Creating a cover spread in Indesign is simple when you know how! We show you a nice and simple workflow in our Adobe Indesign training courses. First of all open a brochure template – we show you how to create these in previous blog posts. Or if you’re creating a brochure from scratch go to File > New Document, choose... Read more...
Using a grid to draw in Illustrator can be a useful way of creating stylized artwork, like the pencil shown here. We take you through the steps in our Adobe Illustrator courses. First of all open a new document in Illustrator, from the File menu. Choose a paper size, for example A4. Then go to View > Show Grid. To... Read more...
Creating skillion roofs in SketchUp is a simple process, which we explore in our SketchUp training courses. With the Line tool click on one corner of the external walls and draw a vertical line upwards in the Blue axis 1700mm in length. Then connect this new point to the far corner of the walls and back to the first point, thus... Read more...
Creating objects like a 3D pulley in Autocad’s 3D interface is a straight-forward process which we illustrate in our Autocad 3D training courses. First of all we need to create two items: a 2d profile for the pulley wheel and an axis of rotation. This will allow us to use the Revolve function to rotate the profile around the axis,... Read more...
The Spline tool in the Autocad 2D workspace is a very useful tool for creating organic, curved shapes like paths and contours. We explain how to use use it in our Autocad 2d training courses. For a shape like a garden path or street like the one illustrated here, we first need to create the geometric structure underlying the curves.... Read more...
A great method of viewing images quickly in order to open them up in Photoshop is via the new mini-bridge panel. This is one of the many useful features we explore in our Adobe Photoshop training courses. The Mini-Bridge panel is basically the same as the program Adobe Bridge but accessed from inside Photoshop itself. If you don’t see the... Read more...
In our Indesign training courses we spend a lot of time showing you how to set up user-friendly templates to save time in setting up brochures. For example, go to File > Create New Document. Set the number of pages to 8 and tick Facing Pages. Then set the page size to A4 with an Orientation of Landscape and a... Read more...
The Perspective tool in Adobe Illustrator is a great way of creating amazing architectural images or streetscapes in realistic perspective. We show you how in our Illustrator training courses. First create a new document, for example an A4 landscape. Then place a photo or drawing image via File > Place. Make sure you tick Template in order to be able... Read more...
Adding elements like door and windows is easily facilitated by either creating or importing components into your SketchUp model. We show you how in our SketchUp training courses. You can either create the door from scratch using the Rectangle, Offset, and Push/Pull tools. Then adding materials from the Materials panel. Or you can copy a door from another model and... Read more...
The Autocad 3D revolve function is an easy way of creating a 3d solid from a simple profile. We explain how in our Autocad 3d training courses. Firstly, create a new drawing from the Metric acadiso.dwt template. Next make sure that Ortho (F8) is on, in order to draw horizontally or vertically. Then, using the Polyline tool (PL), draw a... Read more...
