Creative Solutions for Creative students
Using artboards in Illustrator is very much like pages in programs like InDesign. When you create a new document in Ai, you can choose to create multiple artboards as well. You …
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Creating simple toggle switches is really the next step in understanding both components and states. One example of a toggle switch is an on / off button. This same method …
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Presentation tools have always frustrated me, they seem clunky and not at all free for creativity. I also dislike the feeling of hunting around for icons, images and just the …
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The Illustrator width tool and variable width profiles are excellent ways to quickly add interest to line art. To use the Width tool, click the Width tool or press Shift …
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Using grids and guides in Illustrator can frustrate new users – especially those coming from InDesign. In InDesign, you may be used to quickly creating margins, columns and rows to …
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The Illustrator blend tool allows you to object color or to create repeated shapes. There is flexibility with this tool to blend two open paths to create a smooth transition …
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Using shape builder in Illustrator allows you to start creating iconography and begin your illustration adventures. First, create the shapes on which you want to apply the Shape Builder tool. …
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The basics of creating new artwork with the Pen tool. The Pen tool, found in the Toolbar, is one of the most powerful drawing tools in Illustrator. With it, you …
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Using Illustrator across the Creative Cloud is easier than new users think. This training will show you how to use Illustrator files in different applications and with different exports. Let’s …
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Creating a basic logo animation in After Effects is a great way to learn some easy key frame animation techniques. Getting Started Before going to After Effects, create a layered …
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The Illustrator knife tool is ‘hidden’ with the Eraser, so click and hold to reveal it. When using the knife tool, you can either cut straight lines or wavy lines …
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In Express Page, you can build a creative multimedia website. Apply a brand or select a template. You can upload your own images or use provided stock photos. With stock …
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You can build your brand quickly in Creative Cloud Express – adding logos, fonts and colors. All of these assets can be shared with others. Then create templates and styled …
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Adobe Spark has had an update/rebrand and is now Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Express offers a lot of the same tools, as well as some new tools for you to …
Intro to CC Express Read More
Opening Illustrator work inside Photoshop is as easy as copy/paste. Start by opening your work in Illustrator. Make sure you have already created named layers inside of Illustrator. Next, select …
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Photoshop has made collaborating and editing even easier! You can now share a Photoshop document, allow stakeholders to add pinned comments. These comments appear inside Photoshop, so you can stay …
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Photoshop’s latest update has made selecting content so easy. To make an automatic selection on hover with the Object Selection tool, do the following: Access the Object Selection tool from …
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Share and comment has been available in InDesign for a few versions, now it’s available in Illustrator. This update allows you to share a link to your artwork with collaborators, …
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Easily apply 3D effects like Rotate, Revolve, Extrude, Lighting, and Shadows to vector artwork and create 3D graphics. Find all these effects along with Adobe Substance Materials and rendering options …
Adding 3D effects and substances in Illustrator Read More
Illustrator can seem intimidating, but by maximizing a few simple tools, you can be well on your way to creating graphics and icons to use across the Adobe suite. Shape …
Building graphics in Illustrator Read More
Using the basics of graphic design and a few cool tools, you can level up your presentations. This course serves as not only an idea generator for presentations, but also …
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JSchoolTech loves to join our students in creative challenges – revisit our Winter Break Challenge. Each week of Winter Break challengers received a quick brief and training video. Then had …
Winter Break Creative Challenge Read More
Spark page allows you to create easily editable web pages or on the go presentations. (In a refreshed look!) Table of Contents: 00:41 – Branded or other themes01:13 – Title …
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Spark post helps you create social media ready posts and content, as well as print media. You can use your own branded templates, start from scratch or use a template. …
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In this short video, we will look at different ways to login to spark, as well as how to start on branding your content.
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This workshop was a special session only for J300 students. We used simple shape tools to create basic icons, learning to transform and copy them to get the shapes we …
Workshop: Creating Icons Read MoreThis tutorial gives you a quick look at how to use master components and states to create hovers. If you haven’t yet, check out our earlier tutorial on tap …
Creating Hovers in XD Read More
Find a few ways to use various technology tools to enhance your presentation and drive audience interest. Check out my video overview and view the full presentation below.
Using technology in your presentation Read More
XD allows you to easily collaborate with other users with their co-editing feature. Track changes and share documents easily. Table of Contents: 00:17 – Save Design to Cloud 00:38 – …
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In the 2020 updates, Photoshop released the object selection tool. Overall, this tool is user friendly and does an excellent job of making selections even quicker and easier. As background, …
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You can use the Symbols Panel in Illustrator as a starting point for basic design. Table of Contents: 00:15 – Opening your symbols panel 00:26 – Opening additional symbols …
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Text shape can be formatted in a variety of ways in InDesign. You can create multiple columns, establish spacing and wrap text along objects. You may also want to check …
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Cropping images allows you to size images for specific purpose and resolutions. This step is not necessary to work in InDesign. Table of Contents: 00:25 – Scale impacts effective ppi …
Cropping Images in Photoshop Read More
How to prepare your images for use in print or digital by jumping from InDesign to Photoshop. Watch part 1 of our video. Table of Contents: 00:10 – Opening link …
Checking your Links Part 2 (Changing Resolution and Color Mode in Photoshop) Read More
Checking your links allows your images to appear at optimum quality for print design. Watch part 2 here. Table of Contents: 00:10 – Accessing the link panel 00:17 – Information …
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There are several ways to create a cob image, begin with creating a good basic selection area, experimenting with some of these tools: Using various selection tools inside Photoshop Table …
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How to apply various effects, color modes and some tips to make your design work. Table of Contents: 00:10 – Opening Window > Effects 00:27 – Opacity v Tint 00:50 …
Using Effects in Indesign Read MoreTable of Contents: 00:16 – Using Design Seeds 00:43 – Using the Color Theme Tool 01:07 – Using Adobe Color Themes 01:25 – Exploring Color Themes 01:32 – Looking …
Color Inspiration and Using Color Themes Read More
Using Swatches to create Visual Identity Swatches can be exported and imported across the Adobe Suite, allowing you to brand logos, content and message clearly and easily. This tutorial explores …
Swatches in the Adobe Suite Read MoreUsing Color/Swatches in InDesign will strengthen your design and branding. Table of Contents: 00:18 – Changing color in properties panel 00:23 – Changing color in tool bar 00:32 – Black …
Color/Swatches in InDesign Read More
Table of Contents: 00:15 – Placing Photos inside of frames 00:33 – File Place or Command D 00:47 – Placing photos without a frame 01:37 – Command Z to undo
Placing Images in InDesign Read More
Paragraph Formatting allows you to change features such as text alignment, indents and drop caps. You can also adjust columns, column gaps and bullets within Paragraph Formatting. Table of …
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Table of Contents: 00:46 – Creating consistency with font 01:15 – Creating Contrast with font 01:44 – Applying color for contrast 02:04 – Type on a path 02:35 – Type …
Style Display Text in InDesign Read More
Table of Contents: 00:21 – Creating text frame columns 00:37 – Matching text columns to doc columns 00:55 – Manual columns
Creating Columns in InDesign Read More
Creating Paragraph Styles Table of Contents: 00:08 – What Paragraph styles do 00:48 – Creating a Style Group 00:54 – Adding a new style 01:59 – Applying Paragraph Styles 02:12 …
Creating Paragraph Styles Read MoreDownload InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts Utilizing keyboard shortcuts will allow you to be more efficient. Many of these shortcuts can be used within all of Adobe’s creative programs. Table of …
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Pathfinders help you build basic shapes into stylized icons or combine fonts for unique logos. Additionally, Pathfinders exist in both InDesign and Illustrator so it is worth learning and experimenting …
Pathfinders in InDesign Read More
You can create text boxes quickly using the type tool or File > Place a Word Document directly into InDesign. Table of Contents: 00:17 – Type Tool shortcut – T …
Creating text boxes in InDesign Read MoreTable of Contents: 00:23 – Adding points 00:40 – Vectors defined 01:00 – Drawing curved lines
Pen tool in Indesign Read More
All objects and text in InDesign have a fill and a stroke. In this lesson we review how you add fills and strokes to lines, shapes and text. We also …
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There are two types of shape tools in InDesign – frame tools and marquee tools. Frames are used for placing images. Marquee tools are used for backgrounds and shapes. Each …
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Grids and guides help you devise a template for placing objects in InDesign. With use of grids you are able to align objects to each other and in relation to …
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Get to Know the InDesign Panels Learning how to manage and effectively use InDesign Panels will help you work more efficiently in InDesign. This knowledge can easily be transferred to …
InDesign Panels Read MoreTable of Contents: 00:41 – Learning Tools and Their Shortcuts00:51 – Selection Tool01:12 – Direct Selection Tool01:35 – Pages Tool01:48 – Gap Tool02:08 – Content Collector Tool02:51 – Type Tool03:36 …
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Creating New Files Adobe makes new file creation simple. You really only need to have made some decisions about the output of your document prior to starting – is it …
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Navigating the InDesign Workspace is the first step in building design. This video will provide you with a quick overview of the workspace. Table of Contents: 00:25 – Menu Options …
InDesign Workspace Read MoreInDesign Work Environment Basics of how to get started in InDesign, learn some simple customizations and familiarize yourself with the InDesign environment. 00:16 – Application Frame and Bar 00:33 …
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Building a stylescape is one of the great first steps to any design project. A stylescape allows clients to ‘preview’ concepts prior to a designer investing time in full on …
Building a stylescape Read More
I’ve been guilty of using the wrong sizes for my social graphic and videos. I’m also guilty of having my correct sizes written down on some post-it. Somewhere. This is …
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Table of Contents: 00:10 – Device Preview 00:25 – Preview on screen 00:29 – Record on screen playback 01:02 – Share for Review 01:22 – Adding comments during review 01:42 …
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XD makes it incredibly easy to prototype designs. You can easily create a variety of interactions. 00:10 – Moving to Prototype Mode 00:21 – Setting your home screen 00:47 – …
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Polish your UX/UI design with effects and gradients. You can add blurs, masks, gradients and drop shadows to your XD objects. Table of Contents: 00:13 – Masking shapes 01:54 – …
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XDs repeat grid function makes design mockups move quickly. Simple drag and drop to add images and boom – you’re done. Add to that XDs integration with Photoshop and Illustrator …
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If you have used any Adobe software, it will be easy to pick up on the basic tools in XD. They are super user friendly and allow you to quickly …
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Learn how to quickly start your XD project in a variety of output sizes with easily accessible UI kits. Table of Contents: 00:03 – How to access XD 00:31 …
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XD is Adobe’s web and app prototyping software. It fully integrates with the rest of the Creative Cloud and is a great way to create client mockups. Best of all, …
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Login to CC Start by finding the CC icon along the top navigation bar and log into to CC app. Click on the Apps tab Here you can view / …
How to optimize Creative Cloud Read MoreOur top mobile apps offer you opportunities to create, share and edit content. Adobe Scan All you need to get started with Adobe Scan is a free Adobe ID. …
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The XD updates are truly revolutionary – especially as UX/UI becomes critical. Want to put yourself in a good position for employment – get into XD and learn some XD …
XD Updates – October 2018 Read More
Illustrator never fails to have amazing updates that provide me with work efficiencies and tools I didn’t even realize I needed. Here are some key updates to check out in …
Illustrator updates – CC 2018 Read More
Content Aware Fit No more adjust photos and fighting with them to be sized correctly. Using Adobe’s AI features, InDesign determines the center of visual interest based on evaluating the …
InDesign Updates – Oct 2018 Read More
Adobe released some exciting updates to Photoshop at Max this week. Read about the full set of updates, I am super excited about the new content aware fill workspace. If …
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Table of Contents: 00:41 – Bringing up animation panels 01:26 – Using the animation panel 02:06 – Using the timing panel 02:51 – Preview animation
Animating in InDesign Read More
Table of Contents: 00:29 – Sign up for free adobe id 00:46 – Logon to creative cloud on your device 01:29 – Name your document and set all preferences 03:29 …
Publishing InDesign Docs Online Read More
Table of Contents: 00:42 – Selecting Illustrator graph and copying to InDesign 01:04 – Scaling graphics that are in InDesign 02:05 – Setting up grids in InDesign 02:44 – Using …
Levels of spacing and grids Read More
Charts can be quickly created in Illustrator and copied into InDesign or shared/posted by creating a PDF from Illustrator. Table of Contents: 00:04 – Create new Illustrator document 00:47 – …
Creating charts and graphs in Illustrator Read More
Whether you are building a design for print or web or creating a data visualization, selecting fonts and following basic rules of the road for typography are critical. If you …
5 simple font rules for fonts Read More
Using buttons to creative interactive slideshow 1. Select the image 2. Using the buttons and forms panel, click the new button icon 3. Name the button (best practice is to …
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Creating Navigation buttons 1. Select the object/graphic that you would like to create navigation from. This object should be on your master page. 2. Open the Buttons and Forms Panel …
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Creating a Table of Contents 1. Contents are built using styles, so first make sure you have applied a paragraph style to all the topics you would like to add. …
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Converting a series of URLs to Hyperlinks You can easily convert a series of URLS to hyperlinks. It is very advisable, especially if you are converting from a large document, that …
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Creating Hyperlinks Hyperlinks can be created from either text or text + graphic. To create links: 1. Select text and/or graphic2. Click the New Hyperlink button or drop down menu3. …
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Why create an InDesign package? Creating an InDesign package files allows fonts, links, indd files and indml files to be packaged together. This will make your InDesign file easier to …
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Creating hyperlinks and interactivity with InDesign Creating simple hyperlinks and interactive elements will increase the readability of your inDesign file. These can be used to link to pages, urls, and destinations. …
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Adding InDesign page numbers Adding InDesign page numbers in a few simple steps. You can then style your page numbers to more tightly connect it with your design. Steps to …
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Table of Contents: 00:17 – Window, Pages to open pages panel 00:55 – Designing on the master page 01:19 – Content is applied to pages as soon as you place …
Master pages in InDesign Read More
By using Image Trace in Illustrator, your images will go from a pixel to handdrawn, almost cartoon appearance. This is an excellent approach to take when you would like …
Using images in Illustrator Read More
Table of Contents: 00:34 – Accessing color libraries 01:18 – Accessing Pantone libraries 02:01 – Loading other libraries 02:26 – Saving out a swatch library to send to others 02:59 …
Creative color in Illustrator Read MoreTable of Contents: 00:11 – How to style type in Illlustrator 01:26 – Spell Check 01:54 – Making your text shape by Using Type, Create Outlines 02:14 – Ungroup shapes …
Illustrator Type Tricks Read More
Table of Contents: 00:10 – Tearing off the brushes panel 00:17 – Tearing off swatches panel 00:24 – Brush tool – keyboard shortcut B 00:30 – Tips for using brushes …
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Pathfinder and Effects in Illustrator Creating graphics can be a simple task accomplished by using the pathfinder and effects in Illustrator. With some basic use of shape tools to draw, …
Pathfinder and effects in Illustrator to create graphics Read More
Using shape tools and shape builder in Illustrator Creating graphics can be a simple task accomplished by using shape tools and shape builder in Illustrator. With some basic use of shape tools …
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Filling text with either image or gradient opens some areas for creative design. Table of Contents: 00:16 – Creating shape from type 00:57 – Opening a gradient panel 01:13 – …
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Table of Contents: 00:20 – Adding a stroke to your Line 00:31 – Use hit + Line tool to create straight lines 00:56 – Changing the size of your line …
Using Line Tool Read MoreTable of Contents: 00:04 – False Italics 00:29 – Fake Bold 00:51 – Change Fill and Stroke 01:05 – Use stroke panel on type 01:13 – Using eyedropper to color …
Character Fill and Stroke in InDesign Read More
When resizing images in InDesign your main goal is to prevent stretched and distorted images. To ensure that images are in proportion, hold down CMD + Shift as you scale. …
Resizing images in InDesign Read MoreCharacter Formatting allows you to change fonts and font size as well as other text features. It should be used in conjunction with paragraph formatting. Table of Contents: 00:16 – …
Character Formatting in InDesign Read MoreWorking with text in InDesign is a deep topic. This tutorial introduces ways you can select text in order to reorder content, spell check and enhance readability. Table of Contents: …
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