Infographics intensive Saturday AM AEST (NEW DATE ADDED)

 Start by understanding what makes a good infographic? Where to find inspiration and start to develop your own style and adapt it to the brand of your organisation.

PART ONE

Before you start designing, you'll need to understand: 

​Composition

The rule of thirds and the importance of working in grids.

Colour

How to choose what goes together and how to make colours pop so you can highlight the critical points to your audience.

Content

How do you start? Can everything be an infographic? How you can turn your everyday PowerPoints into something more attractive. 

Icon and Image sourcing

Where to find the best little pictures, for free, and how you can modify them.

Fonts

What to use and when, and where to find them.

Then I'll develop your PowerPoint Essential skills

You'll  need to be able to draw, arrange and line up shapes

I'll share dozens of shortcuts to get you working faster and smarter. Those niggly things that have been driving you mad in PowerPoint for years will be instantly solved.

PART TWO

Getting Clever!

You're learning and practising the basics, time to step up to the next level.

​We'll dig deeper into all the things you learned in part one and add-in:

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Irregular shapes

What to do when you want a shape that isn't available. How to use fragment and join to create your own shapes.

Graphs and Charts

You'll discover the humble pie-chart is the basis for many masterful info-graphics.

Cropping

Discover cropping to shapes and sizes and how to create the perfect size images for social media.

Advanced Colour

Understand how to use colour gradients, shadows and blends to take your graphics to the next level

Background graphics

Add graphics to the slide background or into any shape.

PART THREE

Becoming Awesome

​You'll be utterly amazed by how much you can achieve with your new skills. We'll continue to practice and recap skills from previous sessions and answer any questions.

​Start to create a library of reusable content and templates, so you're never starting from scratch.

Creating Templates

How you can create re-usable templates and colour schemes so other members of your team can leverage your great PowerPoint skills.

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Learn how to craft a brand and use and re-purpose images in all areas of your project, including social media.