Introduction to Visual Design Fundamentals

class Introduction to Visual Design Fundamentals // DESIGN 101 Jonathan Grover, Designer Session Two: Tuesday, May 15th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM Learn Visual Design fundamentals as you harness the power of the Adobe Creative Suite Applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create rich attractive print and publication designs. Learn the fundamentals of photo re-touching/manipulation,... [read more]

class Introduction to Visual Design Fundamentals // DESIGN 101 Jonathan Grover, Designer Session Two: Tuesday, May 15th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM Learn Visual Design fundamentals as you harness the power of the Adobe Creative Suite Applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create rich attractive print and publication designs. Learn the fundamentals of photo re-touching/manipulation, creating vector illustrations, page layout, and professional design workflows. This course takes the design novice from start to finish in creating professional page layouts using industry standard design software. We will learn rules for creating effective designs and knowing when to break them. Bring your own laptop with the aforementioned software (or current trial version), some blank paper, pencils, and an eager mind. No prerequisites required. External mouse or pen tablets optional.   Suggested text:  Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara, Rockport Publishers Inc, ISBN - 13: 978-1-59253-261-2 Photoshop: Digital Darkroom (retouching & manipulation) Follow along through a series of tutorials and exercises to learn the fundamentals of photo retouching and image manipulation using Adobe Photoshop CS5. This section will cover selection techniques, layers, compositing, adjustment layers, filters, sizing, cropping, and bush tools. Session 1 Topics: Twenty Rules for Making Good Design Raster vs Vector Adobe Photoshop: Workspace Saving / Opening Sizing File Types Magnify + & - Hand Tool Rulers, Guides & Grid Basic Selection: Marquee, Ellipse Refining Selections: Lasso tools Intelligent Selection: Magic Wand, Quick Select Cropping / Canvas Size Retouching: Red Eye Removal Retouching Skin: Healing Brush, Patching Thinning: Liquefy Filters Session 2 Topics The Identity of Color The World of Image Adobe Photoshop continued: Layers Adjustment Layers: Levels, Color Adjustments Non-Destructive Filters using Adjust Layers Advanced Lighting: Non-destructive Dodge & Burn Advanced Selection: Quick Mask Mode Illustrator: Creating on a Vector Canvas Dive into Adobe Illustrator the versatile vector design software that’s turning heads. Explore the use of the pen tool, gradients, bristle brushes, and other new tools to create your own sharp scalable graphics. Dates: May 8th & 15th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm Section length: 6 hrs Session 3 Topics Form and Space Adobe Illustrator: Workspace Saving / Opening Sizing File Types Magnify + & - Hand Tool Rulers, Guides & Grid Basic Shapes Layers, Grouping, Arrangement Pen tools Session 4 Topics Adobe Illustrator continued: Pathfinder / Shape Builder Tool Gradient Tool, Gradient PanelGradient Mesh Text Tool to Outlines Masking Opacity Masks, Blending Modes Bristle Brush shading InDesign: Page Layout for the Digital Designer InDesign provides designers with a complete toolkit for page layout. We will learn to setup multi page documents, create seamless integration of type and images, and improve workflow by updating our graphics from Photoshop and Illustrator as externally linked files. Dates: May 22nd & 29th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm Section length: 6 hrs Session 5 Topics Choosing and Using Type Structures and Grid based Layout Adobe InDesign: Workspace Saving / Opening Document Setup: Margins, Gutters, Bleeds Pages, Master Pages Text boxes Image Placement (re sizing vs moving) Text Flow (cont, around images) Character styles, Paragraph Styles, Object Styles Preflight Exporting Dates: June 5th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm Section length: 3 hrs   Jonathan Grover received his BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Akron, and was awarded an MFA in Design & Technology from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has worked nationally as a designer, digital artist, and teacher. He has exhibited internationally, been published in Creative Quarterly, noted by The San Francisco Chronicle, and received media attention from NBC for his interactive artwork. Jonathan currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, creating new media arts developed for public interaction and working as a freelance graphics/web designer, and technology consultant. Can't make it? Sign up at http://generalassemb.ly to stay in the loop on future events and classes. Jonathan Grover

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