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Whenever we heard about designing the first thing come in our mind is an image full of colors or a painting. But with technology! designing became a very technical game with different designing tools.Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator is the king in the industry of designing.

In my childhood whenever I heard about design something the first thing comes to my mind was to draw something on paper & make it attractive by coloring it. After that, we were talked about the paint tool in our school or institute. I still remember my first interview. My boss was asking me about designing & I told him, yes I know designing very well whenever I want to design something I start my computer open paint tool & draw whatever I want & he starts laughing. Then he told me about Adobe photoshop, logo design, web design & advice to start learning how to use these tools. this is where my career begins & I start learning Graphic designing.

So basically Adobe Photoshop OR illustrator is not rocket science I saw people when they first time saw this software they start thinking that this is not our game or we are not able to handle it & this is what I want to share here.

Adobe Photoshop Or Illustrator basically is just a game of tools if you want to learn graphic designing just start using tools of photoshop & explore more about tools by watching videos on youtube & there are also so many websites which guide you about how to use this tools. Here I share some basic tools which are used normally to design anything.

1-Move Tool

2-Rectangular Marquee Tool

3-Magic Wand Tool

4-Crop Tool

5-Eye Dropper Tool

6-Brush Tool

7-Eraser Tool

8-Paint Bucket Tool

9-Pen Tool

10-Horizontal Type Tool

11-SHAPE TOOL

These are some basic tools used to design each and everything. But when you start learning you will know what these tools actually are. These are not just basic tools. These tools are creating magic with your creativity & expertise.

Now little bit intro about the tools mentioned above. Let's start with the MOVE TOOL. Move tool actually used for moving any object or placement of an object. if you are working on any image & want to move it left-right or anywhere else you use the move tool or just click on move tools or use shortcut key for the move tool & hold shift key and with arrows keys you are able to move your object fast.

Rectangular Marquee Tool uses for selection of specific area or image. Select the image area & do whatever you want to do in a specific area like fill the colors. Blur the specific area or whatever you want to do.

Magic Wand Tool also work like Rectangular Marquee Tool but with the magic wand tool, you select any part of the image of any shape.

Crop Tool The first thing comes in our mind when we heard word CROP is cropping or cutting. Crop tool does the same thing for us in photoshop. if you want to resize your image or want to crop something from your image or want to remove extra spaces from your image you use the crop tool.

Eye Dropper Tool is also known as the Color Picker Tool. If you want to use any color & use it on your logo or something eyedropper tool used to pick any color.

Pen Tool is one of the very important tool in photoshop. the pen tool is a little bit hard to use but once you know how to use it you can draw anything or design anything. The Pen Tool creates paths and shapes which can be duplicated and manipulated to create complex selections, masks, and objects. the Pen Tool always creates a vector path.

So these are some tools which are very helpful & useful for any beginner who wants to learn Logo Designing/Graphics Designing/Web Designing.

I hope I covered all basic tools & provide the right information about these tools & Designing & I’ll try to write more about Logo Designing in future.

If you want to see my portfolio you can visit https://pixelslogo.com/ here they upload all my work which done by me or other designers for clients.

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Amazing Entrepreneur | Syed Azhar Rizvi

Azhar Rizvi is a multifaceted seasoned professional who is an entrepreneur evangelist, business advisor, career mentor, social missionary, and an author & Amazing Entrepreneur. He has devoted his life to helping people and organizations innovate smartly and achieve high growth targets. After working for years in the industry, Azhar Rizvi holds a goldmine of knowledge to offer expert-level advice as a business management consultant and a career advisor. The expert career mentor has been involved in developing individuals since he started off his career. Until now, he has mentored close to 15,000 students, researchers, and faculty from 65 Universities and 450+ companies from various industries. Like many great motivational speakers, Azhar Rizvi has also been serving as the North Star to assist people in finding the right track of their lives; he has restructured many careers and helped people find their undiscovered talents

An Entrepreneurship Evangelist

In 2007, Azhar embarked on a journey to promote entrepreneurship in Pakistan. He helped the MIT Alumni of Pakistan set up the MIT Enterprise Forum Chapter in Pakistan. Together the team designed a 6-month extensive Business Acceleration program and launched the Business Challenge Cup open to all comers. Since its launch, the initiative has put on the map more than 450 enterprises. These enterprises collectively employ 4000+people and have estimated revenues of USD 500M.

In 2010, he joined hands with IBA Karachi and NUST Islamabad to launch a similar 5-months intensive program. The programs, branded IBA- Invent Annual Business Plan Competition and NUST Discover -Annual, Prime Minister Entrepreneurial Challenge Program, have led to separate student-competitions. These two platforms have become an ecosystem enabler. They have also allowed Azhar to help 10,000+ student teams, faculty, start-ups, and mid-size organizations in developing their business plans, growth strategies and launching successful ventures.

Azhar has also served Higher Education Commission of Pakistan HEC as a consultant to establish Offices of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORICs) and Business Incubation Centers (BICs) and assisted in developing their operational framework, policies, and manuals. He has also trained their program directors and managers, all PhDs in various disciplines from technology, agriculture sector, and pure sciences, in developing a research program in areas of local needs and national importance and on building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in their respective cities.

An Entrepreneur

In 1999, Azhar set up the first venture which grew from 2 to 42 persons in a short span of 18 months. The venture failed during the 2001 dotcom crash. Using lessons learned, he set up another company,which by 2002 had become the biggest Pakistan’s BPO in the tech sector of the country. The 1,500+ person company served 200 cities to large banking networks in 800 cities, town, and villages, and also provided specialized applications development and deployment services for major organizations like HBL, UBL, Emirates Bank, and Several other leading Organizations etc.

A Strategy Consultant

Azhar started his career as a Sales Executive marketing IT services from leading firms NCR, AT&T and Unisys. He rose to Director Sales & Products within a short span of 10 years. During these years, he built relationships leading to a portfolio with major multimillion dollar accounts like PTCL, GHQ, Habib Bank, UBL, ABL, Federal Ministry of Finance, ABN Amro, Standard Chartered Bank, MSD, and BASF among others.

Azhar has brought that same zeal, excel, and ability to identify opportunities to other companies, too. He has helped more than 450+ firms redefine business strategy to scale up operations, from a few hundred thousand to multi-million dollars’ global operations.

A Missionary

Azhar has recently embarked on the mission to promote entrepreneurship in the agriculture sector, especially in rural areas. Azhar firmly believes that this sector, with properly trained human resources coupled with appropriate funding, can double the GDP in a few years. As a first step, he, in February 2018, joined hands with Sindh Board of Investment (SBI) and its subsidiary SEDF to launch an Agri-Entrepreneurship program at Sindh Agriculture University (SAU), Tandojam. The intense four-month program has so far trained 250 youth, and as a result, 5 teams have been shortlisted for full-time incubation for 12 months at the SAU’s newly established incubation center.

A Historian

Azhar has authored the book, “Entrepreneuring Pakistan- 27 stories of struggle, failure, and success”. The book celebrates the triumphs and highlights the challenges of 27 mentee organizations, who have achieved success. These companies in the technology, social, research and education sectors have broken the barriers and achieved exponential 10X+ growth per annum.

He is currently working on his next book focused on the struggle and successes of women entrepreneurs of Pakistan.

A Philanthropist:

Azhar also pays an active part in philanthropic and social circles. He is very active in Rotary Pakistan for the past 22 years. As part of Rotary, he has implemented several key initiatives in the healthcare which included the end-to-end automation of largest 2500-beds hospital with latest open source software, cutting-edge hardware, and HIPA HL7 Compliant,Civil Hospital Karachi in 2009.

He also led the tech team which established 14 Telemedicine Centers during 2005 massive earthquake in KPK and Azad Kashmir in collaboration with Pakistan Army, P@SHA, Intel Pakistan, InMar Sat, MOIT Pakistan and Rawalpindi Hospital.

The 2nd project during another critical juncture was to bring organizations specializing in software for disaster relief management. Sahana Foundation is one such organization which was brought in to interact with PITB of Punjab Government and Sindh Government Disaster Relief Management during the floods of 2010.

Education for disadvantaged and special kids is an area of special interest to Azhar. He was instrumental in setting up five cutting-edge technology setup using DAISY Labs at PAFF Institute, Al-Mukhtoom Centers for vision-impaired people, Islamabad, Aziz Jan Trust Center for the disabled at Lahore, Al Faisal Center for the blind, Faisalabad and Ida Rieu Center at Karachi. All of the centers are now producing digital taking books which enable the kids to interact with these books with the help of computers and special daisy leaders. The project was launched from Rotary Pakistan and P@SHA platforms. Nippon Foundation was the main donor and NAB, Delhi, India was the lead technical partners for this project.

A project which Azhar says that has given him great satisfaction was developing and implementing an Inmate Management System at the Karachi Central Jail in 2007. The project was developed on the request of Legal Aid Office (LAO), an NGO headed by Honorable Former Chief Justice of Pakistan CJP (R) Nasir Aslam Zahid. Prior to the IMS system, there were close to 1500 women and kids at the facility of 150 only. A major reason was an obsolete manual system which was hampering record management and the follow up of their cases. Once the system was implemented in 2 months record time, Honorable Justice Zahid and his team of 40 strong female advocates managed to get over 1340 inmates justice and send back to their home in a short span of one year.

Watch Azhar Rizvi Interview:

Kanwal Masroor, Chairman, TECH taking interview of Mr. Azhar Rizvi, Co-Founder MITEF Pakistan

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