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Cheat Sheet / Updated 07-05-2021
When you think about manipulating visual media, the design tools in Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) automatically come to mind. The menus in Adobe CC applications offer many options and tools to help you edit and install pictures and active graphics. And you can always use shortcuts to work more quickly. Check out these helpful shortcuts.
Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies
Fly higher in your Creative CloudAdobe Creative Cloud makes the most popular tools used by designers, photographers, and other creative professionals accessible in a single place. Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies is the ultimate one-stop reference guide for how to use them all. Whatever gets your creative juices flowing, you'll find the in-depth guidance required to deliver the results you want, from polishing-up photos and images to creating illustrations and designs.
Article / Updated 01-22-2018
Repeat Grid is one of the top timesaving features in Adobe XD. The Repeat Grid feature allows you to create a set of repeated elements with a simple click and drag. When repeated, you can tweak one set of repeated elements and have those changes reflected instantly throughout the rest of the elements. The steps you find here help you experience this great feature.
Article / Updated 01-22-2018
When you have text in your Adobe XD project, you can start changing the text properties. These properties include Font Family, Font Size, Font Weight, Alignment, Character Spacing (kerning and tracking), Line Spacing (leading), Fill, Border (stroke), Shadow (drop shadow), and Background Blur. So let’s review how those properties are applied.
Article / Updated 01-19-2018
After you have imported your images into Adobe XD, you don’t have a great deal of editing control, but you can resize and rotate images just like you would any other shape.You can also easily round the corners of an imported image using the corner widgets. Click and drag a corner widget in order to round the edges of an image.
Article / Updated 01-19-2018
Using the Layers panel that appears when you click on the Adobe XD Layers icon, you can rearrange the stacking order, rename, duplicate, delete, and select artboards. Rearranging artboards Click and drag up or down an artboard in the Artboard in the Layers panel in order to move it up or down in the stacking order.
Article / Updated 01-19-2018
A border, also known as a stroke, can be applied to any of your Adobe XD document’s shapes and paths. When you create a border, you select both the width and color. If you still have your button selected, make sure the checkbox is on to the left of the Border in the Properties panel; then click the box to the right of the checkbox to open the color picker and select a color that you would like to use for your border.
Article / Updated 01-19-2018
After you start creating many objects in Adobe XD, you need to consider the position of those objects and how they relate to each other. In order to lessen noise in your design, you want to keep icons and text aligned and distributed in a clean manner. You can check your alignment in several ways, including using a grid or using guides.
Article / Updated 01-18-2018
Although editing text and graphics is helpful, you may need to take text or images from a PDF document and use them in another file. Fortunately, Acrobat also includes tools to make this a breeze. Of course, you should always make certain that you have the permission of the owner of a document before reusing content that isn’t your original work.
Article / Updated 01-18-2018
If you find that you are reusing objects in your Adobe XD UI, you should consider converting them to symbols. Symbols are linked objects that can be reused across all artboards in a document. Because they are dynamically linked, changes to one reflect across all instances.In this next set of steps, you use the icon artwork from this DummiesCCfiles folder.