INTRODUCTION
The Different Types Of Designers
There are many different types of designs you can create with us, with just as many types of designers, each equipped with a different set of skills specialized to meet your design needs. This is why different designers may work on your request queue sometimes!
Here we'll discuss the difference between these types of creatives:
Graphic Designer
Custom Illustrator
Presentation Designer
Motion Graphics Designer
So what's the difference?
Graphic Designer
Our Graphic Designers work on Graphic Design Request Types
They make use of stock images as a base for the design they'll create
The stock images will be modified to create a unique design/graphic for your use
The quality of the design will depend on the stock images provided to our designer (either by using our in-platform stock images library to select a stock image or uploading your own assets)
If a reference style is provided, the closest stock image available with a similar style will be used as a base
⛔️ Limitations of Graphic Designers
They do not create illustrations from scratch
They do not manually trace from a photo or image
They do not create illustrations that require hand-drawn or extremely customized graphics - these requests will be handed to an illustrator.
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Custom Illustrator
Our Illustrators work on Custom Illustration Request Types
They specialize in creating advanced graphics or drawings from scratch
They do not need to make use of stock images
Designs or artworks created are 100% original
Designs or artworks are highly customized based on your exact specifications/instructions
If a reference style is provided, the illustrator can create an illustration based on the provided style
They can manually trace from a photo or image
⛔️ Limitations of Custom Illustrators
They do not do graphic design work such as layout design, photo editing, text layouts, etc - these requests will be handed to a graphic designer
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Now that we're clear on the difference between designers and illustrators, let's dive in further! Here are other types of designers in our creative pool:
Presentation Designer
Exclusive to our Legacy Pro and Premium, and our Base and Pro platforms with creative services.
Our presentation designers work on Presentation Request Types
They specialize in creating slide decks
They can create slide deck designs in Microsoft Powerpoint (PPTX), Google Slides, or Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator (PDF)
⛔️ Limitations of Presentation Designers
They do not do graphic design work such as layout design, photo editing, text layouts, etc - these requests will be handed to a graphic designer
They do not do graphic design work that are not presentations (eg: They do not create posters in Powerpoint format) - these requests will be handed to a graphic designer and will be delivered in standard image format (JPG, GIF, PNG, and/or Adobe PSD/AI)
Motion Graphic Artist
Exclusive to our Legacy Premium and our Base and Pro platforms with creative services.
Our motion graphic artists work on Motion Graphic Request Types
They specialize in creating motion graphics or animated graphics videos in Adobe After Effects
They can deliver not only MOV and MP4 format, but also convert the motion graphic into a GIF!
⛔️ Limitations of Motion Graphic Artists
They are focused on graphics animation and do not do audio editing
For video editing, check out our Video Editing article.
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