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The Complete Adobe Spark Course
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The Complete Adobe Spark Course

Learn to create amazing social graphics, webpages and animated videos: Graphic design and video creation for beginners
Last updated 7/2017
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Create fantastic, professional graphic designs for your social media channels, all for free inside Adobe Spark
  • Build scrollable webpages to showcase your events, brand or portfolio (no coding required).
  • Design amazing animated sales or marketing videos
  • Master all the elements within Adobe Spark to produce stunning results every time

Course content

3 sections29 lectures2h 10m total length
  • Introduction3:55

    Master adobe spark to quickly design professional graphics and videos. Learn signing up, navigating the dashboard, and creating posts, pages, and videos, starting with social media graphics.

  • Design Filters and Adding Pictures5:24

    Create engaging Instagram posts with Adobe Spark by selecting templates, applying design filters, adjusting layouts and color palettes, and replacing photos with your own or Adobe Stock options.

  • Backgrounds and Colour Pallettes3:23

    Manipulate the image by exploring backgrounds, design filters, and hue adjustments to transform photos. Select color palettes to change backgrounds and text, and apply solid colors or photos before finalizing.

  • Working with Text5:52

    Explore how to edit text in Adobe Spark by dragging to resize and center, then apply fonts, colors, and decorative backgrounds and frames.

  • Adjusting Layouts7:33

    Adjust layouts in Adobe Spark by adding text and photos, tweaking margins and spacing, and using templates; then use magic resize to reuse the design on Instagram and Facebook.

  • Magic Resize1:58

    Explore the magic resize feature in Adobe Spark to automatically resize a design for Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and more with a single click.

  • Text Masking and Transparency4:30

    Learn to create text masking and transparency effects in Adobe Spark by applying a background image, swapping templates like the Joshua Tree design, and adjusting fonts and opacity.

  • Downloading and Sharing Designs4:22

    Download your finished Adobe Spark design, customize the title, category, and author name, decide whether to remove branding, and share via a link or download as a jpeg.

  • Where To Get Free Stock Photos11:32

    Explore eight free, high-quality stock photo libraries that offer commercial licenses and no attribution requirements, with tips on searching by topic or color and downloading directly into your designs.

  • Where To Get Free Stock Videos3:35

    discover where to find free and paid stock videos for projects, explore sources like video.net and life of pics via Vimeo downloads, and learn to pick formats, resolutions, and durations.

  • Adobe Spark and Canva3:52

    Compare Adobe Spark and Canva, highlighting Canva's broader templates and formats—from social media graphics to letters and presentations—and note both offer free accounts and complement each other.

Requirements

  • Internet connection and a desktop, laptop or tablet

Description

In this course you will learn how to create fantastic, professional graphics for your social media accounts, quick and easy webpages to showcase your photos or portfolios, and amazing animated sales and marketing videos.

  • Have you tried producing your own graphic designs that just don’t look professional?
  • Want to create animated sales and marketing videos for your brand or business?
  • Have you been outsourcing your graphic design and video production work, paying a lot of money while not getting designs you’re completely happy with?
  • Want to get started in graphic design and video production but have no formal training and don’t know where to start?

Well this course is for you! I will teach you everything you need to know to be able to produce all of your own designs, web portfolios, and animated videos, quickly and easily. Adobe Spark is amazing, and is much easier to learn than other expensive graphic design and video software. You can achieve excellent results, and because Adobe Spark is free to use, you can save huge amounts of money on design outsourcing or software fees. I have used Adobe Spark for many design projects, and always come up with fantastic end results!

Check out the sales video for this course, I created the whole thing with Adobe Spark, and I’ll show you how you can do the same.

The course is split into three parts:

In Part 1, we will learn how to create social media posts within Adobe Spark, and I will teach you all of the core skills you will need to create amazing graphics. These key skills include:

  • Using fonts and typography effectively
  • Resizing and manipulating photos
  • Using filters
  • Adjusting themes
  • Using colour palettes
  • Adjusting transparency

Plus much more.

We will work on a project to complete a Facebook post, and then we’ll use one of Adobe Spark’s best features, Magic Resize, to adapt it for all other social media channels, including Twitter and Instagram.

I will also show you eight amazing websites I use to get professional stock photos for my projects, complete with commercial licenses to use in any project, all completely free. These resources alone can save you hundreds in stock photo fees. I will also show you the two websites I use to get stock video footage for my projects, again with all commercial licenses, and all completely free.

In Part 2, we will use Adobe Spark’s Page feature to produce a content-rich webpage. This is brilliant for showcasing photos, videos and portfolios, and can be used for anything from boutique shops highlighting their products, to people sharing their holiday photos. We’ll set up a page from scratch, and I’ll show you how all of the features work, so you can start using it for yourself straight away. There is no coding required, simply add elements with a single click.

Finally, in Part 3, we’ll go through what I consider to be the most amazing feature of Adobe Spark, and that’s creating animated videos. These are the kind of sales and marketing videos professional companies use all the time, with features such as animated text with slick movement of icons and pictures, all alongside narration and background music, just like the sales video I created for this course. I will show you how to create these videos quickly and easily, and we will work on a project that will showcase all of the amazing features you can use in your own videos.

By the end of the course you will have gained the skills to use Adobe Spark effectively, and you will be able to make professional, clickable and marketable graphics and videos for any projects you are working on.

There is also a 30 day money back guarantee with this course, so you can take this course risk-free!

Enroll now and I’ll speak to you soon.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to make stunning social graphics, story-based web pages and animated videos quickly and easily