ART & DESIGN LEARNINGS

I’m a teacher at RMIT, Brunswick. This is a repository of tutorials created for my graphic design classes. The tutorials are largely software and technique related.

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Creating a vinyl record mockup with editable label art in Photoshop

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New (and easy) mockup feature in Adobe Illustrator

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Ways to personalise assets for your portfolio: Create your own reusable mockup with Photoshop Smart Objects

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Ways to personalise assets for your portfolio: Try 3D in Adobe Illustrator

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Ways to personalise assets for your portfolio: Incorporate video to showcase a UI project

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Ways to personalise assets for your portfolio: Use animated gifs

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Combining digital and analog: Making a printed animation flip book

Flip book artwork output workflow

Create animation in After Effects
Output individual animation frames as PNG files
Collate PNGs into a data file
Set up an InDesign document for the book pages
Use data merge to automatically create pages and position artwork
Export print ready PDF

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Five ways to personalise assets for your portfolio

Photo by Anomaly on Unsplash

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Creating Video Slideshows in Adobe Photoshop: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Making GIF animations with the Photoshop timeline

Creating frame-by-frame GIF animations are a simple way to enhance your digital media projects, and Adobe Photoshop's timeline feature provides a useful tool to bring your ideas to life. You can create animations by assembling a series of individual frames, each with slight changes in position, scale, or opacity.