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Creating a Designers Resume in Photoshop

Tutorial for designing a single-color creative resume
for designers.

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Designers have a hard time creating a resume (also called

CV), thats because a designer is supposed to design
something outrageous for his introducer I mean resume is
the thing thats gonna makes a designers first impression, not
the designer himself!
I was coping with the same problem a some time ago, so I
designed this thing.
The aspects which make this resume design superior than
some others is that it is a single color design, it can be
xeroxed/photocopy-ed but more importantly, it doesnt take
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Basic Info
Im using A4 Landscape size for making this CV. I suggest you choose the same size, but of course, youre a creative
mind, youre allowed to make variations.
First of all, fill the background with this color.

Now select the Rectangle Tool and make a rectangle on the left side of the canvas.

I added 3 type elements. The first on was Hi! in the rectangle we drew in the previous step, then I wrote my name,
fathers name in front of it. This time we didnt create a box in the background. I used bebas nuene but you can choose
any font you like.

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Now I selected Rectangle Tool once again and created a box. This will highlight the data on it. I plan to put my online
contact here; you know, social media profiles, email ID etc.
I used free icons for stylizing this data.

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Basic work complete. Now Im drawing a line to separate this info with the lower content. Im using Path tool and
drawing a line 5px strong using the color shown in the screenshot below.

Design Elements
Now Im creating a bullet design which well be using all over this resume. This design is fairly simple but very effective.
This is how you can design these bullets/dots. Im using two colors, you can see their reference code from the
screenshot.
1. I draw a circle.
2. I gave it 7px strong stroke (outline).
3. I made another circle using the color of the outline.
4. I placed the other smaller dot on top of the first one.
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Heres how you should place this dot. This step could take a bit.

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Adding Content
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Time to add data. Im starting with Education. Select Type tool and type EDUCATION.

Remember the bullet we just created, make a copy of that along the line. You can just select the bullets layers and hit
CTRL + J to duplicate them.
After copying the bullet, add the subheading. This is supposed to be your first art degree.

Heres how the final design should/could look. The description on the right side could contain the info about your
grades, final project etc.

Education tab is complete, now lets make a tab SKILLS.

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Lets create a graph here. You can use many softwares to create graphs, you can also use Adobe Illustrator to create
graphs and then import them into Photoshop but Im making these graphs right here in Photoshop.
I created another bullet, this time I made the circle with dark color and gave it a light color stroke.
In step two, I drew two boxes, one in dark color and one in light color. This will be our graph. Check out the
screenshot for more detail.

Showing Skills

And after 10-20 minutes, this is what youll end up with.

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Here Im going to make another type of graph. I cant recall its technical term, last time my 10th grade teacher told me
the technical term. Its basically intersecting circles. The colors in these circles reflect your expertise in that field. The
darker the color, the more youre expert!
I created this graph for languages, you can use it for any other purpose.

Did you notice that in the screenshot above there was a tiny dot below the circles. That was a bullet.

Done!
Youd notice that I gave separate colors to the bullets to for reference.

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Time to note down your professional experience.

For that, I copied the Education tab style again. This will create a symmetry. Same design on the left, on the right and
graphs in the center.

Finishing Note
People usually love to add a Mission Statement in their resumes. So heres the place to add it.
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Well start by adding a bullet, but to add some style, Im only using half of the bullet we used earlier. And using this
bullet in a very large size.

I typed the heading, which is MISSION. Then added a Curly Brace bracket. Now write down your mission statement
here. You can use a cursive font to add more personal touch. Dont forget to make it italics.

Remember we started by writing a Hi! in the beginning. In the very same way, well add a Nice To Meet You! in
the end. So lets draw the same kind of rectangle in the background.

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Add text.

Final Result
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2 Responses to Creating a Designers Resume in Photoshop

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Dante Mdz. says:

February 24, 2013 at 6:49 pm
Very good. It will be helping to inspire me. Thanks!
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mahi says:
March 1, 2013 at 11:30 pm
(y) Thumbs up mAn !!!
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