of a
composition.
Asymmetrical balance occurs when a design have unequal graphic weight
on either side, but those unequal graphics need to balance each other (un-
evenly balanced). Radial balance occurs when the design elements swirl out
from a central axis(emanating from a central point)
Proximity –Proximity maintains a relationship between items that go together.
Alignment –Alignment refers to lining up the elements of a design along the
top, bottom, center or sides of the elements.
Repetition, pattern, and rhythm –Repetition duplicates the characteristics of
similar elements to contribute to design consistency.
CONTRAST –Contrast refers to the use of conflicting elements or colors while
still remaining harmonious and unified when the artwork is viewed as a whole.
SPACE –Space is the part of a design that is left blank.
Infographic -The term Information graphic or Infographic is a photographic
presentations of data and information that use the different elements of
design to make data easily understandable at a glance.
Photo editing Tool - Photo editing Tool and designing software allow you to
manipulate or edit images.
Image file format - Image file format refer to how data associated to the
image will be stored. It can be compressed to decrease file size of the
image.
Lossy compression- Lossy compression reduces file size by removing
redundant information means that some data from the image file is lost.
Lossless compression - Lossless compression retains values and manages to
lower file size.
Image resolution - Image resolution refers to the number of pixels in an image
or the detail an image holds.
Pixel - Pixel is just one unit of the whole digital image it is the smallest unit of
an image.Gimp - GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for
GNU/Linux, OS X,Windows and more operating systems.

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