Our combination courses are split over two sessions, one at the start of the month and one at the end - (two days and two days.) Please contact us to arrange payment and the dates you wish to study. Our combination courses offer the very best value for money. You will learn two packages in this training that integrate to have more control of the final output. You will save 20% on our combination courses, than if you were to book each one separately.*
(* We add the cost of the two courses together and deduct 20% from the final price.)
Whilst there are a few industry standard prototyping tools on the market, Adobe Xd is considered one of the very best. In this two day course, you’ll go from having never used Xd, to designing a final interactive prototype that can be shared with friends, colleagues or prospective employers. Adobe Xd skills are high in demand and UX is a huge growth industry.
In the Beginners Photoshop part of the course, you will learn the basics, enabling you to use the programme to an intermediate working level with Xd. You will discover the essential fundamentals of Photoshop such as RGB vs CMYK, image resolution, layers, cropping and rotating artwork, before going on to more complex tasks such as cutting out parts of an image.
We want you to practice what you have learned in the Adobe Illustrator course before moving onto Xd. That's why we split our combination courses over two sessions, one at the start of the month and one at the end - (two days and two days.)
Four day Beginners Adobe Illustrator and Xd Classroom Course
01.) The Toolbox
02.) Different palette types
03.) Setting up preferences
04.) Outline and GPU views
05.) The Selection Tool
06.) The Direct Selection Tool
07.) Modifying selections
08.) Adding to and subtracting from selections
09.) The Pen Tool
10.) Adding and removing points
11.) Drawing paths
12.) The Pencil Tool
13.) The Reshape Tool
14.) Using rulers, guides and smart guides
15.) Using the grids
16.) The Group function
17.) How to distribute
18.) Using the align functions
19.) The Stacking order
20.) The colour palettes
21.) Spot colours (Pantone)
22.) Understanding colour
23.) Using Smart Filters
24.) Saving custom palettes
25.) Custom gradients
26.) Creating and editing type
27.) Typeface properties
28.) Kerning, tracking and leading
29.) Creating paths for type
30.) Compound Paths
31.) Placing images
32.) Importing images
33.) Linking and embedding images
34.) Matching colour successfully
35.) The difference in file formats
36.) Best practice when saving images
37.) Saving for web
38.) Workspaces overview
39.) The design workspace
40.) Creating shapes and text
41.) Using the pen tool
42.) Adding text
43.) Planning a project
44.) Importing assets
45.) Adding and removing artboards
46.) Designing for different devices
47.) Appearance properties
48.) Advanced text techniques
49.) Typekit fonts
50.) Masking tricks
51.) Arranging and aligning objects
52.) The repeat grid
53.) The prototype workspace
54.) Creating and removing links
55.) Adding scrolling
56.) Creating call to actions
57.) Screen effects
58.) Linking objects
59.) Creating a user journey
60.) Trigger types
61.) Different transitions
62.) Destinations and actions
63.) Your final project
64.) Pre share checklist
65.) The view settings
66.) Managing links
67.) Sharing your prototype
Most of our Adobe courses come with a free Adobe authorised training manual for your reference during and after the training. The courses where no manual is available come with comprehensive notes for you to take away with you. We always have a maximum of six delegates in our classrooms which will give you more one on one time with the instructor.
You are encouraged to ask us examples of how to do things that you need to learn for you role. We try and tailor a portion of the day to accommodate this, so that everybody leaves with relevant knowledge suited to their job.
Our trainers are all Adobe certified (Adobe Certified Instructors) and more importantly, have worked in relevant roles using all of the software they teach. We check all of our trainers credentials thoroughly before we employ them, to give you the student, the very best learning experience.
Beginners course in Photoshop and XD.
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