Nigel French
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn to design a captivating annual report.
As well as satisfying legal requirements, annual reports serve an important marketing and communication function and allow companies to tell their story. An annual report is a prestigious assignment for any designer and can make a satisfying piece for your portfolio. In this course, you can learn how to think strategically about the kind of information an annual report needs to include and create a design...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore the typography options, features, and preferences of Adobe InDesign, in this exploration of macro typography. Learn about text flow, alignment, spacing, styles, and more.
InDesign Typography explores the numerous type options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign. Using practical, real-world examples, instructor and designer Nigel French explains the purpose of each feature and describes the conventions for...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn the basic techniques of successful graphic design production using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
If you’re a graphic designer—or you want to become one—you need to know how to leverage the full power of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Not only that, you also need to know what tool to use when, how to use it, to what degree, and on what type of job. In this course, instructor Nigel French takes you back to basics and gives an overview...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to plan and design an infographic.
Numbers and figures and statistics are, quite simply, great. Having data to support your point is a key factor of any presentation, debate, or prediction. One thing numbers are not, however, is visually striking. If they were, no one would have invented infographics. Today, infographics are everywhere, and if you’re not using them, you’re missing out on a great opportunity to engage your audience and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Use the Photoshop guide and grid tools for better-looking designs, a more efficient workflow, and increased creativity.
Designing with grids is an essential part of any designer's skill set. Guides, grids, and their related tools bring structure and consistency to designs. By suggesting visual relationships, they can also speed workflow and inspire the artwork itself. In this course, designer Nigel French introduces the fundamentals of guides and...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Watch this course to learn the ins and outs of creating professional designs and artwork using crisp, scalable vector shapes in Photoshop.
Shapes are key to the most iconic graphic designs in history. They're also the secret weapons of busy designers, enabling them to whip up cool, crisp graphics quickly. Watch this course to learn the ins and outs of creating professional designs and artwork using scalable vector shapes in Photoshop. Nigel French...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to work with the suite of guide and grid tools in Adobe Illustrator to improve your designs and mockups.
Guides, grids, and tools related to these bring structure and consistency to your designs. By suggesting visual relationships, such tools can help you design more efficiently and experiment more easily with different layout options. In this course, learn how to work with the suite of guide and grid tools in Adobe Illustrator to improve...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to design a logo. Learn the principles of logo design by deconstructing popular logos and then constructing your own in Adobe Illustrator.
Logos are a critical part of the modern visual landscape. A good logo is simple, instantly recognizable, and comprised of only the most essential elements. To learn how to create your own, it's important to be able to identify the components and design techniques behind the most successful examples,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Explore the ins and outs and time-saving benefits of using styles in InDesign. Learn about text styles, table and cell styles, object styles, and other style-related features.
Explore the ins and outs of styles, a time-saving set of features that allows designers to maximize efficiency in InDesign. This course covers text styles, table and cell styles, object styles, and other features in InDesign that are improved by the use of styles. Nigel French...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the differing components of Photoshop layers and the range of features you can employ to allow for non-destructive editing with limitless possibilities.
Layers are the beating heart of any Photoshop composition. Layers let you manipulate your images in ways big and small, simple and fantastic. Layers allow you to keep the various elements of a composition separate, so that you can edit them independently. You can use layers to move elements,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Take the first step toward designing your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to quickly create OpenType fonts.
Whether you want to design a font for your small business, an event, or your passion project, this course can help you get started. Join instructor Nigel French as he helps you create your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop that...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to build an eye-catching newsletter with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Learn how to set up a document, work with text, choose and manipulate images, and more.
Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating your design. In this project-based course, Nigel French shares effective design and production techniques by taking you from start to finish through the process of...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn the main multi-shot photo techniques: panoramas, focus stacking, HDR, and multiple exposures.
You may be a master of editing single photos, but multi-shot photo techniques like panos, HDR, and focus stacks present some unique challenges. In this course, graphic designer Nigel French shows you all the basics of using Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge to achieve great results with techniques that use multiple shots. Beginning with panoramas. Nigel...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use grids to create better looking InDesign layouts.
Take the guesswork out of your InDesign layouts. Whether it's a business card, a poster, a digital magazine, or a printed book, your design will look better if you use a grid. Join designer Nigel French as he takes you through a brief history of grids—why you should use them and when you should break them. He shows you how to establish margins and columns, set up a modular grid,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A great band deserves a great logo. Learn how to take a client brief and turn rough ideas into a polished logo design.
A great band deserves a great logo. Think about The Grateful Dead's dancing bears or The Rolling Stones' "hot lips." Or even The Beatles: their famous logo is just a simple text-based design with a drop T. As a designer, your responsibility is to come up with a variety of logo ideas for your clients and hone in on and finesse the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Photo compositing is a great way to expand your creativity. With a composite, you can combine two or more images to tell a more powerful story, or portray scenes that could never be accomplished with a single shot. In this course, Nigel French shares the fundamental creative and technical concepts behind photo compositing. In addition to core features necessary to combine multiple images—like masking and blend modes—Nigel also explores the AI-driven...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn to create compelling layout and compositions with Adobe InDesign.
This course presents key design concepts and techniques that you can use to improve your designs. Designer Nigel French takes you through a series of projects to help you sharpen your layouts and compositions with Adobe InDesign. Nigel uses business cards to show you how to arrange multiple elements in a small space and have them be both readable and visually compelling. Next,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Adobe Fonts (formally Typekit), a font subscription service that lets you activate fonts for use in desktop applications and on websites.
Adobe Fonts, formally known as Typekit, is a font subscription service that lets you activate fonts for use in desktop applications and on websites. As part of a Creative Cloud subscription you have access to a library of more than 15,000 fonts available for personal and commercial use. The fonts...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Explore the fundamental concepts and techniques for working with type in Photoshop.
Learn the fundamentals of working with type in Adobe Photoshop. In this course, instructor Nigel French distinguishes when it is appropriate to set type in Photoshop rather than InDesign or Illustrator and what makes Photoshop unique for certain type treatments. He demonstrates essential techniques, such as entering and editing text; interacting with type layers;...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nigel French takes a designer-friendly approach to Photoshop. Learn how to create and apply textures using filters, layer masks and blend modes, and custom brushes.
Textures play a vital supporting role in creating imagery with depth and mood. In this designer-friendly course, instructor Nigel French demonstrates a range of non-destructive approaches to working with textures in Adobe Photoshop. From applying textures with layer masks and layer blending,...