Digital Imaging IV
Class 09: Adobe AnimateTopics
- Introduction to Adobe Animate
- Graphic Creation
- Infographic Lab

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Introduction to Adobe Animate
Adobe Creative Cloud Express:
Express is a suite of tools available in your browser or mobile app that allows a user to complete basic image and video editing tasks. Templates, premade assests, and basic shapes are provided to create visual work that is targeted towards social media. It’s strengths lie in its ease of use and quickness but lacks the ability of full-fledged programs to complete smaller more detailed specific work.
According to Adobe:
Quickly and easily make standout content from thousands of beautiful templates with the all-new Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Available on web and mobile.
Creative Cloud Express makes it easy to get started with thousands of beautiful templates, plus assets for social media content, logos, and more. Feel like you’ve got the help of a trusted designer in your corner with the entire Adobe Stock* royalty-free photo collection plus a full library of Adobe Fonts at your fingertips.
Make anything you need, all in one place, with intuitive tools that let you remove backgrounds, animate text, add your brand, and so much more. With just a few taps you can resize content for any social media site and add Adobe Photoshop quality effects in a snap.
Share logos, fonts, and other brand elements with your team, and print and share PDF documents with features powered by Adobe Acrobat — so you can always put your best work forward.
Graphic Creation
Adobe Creative Cloud Express:
Express is a suite of tools available in your browser or mobile app that allows a user to complete basic image and video editing tasks. Templates, premade assests, and basic shapes are provided to create visual work that is targeted towards social media. It’s strengths lie in its ease of use and quickness but lacks the ability of full-fledged programs to complete smaller more detailed specific work.
According to Adobe:
Quickly and easily make standout content from thousands of beautiful templates with the all-new Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Available on web and mobile.
Creative Cloud Express makes it easy to get started with thousands of beautiful templates, plus assets for social media content, logos, and more. Feel like you’ve got the help of a trusted designer in your corner with the entire Adobe Stock* royalty-free photo collection plus a full library of Adobe Fonts at your fingertips.
Make anything you need, all in one place, with intuitive tools that let you remove backgrounds, animate text, add your brand, and so much more. With just a few taps you can resize content for any social media site and add Adobe Photoshop quality effects in a snap.
Share logos, fonts, and other brand elements with your team, and print and share PDF documents with features powered by Adobe Acrobat — so you can always put your best work forward.
Infographic Lab
Infographic Lab:
In this lab you will become familiar with the Adobe Animated workspace by creating infographics. A theme, graphics, and page layout will be designed.
You will be graded on the following:
- Graphic Craftsmanship
- Images are proper size, resolution, and format.
- Images are clean, readable, and appropriate.
- An alpha channel (transparency) is present.
- Graphic Aesthetics
- The design of the artwork is novel/innovative.
- The style has a unique appeal.
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Page Design
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Clean proper use of space that has an efficient viisual hierarchy
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Creativity
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The design is appealing and novel.
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Resources:
- Assignment Video Tutorials
- You may watch these tutorial videos below to help you complete your assignment.
- Assignment Lab Materials
- You may download the lab materials here: N/A
Assignment Video Tutorials
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- Infographic Lab on Blackboard
