Creating Diagrams in Illustrator

Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: textbox, type tool, paragraph styles, paths, appearances Results: Diagram based on a model by Bitner (1992). Bitner. (1992). Servicescapes: The Impact of Physical Surroundings on Customers and Employees. Journal of Marketing, 56(2), 57–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/002224299205600205 Step 1 – Creating the document Open Adobe Illustrator. To create a…

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Choosing the Perfect Location

Whether it may be a vlog, interview or educational video, choosing the correct location will determine how engaging your video will be to the viewers. Here are some tips you should consider when selecting a background: Keep it CLEAN! The very first mistake that a lot of beginner vloggers tend…

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10 Tips When Starting in Illustrator

Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: 1) File Formats These file formats are called native formats meaning that all Illustrator data is preserved when the file is saved. To save a document as any of these four formats, go to File > Save As… and change the Save Type To to its respective file type. AI .AI…

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InDesign Infographic

Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: importing images, textbox and text formatting, paragraph styles, text wrapping, pages, guidelines Link to resources: download here Reference for resources: Colour Hex Codes: Results Video Guide

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Intro to Podcasting

Recording and Mixing a Podcast with Music Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: Recording in Waveform, noise cancellation, trimming, basic transitions, Multitrack effects Result: An audio file with background music and a voiceover What is Adobe Audition? Adobe Audition is used for recording and mixing audio, such as voiceovers, music, podcasts, or voice…

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10 Photoshop Essentials for Beginners

10 essential things to get started with Photoshop Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: Reference image used through out guide: Adi Kavazovic (2021) 1) Pixel sizes Images in Photoshop are raster graphics, meaning the image is compiled of millions of pixels. A disadvantage of raster images is that images can only be upscaled…

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Visualising Data in Illustrator

NOTE: Click on each screenshot to enlarge them. In each set of images, the first screenshot will be from Windows 10, the latter in macOS Big Sur. Interchange Ctrl/Cmd (⌘) keys for shortcuts depending on your operating system. Any further differences will be noted Configuring Your Artboard Once you open…

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Using a DSLR Camera

Digital Single-Lens Reflex cameras, or DSLRs, combine the optics and mechanisms of single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras with the digital processing of image sensors and computers. Difficulty: Medium What you will learn: Manual mode, understanding components of exposure Manual Mode On the left side of the top of the camera, there…

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Processing Photos in Lightroom

Difficulty: Easy What you will learn: Histogram, cropping and transforming, temperature, tone, saturation/vibrance, sharpening and noise reduction, distortion correction, metadata removal Download Reference Photos: guide-student-practice-0789.dng Result: Step 1 – Preparation Open “Lightroom Classic“. Note: do not use “Lightroom” (old name: Lightroom CC). Lightroom Classic is desktop-based with its photo library stored on the computer, meanwhile,…

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