stepping up

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

Creation of a new document: the different types of documents The different parameters of the document according to its destination: printing, web Document structure: templates and models Import formats Workshop: creation of different types of documents

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

Exports for printing Exports for the web

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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