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1. 1 Intro: Hello, and welcome to this
course on creating badges, using assembly on the iPad. Assembly is a graphic design app where you can create
vector designs, and it's a great
place to be able to get started making some badges. So that's what we're going to be talking about in this course. We're going to learn how to put together a badge using the
shapes that are found in assembly and also how to
adjust the colors of the badge and how to do
important things like duplicating to create a shadow. And finally, we'll wrap it up by showing you how
to export it into the format that you need for whatever you're going
to do with this badge. So I hope you're excited to come along with me
on this journey. Let's dive in and start
learning how to make a badge. In the next video,
we'll talk about what the project is for this course.
2. 2 Course Project: Okay, as you might
expect, the project for this course on creating badges is for you
to make a badge. So you're going to go into
assembly on the iPad, and you are going to create your very own badge for something that you
want to recognize. So I'm going to be doing
a navigation badge for something like an imaginary
scout troop, basically. And so I'm going to be
creating that badge, but you can create a badge
for whatever you want. When you are done with your
badge, make sure that you go and share it with us in the project section
for this course. Sometimes that project
section can be a little bit funny
because there is the thumbnail place
where you can put a file so we can see a picture
in the project gallery. But when we click on it, the
picture won't actually show up in the body unless you
upload it into the body. So make sure that you
do upload it into the body section for the project when you're
done with it. I can't wait to
see what you make, so please make sure that you do follow along with
me in the class and actually export your badge and then submit it to
the project section. I'll be sure to give
any feedback that I have on any of those
badges that are submitted. In the next video, we're going to go ahead and
we're going to learn about the interface of assembly before we start
making our badge.
3. 3 Assembly Interface: All right so here
we are in assembly. I'm going to go ahead
and I am going to, from the homepage, create
a one by one document. So that's up here
in the top left, and I'm just going to
click or tap on that. I'm using a mouse so that
you're able to see my cursor, but you might be
using your fingers or pencil so you can either
click or tap on anything. So let's just go through kind of a tour of the interface here. This button up here
in the top left, that's going to take you to this menu where you can
get back to that homepage. You can save export
or import from here. Right. Then across the top here, we have the snapping. So this one is going to be how you turn on
and off snapping, so I can turn it off or turn it on right here or going to be your duplicate copy and
paste options from there, and then up in the top right, you have undo and redo buttons. Down along the bottom is where all the shape work happens. So we have lots and lots of different shapes that we
can get to from here. There is also this section down at the bottom
called stickers, which has a bunch of
different things. That you can look
through and bring in those can be good
for getting some ideas. But the shapes is
going to be where you're going to spend
most of your time. So there's lots of shapes
that you can get here. You can click at the
Little Chevron at the top of this to expand it so that you can
see more at a time. There's a bunch of
different packs. Along the bottom,
you can click on individual packs to get to them. We will spend most of our
time with basic shapes, but we will look at some
of these others as well. Next, you have a text module. And you can click on a new
text object to create a text. Once you do that, and we'll
look more at this in a bit. But once you do that,
then you can type it out. And we're going to do
a whole video on text, so I'm not going
to show you how to do everything with
text right now, so I'll click Cancel
in the top left. And then we have
styles and styles, the one where we're
going to be able to adjust our fill and stroke, and we're going to have a
whole video on that as well. So that's the basic
interface for assembly. And as we delve into
creating our badge, we'll see more and more
of the features here. Next, we'll start out working on our design by selecting
the shape for our badge.
4. 4 Badge Shape: So shapes are the
building blocks of everything that
we do in assembly. So it's really important that we are able to work with them. Here we're going to select
our shape for our badge. So this is going to be the
structured shape of our badge. And I am here in
shapes at the bottom. You can see that's highlighted, and I can click on the Chevron at the top to expand this again. And here are my basic shapes. Now, probably we're going to use a basic shape for this badge, but we could also scroll
through and we could look at a bunch of other different
shapes that are out there. If there was something
that we wanted to specifically be able to use. There are lots of
different shapes that you might look for here. Most of them would
not be useful as the actual shape of the
badge because a badge is often going to be a circle or a hexagon or
something like that. But depending on
what you're doing, you might find it
interesting to use maybe something from some of these different
shape packets here. At the very end, though, there is a section called badge. And so this does have a bunch of shapes that might be really useful if you're doing a badge or and you could
choose one of these. Now, for mine, I really want to go with a basic hexagon shape, so I'm going to go
back to the basics, but I want to make sure that you knew that these were down here. Going back to basic shapes, and for me, I'm going
to choose the hexagon. I'm going to click
on this right here. And I've got my hexagon, and it automatically
gives it a color, but we'll talk more about
color in just a minute. So with this shape, we also want to know how to kind of
manipulate the shape. So I want to be able
to change the size. Obviously, I want to have
plenty of room to work, so I'm going to
make this bigger. And with the shape selected, which you just click or
tap on it to select, you can use this
circle in the corner. Go ahead and make it
larger or smaller. So I'm clicking and dragging. You could tap and drag
I'm going to do that, and you can see I
can also rotate it. Coming up here and I'm
going to rotate around. You can see because I have that snapping magnet turned on, I can see it snap into
different rotations. I want this to be at 30 degrees. I'm going to pull it
out nice and big there. Now I have my hexagon
and it is at 30 degrees. As far as moving
your shape around, you can click on it and drag to move it around the canvas. And you can see with
that snapping turned on, it will snap into the
center lines here as well. To zoom in and out, you're just going to take two fingers
and pinch on the screen. You can zoom in
and out like that, and that can help you to figure out where you want
to be for working. Okay, so go ahead and select the shape you want
for your badge, put it on the screen,
size it right, and get it into the
right rotation. In the next video, we're
going to talk about the fill and stroke and how we deal
with the color of the shape.
5. 5 Shape Properties: Now that we have our shape,
we're ready to work on the color of the shape itself
and the properties of it. Every vector shape
has two properties, a fill and a stroke. Right now, we just have a fill. It's this green color right here that completely fills it up.
That's why it's the fill. If we go to styles down
in the bottom menu, we can actually change that, but it says select a shape. We have no shape selected, so
we'll need to click on it, and now we can see
that we've got this. You can see that we have
an opacity slider here, so we can make that opaque or we can make it
transparent and we can adjust that and then we also have this
color button here. Let's click on that and that
opens up our color panel. With this color panel here, we can go ahead and
we can select from different things on the
wheel or from the palette. We could swing the
wheel around to change the color here and select
something in particular. You can also see we have
a hex code right here, so we could copy and
paste in exactly what we needed for a color if we had some specific brand color
that we were working with. And if we scroll down here, we can also find that we have a bunch of
different colored palettes. And if we wanted
to create our own, we have a new palette button. I'm just going to
work with one of the colored palettes
that we have here. I'm working on a
navigation badge. I think I'm favoring this blue
and yellow orange palette right here, so we're
going to start with that. I think a nice
background color for my badge would be
a bluish color. So I'm going to give it
this blue right now, and I can always change
that later if I want to. Now, the other
property is stroke, and that is the outline
of your object. So to get to that,
we actually need to click on one of these
dots up here at the top. We have Phil and the neck
one next to it is stroke. So if I click on that, we're
now modifying the stroke. Now, the one on the far
right we won't use today, but just so you know what
it is, that is the shadow. So we won't need
the shadow today, but we're going to
change the stroke. So I think a nice
high contrast color with my blue will be an orange. So I'm going to add
an orange stroke. I'm going to go ahead and
click on my orange color. And then I can come
down here into the bottom menu and I can
change the size of my stroke. So I can bring that up and
I can make it thicker. You can see up at the
top of the screen, it's showing you
that stroke width. So let's go up to
about eight here, and that looks pretty good. I would like to see what
this would look like, though with a lighter orange. So I'm going to click on the light orange in
my color palette. I think I like that
a little bit better. So now I have my hexagon, and I have it filled with blue, and I have the
outline in orange. There's one other thing
that we can do here, we can change if this
is dashed or not, so we can change this
into a dash line. I don't want mine to
have a dash line, so I'll go back to a solid
right next to those dashes, there's also the straight
corners or rounded corners. So if I click on Round, my stroke end cap has
been changed to round, and so those are just
rounded out a little bit, and that just gives
it a little bit of a softer appearance. So that's how you
work with fill and stroke and color in assembly. And the next video, we're
going and go ahead and learn about how we
can add in our text.
6. 6 Text: Now that we have
our badge setup, it's time for us to go
ahead and add our text. Now, I am going to do my
text in kind of two parts. I'm going to do Nav and gate. So I'm going to go up one
side and down the other. And so I will need to be
able to have my text be in two different
portions and also be able to rotate it to get
it in the right spot. So let's go ahead and go to
the text module down here, right where it
says text and then I'll click New Text Object. I'm then going to type in the
first part of what I need, and that's going to be Navi, and then I'll hit Done
up in the top right. That you can see the
text is in blue, so we can't actually
see it right now. So let's go ahead and change that text color to orange
by clicking on orange. Now, if your color went away, just make sure you click
on this little color deal down in the text area,
and it will come back up. So let's go ahead and
make this orange. And now I want to change
what my font looks like, so I'm going to click on font, and I am going to scroll down until I find
the one that I want. There are a bunch of fonts here. You can also add
in your own if you want to add a custom font, but we are going to go ahead just use an
assembly font today, and the one I'm looking for
is called Comica Access. I add that in bold font that will show
up well on a badge. So I'm spelling navigate,
so I have Navy right here, and I'm going to
want to resize that, which I can do just with the resizing just like
we did with the shape. There's a couple
other buttons here. This one here breaks the link, so it will turn these
into individual shapes instead of editable text. That doesn't mean that you won't be able to edit it anymore. Right now, if I double click on it, I can edit this again. So if I make a spelling error or I want to change the word,
I can always do that. Go ahead and click on
this breaking the link, then that won't work anymore. And then the pencil icon here will do the same thing
that double clicking does. I'll just take you
in to edit the text. So let's go ahead
and click done. We're going to get this to
a rotation that we want. So we're trying to line
it up with the edge of our badge here so that
we're at the same angle. Make sure that my angle is
good. Put it right here. And now we might
not want to have to redo all of those steps
because we already have it set to the right font and the
right color and stuff. So it might be easiest
for us to just duplicate. And in the right hand menu, it looks like two squares. Why, click on that,
duplicate it. And now I have another one, and I'm going double click
on it or double tap on it in order to spell a new word. And I will just and
I will hit done. Now, I can use the
rotate button right here underneath that duplicate button to flip it around like that. But you can see that
only goes to 45 degrees. And what we had before
was a 30 degree. So I'm going to have
to use my handle to just rotate it to 30 and correctly so that they aren't messing
each other up here. And next, I want to add kind of a drop shadow
to these words, so I want to duplicate it again, so that we have the same text, but we're going to use a
different color this time. So let's come back here and
using our color palette, we're going to select one of these colors that
we haven't used before. Let's try this one. And then we need this to go behind the text we already have. So the up and down arrows on the right here are
actually layer arrows, so we can drop
that back a layer. And now we can position this to work as a little bit
of a drop shadow here. So we'll zoom in here
to get our text. Then we're going to
position that right there, and we can use these
arrows in the bottom left to nudge that over. Alright, now let's do the
same thing with gait. So coming back here, we're
going to duplicate it, change its color, and then drop it behind using
the layer button. Then we can use our arrows into place so that we have
that shadow effect there. Now I want some kind of iconic representation here
in the middle. So in the next video,
we're going to learn how to find a shape to create the representation
that we want in our badge.
7. 7 Icon: Now it's time for us to get our iconic
representation here. So I'm just moving that kind of in the middle
so I can see it. And we're going back to shapes. And we're going to look for
something that we can use to create kind of a
compass effect here. So I know that there
are going to be some arrows in the basic shapes, but there's also some more
advanced arrows elsewhere. So let's go ahead and
see what we have here. There's a bunch of different concepts you
could do with this. I could also do something
with the stars. But I'm looking for trying to do a compass from
here this time. So there's a number
of different arrows here that could be used. I'm going to keep
looking really quickly. It can be hard to remember
where all the shapes are, but I think I remember
seeing one that I thought would work well for a compass. So let's see if
we can find that. Okay, right here
in the Basics two, I'm going to use
this arrow here. I'm going to rotate it so
that it's pointing up. So that's just using that
same rotation handle we've used before
and drag it out. And then we will resize it here. I want to be able to have this pointing in
both directions, and if I make it this big, it's going to be
too big for that. But I really want
this to be bigger. So I'm going to click
on that little handle, and then I get all of the
handles for the shape, and I want to be able to
make this one just wider. So I'm just using the
wide, dragging that out. And now I'm going to position
it right in the middle. So it's pointing
right at the top. And then I want this to pop, so I'm going to make
it my orange color. And then I'm going to duplicate it like
we've done before, duplicate with the
duplicate button, and then I'm going to click
the rotate button all the way 90 degrees and then drag it
down so that it's right here. In this case, I want
this to not have a fill. I want it to just be an outline. So I'm going to
come to my styles, and I'm going to drop my
fill all the way to off. So it's not there anymore.
In my color section, I will click on my second
color to go to stroke. I'm going to bring that
up to make it thicker. Currently, it's black. And I'm going to turn that to orange. Now I'm going to size that
down so that I can match it to the size of my other one. Okay, so now that we've
created our shape icon here, our badge is ready to go, so we're going to learn how to export it in the next video.
8. 8 Export: Now that our badge is done, we are ready to export it. So we're going to
go to the three line hamburger menu
in the top left, open that up, and we
can choose Export. So we're going to choose Export
to get this out of here. You can see that we can set our resolution to
whatever we want. This is quite large,
so you would have plenty of resolution to
work with in this case, and then you have several
different export options, JPEG, PNG, PDF, and SVG. If you wanted to take
this and use it in some capacity like you wanted to get it embroidered or
something like that, you would probably need
the SVG file type. But for the purposes
of the class project, you're going to
upload it as a JPEG. JPEG is really the easiest
image format to work with when you're trying to share something because most
places accept it. It does turn this into
pixels instead of vector, so that's something to consider. But for sharing
your class project, please submit it as a JPEG. So we're going to click JPEG, and then we have a bunch
of different options. We can share it through a
bunch of different means, but we're probably just
going to save it to our files or save
it as an image. If we save it as an
image, it will just be in our camera roll
here on the iPad. So click on and away it goes, it says, Do you want
to give it access? You'll need to allow
access for it to do it, and then you've got it
saved. And that's it. You've now exported
your final image. Now we can click Close
Up here, and we're done.
9. 9 Conclusion: Alright, that's it. It's
a fairly simple process to make a badge once you
know what the steps are. So I hope you've
enjoyed following along with me in this course. Now, if you have been
following along with me, now is the time for you to go into the project section and go ahead and upload that badge into the project section
for this course. Remember that you should upload your finished image both into that thumbnail
section and also into the body so that we can
actually see the full thing. If you have multiple
iterations of your badge, feel free to upload
those as well. I would love to see kind
of the process that you've gone through as
you've been working on it. Do you go from
here? Well, there's a lot of places you
can go from here. If you are interested
in continuing graphic design on the iPad, assembly is a great place to start because
you can do a lot, but you can't do everything. And so I do have a lot of courses on Affinity
Designer, as well, and that will really
help you take your graphic design on the
iPad up to the next level. So feel free to go ahead
and check those out. If you have any
questions at all, please go ahead
and leave those in the discussion section
for this course, and I will be happy to try
and answer those for you. Thank you so much
for watching, and I will see you in
the next course.
Ben Nielsen, Good design is the beginning of learning
