If I want to focus on some skills, I might lost track on other application. But clients won’t always be the same at all time, you never know which skills are applicable in the future. Furthermore, it will be a waste of time if I learn all the application throughly. If the client is asking some new application which I am not familiar with, I might get into trouble meeting the deadlines.

How am I respond to this? The answer is easy; instead of lurking on each application, I might just asked people who specialized in that application for their tips and trick. Then I can focused on one application that I prefer. Either way, people may also seeking for my guidance as I am focused on the application. All of this activity, mostly appeared in community forum.

What are the forum for graphic design? Here are my complete lists:

DeviantArt
Try joining the artists community that match your style. For example, I am joining the Vector Artists because I prefer vector arts, and I subscribes their newsletters for latest news and events.

CGSociety
Specialized on 3D arts such as Modelling, Animation, and Video Edit. The people here were awesome that they might be hired to the big animation studios in Hollywood.

Animepaper
Cute and colorful Anime and Manga wallpapers are born here. The Photoshop skills in this forum are considered as high class or master. They gives rate for each wallpaper being submitted. And they also do re-trace for scanning materials such as CD/DVD covers, Art Books, Posters, and many more.

Vexels
Vexels is an art consists of vector shapes, such as my secret art. The term is not populary known in graphic design world, but their classification makes the forum becomes more and more creative. Their art are usually beautiful, like paintings.

Click here for the list of Indonesian Graphic Design Forum.

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