Developer's Guide to Photo & Design Techniques in Action
This course introduces developers to the mysteries of using graphic design and photographic resolution for web or print reproduction. It starts with photography, resolution, RGB and CMYK, continues with graphic design basics, and typography, then ends with color and the 4 basic principles of Visual Communication.
What you'll learn
This course shows developers the mysteries of using graphic design and photographic resolution for web or print reproduction. It gives you insight to the reasons why graphic designers behave the way they do. Now you'll understand the basics of design, color, reproduction, and typographic fundamentals even if you have no formal training in the graphic arts. It will help you to understand how to turn out a good looking web page or mobile app under deadline pressure. You will discover that good graphic design, much like Object Orientated Programming, uses abstractions, builds on existing smaller ideas, and uses the same problem-solving skills you already possess.
Table of contents
- Course and Module Introduction 2m
- Background Div Images 2m
- Pixels in an Image 5m
- The Eye and Light 4m
- Optical Lenses 4m
- Chemical Reactions 7m
- Early Color Photography and RGB 5m
- Additive and Subtractive Color Methods 2m
- Color Depth, Bits, and Bytes 7m
- Hexadecimal Numbers 2m
- Halftone Images 6m
- The Alpha Channel 5m
- Scalable Vector Graphics 4m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 0m
- The Correct Way to Create Design 2m
- Contrast, Alignment, Repetition, and Proximity 2m
- Contrast 2m
- Alignment 3m
- Repetition 1m
- Proximity 2m
- The Basic Parts of Typography 4m
- The Anatomy of a Character 2m
- Typeface Categories 3m
- Using Fonts 3m
- File Formats 5m
- Finding Stuff to Use 4m
- Summary 0m
About the author
Mario Macari has spent more than ten plus years as a coder specializing in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and other client and server side languages. He is also an award-winning artist and holds a BFA in Illustration. He has worked on projects for companies like Disney, Apple Computers, Microsoft and DC Comics. He currently teaches coding, design, UX/UI and Adobe products at two Southeastern Wisconsin colleges. Mario Macari has an "A+" rating with the Better Business Bureau.