Inhalt: Los logotipos constituyen el primer impacto visual de una empresa en el público en general. Conocer los elementos de diseño y las técnicas adecuadas para su ejecución darán como resultado unos logos mucho más interesantes y adecuados a la actividad real de la empresa, contribuyendo a un posicionamiento de la misma mucho más acertado y propicio. Umfang: 04:27:23.00
Inhalt: Whether you want to design a font for your small business, an event, or your passion project, this course can help you get started. Join instructor Nigel French as he helps you create your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to create OpenType fonts with minimum fuss. No prior knowledge of font design is required. Nigel demonstrates how to combine the power of Illustrator with Fontself Maker to create a variety of striking fonts. He shows how to make a hand-drawn font, explaining how to adjust your hand-drawn letters within Illustrator and then drag your letters, numerals, and punctuation into Fontself Maker to make your font. He also explains how to create a geometric font; add a new style, like bold or italics, to an existing Fontself font; turn your font characters into icons; and more. Umfang: 00:44:05
Inhalt: Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating your design. In this project-based course, Nigel French shares effective design and production techniques by taking you from start to finish through the process of designing a newsletter. He uses Adobe InDesign-with some help from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop-to craft an eye-catching and impactful design. Nigel covers how to set up a document, work with text, and choose and manipulate images. Plus, he shows how to create both a print-ready PDF and a screen PDF of your finished newsletter. Umfang: 02:47:58.00
Inhalt: Infographics distill information into a digestible, picture-driven format that viewers can easily retain. Whether you wish to design your first infographic for a marketing report, a personal project, a company brochure, or an event, this course walks you through the very first steps. No prior knowledge of infographic design is needed. Instructor Nigel French helps you identify when a graphic representation is better than a written one, and he goes over the fundamental design aspects of infographics such as icons and font choices. Plus, learn where to find sources of inspiration and raw material-including accurate data-for your infographic. Umfang: 00:22:27
Inhalt: Logos are the visual representation for your brand-the mark identifying you among a sea of competitors. This course was created to give you the skills you need to build a strong, evocative logo-for yourself, your small business, your company, or your event-from scratch. Join instructor Nigel French and discover how to generate ideas; select the right typeface, shapes, and colors; and choose the file formats for your destination, whether it's a business card, website, or social media profile. Umfang: 00:43:54.00
Inhalt: Learn how to design a book that will be cherished for years to come. Nigel French breaks down the components of an elegant and readable book, starting from the ground up in Adobe InDesign. This class covers setting up your document, placing and styling text, working with images, creating the book cover, and preparing the book for printing. Follow along step-by-step as Nigel goes from a blank page to a beautiful book that proves print is very much alive and well. Umfang: 03:40:31.00
Inhalt: Join author Nigel French in Designing a Book Cover as he walks through several approaches to creating professional, engaging book covers using Adobe Creative Suite applications. This course covers document setup, composition and layout, illustration, typography essentials, and printing. Exercise files accompany the course. Umfang: 02:46:57.00
Inhalt: Brochures are essential marketing tools, which establish brands and help them cut through the clutter from the competition. Here designer and educator Nigel French taps into his 20+ years of professional experience and shows how to use InDesign (with some help from Illustrator and Photoshop) to create four of the most common kinds of brochures. Each project has a different budget, a different audience, and a different purpose. But Designing a Brochure covers more than the mechanics of the workflow. It also explores the creative process, giving designers options for producing brochures that are both stylish and cost-effective. Umfang: 02:35:47.00
Inhalt: Brochures are essential marketing tools, which establish brands and help them cut through the clutter from the competition. Here designer and educator Nigel French taps into his 20+ years of professional experience and shows how to use Adobe InDesign (with some help from Illustrator and Photoshop) to create a brochure. Throughout the course, Nigel puts each concept into context as he steps through the creation of a travel brochure. He explains how to prepare photos, create maps, place and fine-tune text, and even create a 3D mockup of the project that will fit nicely in your portfolio. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll be ready to produce a stylish brochure of your own. Umfang: 01:48:05
Inhalt: Learn how to design a business card. In this course, designer Nigel French covers all aspects of the design process-from font choice to paper stock-so you can create a business card that is at once eye-catching and functional. He walks through what information to include, size and format considerations, and printing options. He also demonstrates how to set up a template and incorporate typography and imagery. Then he segues into two hands-on projects: a business card for a graphics design company and another for a coffee shop. These projects will help you understand how to apply the principles of good design in real-world context. Umfang: 01:04:52.00
Inhalt: Learn how to design a calendar that's both functional and inspirational. This course begins by taking a historical look at the different types of calendars. Next, author Nigel French takes you through three different projects (a wall calendar, a circular calendar, and a compact one), using both Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. Umfang: 02:20:19.00
Inhalt: Designing for a digital magazine is similar to designing for a print magazine, but there are additional choices that you need to consider. Interactivity is important, but making it easy to read and navigate is even more critical. In this course, Nigel French covers how to use InDesign's digital publishing toolset to create a magazine for the iPad. He shows you how to add interactivity in the form of slideshows, maps, and audio and video. Plus, learn how to convert the project into a single edition iOS app. Umfang: 02:07:03.00
Inhalt: Photo books are a great way to display and preserve your memories, and services like iBooks and Blurb make it easy and affordable to create professional quality bound books. But your design choices are what make them special. Join designer Nigel French as he covers the basics of planning and building a photo book, reviews the qualities of good photo books, and examines the design principles at work in their creation-regardless of the software used. This course provides both inspiration and practical techniques for creating your photo book. Umfang: 00:46:00.00
Inhalt: Even in this age of digital correspondence, businesses still need a letterhead. In this course, Nigel French shows how to create a letterhead system that is striking and consistent. He begins with the big questions: what tools to use, what typeface to choose, what format to go with, and what information to include. Nigel then breaks down the process of creating the letterhead, the envelope, the compliments slip, even a Word template. At the end of the course, he shows how to integrate the final project into a portfolio. Note: Although the steps are shown in InDesign, the principles are universal and useful for any software. Umfang: 00:23:33.00
Inhalt: A great band deserves a great logo. Think about The Grateful Dead's dancing bears or The Rolling Stones' "hot lips." Or even The Beatles: their famous logo is just a simple text-based design with a drop T. As a designer, your responsibility is to come up with a variety of logo ideas for your clients and hone in on and finesse the best one. In this course, Nigel French uses a client brief from Brooklyn-based band Shy Hunters, and shows how to evolve rough sketches into great logo designs, anchored by typography and highlighted with imagery. He also shows how to prepare variations on the design and format the logo for different uses, such as print, websites, and social media. Want more information about building a solid logo? Check out Nigel's Designing a Logo Umfang: 01:20:09.00
Inhalt: In this short project course, Nigel French reviews the creative brief for a fictional media company and explains how to approach the challenges presented when creating a company logo. The course covers the preliminary research and sketching phases before exploring numerous potential solutions with Adobe Illustrator. Umfang: 00:53:47.00
Inhalt: What makes a good magazine cover? Author Nigel French examines the design of magazine covers, dissecting the cover and explaining the purpose of the different components that make up the whole design. He then covers the design process from start to finish in Adobe InDesign, going on to show alternative workflows that exclusively use Photoshop and Illustrator. Each workflow shows you how to place and scale your image, position the masthead, add cover text, and package the end result as a print-ready PDF. Umfang: 02:45:21.00
Inhalt: You can showcase your work by making a portfolio website using Adobe Muse-and you don't have to know how to code. Nigel French shows you how to plan the layout of your website, set it up in Muse, add additional webpages, and even ensure your site will respond well to different screen sizes. He also shows you how to publish your site to the web. Umfang: 02:29:17.00
Inhalt: A stylish poster both attracts attention and speaks well to the event or idea being advertised. After all, if a poster is clever, professional, and cool, onlookers will likely think the same of the event. In this project-based course, designer and educator Nigel French demonstrates how to use Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create eye-catching posters. As Nigel shows how to approach several poster concepts-including a gig poster for a band, a public information poster, and a poster advertising a bike-to-work event-he covers key aspects of the design process. He explains how to set up a document, generate ideas, format text, prepare your document for printing, and more. Umfang: 02:10:18.00
Inhalt: In this course, author Nigel French shows how to create a cost-effective, elegantly styled restaurant menu with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. The course develops three menu designs: folder, four-panel card, and single-page, exploring the design considerations for each, such as size, folding, typeface, and paper stock. The course also sheds light on incorporating logos, choosing appropriate color schemes, and producing menus online and in print. Umfang: 02:46:26.00
Inhalt: Our Type Project series takes you through typographic history, providing step-by-step directions to re-create historical type designs from scratch. Here designer Nigel French shows how to create a gorgeous postcard from the Art Deco era: one of the most influential and enduring design styles of the twentieth century. The technique combines a hand-traced framing device, built in Adobe Illustrator, with some Typekit fonts and Photoshop layer effects, resulting in a print-ready postcard worthy of sending to anyone you regard highly. Umfang: 00:40:35.00
Inhalt: "For every time its art. For art its freedom." For turn-of-the-century Europe, its art was Art Nouveau, a style hallmarked by curved lines and natural forms like flowers and plants. After a period of respite, Art Nouveau reemerged in a big way in the 1960s and has remained in the designer's repertoire ever since. In this Type Project course, Nigel French shows you how to recreate a type treatment in the Art Nouveau style, using Illustrator, Photoshop, historically appropriate typefaces and colors, and ornamental elements that entwine with the letterforms themselves. Want more Art Nouveau inspiration? Check out Nigel's Pinterest board at http://www.pinterest.com/nigelfrench/art-nouveau-typography/. Umfang: 00:53:42.00
Inhalt: Welcome to another installment of Type Project. In this short course, designer Nigel French provides a historical background on Bauhaus-the influential German art school that operated from 1919-1933-and then takes you through a step-by-step process to create a new design inspired by the original style, with Adobe Illustrator. The essence of this technique is distilled in the letterforms you'll create, based on Bauhaus leader Wassily Kandinsky's signature primary-colored shapes. Umfang: 00:33:27.00
Inhalt: Constructivists believed art should play a role in a better future for us all-that even typography could inspire action, reaction, and social progress. The Constructivist style was resurrected in the 1980s and is still popular, striking, and fairly easy to imitate today. In this Type Project, Nigel invokes the style and the spirit of the Constructivist movement in an evocative poster design. He shows how to choose historically appropriate typefaces (square, solid, and sans serif) and use Illustrator's tools to align, space, and rotate your type. Plus, learn how to use a simple illustration to enhance the underlying message and add texture to your design. Want more inspiration? Check out the Pinterest Board for this course, and visit Nigel's author page to view more installments in the Type Project series. Umfang: 00:32:26.00
Inhalt: The Dada art movement rejected logic and reason, and instead embraced nonsense, irrationality, and disharmony. While the movement did not stand the test of time, Dada's legacy lives on in literature, visual arts, and graphic design. In this installment of Type Project, Nigel French shows you how to resurrect this "anti-art" style and build a Dada-esque typography treatment. As with the other courses in the series, he shows you how to choose fonts and color palettes appropriate to the time period and how to use Photoshop and Illustrator to recreate the style for a modern age. These techniques include simulating imperfect baselines, creating an overprint effect, and adding texture. Want more inspiration? Check out Nigel's Pinterest board at http://www.pinterest.com/nigelfrench/dada-typography/. Umfang: 00:25:46.00
Inhalt: Welcome to this installment of Type Project, where Nigel French shows you how to choose historically appropriate typefaces and apply design treatment to fit a particular style. Here he uses Illustrator and Photoshop to create a type treatment inspired by Grunge-the style most commonly associated with the music scene that originated in Seattle in the 1980s and 90s, and continues to resonate today. Learn how to create a background "wall" of type using Illustrator symbols, delete the counter spaces, and distress the design with dirty type. Looking for more Type Projects? Find them on Nigel's author page. Umfang: 00:23:43.00
Inhalt: Learn how to create a punk album cover in this Type Project. Designer Nigel French introduces to you the origins of punk-the 1970s movement defined by its DIY, anti-establishment attitude-and then shows how to create album art inspired by the original aesthetic. This technique reinterprets an iconic image using Photoshop's layers, layer masks, and clipping masks, and then combines the results with custom "ransom-note" type in Illustrator. Umfang: 00:30:27.00
Inhalt: In this Type Project, designer Nigel French provides a historical background on the International Typographic Style, aka the Swiss Style, developed in Switzerland in the 1950s and '60s. He then takes you through a step-by-step process to create a new poster-sized advertisement inspired by a 1955 original from Swiss-Style designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. Using Adobe Illustrator's Polar Grid tool and Live Paint Bucket, you'll re-create this clean and classic design while updating the contents for your own event. Umfang: 00:24:51.00
Inhalt: Graphic design from the Victorian era (roughly 1837 to 1901) is embodied by its ornate, decorative elements, which seem to conflict with our more modern and restrained aesthetic. But the craftsmanship and elegance of these designs can still provide inspiration for your own. In this short course, designer Nigel French provides a historical background on Victorian type and then takes you through a step-by-step process to create a new design inspired by a nineteenth-century original. He shows how to choose period-appropriate typefaces and demonstrates Illustrator and Photoshop techniques applicable to any time frame, including skewed type paths, offset shadows, woodcut-style shading, framing devices, and texture. Check out the Pinterest board for this course at Victorian Typography for more inspiration. Umfang: 01:08:39.00
Inhalt: As well as satisfying legal requirements, annual reports serve an important marketing and communication function and allow companies to tell their story. An annual report is a prestigious assignment for any designer and can make a satisfying piece for your portfolio. In this course, you can learn how to think strategically about the kind of information an annual report needs to include and create a design that clearly communicates the business's activities and performance. Instructor Nigel French also explains how to build the design elements that are commonly employed in annual reports, including infographics, pull quotes, callouts, and a consistent style of imagery. Umfang: 02:28:37.00
Inhalt: Learn how to design an illustrated book, like a cookbook, children's book, or art book, with InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Nigel French helps you assemble text, photos, and infographics into a stunning layout with front and back covers. Along the way, he dives into the nuts and bolts of working with paragraph, character, and object styles, and captions, grids, headers, and master pages-all the elements that make designing an illustrated book such a challenge. At the end of the course, he'll help you prepare two versions of the book: one for print, and one for digital publication. Umfang: 02:29:58.00
Inhalt: Make your data beautiful; turn it into an infographic. Infographics make complicated information easily understandable and visually compelling. In this course, Nigel French memorializes the soldiers and events of World War I, but you can use these lessons to build almost any kind of infographic. Learn how to use Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Excel together to analyze and chart the data, plot locations on a map, and build a timeline that simply details a complex sequence of events. Along the way, Nigel explains how to choose fonts and color, create a background image, and finally convert your print graphic into a format suitable for websites. Umfang: 01:50:31.00
Inhalt: Celebrations are an important part of life and in this course Nigel French shows how to create an eye-catching invitation using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Learn about the various parts of an invitation and how to brainstorm design ideas, add text and imagery, incorporate a map to your event's location, and explore different design treatments. Umfang: 01:16:43.00
Inhalt: Take the guesswork out of your InDesign layouts. Whether it''s a business card, a poster, a digital magazine, or a printed book, your design will look better if you use a grid. Join designer Nigel French as he takes you through a brief history of grids-why you should use them and when you should break them. He shows you how to establish margins and columns, set up a modular grid, and how to fit text to a baseline grid. Plus, learn how to use the powerful Gridify tool and break the grid for graphic effect using images. Umfang: 02:07:38.00
Inhalt: Creating and sharing the right mood is critical for any creative project. In this short course, Nigel French explains what makes up a mood board and how to create your own. Learn how to curate and present a mood board that will keep your project, your design team, and your clients on track. Umfang: 00:18:39.00
Inhalt: A style guide helps clarify a company's voice, look, and identity. It also ensures that the brand is memorable and consistent over time. In this course, designer Nigel French explains how to develop a style guide to build and maintain a strong brand identity. Learn about the purpose, format, and audience for a style guide, and decide which elements to include. Nigel shows how to build guidelines that make it easy for clients and colleagues to maintain logo integrity, a unified voice, and consistent use of typography, color, and imagery. Umfang: 00:21:55.00
Inhalt: Cette formation originale de Nigel French, adaptée par Yves Chatain, vous montre tout ce que vous pouvez obtenir avec les filtres de Photoshop. Elle s'adresse ainsi à tous les graphistes et utilisateurs de logiciels de retouche photo. Vous y découvrirez étape par étape une utilisation créative et personnalisable des différents filtres pour vous approcher des effets recherchés. Vous allez progresser au fur et à mesure de votre apprentissage en découvrant la technicité nécessaire pour atteindre votre but. Les empilements de calques, le traitement non destructif sur des objets dynamiques, les modes de fusion, etc., sont autant de points que vous allez maîtriser pour sortir de l'ordinaire. Alors testez, apprenez et construisez votre méthode. Vous saurez tout sur les filtres de Photoshop ! Umfang: 06:34:17.00
Inhalt: In this installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French shows you how to correct, manage, edit, and change color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes instruction on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color, and more. Umfang: 02:27:06.00
Inhalt: Designing with grids is an essential part of any designer's skill set. Guides, grids, and their related tools bring structure and consistency to designs. By suggesting visual relationships, they can also speed workflow and inspire the artwork itself. In this course, designer Nigel French introduces the fundamentals of guides and grids in Photoshop, showing how these tools can improve the way you use the application. Explore how to create, precisely position, delete, and show and hide guides. Learn about the different types of grids, and the "intelligent" features such as Smart Guides, snapping, the GuideGuide plugin, and the New Guide Layout tool. Discover how to set up your own modular layout grid, and then explore the different types of crop overlay grids, from the Rule of Thirds to the Golden Spiral. Umfang: 01:10:16.00
Inhalt: Photoshop filters are often misused by designers. Filtered images can look garish or generic-but with the right application, the results can be eye-catching and unique. Author Nigel French teaches a creative approach to filters, explaining how to combine them with other filters and with the Photoshop masking and blending tools for maximum visual impact. Learn how to add blur, artistic and brush stroke effects, sharpening, distortion, pixilation, and illustration and painterly effects-all completely nondestructively. Plus, learn how to use Camera Raw as a filter and stack filters to create unique combinations. Umfang: 05:33:13.00
Inhalt: In this installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French shows how to use nondestructive layer effects to enhance graphic design projects in Photoshop. The techniques combine effects such as Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Bevel and Emboss, and Pattern Overlay with blending modes, filters, masks, and Smart Objects. Nigel also shows how to adjust your results by scaling, moving, and duplicating the effects. The concepts are demonstrated on various type treatments, but with these techniques, designers can emboss, highlight, bevel, and extrude lettering, logos, shapes, and even images. Umfang: 01:49:19.00
Inhalt: Textures play a vital supporting role in creating imagery with depth and mood. In this designer-friendly course, instructor Nigel French demonstrates a range of non-destructive approaches to working with textures in Adobe Photoshop. From applying textures with layer masks and layer blending, to painting textures with brushes, to creating textures with filters, he covers multiple techniques. Learn how to work with paper texture, film grain, lighting effects, and bokeh to breathe new life into your designs. Umfang: 01:47:02.00
Inhalt: Expand your creative mindset with type. In this installment of Photoshop for Designers, instructor Nigel French shows how to create a range of beautiful type treatments using efficient, nondestructive techniques. Nigel describes how to combine letters and imagery and how to illustrate ideas with type, often with just a few tweaks to the letterforms themselves. He also shares techniques for creating damaged and distressed type; adding light and smoke effects to your type; entwining letters with a vine; fashioning portraits and maps comprised entirely of type; creating nostalgic type treatments; and much more. Umfang: 02:51:07.00
Inhalt: Learn the fundamentals of working with type in Adobe Photoshop. In this course, instructor Nigel French distinguishes when it is appropriate to set type in Photoshop rather than InDesign or Illustrator and what makes Photoshop unique for certain type treatments. He demonstrates essential techniques, such as entering and editing text; interacting with type layers; and adjusting the color, transparency, and character formatting of type. Plus, he discusses some evolving technologies in type, including the new frontier of color fonts. Umfang: 01:48:58.00
Inhalt: Photoshop for Designers shows how to leverage the best features in Photoshop for your design work. This installment focuses on Adobe Bridge, a versatile asset management tool that's tightly integrated into the Photoshop workflow. Bridge helps you organize your images, batch process photos, and nondestructively edit raw, TIF, and JPEG files via Adobe Camera Raw. Follow along with Nigel French as he guides you through the many useful features in this important tool. Find out how to organize, rate, and find your favorite images; create collections; build panoramas, HDR composites, and slideshows; and batch rename files. Nigel also shows how to edit images in Camera Raw and access custom Develop settings straight from Bridge. Umfang: 01:31:21.00
Inhalt: Expand your creative options. Learn how to move your artwork between Photoshop and Illustrator and take advantage of the strongest features in each program. Designer Nigel French explains different ways to transition your artwork back and forth: copying and pasting, linking, exporting, and sharing via Creative Cloud Libraries. He then embarks on a series of mini projects that showcase the power of Photoshop-Illustrator integration. Learn how to create vector-based artwork from pixel-based sources, including photographs, and leverage Illustrator symbols and Photoshop shapes in your designs. Nigel also covers a variety of pattern and texture techniques, before proceeding into four hands-on projects-an animated pattern, a Mondrian-style composition, a vintage postcard, and a retro poster- that demonstrate the complete workflow between these two powerful programs. Umfang: 02:45:05.00
Inhalt: Shapes are key to the most iconic graphic designs in history. They're also the secret weapons of busy designers, enabling them to whip up cool, crisp graphics quickly. Watch this course to learn the ins and outs of creating professional designs and artwork using scalable vector shapes in Photoshop. Nigel French demonstrates the fundamentals of drawing and manipulating shapes; achieving various artistic effects using blend modes, layer effects, masking, and Smart Filters; and combining shape layers with pixel-based imagery and typography. The lessons also showcase practical applications for shape layers, including posters and logos, and ways to create custom shapes. Umfang: 01:24:23.00
Inhalt: El color dentro del diseño se configura como uno de los principales elementos a tener en cuenta. Si tenemos una buena base de color, podremos afrontar nuestros diseños de manera creativa y como un instrumento más que nos ayude a mejorarlos. En este curso aprenderemos a crear diseños apropiados a nuestros proyectos, de gran impacto visual y muy atractivos. Umfang: 06:31:17.00
Inhalt: Tanto si llevas tiempo trabajando con Photoshop como si tienes unos conocimientos a nivel básico, en este curso descubrirás nuevos usos de herramientas comunes como pueden ser pinceles, máscaras, trazos o filtros y emplearás otras no tan usuales como las 3D. Este no es un curso de tipografía o de técnicas tipográficas al uso, ni es un curso de maquetación, aquí vamos a trabajar con textos pero generando efectos que solo se pueden conseguir de forma sencilla usando Photoshop, con lo cual los resultados van a ser muy efectistas y visuales. Una vez conocidas las técnicas, modificar los parámetros empleados para conseguir resultados diferentes o, por supuesto, generar vuestros propios efectos, será muy sencillo. Umfang: 05:53:53.00
Inhalt: Los diseñadores y creativos se ven en la necesidad de crear un fondo o realizar una ilustración partiendo de una imagen y este curso muestra cómo los filtros de Photoshop pueden resultar de ayuda. Aprende a resolver situaciones creativas de manera efectiva y rápida. Aprende a preparar las imágenes para obtener los mejores resultados de manera no destructiva y con la posibilidad de modificación siempre que lo desees, usando las capas de objeto inteligente. Saca más partido creativo a los filtros de Photoshop. Umfang: 03:18:16.00
Inhalt: Aplicar filtros es una tarea fácil, pero sacarles el máximo partido precisa del conocimiento del flujo de trabajo adecuado en cada momento. Este curso te explicará cómo funcionan y se aplican los filtros fotográficos de Photoshop en diferentes circunstancias. Aprenderás paso a paso la utilización de aquellos que nos permiten mejorar, modificar o transformar nuestras instantáneas, y entenderás por qué en algunas ocasiones no solo sirve aplicar un filtro, sino que hay un proceso previo y otro posterior antes de aplicarlo. Umfang: 03:44:28.00
Inhalt: Las tipografías no son dominio exclusivo de Illustrator o InDesign, Photoshop las incorpora como una parte importante de sus menús y las trabaja de forma tan completa como las otras dos aplicaciones, logrando efectos tipográficos difícilmente realizados fuera de esta aplicación y dotando a los diseños de un plus de calidad y fuerza visual. En este curso aprenderás su correcto manejo y alcances. Umfang: 02:52:11.00
Inhalt: Que vous soyez graphiste débutant, designer averti, ou tout simplement curieux de savoir comment créer le logo de votre société, suivez Jérôme Bareille, qui a adapté pour vous cette formation originale de Nigel French. Vous apprendrez à concevoir un logo de A à Z, tant sur le fond que sur la forme. Vous verrez comment choisir et déformer des polices de caractères, remplacer un caractère par une image, lui donner un aspect 3D, etc. Puis, à travers quelques cas pratiques, vous créerez des logos à partir de formes simples, ou des logos plus figuratifs, avec des effets et des transparences. Enfin, vous prendrez en main les couleurs et les formats d'export pour l'impression et le web. Chacun pourra ainsi progresser selon ses besoins et créer efficacement ses logos dans Illustrator. Umfang: 04:08:51.00
Inhalt: Illustrator on the iPad has arrived. Adobe has reimagined their popular desktop design and illustration package to leverage the unique capabilities of the iPad. In this course, Nigel French highlights what this easy-to-use-and surprisingly powerful-app has to offer, showing graphic designers and illustrators what's possible with type and type effects on the iPad. Nigel focuses on what users can accomplish when working exclusively within Illustrator on the iPad. He delves into simple and complex type effects, demonstrating the following features: the Shape Builder and the Combine Shapes options, clipping masks and compound paths, color and opacity, type on a path, and the exciting repeat options. Tune in to get up to speed with the Illustrator app, so you can quickly start creating great-looking type on your tablet. Umfang: 02:31:28
Inhalt: Guides, grids, and tools related to these bring structure and consistency to your designs. By suggesting visual relationships, such tools can help you design more efficiently and experiment more easily with different layout options. In this course, learn how to work with the suite of guide and grid tools in Adobe Illustrator to improve your designs and mockups. Review fundamental concepts-including how to set basic guide options and grid preferences-and discover how to create modular and baseline grids, and work with perspective and diagonal grids. Plus, learn how to create a grid from an object mosaic, a logo from a grid of circles, and more. Umfang: 01:22:04.00
Inhalt: Building a great magazine layout can be a time-consuming and difficult process. In this course, graphic designer Nigel French shares effective design techniques that can help you create dynamic magazine layouts using Adobe InDesign CC. From setting up a document to working with images and typography, Nigel takes you through the whole process of designing a magazine spread-from concept to completion. Learn how to tidy up and finesse the layout of your document, prepare your final document for print, and more. Umfang: 01:51:43.00
Inhalt: Designers aren't the only ones who use InDesign. Editors, copywriters, and admin staff often have to edit text right inside InDesign. This course speaks directly to the needs of writers and editors who have to use InDesign for the first time-or want to use it more regularly and efficiently. Author and designer Nigel French explains how to set up an "editorial workspace" that puts the tools you need most at close reach. He then moves on to selecting and editing text in InDesign: changing case, adding special characters, formatting lists, and inserting breaks. He also shows how to use the Story Editor, Notes, and the Track Changes feature, and explains how InDesign documents are constructed, so that you can edit them with more confidence. Umfang: 01:36:07.00
Inhalt: Explore the ins and outs of styles, a time-saving set of features that allows designers to maximize efficiency in InDesign. This course covers text styles, table and cell styles, object styles, and other features in InDesign that are improved by the use of styles. Nigel French explores working with character and paragraph styles, and advanced text formatting with nested styles. He also explains how to create multilevel lists, generate a table of contents, and map Word styles to InDesign styles. Plus, he shares how to apply styles with Find/Change and apply conditions. Umfang: 02:42:40.00
Inhalt: Each element of a magazine should support and work in harmony with the other elements. This course deconstructs the elements that make up a typical magazine layout. Looking at examples from newsstand magazines, it examines the purpose of body text, headlines, subheads, captions, straplines, and more, as well as their typical usage. It then shows how such elements can be created in InDesign, with an emphasis on efficient techniques that emphasize flexibility and consistency. Graphic designer Nigel French shows how to create a magazine layout using a modular approach that improves the ongoing usability of the document template and the appearance of the resulting designs. In this course, Nigel uses a magazine layout to explain the purpose of each layout element and to demonstrate the use of InDesign features. He explores text elements, picture elements, and page elements. He demonstrates how to set up a document and how to format logically with Styles, Layers, and CC Libraries. Umfang: 01:46:29.00
Inhalt: Think great EPUB typography is impossible? Think again. Typefaces for screens are multiplying, ereaders are improving, and InDesign CC has more features for customizing EPUBs than ever before. This combination gives designers the freedom and flexibility to build more aesthetically pleasing EPUBs. In this course, Nigel French leads you through the basics of creating EPUBS with good typography in InDesign CC. Learn how to choose fonts for maximum legibility and readability, size and scale type, thread text throughout a layout, and adjust alignment and spacing. Nigel also covers working with special characters, bullets, and paragraph rules. Note: While most of the lessons are centered on reflowable EPUBs, specific issues for fixed-layout EPUBs are called out along the way. Umfang: 01:00:41.00
Inhalt: Many designers overlook the importance of composition-it''s one of the tasks they do every day. But there are many techniques that you can use to help improve your designs at this fundamental level. Join designer Nigel French as he takes you through a series of real-world projects (business cards, magazines, posters, ads, and book covers) to help you improve your layout and composition skills with InDesign. Umfang: 01:27:09.00
Inhalt: InDesign Typography explores the numerous type options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign. Using practical, real-world examples, instructor and designer Nigel French explains the purpose of each feature and describes the conventions for how and when to use it. Part 1 focuses on "micro typography" or the appearance of individual letterforms. Nigel dissects the anatomy of a typeface and defines the terminology used to describe type in graphic design. He moves into choosing a typeface, scaling type, and adjusting spacing via InDesign's leading and kerning controls. The course closes with a look at glyphs, special characters, and OpenType features, including ligatures and fractions. Umfang: 02:21:30.00
Inhalt: InDesign Typography explores the numerous type options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign. Using practical, real-world examples, instructor and designer Nigel French explains the purpose of each feature and describes the conventions for how and when to use it. Part 2 focuses on "macro typography" or how type is arranged on a page. Nigel discusses text flow, type alignment, indents and spacing, text wrap, and lists. He also shows how to use InDesign styles, which will save time formatting text and keep your designs more consistent, robust, and easier to edit. The final chapter address hyphenation, line breaks, and other type controls; the selective use of white space; the value of grids in graphic design; and approaches for combining multiple typefaces in a single layout. To get the most from this course, make sure to watch InDesign Typography Part 1. Umfang: 02:45:03.00
Inhalt: Adobe Fonts, formally known as Typekit, is a font subscription service that lets you activate fonts for use in desktop applications and on websites. As part of a Creative Cloud subscription you have access to a library of more than 15,000 fonts available for personal and commercial use. The fonts are from leading font foundries and can be used in print and on screen. If you're interested in learning how Adobe Fonts works-and how it could benefit your design workflow-then this course is for you. Join instructor Nigel French as he shows how to choose, activate, and manage fonts; add fonts to your website; activate fonts in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop; and more. Umfang: 00:16:35.00
Inhalt: Logos are a critical part of the modern visual landscape. A good logo is simple, instantly recognizable, and comprised of only the most essential elements. To learn how to create your own, it's important to be able to identify the components and design techniques behind the most successful examples, from the Nike swoosh to the Coca-Cola ribbon. In this course, Nigel French reveals how successful logos depend on good type choices and simple shapes-or the combination of simple shapes. He shows examples of popular logos and then demonstrates how to use the same construction techniques to create similar logos in Adobe Illustrator. The course combines theory with nuts-and-bolts techniques that emphasize simplicity and readability: the principles that ground the world's best logo designs. Umfang: 04:34:07.00
Inhalt: Logos are a critical part of the modern visual landscape. To learn how to create your own, it's important to be able to identify the components and design techniques behind the most successful examples, from the Nike swoosh to the Coca-Cola ribbon. In this course, Nigel French deconstructs popular logos in order to explain why and how each logo works, and offers a methodical approach to creating a logo in Illustrator. This course combines theory with nuts-and-bolts techniques that emphasize simplicity and readability: the principles that ground the best logo designs. Umfang: 04:58:41.00
Inhalt: While the letterforms used in a logo are obviously important for identifying the name of a company, slogan, or marketing campaign, they are also another opportunity to convey a visual representation of the company. In this course, Nigel French demonstrates fundamental techniques for working with type in your logos. Nigel takes a methodical, hands-on approach, showing how to create type treatments in Adobe Illustrator. He covers removing elements from letters; modifying letter shapes; how to work with lines, patterns, and dots; how to add dimension; and different ways of incorporating gradients. Each of the effects he demonstrates are stand-alone lessons, so you can jump in on any part of the course based on need. Type skills are an essential part of a designer's vocabulary and these techniques are the building blocks of a successful typographic logo. Umfang: 02:50:14
Inhalt: You may be a master of editing single photos, but multi-shot photo techniques like panos, HDR, and focus stacks present some unique challenges. In this course, graphic designer Nigel French shows you all the basics of using Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge to achieve great results with techniques that use multiple shots. Beginning with panoramas. Nigel walks you through shooting panoramas, then explains how to create them in Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). He discusses different projections, common problems that can occur, and some unexpected uses of panoramas, including making an Instagram carousel. Then Nigel moves on to creating HDR images in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and ACR. After covering several practical techniques to stack, blend, and combine layers, Nigel concludes with additional effects that you can achieve by stacking layers. Umfang: 01:57:02
Inhalt: Take your love of letterforms to the next level with this weekly series that explores all things, big and small, related to type and the practice of typography. These tips are aimed at people using Adobe Creative Cloud: primarily InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Some tips are specific to particular applications and some are purely conceptual and software agnostic. Tune in every Monday for another timely tip to improve your typographical skills and increase the efficiency of your design workflow. Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion. Umfang: 10:24:37.00
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