[[alternative]]The Study and Creation on Digital images - Applying the grouping principle of Gestalt psychology

[[abstract]]It is essential for a graphic designer to understand the people's manner and ability in "seeing" a work, in order to design some comprehensive, prolific, diverse, and interesting graphics. It can help the viewers see and absorb the messages easier. Likewise, the study of Gestalt psychology and visual theory can provide the designers with the basic nutrients and facilitate them with powerful tools in design because the study of these theories enables the designers to better understand the operation of people's visual capacities and their aesthetic preference. As a result, it allows the designers to grasp and represent the messages they want to transmit more accurately. First, the study aims to explore the people's feelings and the corresponding sensual organs to understand the formation of the senses and related visual theory. Then, it further explores the "grouping principle", which is formed by applying Gestalt psychology in the studies of people's senses, as the core theoretical framework. In addition, the researcher would like to investigate its impacts on graphic design. Eventually, targeting at various feelings and sensual interactions, the project intends to fathom the visual theories and factors that should be considered when designing a work, to grasp the people's senses and responses effectively, so as to apply them in digital image creation and design. In recent years, it is the trend for designers to create something out of nothing with computer software. When creating digital images by using a digital camera, the designers process the images with the computer to preserve and create their works. Likewise, in this project the researcher employs a digital camera and computer graphic software as major tools. In the experimental process, the manner of applying digital media and the process of digital design and creation will be recorded to provide the designers with more effective methods and broader perspectives toward the creations. In the research, the project discovered： 1 Applying the "grouping principles" makes the creative works more powerful and sparkle with vitality. 2 In visual arrangement and the applications of graphics, the "grouping principle" is proved to be positive in inspiring designers. 3 The flexible application of the "grouping principle", a branch of Gestalt psychology, can help accomplish the goal of seeking "standardization within diversification, and diversification within standardization." 4 The designers' manners and ideas are bound by the media they employed when designing with various kinds of media and methods. However, humanistic concern can move people more.