Using the Adobe Market for free icons

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45 lessons / 4 hours

Overview

UI design skills are one of the most employable opportunities of our lifetime. In this course you’ll learn how to design a professional website in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll start right at the basics of Illustrator and work our way through to building professional UI designs. This course doesn’t cover how to code a website but focuses on the design processes that professional UI designers use when working.

This is a project based class for students who are new to the world of app & web design. I created this for people nervous about changing their careers into the world of user interface design.



We’ll build a professional portfolio website. You can use this course to build your own portfolio website (the one you’ve been putting off for years). You’ll learn how to design desktop, tablet and mobile versions of your website. You’ll learn what you’ll need to deliver at the end of a project to your client.

This course is for people serious about becoming a User Interface design professional.

Know that I’ll be around to help - if you get lost you can drop a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video and I'll be sure to get back to you.

Now it’s time to upgrade your skills, get that better job, and impress your clients.


What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.

  • No previous design skills are needed.

  • No previous Illustrator skills are needed. 

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 45 lectures 4 Hours 7 minutes of content!

  • You'll learn to design a website with in Adobe Illustrator.

  • User Interface essentials. 

  • 27 Completed files so you never fall behind. 

  • Learn how to wireframe at all levels

  • How to design for a responsive website. 

  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.

  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.

  • Techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts.

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web and UI design. While no previous Illustrator experience is necessary.

Course duration 4 hours

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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All right, in this video we're gonna cheat. We need a tick and we're gonna just steal it, okay? Stealing is the wrong word. We're gonna appropriate it from,  uh, creative Cloud Marketplace, okay? And there's lots of good stuff in there that we can use  and we're allowed to use legally, okay? And it's all scalable.

And Victor, this, okay? And it'll just save us from drawing it. So let's go and look at that now. So to get to the Adobe market, okay,  we've got this Creative Cloud app installed. So if you don't have it installed, go to adobe.com/downloads  and get creative. Uh, the Creative Cloud app, okay?

That's the one you're looking to download. It's probably already installed on your machine. Um, on a Mac, it's in this top icon up here. If you're on a pc, it's in the bottom  right down the bottom here. You're looking for this kind of like in interactive cloud  thing, okay? And you wanna go to assets and you want to go to market.

We kinda looked at this earlier, okay? Um, and what we're gonna do is that the market is really,  really good for icons. Okay? So I'm gonna click in here  and say we need a tick, okay? Um, so you know, it's, uh, I'm currently available work. You might have a tick and a cross.

So I want to put in tick, okay? And go through and just pick the tick that I want, okay? And there's lots of options in here, okay? And the cool thing about them is  that they're scalable vectors, okay? And this one here looks good to me. I'm gonna download it to my, uh, dance portfolio.

Perfect. There he is downloading  there eventually. Okay? And I'm gonna drag him in. Oh, drag him in  and I'm gonna drag him in again. Okay?

The reason he is not dragging in  is you might all run into this problem as well, is  that I'm on the layer called background and it's locked. I pretend I put that in there on purpose just  to show you, but I didn't. Okay. Happens to best to us. So beyond your artwork layer, the unlocked version,  I drag it onto this layer here. And what we're gonna see is that we've downloaded a, uh,  an image, okay?

And you can see it's not a very good one  because it's pixelating when I get bigger. So when you're downloading them, go to marketplace  and when you click on them, this one was  made in Photoshop, not good. We want, let's click on this one here. This is an SVG. Remember, SVG is awesome. Scalable vector graphics, okay?

It needs to be AI EPS or SVG. And he'll work even though I don't need this. That's fine. Okay? I'm gonna go to download, okay? And I'm gonna download it to Dan Portfolio.

Lovely. Here he comes. Make sure on your right layer  right from to download, there he is. Okay. There he is there. And the cool thing about this now  is you can kind of see instantly it's got the blue line  around it, but you can see it's  scalable, which is really cool.

Okay? And what I'd like  to do now is I'm gonna right click it ungroup, okay? And just see, I'm gonna right click it. Ungroup again. Sometimes depending on how these are grouped,  I'm gonna delete these bits. And now I've got myself a little tick, okay?

So I've ungrouped it twice. I'm gonna give it the feel color of my off white, okay? And I'm gonna scale it down and use it as my graphic. Okay? I'm gonna zoom in, holding down,  shift in the corners, remember? And there's my little rooney.

All right, so the cool thing about using Adobe uh, market is  that you can find vector stuff in there  and you can use it commercially  and you could draw your own tick. We'll do this in a little bit, um, showing you how  to use the pen tool, but things like that. I use it for all sorts of icons. Just heaps easy to find them in there. Alright? That's how to use Adobe market to borrow icons to use  for your designs.
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