Hello everyone. Greetings to you all and welcome to my post on graphics design week 6 of the steeemit engagement challenge. It's been an amazing week of contest and I enjoyed every bit of the lesson.

A big Thank you to my trainer and instructor @lhorgic for the words of encouragement and corrections to shaping me to become a better graphics designer.

To begin with this week's task, I will be mentioning a few things I have learn so far as graphics design is concerned. This rules are known as principles which may be applied in every graphics design to make the message and design more appealing to the target audience.

Rounding up with the lesson, I have been task to produce any professional graphics design which will served as my end of course graphics of the the week and season. To begin with, I will like to mention the various principles I will be using in my design as previously instructed and learned.

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Principles to my design

Color selection and combination: The most important aspect we have to look out for is the color combination. This topic was treated in week 2 of this season engagement challenge . You can check out the lesson here.

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The color wheel was discussed and we get to learn about the primary colors, Red , blue and green which combine to give other colors, second and secondary to give tertiary.

In this contest I'm using the principle of color theory application to make sure I have the desired design.

Balance: This is another aspect we have to be careful about when working with our designs. Balance need to be implemented and making sure or elements are organized in an organize and equitable manner.

Emphasis: Another important aspect is laying emphasis on pool ur design and making sure the elements or typograph we are laying emphasis on is well exposed and visible to the observers. It could be emphasis on a text, an element or image.

Hierarchy: We have to make mention of hierarchy when working with our designs. This take into consideration which elements, typograph we want to display in order of importance. This leave our designs looking great as the audience could be able to tell the difference just by observing our designs.

Typography: in this aspect the type of font use in a design should be able to display other principles such as hierarchy and emphasis. This unique typography is used at the center of our design and it displays the main information in our design. Different types of typography exist. Such as script, serif, san serif and impact. Applying the right typography on our design, we can generate greater results.

Elements spacing and dimensions: This is one of the mistakes I made while carrying out my previous task. I neglected the aspect of element spacing and it greatly affected my designs. Thanks to my trainer I am able to clear it through.

Elements and dimensions are a key aspect to take not of when working on a design. Designers should refrain from making their elements too space and closed as well. Dimensions, our elements should be sizable enough and not too close to the edge or to avoid printing problems.

This are the few of the many I will be using to implement in my final graphics design for this season.

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My Design

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Steps

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To begin with, I took a nice joyous picture of myself and then go in to and online background remover tool to crop out the background. You can check the website here. This is the results.

2.

I open canva app and the perform the following task.

• Open canva app
• Tap on the plus button
• Select the YouTube thumbnails
• This provides us the blank space to work with.

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We need to add the background to our design .

• Tap on the blank space.
• Select colors
• Click scroll to gradient
• Choose a color

4.

To make my background cooler enough, I need to add some elements. First I move to Pixabay to get a free background which I will combine with my color background.

To proceed

• Tap the camera option.
• Select image and import.
• Set transparency to the desired level.

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I proceed by adding the some elements to the image.

• Tap on elements section.
• Select the necessary elements
• Add and duplicate using the plus sign on the desired element.

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I proceed by arranging my elements and making sure take note on emphasis and spacing.

• Tape on text icon
• Choose font to use.( Impact)
• Add text and resize to fit the design.

I made use of the following hex codes and the font use in this design is impact.

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After this stage I add another element circle which will rest behind my head.

• Tap on elements,
• Select circle and edit the color to white
• Add image and adjust to the desired size

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Final Design

Implementing all the above mentioned Principles, this is how my design look like upon completion.

^final

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I am so humble and grateful to my teacher @lhorgic For being so kind enough to give us this opportunity to learn freely, one of the top search of the tech market, Graphics design.

Equally I thank the Steemit team For giving us the opportunity to study on the platform. Not only Have I develop my knowledge In Graphics design, but in other fields as well, such as programming especially.

To conclude, I would like to invite some people to participate there and showcase their talent and Graphics design as well. @fombae, @chant, @kouba01

Thank you all for your support and comments.

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Cc: @lhorgic

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Credit to: @rafk