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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 how to use the clipping tools in function vo s 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 A telier practice: Realization of a multi-page brochure

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1360

Audience

Everyone

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the PC or Mac environment

Reference

PAO946-F

Sessions

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