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How export uncropped and unscaled images from Figma

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177 lessons / 16 hours 46 quiz questions 21 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, aspiring Figma enthusiasts! Are you ready to embark on an exhilarating journey with me, Dan Scott, as we unlock the full potential of our Figma skills in the dazzling realm of UX/UI Design using Figma Advanced?

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This course is tailor-made for those who have already mastered the fundamental principles of UI/UX Design using Figma. If you've triumphed over my Figma Essentials course or have a sneaking suspicion that there's a treasure trove of unexplored tools, tips, workflows, and updates awaiting your discovery, then look no further! This course is your golden ticket to taking your UI/UX prowess to the next level.

Together, we'll start by delving into the depths of multilevel nested autolayouts, and unravel the secrets used by UX professionals by learning:
- Workflow techniques, managing design assets, styles, components, grid and column layouts like true virtuosos.
- Learn how to use Variables and put them to work creating even more complete prototypes.
- Use variables to make Light & Dark Modes + Compact & Comfortable spacing versions of your components. 
- You’ll then take your new knowledge of variables to understand and create your own Design Tokens. 
  • - Unleashing the magic of advanced animation techniques, captivating users with animated background gradients and Houdini Text.
  • - Harness the power of Lottie animation files, breathing life into your designs.
  • - Crafting responsive elements that effortlessly adapt to any device, proving your design prowess knows no bounds.
  • - Unleashing the full potential of powerful images & video masking techniques, amplifying the visual impact of your creations.
  • - Mastering advanced typography features, transforming words into captivating works of art.
  • - Embracing the realm of AI, infusing your process with its genius to elevate your skills as a UX designer.
  • - Elevate your prototyping game, conducting user tests with finesse using advanced techniques.
  • - Unveiling sticky scroll buttons that stack, animated anchor points and booleans, and a host of other captivating effects.
  • - Creating enchanting dropdown menus, hover grow effects for images, and expanding search bars.
  • - Discovering the right accessibility tools & techniques, ensuring inclusivity and usability for all users.
  • - Becoming a variant boss, expertly taming unwieldy variants to just 1 or 2.
  • - Unveiling the secrets of seamless collaboration with designers, developers, and stakeholders.
  • - Mastering the art of exporting production-ready assets, bringing your designs to life beyond the realm of Figma.
  • - Unearthing professional workflow tricks & shortcuts, saving you precious time and skyrocketing your efficiency.
  • - Plus much more exciting advanced Figma goodness along the way!

As you journey through this course, you'll acquire the skills wielded by UX professionals, gaining a profound understanding of the UX Design industry. From concept to a highly polished finish, you'll confidently manage your own UX projects ideal for your portfolio.

Throughout the course, I'll assign assignments and projects that nurture your skills and empower you to create your very own unique UX design masterpiece for your portfolio. Don’t worry if this all seems overwhelmingly advanced right now, because the BYOL crew stands ready to support and guide you, ensuring your questions get answered.

It's time to embrace the call to upgrade yourself and transcend from being a good UX Designer to a bona fide Figma UX Superhero! Unlock your potential, save the day, and let your design prowess soar!

Requirements:

- A copy of Figma (a free plan is available on the Figma website).
  • - Basic knowledge of Figma is required. I recommend watching my Figma Essentials course prior to embarking on this epic adventure.

Who this course is for:

  • - UX/UI adventurers who already have a basic understanding of Figma.
  • - Self-taught Figma enthusiasts yearning for structured guidance.
  • - Graduates of my Figma Essentials Course, hungry for more knowledge and skills.
  • - Visionaries who have developed their own unique Figma approach but crave exploration of the vast universe of tools, updates, and time-saving techniques.

What you'll learn:

  • - Diving deep into multi level nested autolayouts. 
  • - Robust components that are easy to update and hard to break. 
  • - Component properties. 
- Variables
- Design Tokens
- Advanced Prototyping using Variables
  • - Learn Workflow tips and tricks for managing your design assets, styles, components, grid and column layouts.
  • - Advanced animation techniques
  • - Animated Background gradients. 
  • - Houdini Text
  • - Animate along a path in Figma
  • - How to add Lottie animation files in Figma
  • - Build responsive elements ready for any device size.
  • - The best shortcuts & plugins to make you a more efficient UX designer.
  • - Absolute Positioning of Autolayouts. 
  • - Powerful images & video masking techniques. 
  • - Advanced typography features. 
  • - Learn to use AI in your process to make you a better UX designer. 
  • - Advanced prototyping techniques to level up your user tests. 
  • - Make prototypes better and faster using tricks & shortcuts. 
  • - Sticky scroll buttons that stack. 
  • - Video playback controls. 
  • - Animated anchor points and booleans.
  • - Create a Dropdown menu
  • - Create a hover grow effect for images.
  • - Create and expanding Search Bar 
  • - Learn the right accessibility tools & techniques  
  • - Become a variant boss. Cutting down those 100 variants to just 1 or 2. 
  • - Learn the best ways to work with other designers, developers and stakeholders. 
  • - Build a UX project from beginning to end ready for your portfolio.
  • - Export production ready assets.
  • - Learn professional workflow tricks & shortcuts.
  • - Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
  • - All the techniques used by UX professionals
  • - 160 videos of detailed Figma Advanced Content.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi everyone. In this video we are going  to unstrap images ready for export. Depending on how much you know about development, uh,  your developer will want the full image  and they will do the fill crop fit option  in code on their side. So they want the full image. But if I export this from  figment right now, it's gonna crop it down,  it's gonna give it rounded corners. How do I liberate this image so I can send it  to my developer at the full size or a specific size?

I'll show you that as well. Alright, let's jump in, right? The easiest way is with a sweet plugin. So go to plugins and type in, uh, export original images. Okay? And run that and basically does what it says.

Okay? I'm going to click in this. Okay? It is a fill inside of this frame  and I'm gonna say, do I want it to be a p and g or a jpeg? 80% JPEG's gonna be good for me. And for selection we're gonna just have the things  that are selected and click export.

Let's use the name from my instance. That's cool. Let's check it out. Oh yes, it went and unpacked it  and brought it in at its original size. That was brought into Figma. Uncropped, no round of Corners Koha.

You can do it. A whole group of things. You can decide,  you can select everything on the page  or I'm just gonna click this event listing loads of images  or cropped in there. And you can use this option  that says select everything, including the children. Don't forget about the children. Okay, now hit export.

You'll get a zip file. Okay, let's have a look. Let's unpack it. And inside that zip file,  oh my goodness, look at that. They're all in there. All the crazy, uh, aliens  and all the other images that we bought in through plugins.

Super handy. Alright? Uh, there is the hacky way. It works just as good. The problem is, is that your developer might wanna be  self-sufficient and doesn't want to have to go through  and sift through all the files to find the right image. Match up the names.

What you can do is when you share a  file, okay, you copy the link, you send it  to your developer, you have educated them that they need  to go to the inspect tab, okay? And they've used it before maybe, and they can go round  and they can grab CSS or iOS or Android code,  but they can't get to the image. Why can't I see the image? C, s, s? Anything? Nothing.

Why can't I see the image? It's go inside,  keep clicking, keep clicking. Still nothing. Ah, but there's a hack. I feel like in the near future it'll just be listed here. Okay?

But the moment, if you go to any of these, okay,  and switch from the code view to table view for some reason,  you can click on that and it opens up in a new tab. There you go. You can copy  and paste that out, right click, copy, image, or save it. There you go. You might use it yourself instead  of the plugin, just grab the few images that you need. You can copy it and paste it back into Figma.

If you want paste it back in,  it's the full size that I got it. It's a great way of being able to kind  of like extract images from plugins  and figure out where they are, what they're called. What it's also useful for is, uh, doing sizings so  that I need to send them to my developer. I'm actually using the browser view. I'm gonna go back to my desktop view  and hopefully shift a, there it is over there. Daniel's working on it.

Okay? This image here, okay? If I go to design, I need to make sure it is being marked  for export, okay? And what not everyone knows is I can do the full size  or like half size or double size depending on what I need. But if you go down to this one that says W  or H, you might have some maximum  requirements for your website. Okay?

Let's say that you might have  for a thumbnail or something. It's one 50 w as long as you put W in there,  it'll export 150 pixels wide. That's a handy one. You might decide  that you've got a couple of versions. There is a 300 W or an H for height. You can go through and keep adding exports.

Click export image one. Terrible name, but now, there you go. Got image one, PNG and image one at two x. There you go. Right? That's it.

That is how to unstrap images from inside of frames  and rounded corners and drop shadows  and kind of pull it all out. Ready for export.
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