Discover how to create a basic flowchart, leveraging Visio features to do so quickly and effectively. Learn about styling, best practices, and how to share your finished diagrams.

Fontself Maker is an extension for Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to turn any lettering into unique OpenType fonts. In this course, instructor Tony Harmer shows you how to get the most out of this powerful extension. After stepping through how to install Fontself Maker, Tony goes over some basic typography terms to help you grasp the mechanics of designing type. He then demonstrates how to create fonts in Illustrator, explaining how to set font metrics with guides and use Live Paint to create color font glyphs that can be used to create an OpenType-SVG color font. Next, he delves into font creation in Photoshop, including how to create both bitmap and vector fonts. Plus, get tips for refining your font by adjusting glyph sizes, spacing, and kerning attributes.

Learn how to use the mechanics of video-making—filming, interviewing, editing, narration, graphics, and music—to create video training that is truly fun and engaging.

Learn why video works well as a training tool and find out what you need to get started creating interesting and captivating training videos.

Learn how to create custom gradient meshes with these Illustrator tutorials.

Learn how to make memorable, impactful, and lasting first impressions. Explore researched-backed strategies that can help you make the first few seconds of any interaction count.

Learn how to project future growth with a framework for researching statistics, methods for calculating growth rates, and a list of pitfalls to avoid.

Extract content and layouts from InDesign and transform them into HTML, which can be used to create ebooks, web and mobile apps, and more.

Learn how to create your custom icon font quickly and easily from existing icons or your own hand-drawn artwork, using tools like Illustrator, Fontello, Glyphs Mini, and more.

This course provides an overview of what an icon is and its key characteristics, then teaches you how to design your own icons using Adobe Illustrator. Instructor Bart Van de Wiele explores why you need icons, how you use them, and why scalability is important. Bart steps you through how to set up your Illustrator document before you begin your design process. He describes how to organize your work using Illustrator artboards for arranging, naming, and exporting your icons. Bart walks you through ways to import your sketch into Illustrator, then goes over how to clean up your sketch digitally. He shows you how to use simple, complex, and compound shapes to build your logo digitally, then explores several more advanced techniques. In conclusion, Bart covers best practices for exporting your icons for the web, for print, and for use in other applications like Photoshop.

Illustrative design involves using an illustrative approach, such as a new brand identity or icon, to solve a design problem. This type of approach can be challenging for designers who aren't illustrators. In this course, designer and illustrator Von Glitschka breaks down the process into beginner-friendly steps. Von explains illustrative design and how it differs from graphic design. He shows you how to prepare by defining your theme, subject matter, and style, then gathering reference material. Von covers several drawing processes, stepping through deductive drawing, thumbnail drawing, rough drawing, and a final refined drawing. He walks you through building and coloring vector art, then concludes with helpful tips on finalizing your designs and presenting them to clients.

Discover how to design professional charts, graphs, and other infographic elements in Adobe Illustrator.

Make the results of big data analysis more compelling and clear. Learn how to create interactive presentations and dashboards with RStudio and Shiny.

Discover how to create interactive dashboards that are informative and compelling using Tableau, the data visualization software.

It's common for individuals to take a course, attend a seminar, or read a book and feel inspired to make a change. Unfortunately, it's also common for people to avoid taking action—or for that change to last less than a month. This course identifies the reason why this happens and provides specific steps you can take to not only overcome this issue, but also create a pattern for continual, long-lasting change. Productivity expert Dave Crenshaw shares strategies for focusing on realistic short-term progress in order to make changes that stick. Dave also provides tips for finding a person to keep you accountable, measuring your growth, crafting a long-term plan for progress, and more.

Note: This course was created by Dave Crenshaw and Invaluable Inc. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Learn how to create strong marketing objectives, include pricing, awareness and branding, social media, site traffic, sales growth, market share, and more.

Create flat 2D and cartoon-style motion graphics using the Sketch and Toon module in CINEMA 4D.

Learn the fundamentals of shooting great-looking video with your Android mobile device.

Learn how to shoot and edit great-looking video with an iPhone.

Learn to create optimized web graphics that download quickly and look great on a variety of devices, including Retina displays.