Goals
- Learn the basics of graphic design with free software
- Create business cards, flyers, brochures
- Discover the advanced functions
Program
About The Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus, history, use, functionalities and philosophy of Open Source DTP
Image types: Bitmap and Vectorial / Capture, display and print devices. Colorimetric modes: RGB, CMYK and pantone colors. The chromatic circle and the different representations of color.
How to organize the creation of a graphic document. Which tool to use, how are The Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus complementary?
Offers color, what color for what message.
Presentation of Gimp and its environment
Software preferences
Floating windows: configuration and use
Customization of the workspace
Document formats
Display and magnifying tool
Layers and history Fundamentals
Open a file
Crop
Straighten a photo
Modify the dimension
Modify the resolution
Color modes
Workshop: Modify the frame of an image
Rectangle and ellipse selection
tools Lasso and Smart scissors tools
Magic
wand Color
selection Selection editor
Reuse a selection
Alignment and distribution
Deformations: rotation, scale, shear, perspective
Workshop: Learn to use clipping tools according to your needs
The layer parameters
Floating layer
Manipulation of layers
Modification of names
Opacity / Blending modes
Workshop: Organize a composition, cut out areas of an image to pass them into another composition.
Text editor – GvD / DvG
Text block handles Text
attributes
Selection based on text Plain and gradient
color
Text on path
Workshop: Create a flyer in A5 format
Exports for printing
Exports for the web
Menu
bar Tool control
bar Tool
bar Command bar
Graphic area
Color
bar Information bar
Navigation in the workspace
The rectangle tool
The selection and transformation tool
Presentation of Bézier
The editing tool for nodes and handles
Logic of hard / soft nodes: Hard / soft nodes
/ add / delete / convert
L ‘ tool for adjusting objects and paths
The ellipse / arc and pie chart
tool The polygon
tool Connector tool
Workshop: Redraw a pixelated logo
Outlines
Outline style
Fill
Color
picker Paint
bucket Color gradient Gradient
editor
Alpha layer
Eyedropper
Workshop: color a vectorized logo
Why clones?
Paving
clones Workshop clone editing
: use a logo pattern to make a background for a business card
Presentation of the layer panel
Layers attributes
Hierarchy between slaps Blending
modes
Opacity
Free
text Captive
text Text on path
Workshop: Make a flyer in A5 format
Downloading and installing Scribus and Ghostscript
Presentation of the interface
Presentation of menus, tools and panels
Text blocks, images and objects
The management of the different planes
The options of the layers
The parameters of the blending modes
Workshop: Organizing a document with the layers
Importing text
style sheets
Chaining text
The dressing
Workshop: realization pages maga s ine, use style sheets
The shapes and layouts vector
illustrations
Workshop: Realization of a multi-page brochure
Brush
Airbrush
Eraser
Use brushes
Use patterns
Duplication stamp
Workshop: Color a map, remove a disturbing element from the image
Reminder of the basics of geometry
The pen tool
Add / remove anchor
point Point conversion tool Bézier workshop: the basics
Precise clipping of a complex shape from a work path
Transformation of a work path into a selection area
Retrieve the work path
Creation of a new layer from the selection area
Manual transformation in several steps # 2
Workshop: trimming using the pen tool
Options for importing a .svg
Editing plots
Convert a plot into a selection
Workshop: color a map
Add background
Brightness and contrast
Correct exposure
Correct colors
Blur an area of the image
Workshop: rework the colorimetry of a bland image
Object in path
Contour in path
Union
Difference
Intersection
Exclusion
Division
Decomposition
Combination
Separation
Discovery of filters
Adding filters
Editing filters
Workshop: create a complex logo
Formatting
Management of tables
Importing data
Importing images
Workshop: creation and formatting of tables
Automatic pagination
footnotes
Workshop: automation of pagination, creation
Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).
Duration
5 days
Price
£ 2140
Audience
All beginners who are not familiar with creation techniques
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the PC or Mac environment
Reference
PAO943-F
Sessions
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