What's "Graphic designing" or something like that?

[Daenerys]

Hey, I'm pretty new, and I ask a lot of questions, this one is "what is Graphic designing?" er something similar to that, I don't know the exact name but at the bottom of the forum index, there's key explaining the color of the user name of the person online, and some say "Graphic designer", what is it?

[Panda-chan]

Graphic designing is when you take an ordinary image (like a screengrab, or fan art, or both) and edit it using graphics editing programs such as GIMP or Photoshop, or free online editors such as Picnik, Splashup, etc. Anyway these pics serve many purposes, from being used as site banners to being sold online to simply being made for the heck of it. For example, on this site graphic designers tend to focus on making signatures/avatars/gifs for use by other members: viewforum.php?f=48
If you look around this forum you'll see great examples of graphics in peoples' signatures. Technically even my avatar is a graphic because someone manipulated the color of the original screengrab and added text. So as you can see, you don't need fancy graphics making tools to become a graphic designer either
Hope this helped ^^

[Daenerys]

Thanks, 'cause I edit my lion photos on http://www.Pixlr.com. You take pictures from your computer and put them on different website. Is there some kind of group that shows instructions or something like that if there is I would really like to do that sort of stuff.