1 00:00:00,488 --> 00:00:07,748 Hi everyone. This presentation is on creating infographics and visuals in Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 2 00:00:08,798 --> 00:00:10,548 My name is Dr. Chelsey Hooper. 3 00:00:10,568 --> 00:00:17,348 I'm an instructional technology specialist in the Innovation and Research Commons, which is in the library on the first floor. 4 00:00:17,708 --> 00:00:23,048 We have all kinds of fantastic facilities for students to use is such as an audio studio. 5 00:00:23,058 --> 00:00:30,277 We offer 3D printing. We also host an Adobe Creative Space there, and in the Adobe Creative Space, 6 00:00:30,278 --> 00:00:35,347 there are student consultants who can also answer your questions about any of 7 00:00:35,348 --> 00:00:39,548 the projects that you'll be creating assistance with Adobe Creative Cloud. 8 00:00:40,328 --> 00:00:44,498 Getting feedback on any visuals that you create and things like that. 9 00:00:46,028 --> 00:00:50,018 And so today's presentation link is on this page. 10 00:00:50,438 --> 00:00:57,818 So if you'll take a moment to please go to Orbis slash I.R.S. Adobe Express. 11 00:00:58,418 --> 00:01:01,718 That's all. One word I.R.S. for innovation or research. Comments. 12 00:01:01,718 --> 00:01:05,978 Adobe Express. Then that will bring up this presentation page. 13 00:01:06,458 --> 00:01:10,398 This presentation page is actually an Adobe Express web page. 14 00:01:10,418 --> 00:01:15,938 You can use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to make graphics such as infographics. 15 00:01:15,938 --> 00:01:18,758 That's what that's what's going to be our focus for today. 16 00:01:19,508 --> 00:01:25,628 But you can also use it to create very simple, basic, nice looking web pages without knowing any code. 17 00:01:26,078 --> 00:01:30,078 And you can also create very basic video as well. 18 00:01:30,098 --> 00:01:35,918 So there are some other offerings. Feel free to check those out after today's presentation. 19 00:01:36,698 --> 00:01:44,538 So this session is going to focus on using Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create infographics and visuals for use in projects. 20 00:01:44,948 --> 00:01:50,248 And also, it will show you we'll talk about using Adobe Stock for high quality images. 21 00:01:50,258 --> 00:01:56,828 So if you need any photographic type images in your projects, Adobe Stock is a great resource. 22 00:01:57,948 --> 00:02:09,948 So as an Adobe Creative campus, as an Auburn student, you get access to the entire to be creative cloud free of charge in order to request your ID. 23 00:02:10,278 --> 00:02:19,607 As a student, you must be enrolled in at least one course. You must need us first visit adobe that auburn dot edu and then put in a request for 24 00:02:19,608 --> 00:02:24,948 your license and then you will get receive an email with further information about it. 25 00:02:25,818 --> 00:02:30,948 For faculty and staff, you can access Adobe Creative Cloud through your contact. 26 00:02:30,948 --> 00:02:34,698 You put in a request and it's available to you at a discounted rate. 27 00:02:35,928 --> 00:02:39,918 Whenever you do sign in to the Adobe Creative Cloud Apps. 28 00:02:40,488 --> 00:02:43,398 After you have secured your Auburn Adobe ID, 29 00:02:43,998 --> 00:02:51,708 make sure you always choose enterprise or company slash school ID that makes sure that you are logging into the 30 00:02:51,708 --> 00:02:58,488 correct correct login and gives you all the premium access that you get that you have access to through Auburn. 31 00:02:58,608 --> 00:03:02,868 Adobe ID. If you have any trouble with downloading Creative Cloud, 32 00:03:03,288 --> 00:03:09,407 these are the this is a link to the page that has the direct download links for Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 33 00:03:09,408 --> 00:03:20,328 You don't need to download anything, you just log in after you have gotten your Adobe ID set up in order to get started with infographics, 34 00:03:20,838 --> 00:03:25,278 which you can use to express data in a variety of ways. 35 00:03:25,278 --> 00:03:31,907 It's an excellent format because people do not want to take the time to read long paragraphs, right? 36 00:03:31,908 --> 00:03:36,978 So they want some information very quickly. 37 00:03:37,008 --> 00:03:40,487 You have to get your point across super fast. 38 00:03:40,488 --> 00:03:47,778 You have just a few seconds to capture their attention and then, you know, not that much time to get your message across. 39 00:03:47,778 --> 00:03:51,948 So you want to incorporate things like good color theory. 40 00:03:52,248 --> 00:04:00,348 You also want to incorporate things like icons, you know, numbers, you know, to get your point across. 41 00:04:00,768 --> 00:04:07,428 Some have some statistics ready to put into sort of a graphical format is what you want to do. 42 00:04:08,178 --> 00:04:12,167 I won't be going through all of these tools today here on the video because I want to 43 00:04:12,168 --> 00:04:17,448 focus on actually using Adobe Creative Cloud Express to show you the how to of that. 44 00:04:17,868 --> 00:04:24,438 But if you're interested, there are some there's some information here about some basic color theory. 45 00:04:24,708 --> 00:04:32,058 So choosing colors that make sense with the feeling you want to evoke with your infographics is important. 46 00:04:32,958 --> 00:04:43,337 So, for example, I worked with a student who was a nursing student and they were creating some informational graphics on newborns. 47 00:04:43,338 --> 00:04:47,688 And so she chose to use pastel colors because that made sense. 48 00:04:47,688 --> 00:04:51,138 And it kind of went with her theme of talking about newborns. 49 00:04:51,858 --> 00:04:56,958 So it was something that people associate with with babies. So that was that that was something that made sense. 50 00:04:57,378 --> 00:05:01,427 So think about what colors you might want to use. There are some links here about basic color theory. 51 00:05:01,428 --> 00:05:09,348 Adobe also has a color tool. You can also check images for contrast and accessibility, which is very nice. 52 00:05:09,348 --> 00:05:15,258 So making sure you're not picking colors that wouldn't be viewable to people who are colorblind. 53 00:05:15,678 --> 00:05:18,708 So that can help you kind of pick your color. 54 00:05:18,708 --> 00:05:20,028 So that's a good tool to check out. 55 00:05:20,808 --> 00:05:29,058 And then also we need to think about what are some ways, some things, some guidelines we should keep in mind when we're creating infographics. 56 00:05:29,448 --> 00:05:33,378 So there are some links here to some essential rules for creating infographics. 57 00:05:33,708 --> 00:05:38,388 Ten Basic Elements of design that will help you design an infographic. 58 00:05:38,748 --> 00:05:44,748 And there's also some infographic examples. So we will just check out a couple of these quick examples here. 59 00:05:45,808 --> 00:05:49,077 And feel free to click along as you're watching the video. 60 00:05:49,078 --> 00:05:53,068 If you need to pause the video and then launch the link. 61 00:05:53,428 --> 00:05:54,749 That's fine as well. So here on this page we see some infographic examples. 62 00:05:58,987 --> 00:06:04,837 So let's scroll down. You can also choose what category you are designing for. 63 00:06:05,197 --> 00:06:08,897 So you may be here because you're creating an infographic for a class. 64 00:06:08,917 --> 00:06:17,587 Maybe it's on a research article and you want to kind of make a visual abstract out of that or a visual representation of your of your research. 65 00:06:17,947 --> 00:06:27,277 You might look at, for example, perhaps the ones on health, if it has to do with more social type topics. 66 00:06:28,417 --> 00:06:32,347 If you're looking at a scientific topic, then you want to do an infographic. 67 00:06:32,377 --> 00:06:38,797 Here are some examples here. So we'll just click on maybe the health one to give us sort of some basic ideas. 68 00:06:39,277 --> 00:06:48,037 This is more of a how to graphic, you know, sort of has a representation of how you should do these particular workouts. 69 00:06:48,697 --> 00:06:56,257 This one's a nice sort of they've done color blocks here to break to break up the different topics that they have. 70 00:06:57,217 --> 00:07:04,177 So you might you might check some of these out to get some inspiration and get you to think about what you might like to do for your infographic. 71 00:07:04,897 --> 00:07:09,757 So there's several here, just kind of depends on what you're designing and what point do you want to get across. 72 00:07:09,907 --> 00:07:15,327 So check out those examples. I also have some videos. 73 00:07:15,337 --> 00:07:20,727 There's a four part video series available on what makes a good infographic. 74 00:07:20,907 --> 00:07:26,937 So if you really want to go into depth with learning about infographics, these are these are great videos to check out. 75 00:07:26,967 --> 00:07:36,027 I've embedded the first one and then I've also put what is sort of the the short notes to that particular video. 76 00:07:36,117 --> 00:07:40,737 What did this video talk about? And then I just link to the videos and these other pieces. 77 00:07:40,737 --> 00:07:46,076 So it didn't take up too much space on the page, but this is exactly on target. 78 00:07:46,077 --> 00:07:52,767 In your infographic, you want to tell a story, you're you're empathizing with the research. 79 00:07:52,797 --> 00:08:00,507 You're figuring out what part of research that you want to tell others about what's what's compelling about it, 80 00:08:01,197 --> 00:08:05,517 what makes it different, or what makes it important for other people to know? 81 00:08:06,327 --> 00:08:10,917 Have a predefined journey. Have an idea of what you are saying in your infographic. 82 00:08:10,927 --> 00:08:17,847 So having some background information, maybe some common statistics, current statistics that are happening right now, 83 00:08:18,657 --> 00:08:24,657 what are some of the issues that present themselves and what are some possible solutions? 84 00:08:24,897 --> 00:08:28,647 And then, of course, making sure that you're using accurate, 85 00:08:28,647 --> 00:08:38,637 well-researched information and including your sources on the infographic or with the infographic when you turn it in to your professor. 86 00:08:39,477 --> 00:08:47,216 But providing a new angle onto that data would make your infographic interesting, add some kind of practical value. 87 00:08:47,217 --> 00:08:54,477 Make sure it's well-structured. Pick out what's your main key message and use that to help you design your infographic. 88 00:08:54,807 --> 00:09:02,397 It does need to be visually appealing. That's where Adobe Creative Cloud Express will help you because it's a drag and drop interface. 89 00:09:02,667 --> 00:09:05,907 It's browser based, so you don't have to have powerful computing. 90 00:09:06,957 --> 00:09:13,047 It's got all kinds of icons available to free to use and they will give you suggested colors 91 00:09:13,407 --> 00:09:20,607 based upon images that you put into the infographic or based upon a color that you've picked, 92 00:09:20,607 --> 00:09:22,707 it will suggest complementary colors. 93 00:09:22,707 --> 00:09:28,586 So it does a great job of making things visually appealing, which is great, and you want to have short and sweet copy. 94 00:09:28,587 --> 00:09:37,527 You need to boil down what it is you're trying to get across to a very short message or series of messages or bullet points, 95 00:09:37,797 --> 00:09:44,036 something along those lines. And then you're going to think about what kind of infographic do you need depending on your topic. 96 00:09:44,037 --> 00:09:54,417 So if you're doing a research topic on a social issue, then it might be a little bit more informational or list oriented. 97 00:09:54,807 --> 00:10:00,567 It could be a process. A flowchart might be helpful depending on the topic that you're doing. 98 00:10:01,047 --> 00:10:07,977 A comparison could work. You know, people who live in this area versus people who live in this area, what are their experiences? 99 00:10:08,937 --> 00:10:15,987 So have a look at the different types of infographics and this will help you sort of visualize how you want to design yours. 100 00:10:17,547 --> 00:10:21,176 And then also defining the target audience. Define your goals. 101 00:10:21,177 --> 00:10:30,656 Defining the medium. This will be your creative cloud. Express is going to be digital is going to be a long form, basically digital infographic. 102 00:10:30,657 --> 00:10:36,717 That way you could post a site you could it could be printed as a PDF if you wanted to. 103 00:10:36,717 --> 00:10:39,377 It could, but mainly it's meant to be digital. 104 00:10:39,387 --> 00:10:48,296 So but in general, when you're designing any kind of infographic to figure out, you know, what, what medium do you want to use? 105 00:10:48,297 --> 00:10:53,186 Find the right information, process your data, and then find the story in the data. 106 00:10:53,187 --> 00:10:58,257 What's what did you discover? What's important, what's the most important part to share? 107 00:10:58,917 --> 00:11:03,117 And then writing copy for your infographic, the text that you put on there, 108 00:11:03,117 --> 00:11:11,487 you want to have a one big idea and then have some sort of narrative that you boil down to a condensed version. 109 00:11:11,997 --> 00:11:16,587 Maybe you lead to a surprising conclusion. Maybe you build an airtight case. 110 00:11:17,087 --> 00:11:23,127 You show evidence based upon the research that you found or whatever you decide on the tone. 111 00:11:23,127 --> 00:11:26,246 And this is really important. Create a text outline. 112 00:11:26,247 --> 00:11:34,947 So before you just jump in to Creative Cloud Express and start dragging and dropping and adding icons and colors and all of that, you know, 113 00:11:35,037 --> 00:11:39,687 just like you would plan out an essay or a research paper, 114 00:11:40,377 --> 00:11:47,427 have an outline ready of what you of what items that you want to include in your infographic. 115 00:11:47,787 --> 00:11:55,587 So making sure that you remind yourself to have the sources at the end, having background information at the beginning, 116 00:11:56,037 --> 00:12:06,097 maybe having a certain title that's going to capture people's attention based upon what whatever the focus is of your goal are infographics, you know. 117 00:12:06,177 --> 00:12:10,227 And so create that outline either on paper, you know, paper and pencil work. 118 00:12:10,227 --> 00:12:17,127 Great. If you would like to use some sort of grid and kind of sketch it out, that's a great idea, too. 119 00:12:17,427 --> 00:12:24,267 So whatever works for you. And then part four goes on to talk about how to design it. 120 00:12:24,327 --> 00:12:27,597 Decide a visual theme, decide a color scheme font combination. 121 00:12:27,897 --> 00:12:32,726 Now one another thing that another way that Adobe Creative Cloud Express helps you with 122 00:12:32,727 --> 00:12:38,967 this part is that it already has a lot of infographic templates available to you. 123 00:12:39,417 --> 00:12:47,697 So if if it fits with your topic or if you like the format of that particular infographic and you just need to change the content, 124 00:12:48,147 --> 00:12:53,517 you can use a template that already exists and then just change the text, 125 00:12:53,607 --> 00:12:59,667 maybe change the colors if you need to change the icons, and then you can just it's all digital. 126 00:12:59,977 --> 00:13:06,797 It'll let you download it as a JPEG or a PDF, or you can also just share a link to it. 127 00:13:06,807 --> 00:13:12,917 So that's very nice. So we're going to jump into Adobe Creative Cloud Express in just a moment. 128 00:13:12,927 --> 00:13:18,717 I do want to sit down here for just a moment and talk about Adobe Stock. 129 00:13:19,197 --> 00:13:24,867 So as as part of your Auburn Adobe Idea, you also get access to Adobe Stock. 130 00:13:25,197 --> 00:13:29,937 You can ask to access Adobe stock by going to stock out Adobe dot com. 131 00:13:30,957 --> 00:13:36,977 I do recommend that you choose images as the filter for searching because that's what we have access to. 132 00:13:36,987 --> 00:13:42,627 We do not have access to videos and audio and other items, but we do have access to images. 133 00:13:43,137 --> 00:13:49,737 So if we were researching plants and we wanted to get a nice image for plants, we could do that. 134 00:13:50,757 --> 00:13:55,377 And then you can also filter Adobe Stock from here and so on. 135 00:13:55,947 --> 00:14:01,227 So this is a great and you have to sign in. That's why saying free right now, I need to go up and sign in. 136 00:14:01,227 --> 00:14:07,076 And so you would sign in with your order and Adobe ID and then you would have access to it and then you would download, 137 00:14:07,077 --> 00:14:11,697 you would license when and you would hit license and then you would download and then 138 00:14:11,697 --> 00:14:15,237 you be able to download these images and use them for whatever projects you want. 139 00:14:15,267 --> 00:14:21,957 Do you want to use them in PowerPoint or anything else that you're working on for any of your other projects, for any of your classes? 140 00:14:22,557 --> 00:14:28,346 That's a great option. You can also filter these by illustrations. 141 00:14:28,347 --> 00:14:35,877 So if you needed a more illustrative type style for an infographic that's available to you, so you could just choose illustrations, 142 00:14:35,877 --> 00:14:44,397 for example, and now we should get plant illustration style more illustration style items that would look really nice as an infographic. 143 00:14:44,997 --> 00:14:50,787 You can also do images with copy space, which means there's a lot of white space available, kind of like this one here. 144 00:14:50,817 --> 00:14:55,676 You can put text above and below depending on how much information you have. 145 00:14:55,677 --> 00:15:00,717 So that could be an option and then you can even sort by color. 146 00:15:00,717 --> 00:15:05,187 So if you wanted plants that were more pink or something like that, then you could search for that. 147 00:15:05,607 --> 00:15:07,317 And then once you choose one, 148 00:15:07,317 --> 00:15:13,557 you would hit license and then you would actually hit download and then you would be able to download it and use it whatever you want. 149 00:15:14,007 --> 00:15:22,496 Now with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, you actually can search Adobe Stock right within Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 150 00:15:22,497 --> 00:15:27,567 So it's a bit faster than that process. But I wanted to show you that too, in case you want to use stock for other projects. 151 00:15:27,567 --> 00:15:31,376 So that's an option as well. So let's skip down. 152 00:15:31,377 --> 00:15:39,477 We also have some fantastic other resources to learn even more about infographics, but I wanted to show you this resource right here. 153 00:15:39,777 --> 00:15:43,197 So there is such a thing as a visual abstract. 154 00:15:43,287 --> 00:15:52,947 So places like Elsevier will accept visual abstracts basically, just like they will accept an article submission. 155 00:15:53,397 --> 00:15:59,127 And this is a really great way to elevate your research. 156 00:15:59,277 --> 00:16:06,657 And so there are some great examples here from Elsevier that you can check out and some recommendations. 157 00:16:07,677 --> 00:16:13,977 So this type of outline could work really well for an infographic where you're trying to describe research. 158 00:16:14,697 --> 00:16:19,407 So they're recommending that you introduce the context of it, showcase your methodology, 159 00:16:19,677 --> 00:16:26,337 and then explain the outcome, that kind of thing, and then make sure you cited in that sort of thing. 160 00:16:26,637 --> 00:16:33,546 And so if you scroll down, there are some examples here. These are actually not that visually appealing. 161 00:16:33,547 --> 00:16:37,266 Adobe Creative Cloud Express would make them even more appealing. This one's not bad. 162 00:16:37,267 --> 00:16:43,207 It has a nice color palette that has been selected that is all similar color palettes. 163 00:16:43,207 --> 00:16:49,026 This is a bit bright against the blue. It's a little too much so, but this one is a little bit more visually appealing. 164 00:16:49,027 --> 00:16:54,906 And then there's icons here. There's a flowchart type style, so that's pretty nice. 165 00:16:54,907 --> 00:17:02,797 Yeah. So anyway, that gives you some ideas about about how to get started thinking about how you're going to construct it. 166 00:17:02,797 --> 00:17:08,827 So you should always think about that first. Okay, so let's go back up and get started with Creative Cloud Express. 167 00:17:09,897 --> 00:17:16,047 So once you have your ID to log in you just go to express started to become. 168 00:17:16,287 --> 00:17:21,127 There's also a link here to all of the features about Adobe Express, if you'd like to check that out. 169 00:17:21,147 --> 00:17:26,937 You are more than welcome to do that. And you can also search for the infographic templates here. 170 00:17:27,117 --> 00:17:32,217 So that's just another link, another way to get to it. I'm going to show you through the login area. 171 00:17:32,847 --> 00:17:37,857 So once you get to this screen, you're going to want to log into Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 172 00:17:38,307 --> 00:17:41,667 Now, in this case, we choose log in with Adobe ID. 173 00:17:42,177 --> 00:17:48,447 Okay. So if you are a student and you've gotten your Adobe ID, you choose log in with Adobe ID. 174 00:17:48,897 --> 00:17:55,827 If you're a faculty or staff member and you have gotten your Adobe ID through Auburn, then you log in with the Adobe ID here. 175 00:17:56,517 --> 00:18:03,086 Or if you're a faculty and staff member and you want to use the free version of Creative Cloud Express, 176 00:18:03,087 --> 00:18:08,517 because that does exist, it's a little bit more limited. You don't get access to all the premium tablets, 177 00:18:08,817 --> 00:18:14,756 but it basically has the functionality that you would need in order to try it and to have an idea 178 00:18:14,757 --> 00:18:19,407 of what it's like and work with your you have an idea for working with your students with it. 179 00:18:20,127 --> 00:18:28,617 In that case, you could choose sign up with email. You could also choose log in with Adobe ID and then it will prompt you to create a free Adobe I.D., 180 00:18:28,947 --> 00:18:34,167 which means you just get access to like the free features, not the premium features. 181 00:18:34,557 --> 00:18:36,987 So let's go ahead and choose log in with Adobe ID. 182 00:18:38,007 --> 00:18:44,757 In this case, we go ahead and type in our entire email address at Auburn Dot edu and then we hit continue. 183 00:18:45,447 --> 00:18:49,977 And then at this case, we choose company or school account, not personal account. 184 00:18:49,977 --> 00:18:57,087 So we want to choose company your school. And then you will get the A-B authenticate page, which is what we want to see. 185 00:18:57,597 --> 00:19:03,927 And then you go ahead and put in your Auburn regular Auburn password, just like you use for everything else. 186 00:19:04,617 --> 00:19:07,917 And then that loads into Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 187 00:19:08,247 --> 00:19:14,217 So Adobe Creative Cloud Express here we can immediately search for a template, which that's what we're going to start with. 188 00:19:14,217 --> 00:19:18,987 We're going to search for an infographic template we can also create from scratch. 189 00:19:18,987 --> 00:19:23,427 We'll do that second, but just a quick review of the home interface. 190 00:19:23,727 --> 00:19:29,427 It has your menu items on the left hand side projects. 191 00:19:29,637 --> 00:19:35,817 So as you create visuals and infographics and whatever projects you create and express, they will live here. 192 00:19:35,817 --> 00:19:41,057 So when you want to go back in and edit, then you go to projects and you'll find your project and edit it. 193 00:19:41,907 --> 00:19:44,847 It's Adobe Creative Cloud. It's rest saves as you go. 194 00:19:45,327 --> 00:19:51,327 It's a good idea when you're done working in your project for the day, just to click the little home icon button to kind of force it to save. 195 00:19:51,657 --> 00:20:00,177 That's a good idea. Brands If you have the premium version, if through your order and Adobe ID, you can set up brands. 196 00:20:00,177 --> 00:20:07,107 People use this to manage like their own businesses or brand themselves to internships and so on. 197 00:20:07,107 --> 00:20:13,406 So there's more you can find out more about that through the Adobe Express Help page. 198 00:20:13,407 --> 00:20:19,857 There's resources on the document here, the presentation page that I use to learn more about it. 199 00:20:19,857 --> 00:20:27,147 If you would like to add libraries, you can save items to creative cloud libraries and share them with each other. 200 00:20:27,147 --> 00:20:31,527 So that's sort of a shared drive within Adobe Express. 201 00:20:31,917 --> 00:20:36,687 And then learn you can learn more about Adobe Creative Cloud Express. So there's things here that you see that I didn't go over. 202 00:20:36,687 --> 00:20:39,837 You can always pop in to learn and learn more information there. 203 00:20:40,557 --> 00:20:45,237 There's also all these quick actions that you can do. You can remove the background from an image. 204 00:20:45,507 --> 00:20:52,496 So if you have an image that you've taken yourself and you want to use that in your visual or infographic, you can do some editing to it, 205 00:20:52,497 --> 00:21:00,837 you can remove the background, you can resize it, you can click on the different subtopics here and see the different options that you can do. 206 00:21:00,837 --> 00:21:07,557 You can crop an image pretty quickly. So some of these are powered by Photoshop, for example, so you don't have to go into Photoshop to do that. 207 00:21:07,947 --> 00:21:13,076 Also, some of these are powered by Premiere Rush, so you can also resize video and that sort of thing. 208 00:21:13,077 --> 00:21:16,167 And there's also a new option to make a QR code. 209 00:21:16,347 --> 00:21:21,267 So that might be a helpful thing. If you're planning eventually on printing your infographic, 210 00:21:21,267 --> 00:21:25,737 maybe as a poster you could have a QR code that goes to more information or something there. 211 00:21:26,247 --> 00:21:31,467 So but we are focused on creating a project that's going to be an infographic. 212 00:21:31,767 --> 00:21:40,377 So we're going to search infographics and once we search actually let's just search infographic and we'll get more results. 213 00:21:40,377 --> 00:21:47,516 There we go. So infographic here, I haven't told it what kind of infographic or anything, but I've just told it to search all templates. 214 00:21:47,517 --> 00:21:50,697 It has all these amazing templates available to you to use for infographics. 215 00:21:51,177 --> 00:21:54,477 You can also narrow that down further. 216 00:21:54,477 --> 00:22:00,687 By what size? Infographics. If you just want posters, then you can click that and go from there. 217 00:22:00,987 --> 00:22:06,717 Okay. If you just want health, for example, then we can do that so we can click. 218 00:22:07,047 --> 00:22:14,327 But let's go back into infographic. And then you can also filter by different other kinds of topics. 219 00:22:15,047 --> 00:22:18,917 If you have the alternative idea, you'll get the premium ones and everything. 220 00:22:18,947 --> 00:22:27,527 So what you can do first is kind of look at through the templates here and see if one has a format that is you think would work for you. 221 00:22:29,507 --> 00:22:37,667 This one has a lot of text. So that could be something that might be good for something that's going to be more wordy, you know? 222 00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:41,357 Or there might be others down here. 223 00:22:41,657 --> 00:22:47,897 If it needs to be more visual examples of things, then you can kind of scroll through here and see what works for you. 224 00:22:48,227 --> 00:22:57,407 But notice, a lot of them are this long format that's pretty nice for creating an online visual that people are going to scroll down and look through. 225 00:22:58,487 --> 00:23:03,737 So, you know, you can kind of look through that. Some of these are a timeline, so kind of whatever you need. 226 00:23:04,007 --> 00:23:07,427 You can look at the formats and decide what might work for you. 227 00:23:07,847 --> 00:23:15,767 So I think I might go back up and choose this one because pretty simple template here. 228 00:23:15,767 --> 00:23:20,837 It's got some text and that sort of thing. So we can choose to remix this template. 229 00:23:20,847 --> 00:23:25,367 So now this template is in our projects and we can name it. 230 00:23:25,907 --> 00:23:30,847 So we can call this simple. Infographic, something like that. 231 00:23:31,097 --> 00:23:33,148 Now it's being saved. And then what I can do from here is whatever you want to change on your template, you just click it. 232 00:23:33,988 --> 00:23:38,538 Another part of designing your infographic is deciding what size you want it to be. 233 00:23:38,548 --> 00:23:48,778 So after we have our simple infographic template selected, one thing we can do at first before we really start making some changes is to resize it. 234 00:23:49,078 --> 00:23:57,568 And the reason why we want to do that first is so we can see how much space do we have to work with, what aspect ratio are we working with? 235 00:23:58,198 --> 00:24:01,378 Where would it be best to place things depending on what size it is? 236 00:24:01,738 --> 00:24:06,748 So in this case we've used a template, so now we would like to resize it to a different size. 237 00:24:07,438 --> 00:24:09,148 If you would like to do that, you just press, 238 00:24:09,148 --> 00:24:20,518 resize and then notice you get all these different parameters that you can choose automatically and notice the 1080 by 1920 is present here. 239 00:24:21,238 --> 00:24:26,278 That is what we would also recommend for our digital wall. 240 00:24:27,058 --> 00:24:33,148 This means ten 1080 pixels wide by 1920 pixels high. 241 00:24:33,568 --> 00:24:38,037 That is a standard size for screens. 242 00:24:38,038 --> 00:24:44,758 So the wide screens that you TVs that you see around campus for digital signage, 243 00:24:45,118 --> 00:24:49,768 that's going to be the parameters you want to use that obviously it would be landscape instead of portrait. 244 00:24:50,038 --> 00:24:54,808 So you would choose the not the Instagram landscape, but I would just choose a custom one. 245 00:24:55,108 --> 00:25:00,058 But as a side note, when you are choosing any kind of infographic, 246 00:25:00,058 --> 00:25:05,578 if there's a specific size that you want it to make, that you want to make it, you can just scroll down here and see. 247 00:25:05,578 --> 00:25:11,248 And if you decide, I want to turn this into a print project and you have a poster option here and so on. 248 00:25:11,998 --> 00:25:13,438 So just take note of that. 249 00:25:13,768 --> 00:25:22,828 If you want to make sure you've got the exact size that you specifically want, then you can choose enter size, which is what we're going to do. 250 00:25:23,128 --> 00:25:32,638 And for the width we're going to choose 1080 and we've got pixels here selected and then we want 1920 for the height. 251 00:25:32,998 --> 00:25:37,557 So these are the parameters if you are designing this infographic for our digital 252 00:25:37,558 --> 00:25:43,228 wall because we have panels that are situated portrait size seven of them across. 253 00:25:43,948 --> 00:25:50,398 But if you are working on a different project, then just size your graphic for whatever you need first. 254 00:25:50,668 --> 00:25:53,218 If you know what pixels it is, you can put it in here. 255 00:25:53,878 --> 00:25:59,098 So if you are designing for a website and you know exactly what size you need a pixel wise, you can do that. 256 00:25:59,428 --> 00:26:07,678 If you're designing for print, you can choose millimeters or inches and then the little link option means keep this in the same ratio. 257 00:26:07,678 --> 00:26:10,468 So if I wanted to keep this in the same ratio, I could click the link. 258 00:26:10,708 --> 00:26:18,658 And then when I change, make changes to the height, it'll make changes to the width within that particular same ratio. 259 00:26:19,318 --> 00:26:23,488 In this case, I want to do this. These are the parameters I want someone to hit done. 260 00:26:24,568 --> 00:26:31,558 And now you can see it'll sort of rearrange it so you can see why it's important for us to do the sizing first, 261 00:26:32,488 --> 00:26:35,817 because then that's going to determine how much space do you have. 262 00:26:35,818 --> 00:26:42,627 And obviously you can see it did a pretty good job of sort of rearranging the elements in here, but we definitely need to make some changes. 263 00:26:42,628 --> 00:26:46,828 So this is where we would go in and make some changes and continue on with that. 264 00:26:48,089 --> 00:26:56,489 Another item I wanted to show you besides Resize, which can also help you in making multiple graphics, is the duplicate page option. 265 00:26:56,519 --> 00:27:00,359 This is a new feature of Adobe Creative Cloud Express this summer. 266 00:27:00,719 --> 00:27:04,618 And if I wanted to, I can keep all of these things the same. 267 00:27:04,619 --> 00:27:08,789 I can keep the same content, but then size it appropriately for different things. 268 00:27:09,269 --> 00:27:18,329 So now I have a duplicate page. What's nice about this is that I can then resize this duplicate page to say an Instagram post. 269 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:26,069 So you can see how this would be very helpful for making social media campaigns, because now these two pages, 270 00:27:26,189 --> 00:27:32,429 which I can access them back and forth by using the toggle switches down here, are in the same project. 271 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:40,889 So that's a very nice feature. We can put everything together with regards to our project files and just resize them 272 00:27:40,889 --> 00:27:44,609 to different sizes depending on what it is we need for that particular project. 273 00:27:52,518 --> 00:28:02,118 So the trick is, as in all Adobe products, click what you want to change first, and then you'll get the proper menu up over here that you can select. 274 00:28:02,628 --> 00:28:09,108 So how to grow your online following might be how to. 275 00:28:12,858 --> 00:28:16,248 Something like How to be more. 276 00:28:17,358 --> 00:28:21,598 Equitable. And decision. 277 00:28:22,618 --> 00:28:27,898 Making something along those lines. And then anything else we want to change. 278 00:28:28,528 --> 00:28:32,728 We can click in it. We can click and drag and make things bigger or smaller. 279 00:28:33,148 --> 00:28:41,248 You have options. Also on the right hand side notices you drag these things around, you get these little smart guides to help you line things up. 280 00:28:41,938 --> 00:28:49,138 You can also choose different colors. So when we click the text color here, notice that it's got our current palette here, which is pretty cool. 281 00:28:49,618 --> 00:28:53,298 So we can click different palettes. We want a different color. 282 00:28:53,308 --> 00:28:56,547 We can also go right in here, pick a custom color from the rainbow. 283 00:28:56,548 --> 00:29:04,858 So we have that option as well. And if we know there's a specific hex color, we want to use hexadecimal code, then we can type that in here. 284 00:29:05,998 --> 00:29:11,967 So that's pretty nice. So from here, we can see that this in this particular template, 285 00:29:11,968 --> 00:29:16,498 these objects have been grouped that helps you so that you can move them around as a group. 286 00:29:16,798 --> 00:29:24,868 In this case, we might want to UN group them though. That way we can go in and make edits to like the specific pieces and so on. 287 00:29:25,198 --> 00:29:28,258 So if we click and then re click back on them. 288 00:29:28,618 --> 00:29:34,908 Notice also we have options to put a shape background to make things more readable. 289 00:29:34,918 --> 00:29:38,368 Might be nice. There's also a shadow effect we can do. 290 00:29:38,758 --> 00:29:43,828 You have all kinds of options here as far as alignment. You can also change opacity and so on. 291 00:29:44,578 --> 00:29:54,508 In this case, we might want to add something to this. So if we go to under shapes, maybe we want to let's see if they have anything for a decision. 292 00:29:55,748 --> 00:29:59,218 Oh, some choices here. So may it be something like this one? 293 00:30:00,188 --> 00:30:05,038 Like which way should I go type thing? And then we can resize this icon. 294 00:30:05,308 --> 00:30:10,197 We can also rotates depending on what we need. 295 00:30:10,198 --> 00:30:17,818 We can place it wherever we want. So we may want to make some more room up here or do something like this. 296 00:30:19,208 --> 00:30:23,738 Bring it up a little bit so you can just basically click and drag and kind of get it the way that you want. 297 00:30:25,268 --> 00:30:31,087 And so you can also change the background. So if we decide we didn't like that background, we can also make an image the background. 298 00:30:31,088 --> 00:30:34,958 Just make sure you're making it really readable, super easy to read. 299 00:30:35,318 --> 00:30:41,527 Notice in this infographic, they've got all caps in the title and the stuff in the subtitles. 300 00:30:41,528 --> 00:30:46,238 That's fine. You don't want to do any more caps than that. 301 00:30:46,748 --> 00:30:54,098 The rest should be regular text. It should be very readable, and you should use a sans serif font just like they have here. 302 00:30:54,398 --> 00:30:57,058 So let's zoom in so you can kind of see a little bit better, huh? 303 00:30:58,328 --> 00:31:06,788 Notice the these text these text words don't have any tails on the end of the letters don't have any tails that, like, times do, Roman does. 304 00:31:07,178 --> 00:31:10,687 So this is a sans serif font. So anything is a sans. That's what you want. 305 00:31:10,688 --> 00:31:17,828 But we could choose a different style if we wanted to. And if you choose your text first, you can even see kind of preview. 306 00:31:17,858 --> 00:31:24,758 What's it going to look like before you make the changes to it so you can make it a little bit more bold and kind of squish it in a little bit, 307 00:31:25,328 --> 00:31:29,857 whatever you like. So that's how you can get size shapes. Also photos. 308 00:31:29,858 --> 00:31:33,458 Notice you can go to photos and search for Adobe Stock right here. 309 00:31:33,878 --> 00:31:40,478 You can also upload your own photo. From here, you have additional photo items if you click the little three dot menu here. 310 00:31:41,708 --> 00:31:46,088 But you can search for Adobe Stock right here and then bring it in if you want to. 311 00:31:46,808 --> 00:31:57,278 So that's very nice feature. Bring in an image images like this one where it has a clear background that is separate from the subject. 312 00:31:57,398 --> 00:32:00,908 It will allow you to remove the background very easily. 313 00:32:00,908 --> 00:32:07,027 So if you wanted to remove the background and have sort of this person just their face or whatever, then you could do that. 314 00:32:07,028 --> 00:32:10,357 So there's also plenty of other backgrounds there. 315 00:32:10,358 --> 00:32:14,198 So if you wanted a pattern background, there's options for that. 316 00:32:15,338 --> 00:32:21,277 There are also design assets and these are just like maybe illustrative type assets. 317 00:32:21,278 --> 00:32:25,088 They're also sort of background decorative ones in here as well. 318 00:32:25,418 --> 00:32:35,558 There's all kinds of graphics you can search for what you need or specifically go to that category and get some more that you need or whatever. 319 00:32:36,128 --> 00:32:39,728 So these can be also great ways to use sort of icons. 320 00:32:39,728 --> 00:32:42,037 If you want something a little bit more interesting than icons, 321 00:32:42,038 --> 00:32:49,268 you could try design assets and then there might be some more interesting symbols that you could use in your infographic. 322 00:32:49,268 --> 00:32:57,457 So those are some options there. And then if you wanted to add text, you can add your text and then just make your choices separately. 323 00:32:57,458 --> 00:33:04,778 From there, you can also choose one of these styles, if you like, that particular style because so for example, 324 00:33:05,048 --> 00:33:14,228 with this style we can choose a piece of text here and then what we can do is we can UN group that if we would like to, 325 00:33:15,098 --> 00:33:22,027 and now we can see all the different parts. There's a background that has a color on it so we can make changes to it. 326 00:33:22,028 --> 00:33:29,648 So what they've done is put two shapes behind the text. One is white and one is red, and then they pull one a little bit askew to give it some depth. 327 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:32,498 So you can layer things like that if you would like to, 328 00:33:32,798 --> 00:33:40,058 and then you can choose to put them back together by holding command or control, selecting all of those items. 329 00:33:40,658 --> 00:33:46,868 And then you can also click down here and see the different layers, and you can reorganize these layers if you want to. 330 00:33:48,038 --> 00:33:51,338 So if you needed one thing to be on top of the other, then you could do that. 331 00:33:51,818 --> 00:33:53,857 You can also choose to flip. 332 00:33:53,858 --> 00:34:02,348 So if you wanted this one, say this icon to be facing the other way, then you could do that or the upside down or something like that. 333 00:34:02,348 --> 00:34:05,918 You could do that. So that's how you can kind of manipulate your shapes and everything. 334 00:34:06,308 --> 00:34:11,168 You can replace the shape and choose something else if you want. This is how you get to your layer order. 335 00:34:11,468 --> 00:34:17,228 You can also delete items. You can also just click it and hit delete and you can duplicate. 336 00:34:17,228 --> 00:34:25,268 So you can make multiple copies. So you can do things like take this and maybe duplicate it three times. 337 00:34:25,268 --> 00:34:30,978 That may represent three different decisions or nine different decisions or whatever you choose for it to represent. 338 00:34:31,718 --> 00:34:38,888 So these are all some examples of how you can incorporate, how you can create an infographic based on a template. 339 00:34:39,368 --> 00:34:42,458 Now, if you wanted to create one from scratch oh well, first of all, 340 00:34:42,458 --> 00:34:46,928 before we do that, let me talk about how you would share it so you have some options. 341 00:34:46,928 --> 00:34:52,598 Once, let's say we're finished with our infographic, we're not really because we added some random stuff, we need to fix it. 342 00:34:52,598 --> 00:34:55,687 But you get the idea. We have a couple options. 343 00:34:55,688 --> 00:35:00,428 We can download it as a PNG JPEG or PDF. 344 00:35:01,178 --> 00:35:06,998 I would recommend if you're turning it into canvas, a PDF is usually the best because it's going to be more compressed. 345 00:35:07,268 --> 00:35:13,567 Another option is that you can go to share and you can go to publish, and then once you go to share, 346 00:35:13,568 --> 00:35:18,068 publish it will just give you and you can also open in the mobile app. 347 00:35:18,068 --> 00:35:24,388 So that's. Ice. Adobe Creative Cloud Express is also a mobile application for iOS and Android. 348 00:35:24,408 --> 00:35:28,338 So what's really nice is you can even create these on your phone. 349 00:35:28,368 --> 00:35:32,688 I wouldn't recommend a long form infographic being created on your phone, 350 00:35:32,958 --> 00:35:39,148 but if you wanted to share it via social media and you already logged in on your phone, this is a really nice feature. 351 00:35:39,168 --> 00:35:41,598 Or if you want to create something very quickly on your phone, you can do that. 352 00:35:42,258 --> 00:35:47,688 So in this case, we're just going to hit publish so you can see those options and then you can just choose link. 353 00:35:48,138 --> 00:35:51,648 And then this just creates an Adobe Express link for you. 354 00:35:51,648 --> 00:35:58,277 So you could email this to somebody and once you email it to them, they just can just pull it up in a browser. 355 00:35:58,278 --> 00:36:02,448 They don't have to have an Adobe Express account, and this is what it will look like to them. 356 00:36:03,408 --> 00:36:10,908 Other options are that you can also share and you can invite someone. 357 00:36:10,918 --> 00:36:18,647 So if you are working in groups, this is a fantastic feature because you can all have access to the same infographic and maybe you divide it up. 358 00:36:18,648 --> 00:36:25,127 Maybe some of you are responsible for section one, section two, section three, etc. You can just hit, 359 00:36:25,128 --> 00:36:36,228 invite and then enter their Orban email address, which is their Auburn Adobe ID and then if they need to add, 360 00:36:36,228 --> 00:36:40,127 doesn't really notify them and until they go into a creative cloud express so then 361 00:36:40,128 --> 00:36:44,688 they need to open express and then they'll see a little notification up here. 362 00:36:45,348 --> 00:36:49,998 It'll have like a little like exclamation mark or something like that, some sort of notification, 363 00:36:50,268 --> 00:36:54,478 and it'll say, Hey, so-and-so has shared a file with you and then you open. 364 00:36:54,528 --> 00:36:58,488 Then they can open it and it's on everybody's account. That's really nice too. 365 00:36:58,488 --> 00:37:03,438 In case somebody gets sick or can't work on it or whatever, you all have access to it. 366 00:37:03,448 --> 00:37:10,308 So first thing, if you're working in groups, invite, create, have one person, create it, share it with the rest and so on. 367 00:37:11,598 --> 00:37:16,307 Also, I want to show you before we move on the option to do some. 368 00:37:16,308 --> 00:37:21,467 You can also choose different. You can look at colors and add more colors and choose different colors and so on. 369 00:37:21,468 --> 00:37:27,078 So that's an option too. And then also you have options to change the layout. 370 00:37:27,618 --> 00:37:37,788 So in this case, it was a sort of a long format banner, but if you needed a grid or there was two sections, it can automatically divide it up for you. 371 00:37:38,178 --> 00:37:45,348 So that's very nice. If you want a certain type of grid like this for one is pretty nice. 372 00:37:45,558 --> 00:37:47,088 That's that's that would be pretty nice. 373 00:37:47,088 --> 00:37:51,798 This one's nice too, because you have sort of a header and a footer and then info in the middle that's broken up. 374 00:37:52,248 --> 00:37:56,657 So you have some ideas that change your layout. Also you can resize it. 375 00:37:56,658 --> 00:38:03,227 So if you decided, Hey, I've run out of space, you can go to this custom size, increase the height, 376 00:38:03,228 --> 00:38:06,918 and then you've got more length there so you can make changes to that, 377 00:38:06,918 --> 00:38:11,447 then hit done and it would expand your canvas essentially that you're working on. 378 00:38:11,448 --> 00:38:14,538 So that's a really nice feature as well. Okay. 379 00:38:14,808 --> 00:38:21,197 So those are some options there. And what we're going to do is now that we're sort of done, 380 00:38:21,198 --> 00:38:26,268 we'll say we're done with our infographic and we've saved it or shared it or whatever we need to do. 381 00:38:26,688 --> 00:38:29,988 It's a good idea to go back home or go back to projects. 382 00:38:29,988 --> 00:38:38,448 Notice it's got the file name is here and it says that it's saved, but it's a good idea just to maybe go back to projects or go back home. 383 00:38:38,748 --> 00:38:42,558 So that sort of refreshes the page sort of forces that final save. 384 00:38:42,708 --> 00:38:47,298 Okay. So the next thing we can do also is make one from scratch. 385 00:38:48,138 --> 00:38:53,478 So to make anything from scratch, any kind of visual, we can click the plus sign. 386 00:38:53,838 --> 00:38:57,527 And then from here we see all of the quick actions that we saw earlier. 387 00:38:57,528 --> 00:39:00,588 But we can also choose a custom sized graphic. 388 00:39:00,918 --> 00:39:04,818 Now, if we were creating other kinds of graph visuals, 389 00:39:04,938 --> 00:39:10,248 if we needed to create an Instagram story or a post or a Facebook post with So Nice is that Adobe Creative 390 00:39:10,248 --> 00:39:19,457 Cloud Express knows what size it needs to be pixel wise in order to be the correct format for Instagram story, 391 00:39:19,458 --> 00:39:23,748 for example. And it keeps up with those social media changes. 392 00:39:23,958 --> 00:39:30,048 So as Instagram story changes, it's pixel size, Adobe Creative Cloud Express will also. 393 00:39:30,138 --> 00:39:34,198 So when you're choosing those templates, you know that you're getting the most current version. 394 00:39:34,218 --> 00:39:38,478 You don't have to go look up what size that is and then figure that out. So that's very nice. 395 00:39:38,868 --> 00:39:45,588 You can make cards, collages. You can also remember I mentioned you can use Creative Cloud Express to make very simple web pages. 396 00:39:46,308 --> 00:39:53,418 That's a nice feature that could even be used for a very basic online portfolio for you to use. 397 00:39:54,378 --> 00:40:00,527 Creative Cloud also has a Adobe portfolio, which is a little bit more professional looking a little bit more involved. 398 00:40:00,528 --> 00:40:06,228 But this you can also start with the Web page. So that's an idea to add some very, very basic video. 399 00:40:06,228 --> 00:40:08,478 But today we're focused on visuals. 400 00:40:08,478 --> 00:40:15,197 We're going to choose custom sized graphic because then that gives us all the choices so we can choose a custom sized graphics. 401 00:40:15,198 --> 00:40:23,158 So if you wanted to design something for a web. That you have or something for a PowerPoint, something that's a specific size. 402 00:40:23,158 --> 00:40:26,428 You can choose pixel sizes, you can choose millimeters and inches. 403 00:40:26,848 --> 00:40:34,128 You can have these be linked or not. So as you change one, the other one stays the same, like keeps in the same ratio. 404 00:40:34,138 --> 00:40:41,338 That's an option too. You can also see what's what are the popular sizes that people use to create squares. 405 00:40:41,338 --> 00:40:46,588 Nice for instagram post for example, poster could be used for your infographic. 406 00:40:46,588 --> 00:40:52,048 This would make a nice 11 by 17 if you wanted to print it out later, then that could be a nice option. 407 00:40:53,158 --> 00:41:00,358 You also have social posts that are available here, so see they've got all of the preset sizes already ready for you. 408 00:41:00,958 --> 00:41:04,588 There's also print posters also available under print as well. 409 00:41:04,588 --> 00:41:09,148 There is a limit to Creative Cloud Express. I think it's like 24 inches or something like that. 410 00:41:09,508 --> 00:41:12,387 So it's not great for huge wide format posters. 411 00:41:12,388 --> 00:41:17,638 We would recommend InDesign for that and I have more videos on that as well if you want to check that out. 412 00:41:18,628 --> 00:41:23,338 Social Profiles. This is also great for making your LinkedIn cover and you know, 413 00:41:23,398 --> 00:41:32,248 so that you can market yourself or your YouTube channel art or YouTube custom thumbnails or custom thumbnails for Panopto. 414 00:41:32,248 --> 00:41:36,208 So I use it for two. And then there's some standard options. 415 00:41:37,018 --> 00:41:44,128 There's also this banner size and there's also this banner size that's called tall, a 1 to 2 ratio. 416 00:41:44,458 --> 00:41:51,628 That would be a good option to choose for an infographic to, if you want that long format scrolling infographic size. 417 00:41:51,628 --> 00:41:57,478 So that would be a great one to start with. So with the portrait two by three, that could be good. 418 00:41:57,478 --> 00:42:02,428 And then also the poster. So we'll just pick the tall maybe and start with that one. 419 00:42:02,818 --> 00:42:10,728 But again, you can use any visual you could you could create a whole infographic just for a PowerPoint slide and choose the, 420 00:42:11,138 --> 00:42:16,138 the YouTube setting basically or the wide format presentation graphic. 421 00:42:16,138 --> 00:42:19,648 And then you just download your graphic and drop it in wherever you want. 422 00:42:19,648 --> 00:42:22,918 So all kinds of things that you can that you can make. 423 00:42:23,278 --> 00:42:30,238 So again, if you start from scratch and then you're like, Hmm, I really need a template, you can still search for templates here. 424 00:42:30,238 --> 00:42:31,198 So that's very nice. 425 00:42:31,948 --> 00:42:37,858 But if you're just starting from scratch and you and you have your paper outline that you've written out and you know what you want to put in there, 426 00:42:38,158 --> 00:42:47,338 you can definitely just go ahead and start from scratch. And so you can you can choose a template here if you would like to as far as your text, 427 00:42:47,338 --> 00:42:55,078 like some example text here to get started depending on if that's going to work for you and so on. 428 00:42:55,678 --> 00:42:59,038 This one is kind of nice for an infographic, so that could work. 429 00:42:59,578 --> 00:43:04,168 We could we just change it to a place, not to places on a budget where maybe we go with that theme. 430 00:43:04,168 --> 00:43:05,457 But of course you could change it. 431 00:43:05,458 --> 00:43:13,318 So it could be like eight things to do before you travel or eight ways to stay healthy or whatever it is, something like that. 432 00:43:13,318 --> 00:43:17,248 And you could even change the icon here. 433 00:43:17,248 --> 00:43:23,428 So we could change the number, so we could change that to six or something like that or five whatever. 434 00:43:23,848 --> 00:43:31,737 So we'll do that. So now we have this nice sort of blank page that we can choose from, and we can also edit the backgrounds. 435 00:43:31,738 --> 00:43:37,348 So we can choose a colored background if we want to. We can whatever we kind of want. 436 00:43:38,318 --> 00:43:47,348 You know, you want to choose good contrasting colors, so you want to be sure you choose like light background, dark text and vice versa. 437 00:43:47,888 --> 00:43:52,178 So just make sure you kind of do that. You can also choose an image if you wanted to. 438 00:43:52,778 --> 00:43:58,478 So we can do that travel, maybe see what images we get, for example. 439 00:43:59,568 --> 00:44:03,078 So we'll search for travel. This one's pretty nice. 440 00:44:03,288 --> 00:44:08,038 So that could work? Yeah. That's pretty cool. 441 00:44:08,278 --> 00:44:10,848 So now what we can do is we can keep adding our text. 442 00:44:10,858 --> 00:44:16,678 You want to make sure it's very readable or whatever, so we can just keep we can just add some text here, 443 00:44:17,248 --> 00:44:23,728 we can give it let's give it a shape background so we can kind of see what we're doing here. 444 00:44:24,718 --> 00:44:31,588 And then we can say this, we can go up and you have to choose the text box up here to. 445 00:44:34,418 --> 00:44:40,238 Does it over or something like that. And then you click and drag and move it wherever you want. 446 00:44:41,678 --> 00:44:45,458 So it could do that and then we could keep adding some shapes and so on. 447 00:44:46,268 --> 00:44:55,088 Here's a nice smiley face that's cool. So we can have some fun with that and also get some ideas about what would work, 448 00:44:55,298 --> 00:44:59,558 what what icons are going to represent, what it is you're trying to say. 449 00:44:59,718 --> 00:45:05,168 Okay. So we were talking about being you know, students are happy at Auburn, so that's probably kind of a good fit. 450 00:45:05,528 --> 00:45:10,298 So then we would just keep going with that, right? We keep adding text, photos, shapes. 451 00:45:10,298 --> 00:45:17,018 There's some design assets here that we could look into. These are kind of nice for a frame that you maybe don't want the whole background of photo, 452 00:45:17,018 --> 00:45:20,128 but you want a little bit of visual interest so you can try that. 453 00:45:20,138 --> 00:45:22,328 There's overlays, all kinds of things. 454 00:45:22,628 --> 00:45:31,117 So you would build your infographic from scratch based upon your outline, and then also you might tweak that based upon what you find here, 455 00:45:31,118 --> 00:45:39,848 based upon what you find in the Adobe Stock and what you find and the shapes and the design assets and all of that kind of thing. 456 00:45:40,568 --> 00:45:46,928 So those are the main things that you would that you would do add to begin creating your infographic. 457 00:45:46,928 --> 00:45:53,948 And then of course, just like before you would download it or share it, you would give it a name, of course, make sure you got your project saved. 458 00:45:54,698 --> 00:46:00,058 So this would be simple infographic to something like that. 459 00:46:00,338 --> 00:46:03,638 And now when we go to projects, it'll save my project. 460 00:46:04,118 --> 00:46:11,378 And now let's say you've closed out of Adobe Creative Cloud Express for the day and you want to come back into it and make edits to it. 461 00:46:11,708 --> 00:46:18,578 You would go to your projects and then the projects that you worked on most recently would live here, and then you can edit the project. 462 00:46:19,208 --> 00:46:24,638 And also, if you like what you've done and you want to redo it for another class and keep the same format, 463 00:46:24,638 --> 00:46:30,488 you can also duplicate projects like entire files and then just make the changes to it. 464 00:46:30,698 --> 00:46:35,288 So that's a nice thing to do as well. So you have a lot of options with that. 465 00:46:35,738 --> 00:46:41,768 So that basically kind of gives you some of the rundown of the step by step. 466 00:46:42,368 --> 00:46:49,568 Adobe Creative Cloud Express starting an infographic from a template and also starting an infographic from scratch. 467 00:46:49,868 --> 00:46:55,588 You're definitely going to want to plan it out first and so on. Other resources that are available to you, 468 00:46:55,678 --> 00:47:04,018 we there's also a fantastic little 30 minute mini course on the Adobe Education Exchange, which is free for anyone to log into. 469 00:47:04,028 --> 00:47:11,198 This is the trailer for that particular course on how to make infographics, specifically using Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 470 00:47:12,278 --> 00:47:18,338 He essentially shows you the same kinds of things that I did, but it kind of takes you through a little bit more, step by step. 471 00:47:18,338 --> 00:47:22,298 Maybe I ask you to go through it like a course, so feel free to try that. 472 00:47:22,628 --> 00:47:30,908 This link also takes you right to like sort of the infographic, you know, sort of information. 473 00:47:31,238 --> 00:47:36,788 And so this is a great one to look at to to get some inspiration and ideas. 474 00:47:37,148 --> 00:47:43,958 You know, here's that same layout we were talking about where it has to has a header and a footer and then two in the middle. 475 00:47:44,048 --> 00:47:47,048 That's very nice for dividing it into four sections. Very easy. 476 00:47:47,978 --> 00:47:57,308 So that's a nice link to check out. Other things you can do is Demi Creative Cloud Express actually has some mini chart maker inside of it already, 477 00:47:57,758 --> 00:48:03,098 so you would just click here, make the changes that you need to do from here, and then download it. 478 00:48:03,098 --> 00:48:05,378 But once you have that downloaded as a JPEG, 479 00:48:05,798 --> 00:48:15,248 you could go back to your infographic and express and then upload that chart as a photo to your infographic. 480 00:48:15,368 --> 00:48:18,488 So you're kind of using Express inside of Express, right? 481 00:48:18,488 --> 00:48:23,738 You're using it to make a chart and these look a lot nicer than like the ones you could make in Excel. 482 00:48:24,008 --> 00:48:31,928 There's also a timeline, although if you're doing a timeline, I would just pick the infographic timeline feature template and go with that. 483 00:48:31,928 --> 00:48:35,827 But you might want a timeline just for a certain section, in which case that could be easy. 484 00:48:35,828 --> 00:48:41,648 And then you just add the events. It's very sort of intuitive, drag and drop and so on. 485 00:48:42,758 --> 00:48:53,558 Yeah. Also in the Adobe Creative Space, which is on the first floor of the library, we offer some co-working space. 486 00:48:53,888 --> 00:49:00,638 It's totally just free and open for anyone to come in use with priority given to those working in Adobe Creative Cloud. 487 00:49:00,638 --> 00:49:05,168 We have a AV system there that you're welcome to use. 488 00:49:05,168 --> 00:49:09,758 We have consultants there who are available to help and answer questions about your projects. 489 00:49:10,088 --> 00:49:19,238 They will also be happy to review your infographic or your visual, give you some design feedback, some suggestions, and so on. 490 00:49:19,478 --> 00:49:30,158 Maybe show you a couple more techniques and things like that. And so you can find the schedule of the consultants here on this page. 491 00:49:30,938 --> 00:49:37,218 It tells you here what? Specialties they have, but any of them can help you with expressed. 492 00:49:37,228 --> 00:49:47,248 We don't even really list that as a specialty because it's Adobe's sort of beginner application to get people started in it and they all can figure it 493 00:49:47,248 --> 00:49:56,848 out and can help you and because they also have more advanced skills and so on and they are available in person at an actual help desk in that space. 494 00:49:56,848 --> 00:50:02,578 You can watch our little promo video about it here to learn more about it. And they're are also available via Zoom. 495 00:50:02,728 --> 00:50:09,807 So if you want to jump in on Zoom while they are scheduled, they will just be in a Zoom room and you can share your screen. 496 00:50:09,808 --> 00:50:13,467 They can share their screen, you can chat, ask questions, all of that. 497 00:50:13,468 --> 00:50:21,898 So if you're not able to get to the library or is late at night, be not able to come over and see, we have an AP system you can use. 498 00:50:21,898 --> 00:50:25,678 We have a helpdesk here that's available and all of that. 499 00:50:25,678 --> 00:50:27,598 And then we have additional learning resources. 500 00:50:27,598 --> 00:50:36,807 So if you're really interested in Adobe and you want to learn some more about it, we have some additional learning and teaching resources. 501 00:50:36,808 --> 00:50:47,968 We do workshops in the fall, but our consultants are basically available from, say, 8 a.m. to around 10 p.m. on weekdays. 502 00:50:48,688 --> 00:50:53,758 So they're, they're great for you to access as well, but feel free to access any of the resources here. 503 00:50:54,238 --> 00:51:04,378 And then also on our instructional content page, which is also on the home page of our innovation and research commons, we have additional recordings. 504 00:51:04,648 --> 00:51:07,168 So all of our workshops are also recorded. 505 00:51:07,168 --> 00:51:17,248 So if you are interested in learning more, you'd like to maybe learn more about Photoshop or InDesign or Illustrator, that sort of thing. 506 00:51:17,968 --> 00:51:21,537 All of our workshops are also available here is on demand recording. 507 00:51:21,538 --> 00:51:24,568 So see for example, we have Photoshop for Beginners available. 508 00:51:24,568 --> 00:51:34,258 So if you're interested in that and these are all fantastic skills for you to develop no matter what your area of study is, 509 00:51:34,648 --> 00:51:37,377 because these are digital literacy skills. 510 00:51:37,378 --> 00:51:46,197 These are skills that you can take to an employer and say, I know how to make an infographic, or I have some background in. 511 00:51:46,198 --> 00:51:48,777 I learned some Photoshop when I was in college, 512 00:51:48,778 --> 00:51:57,178 so I could probably help with some of those creation pieces that you need for your, you know, for your business and so on. 513 00:51:57,478 --> 00:52:02,457 So any time you can gain more digital creation, skills like this is going to help you. 514 00:52:02,458 --> 00:52:08,038 No matter what your area of study. You can also use Creative Cloud Express, especially to promote yourself. 515 00:52:08,428 --> 00:52:14,247 So creating your own web page to promote your work, creating social media posts. 516 00:52:14,248 --> 00:52:17,488 A LinkedIn profile image is custom, 517 00:52:18,058 --> 00:52:21,568 and then you're automatically showing people your skills that you have and that will 518 00:52:21,568 --> 00:52:29,457 put you hopefully above or make you more marketable to employers in the future. 519 00:52:29,458 --> 00:52:32,848 So those are all ideas that you can incorporate. 520 00:52:33,388 --> 00:52:37,288 Yeah. So let's go back to our main presentation page. 521 00:52:38,068 --> 00:52:43,168 We also have some additional resources in the NRC. We have some books on data visualization. 522 00:52:43,168 --> 00:52:48,328 So if you're into this and you want to learn more about it, we have books and all of that as well. 523 00:52:48,988 --> 00:52:52,258 The Adobe Creative Cloud student tutorials are really, really good. 524 00:52:52,258 --> 00:52:59,038 You also get access to Adobe Fonts, so if you need more fonts from Adobe, then you can check that out as well. 525 00:53:00,088 --> 00:53:04,378 And we're here to help you in the Adobe Creative Space. 526 00:53:05,128 --> 00:53:11,488 So as you have questions on your projects or your visuals, you know, feel free to reach out to the consultants. 527 00:53:12,248 --> 00:53:20,188 Also, we do custom instructional sessions. So if you are watching this and you're a faculty member and you would like a custom session done, 528 00:53:20,248 --> 00:53:28,348 we will do anything from a brief demo to just sending you resources that are curated that we know will be good. 529 00:53:28,348 --> 00:53:32,937 You can use our recordings in your courses as instructional videos. 530 00:53:32,938 --> 00:53:40,288 You're welcome to do that. We're happy to consult with you and do a hands on session during an entire class period in the library, if you like. 531 00:53:40,288 --> 00:53:44,758 We have computer lab that we can access to do that. That already has to be creative cloud installed. 532 00:53:45,088 --> 00:53:55,047 So hopefully that gives you guys an idea about creating infographics and also any kind of visuals in Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 533 00:53:55,048 --> 00:54:03,118 It's a fantastic app. Have fun with it and especially use it to help you complete your coursework, 534 00:54:03,328 --> 00:54:10,168 your academic work, your research visuals that you need to create and so on. 535 00:54:10,408 --> 00:54:16,378 So thank you so much for watching today and best of luck with all of your projects.