Basics of drawing programs@QuFak

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Today we will tell you about the main programs that are used for drawing documents, in particular I will review my "gentleman's" set of software that I work with on a daily basis.

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Photoshop CS6

The one and only Photoshop CS6 is the wand of salvation. I have a version of 2020, in it you can do almost everything! Starting from the simplest statements, tables and other things, ending with the use of high-resolution templates, which can even be sent to print in the future.

Photoshop is the most common program and confidently occupies the first place on the need. Without it, it's like having no hands.

Corel Draw

Korel! Excellent software for working with vector graphics. Photoshop is used for raster graphics. The main difference is that in Korel you can shamelessly change the size of the image, pull, stretch, enlarge - if the picture is not quite detailed, the quality will not be lost.

What is the difference between raster editors and vector editors?

To understand this, let's first understand what raster and vector graphics are.

Raster graphics

It consists of pixels, and is used mainly where you need point (pixel) detail and good color depth, most of the images we see are bitmaps. It is very useful for creating high quality photorealistic images, digital drawings and photographs. Raster graphics has a number of advantages: you can create complex images with many details and a wide range of colors, it is easy to work with and easier to create and edit. Of the disadvantages - takes a lot of memory, the greater the resolution of the picture, the more pixels in it, and, accordingly, the more space is needed to store and transfer the image. And also the most important and significant disadvantage - you can not scale without loss of quality (stretch).

Vector graphics

It consists of directed lines and a set of reference points, which are calculated by formulas that give them direction (Like a beam, striving in the sky) Hence the immediate advantage - how much do not scale, do not stretch, you will never see pixels, because the basis is a mathematical calculation, thanks to which the quality of the original image is not lost! Vector graphics has found its application in making icons, illustrations, logos and technical drawings. But it is very difficult to reproduce photorealistic images.

What are the disadvantages?

Чтобы отобразить векторное изображение, нужно выполнить ряд вычислений(Комьютер выполняет). Соответсвенно, сложные изображения могут требовать повышенных вычислительных мощностей.

Для чего же мы используем корел?

To display a vector image, you need to perform a number of calculations (the computer does). Consequently, complex images may require more computing power.

Lightshot

The next tool, which I think is very important, is Lightshot. The program is free, very simple and reliable. Press Printscreen, select the necessary area, press copy (ctrl+c) and paste (ctrl+v).

Why is it necessary?

Бывает так что некоторые элементы, которые вдруг понадобились в нашей работе, нельзя достать бесплатно, либо нам нужно определенный фрагмент(Например стрелочка) - можно просто её выделить, и вставить в фш, удалить фон и добавить куда нужно.

По большей части, самому рисовать что-либо не нужно, все уже давно придумано и нарисовано, нужно корректно вставить и соединить картинки, наложить фильтры при необходимости, выровнять текст и обработать фото - то есть, по большей части всегда используется навык не рисования, а позиционирования и обработки изображения.

Microsoft Office: WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint!

Where without them, a great, powerful tool for creating statements, checks and other things from scratch - it often happens that you need a check, or statement, a photo in not very good quality, but it is clear what is written there. To do this, open any of these programs and do the same example, from scratch, you can use a ruler! A little bit of a pain, but, but it turns out to be very high quality, you can import into Photoshop and overlay without losing the positioning of the text on the images and print them, or combine in the same Photoshop.

To review the next item we need to understand what MRZ is.

MRZ - Machine Readable Zone. It is a zone in the document that can be scanned by machines and it contains all personal information, including name, date of birth, date of issue of the document, gender and so on. Various generators work to create correct MRZs for documents, but for quality control we need a program to check them

Docreader

Docreader - downloaded on the phone, and using the camera, we try to read our document, and if all the information that it gave out reads correctly, and coincides with the norms for the document - then the MRZ is generated correctly, and the document will be checked.

All these programs, as you have understood from the text written above, are used all the time and are the basis for all the work.