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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
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.
Article / Updated 01-18-2018
You can bend objects — make them wavy, gooey, or spiky — by creating simple to complex distortions with the Illustrator Liquify tools and the Envelope Distort features.
The Liquify tools
The Liquify tools can accomplish all sorts of creative or wacky (depending on how you look at it) distortions to your objects.
Article / Updated 01-18-2018
Here, you are directed through the steps to create a simple button with a solid fill and some text in Adobe XD. Follow along with these simple steps.
Select the Rectangle tool and click and drag to create a rectangle of any size on an artboard.In this example, the standard iPhone 6 template is selected.
With the rectangle still active, type 200 into the Width textbox and 70 into the Height textbox.