Sketch training class
This Sketch course provides participants with the skills for creating interactive, high-fidelity prototypes in the user experience (UX) process. The Sketch training provides hands-on experience with the tools and capabilities of this powerful prototyping tool. Participants learn to use the Layer list and Inspector to quickly create and re-use components in Sketch, enabling the sharing of website and app designs for testing and review. This Sketch workshop emphasizes foundation skills that are useful for Sketch users, and utilizes hands-on projects.
For questions about this Sketch class, or to discuss a private or customized Sketch training workshop, contact American Graphics Institute at 781-376-6044 or use the chat option.
Please call 800-851-9237 to schedule this training course.
Contact AGI to request course dates.
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Fri, Jan 01 2016 - Online online
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- Sketch Overview
- Workspace Overview
- Using the Toolbar, Layer List, and the Inspector
- Understanding pages and layers
- Working with artboards in the infinite canvas
- Viewing, Zooming, Pixel Preview, Pixel Zoom
- Precision placement using rulers, grids, and guides
- Preferences for best viewing
- Helpful keyboard shortcuts
- Creating, naming, and editing artboards
- Creating backgrounds for your artboards
- Aligning and distributing your artboards
- Adding scrolling to your artboard
- Adding and naming layers
- Selecting and moving layers
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Rearranging the stacking order of layers
- Creating and editing objects
- Using Boolean tools to customize shapes
- Changing properties such as fill, border, opacity and corners
- Quick shape keyboard shortcuts
- Resizing, rotating
- Setting up resizing constraints
- Align and distribute
- Rotating multiple layers
- Selecting and creating Local and Global colors
- Opacity and blending
- Borders, shadows, and blurs
- Saving object styles
- Creating layers styles
- Sharing layer styles
- Editing and updating styles
- Using plug-ins to sync styles
- Masking shapes with objects and text
- Filling shapes with images
- Pen tool
- Pencil tool
- Import into Sketch from XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF
- Importing general file formats
- Importing and editing images
- Cropping images
- Removing backgrounds from images
- Adding text areas
- Changing text properties
- Saving text styles
- Creating symbols
- Editing and updating symbols
- Overriding and detaching symbols
- Creating and using nested symbols
- Organizing your symbols for easy access
- Using existing libraries
- Creating your own library
- Modifying Sketch libraries
- Enabling and disabling libraries
- Creating links and custom hotspots
- Breaking and re-directing links
- Removing all links
- Testing and previewing
- Using the Mirror app to test your app on your phone
- Saving files
- Saving templates
- Sharing files
- Exporting assets
- Exporting to PDF
- Measuring specs
- Style library options and more
If attending a Sketch class at our training center, we provide the Sketch app for use during class. We suggest that you have the Sketch app available for you to use after class.
You will receive comprehensive Sketch curriculum for this class developed by the instructors at AGI. Our instructors have authored more than 50 books on web design and development.
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| CLASSROOM | LIVE ONLINE | PRIVATE | MY LOCATION | ON-DEMAND |
AGI's team of experienced instructors are led by Jennifer Smith the design and usability expert and best-selling author of more than 20 books including Creative Cloud for Dummies, Creative Suite for Dummies, and Photoshop Digital Classroom. Classes are led by experienced UX professionals who have extensive professional and training experience, and also work in our UX consulting practice
