Category Archives: Basic Trainings
Principles of Design | Color Wheel
In this training, you will go over color terminology and relationship to understand how colors interact with each other. This training will help you familiarize yourself with the basic relations of colors by placing them creatively in a re-invented color … Continue reading
Publication Design | How to Create Flashcards
In this Photoshop training you will be designing a set of beautiful flash cards, you’ll sharpen your technical skills, and conceptual skills, such as: familiarizing yourself with choosing copyright-free icons from the Noun Project that look consistent in line wight/style … Continue reading
Intro to Design Styles | How to Paint in Photoshop
In this training, we will go over how to use the brush tool in photoshop to create illustrations that could be used for animations, posters, graphics, blog banner updates, or the college’s magazine. There are many ways one can go … Continue reading
Publication Design | Brochures
When creating a design that will be printed, such as newspaper, flyer, or brochure, InDesign would be the ideal software as it offers easier multi-page/layout edits. But if you are not familiar with InDesign, Illustrator is also capable of creating … Continue reading
Animation | Create Your Own 8-Bit Style Animated Gif
In this training, you’ll learn how to create your own miniature, infinitely-looping animated gif using the timeline tool in Photoshop. You will create between 5 and 10 Photoshop layers which will be converted into frames for your animation. Your design … Continue reading
Principles of Design | How to Manipulate Shapes
This training will get you acquainted with the tools you will need to transform basic shapes and into more complex shapes using Adobe Illustrator. Part 1: Basic Shapes Manipulation Please download this starter document here. The Ai document you’re given … Continue reading
Basic Training: How to Edit Green Screens
This training will cover how to delete the green background of an image. Find an green screen image of your choice and follow the steps below, your final product will be a PNG with a creative background of your choice. … Continue reading
How to Scan Slides and Film
The purpose of this basic training is for familiarizing yourself with scanning pages of documents that professors may bring to the office. The scanner used in the office is the EPSON PERFECTION V700 PHOTO. Step One: Setting up the Scanner … Continue reading
Basic Training: How to Create a Custom Layout and Buttons
The purpose of these instructions is to show you how to create buttons within the cascade site by editing the code. Make sure that the edits you make are still related to the theme you have been using so … Continue reading
Basic Training: How to Build a Test Site in Cascade – Part Two
STAs, use the HTML editor in the body of your Cascade site editing page to create advanced features, such as displaying information within a table. This exercise is designed to prepare you teach a client how to make 3 different kinds … Continue reading
Basic Training: How to Build a Test Site in Cascade – Part One
STAs, learn how to populate the content in a Cascade site, and how to use the COLA Web Editor for news, events and faculty/staff photo IDs! The purpose for this practice is to familiarize yourself with components of Cascade. This … Continue reading
Basic Training: How to Edit and Process COLA Photo IDs
Follow these steps to edit a photo so that it can be made into a College of Liberal Arts Photo ID suitable for display on a webpage. You will be making photo IDs for faculty, staff, and graduate student … Continue reading
Basic Training: How to Add Pull Quotes to Text
How to create a fancy Pull Quote in Cascade You can add a pull quote style to a snippet of content that needs to stand out from its surroundings to grab the reader’s attention. Step 1: HTML Edit Cascade CMS … Continue reading