English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 1h 10m | 350 MB
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 grids in Photoshop, showing how these tools can improve the way you use the application. Explore how to create, precisely position, delete, and show and hide guides. Learn about the different types of grids, and the “intelligent” features such as Smart Guides, snapping, the GuideGuide plugin, and the New Guide Layout tool. Discover how to set up your own modular layout grid, and then explore the different types of crop overlay grids, from the Rule of Thirds to the Golden Spiral.
Topics include:
- Grid types
- Creating guides from shapes
- Creating a baseline grid
- Adding breakpoints
- Building crop overlay grids
- Grids in action
Table of Contents
Introduction
01 Welcome
02 How to use the exercise files
Grid and Guide Tools
03 Basic guide options
04 Canvas guides and artboard rulers
05 Grid types
06 Smart Guides and Snap To options
07 Create guides from shapes
08 How to print a grid
09 Work with the GuideGuide plugin
Creating Layout Grids and Guides
10 Use the guide layout tool
11 Create a baseline grid
12 Create breakpoints
Crop Overlay Grids
13 The rule of thirds crop overlay
14 Grid crop overlay
15 Diagonal crop overlay
16 Triangle crop overlay
17 The Golden ratio crop overlay
18 The Golden spiral crop overlay
Grids in Action
19 Create a photo grid
20 Make a puzzle by slicing an image
21 Create a contact sheet
Conclusion
22 Next steps
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