Social Media: Designing a Consistent Brand
1h 10mBeginner2022-05-18
Authors

Kladi Vergine
Award-Winning Designer, Strategist, Author, and Mentor
Course details
Consumers often make buying decisions based on the values, identity, and mission they associate with a brand. And since your business’s social media presence plays a key role in the formation of your brand’s identity, it’s essential that each of your posts look professional and feel genuine. In this course, discover how to use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create social media assets that help you forge a consistent visual identity that resonates with audiences. Instructor Kladi Vergine shares techniques for creating an Instagram puzzle grid; organizing and sharing assets using Creative Cloud; repurposing and editing assets to create a fun theme throughout your social media channels; and more. Tune in to get practical tips for creating thoughtful social media graphics that you can easily reuse.
Skills covered
Brand DesignIllustratorSocial Media MarketingPhotoshopGraphic DesignMarketingAdobeOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Designing a consistent brand
1. What Is a Brand
- 02 - A brand is not a logo
- 03 - Brand components
- 04 - Why it is important to design a consistent brand
2. Create a New Document in Illustrator
- 05 - Creating a new document in Illustrator
- 06 - Create multiple artboards in Illustrator
- 07 - Saving the document in Illustrator
3. Puzzle Grid
- 08 - Set up the puzzle artboard in Illustrator
- 09 - Split the artboard in a grid
4. Create a Creative Cloud Library for Your Brand
- 10 - Create a Creative Cloud Library
- 11 - Add assets to your library
- 12 - Create from an image in Photoshop
5. Organize Your Workspace and Your Document Structure
- 13 - Select and customize a preset workspace
- 14 - Organize your work using layers in Illustrator
6. Create an Interesting Background
- 15 - Launch Photoshop from Illustrator
- 16 - Select and mask in Photoshop
- 17 - Leverage the power of your Creative Cloud Libraries
- 18 - Apply colorful gradients to your background with the freeform gradient
7. Design with Shapes
- 19 - Use lines to design in Illustrator
- 20 - Divide a shape using the Pathfinder tool in Illustrator
- 21 - Edit a divided shape in Illustrator
- 22 - Add and mask images in Illustrator
8. Add Text
- 23 - Copy, paste, and resize content in Illustrator
- 24 - Create and save paragraph styles in Illustrator
- 25 - Create and save character styles in Illustrator
9. Export
- 26 - Slice an artboard in Illustrator
- 27 - Repurpose assets and make it fun
- 28 - Export your assets in Illustrator
Conclusion
- 29 - Next steps
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