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How to mask images with text in 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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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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  • Watch the course videos
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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Complete the Distinction Certificate Project - look out for the video marked with
  • Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
  • Don't forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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Transcript

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at putting images inside of text... the easy way is, click on 'Fill', go to 'Solid'... pick 'Image', choose an 'image'... and you're done... what we'll do though is, in this video I'll show you a couple of different ways... and I'll show you the difference between Masking and Fill...

we'll put multiple images inside of it, we'll even squeeze a vector in... and we'll look at a couple of things that might catch you out... all right, let's jump in. First up I've brought in some images, bring in anything... I've put some in the Exercise Files, called Water 01, 02, and 03... just to use as examples, but you can use any old image...

and to get the image inside of the text... first of all the text needs to be thick enough... that you can see the image inside of it, that's too thin... who remembers the shortcut to make the weight bigger? Oh, it's handy, it's 'Command Option' and the '>' '<'... that's 'Ctrl Alt >' or '<', here we go.

So we're going to something nice and chunky... also, I'm going to use the K tool to scale my Type, remember that trick? Just get it something proportionate to my image... and the best way in my opinion is to select this... it doesn't even need to be anywhere near it... we're going to use the copy properties, like we learned in the last video...

remember, that's 'Command Option C', or 'Ctrl Alt C'... and then 'Ctrl Alt V', or 'Command Option V' on a Mac... and that will paste it inside that Fill... so that copies the properties... in this case, the Fill, and we'll paste it in here. I'm going to put it inside of a frame so we can actually see it.

The nice thing about this is that it is... changeable, we can delete stuff, we can make it rowdy... can you see, the image changes to fill it in the background... so that's why it's really nice... and the layer structure is really nice, it's just Type with a Fill inside of it... easy, you can adjust it afterwards, at the moment it's set...

it's default to Fill, so it's going to try and cover every part of the Type... sometimes you want a certain part of the image... I'm going to get that out, and I should have made a duplicate at the beginning... we have a white Fill, it's going to be gray, that's okay... "Let's make a couple of copies, Dan."  So we've got this one, let's say that you want a specific part of this image... maybe the top part of it, not the bottom...

actually, let's use this image here... so we don't want it right in the middle here... we want it kind of down the bottom, let's say... so what we're going to do is copy it using our shortcut, then paste it here... what we can do, remember the shortcut from the last one, we can hold down--  how do we get all the extra cropping around the outside? Remember that key we hold down, that we double click, the key is...

oh, you got it, 'Option' on a Mac, 'Alt' on a PC, so just double click it... and now we can see the frame, and we can say... actually, I want to move it around and maybe resize it, holding 'Shift'... so we want the top part of this, we want to try to get the bubbles through... we can resize it in this mode as well, maybe that's what you want... here we go, 'Esc' to get out.

The one thing when you do change it from Fill to--  because at the moment this has got image property of Fill by default... we've changed it by hitting that shortcut to, hit 'Esc'... this one here now has one of Crop, can you see the width and height of it here... the one thing, if I resize it and make it really small, as an example... watch this, if I 'Alt', or 'Option' double click it... can you see what it's done there, it's kind of done this weird crop thing...

I don't know why it does it, but it does... that's one thing to note, you might have to then go through and say... well, this is not helpful, I'm going to copy and paste it in again. So I've undone it, till I got back, the other way you can crop images... we kind of looked at a couple of videos ago, the Fill versus Crop... I'm going to grab this one, let's do it for this image here...

'K' tool, make it nice and big, actually, let's do it to this one here... is you can just select them both and make a mask... I realize - undo - that this needs to be at the back... that's the open, '[' and ']' square brackets, near your P key... send it to the back, select both of them, go to 'Mask'... there's nothing wrong with this way...

other than the Layer panel is a little bit more complicated... I'll show you both of these ways, because you will get other people's work... where they've done it this way and some of them will have done it this way... where there's just this text... and it's just an image inside of it. The reason you do it this way is, there's no real good reason that I can think of...

it is handy when you want to mask more than one thing... because I can say, you, because, let's say I want this one... I want two images inside of it... because it's a nice easy group... you can just say, actually, I want you in there, and actually, you're on top... so now I've got a Mask group, that's my Masking text...

and anything underneath this, we can have lots of things can go inside of it... probably more handy when you've got a vector... let's go, our vector in here, and again, as long as it's... there you go, beautiful, Dan... you can put lots into it... but you can actually, over here, just...

just so you know, you can actually have more than one Fill... and I can say, actually, this one has 'Image', 'Fill'... I'm going to pick an image, I'm going to pick a product, a little car... I'm not going to fill it, I'm going to crop it... because what I want to do is say, kind of, you know, get it in this... there's a little car in it, actually, let's move it around...

by default the extra Fill only gets 20% of Fill color. So you can actually do that same thing... where I've just got some plain old text, it's got two Fills... kind of same as this, it doesn't really matter... but we're going to get used to both of them. So that's masking with text, the takeaway is, just do it this way...

where we copy and paste it in... or you can go the longer way, I don't know, is it longer? 'Fill', 'Image', choose image... stick it inside of there, let's grab this one... if I close that down now there is absolutely no difference... to what we did when we copied and pasted it...

or filled it with an image, we get to the same part... and the best is that this resizes because it's set to Fill... it will resize and keep my image in the background. All right, let's get rowdy... actually, let's finish up, and I'll see you in the next video, bye.
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