Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
55. Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma
Lessons
Introduction to Figma Essentials
02:53 2Getting Started with Figma Training
03:06 3What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?
03:46 4What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma
05:22 5What We Are Making In This Figma Course
09:18 6Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief
04:01 7What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?
02:34 8Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma
08:29The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma
10:51 10Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma
06:50 11How To Use Color In Figma
05:45 12Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma
09:28 13Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma
01:47 14Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma
02:39 15Frames vs Groups in Figma
09:24 16Class Project 02 - Wireframe
03:00 17Where To Get Free Icons For Figma
09:10 18Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons
05:16 19How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons
04:31 20Class Project 03 - Icons
03:48 21How to Use Pages in Figma
08:31 22How to Prototype in Figma
10:46 23Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma
10:53 24Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror
05:40 25Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone
03:51 26What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?
08:44 27Class Project 05 - My First Animation
02:01 28Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders
07:10 29Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma
06:58 30How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
06:39 31How To Create A Mood Board In Figma
05:33 32Class Project 06 - Moodboard
01:26 33How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma
13:54 34Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma
07:21 35Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
06:34 36How To Create A Color Palette In Figma
09:02 37How to Make Gradients in Figma
07:09 38How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma
08:01 39Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns
04:00 40Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma
01:30 41What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma
06:01 42What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?
11:30 43How to Make Character Styles in Figma
06:36 44Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma
04:28 45Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma
09:35 46How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma
02:42 47Class Project 08 - Text
05:19 48Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma
09:38 49Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma
02:48 50Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma
07:25 51What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma
03:36 52Class Project 09 - Making Stuff
03:29 53Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma
08:40 54Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?
04:15 55Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma
06:11 56Masking & Cropping Images In Figma
09:12 57Free Images & Plugins For Figma
02:31 58Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?
10:40 59Class Project 10 - Images
01:17 60What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?
10:27 61Class Project 11 - Buttons
01:15 62Auto Layout For Spacing
05:47 63How To Use Constraints In Figma
08:22 64Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma
11:54 65Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma
08:27 66Class Project 12 - Responsive Design
02:19 67Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma
05:56 68Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma
05:57 69How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma
07:37 70Class Project 13 - Effects
01:53 71How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma
05:42 72What are Components in Figma?
06:19 73Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components
07:47 74You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma
07:22 75Where Should You Keep Your Main Components In Figma
05:02 76Intro To The Forward Slash / Naming Convention In Figma
08:55 77Class Project 14 - Components
00:44 78How To Make Component Variants In Figma
06:41 79Another Way To Make Variables In Figma
06:14 80How to Make a Multi Dimensional Variant in Figma
11:13 81Class Project 15 - Variants
01:41 82How To Make A Form Using Variants In Figma
12:52 83Class Project 16 - Form
01:27 84Putting It All Together In A Desktop Example
19:44 85How To Add A Popup Overlay Modal In Figma
03:03 86How To Make & Prototype A Tool Tip In Figma
07:26 87What are Flows in Figma?
05:39 88Slide In Mobile Nav Menu Overlay In Figma
03:55 89Class Project 17 - Prototyping
01:10 90How To Pin Navigation To The Top In Figma
10:17 91How To Make A Horizontal Scrolling Swipe In Figma
06:36 92Automatic Scroll Down The Page To Anchor Point In Figma
04:50 93What are Teams vs Projects vs Files in Figma?
05:18 94How Do You Use Team Libraries In Figma
11:03 95The Difference Between Animation & Micro Interactions
02:55 96Animation With Custom Easing In Figma
25:36 97Class Project 18 - My Second Animation
01:54 98How To Make Animated Transitions In Figma
12:34 99Class Project 19 - Page Transition
01:31 100Micro Interactions Using Interactive Components In Figma
05:54 101Micro Interaction Toggle Switch In Figma
04:23 102Micro Interaction Burger Menu Turned Into A Cross In Figma
04:23 103Class Project 20 - Micro Interaction
01:35 104How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files
04:10 105How To Export Images Out Of Figma
07:40 106How To Share Your Document With Clients & Stakeholders
07:09 107Talking To Your Developer Early In The Figma Design Process
03:55 108Sharing Figma With Developers & Engineers Handoff
06:07 109What Are The Next Level Handoffs Aka Design Systems
03:18 110Class Project 21 - Finish your design
04:57 111What Next?
06:08Lesson Info
Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma
Hi, everyone. This video is all about images. We're gonna look at the various ways to import them, how to adjust them multiple images and how to kind of play around with things like exposure, kinda like basic Photoshop stuff. So we can kind of push this in the background. Some of it is a little bit unintuitive. So stick around and let me show you what to do. OK? So we've covered a little bit of images earlier. Let's go through it all, all the kind of good useful stuff to know. So bringing in images you've probably seen there is about a zillion ways. OK? So earlier on, I'm not sure how we did it but there is a place image or you can go to here and go to your place image, they're the same thing or the shortcut. That's what I use the most. OK? So let's bring in an image just one. OK? When you bring in an image OK, you can click once and it comes in at its full size, which is too big. In our case, yours might be fine you want and you might want to see it at its full size. Um I'm gonna use ...
my shortcut. That's command shift K on a Mac and that's control shift K on a PC. OK. So what I tend to do is when you bring in an image is to drag it out. So I'm gonna drag it out here. You can get it the right size. Be careful though, hold down shift, OK to get it to kind of proportionally height and width. All right, let's bring in multiple images. OK? So I'm gonna use my shortcut again, command shift K, control shift K and A PC. You know, bring in all of them. Come on guys. OK. And what you'll notice is that your little cursor will update and eventually the seven images OK? I hold shift down and just bring them in the right sizes. OK? The thing appropriate to this, all right rotating we've talked about before. But let's just reiterate if you have your selection tool selected and just hover in this magical corner, you can click and drag, hold shift, it will snap it around. You can type it in over here. You can be 180 degrees. Thank you very much now, although this isn't Photoshop, you can do some basic stuff in here. They give you enough to get by because what I wanna do is I want to, let's say that I like this image here, but I want to lighten it up. So when I select it over here under fill, that's where image ends up. I can click on it and I get rid of all the color swatches and I get image related adjustments so I can play around with the exposure. OK? So I'm gonna bring the exposure up a little bit. You can do basic stuff. OK? We're not gonna cover it all. OK? But saturation. Oh Black and white. There you go. Change the temperature if it's maybe a bit too blue, bit too yellow. OK. Have a play around with these um again, not Photoshop but some of the good basics in here to update an image. Another way to bring in an image is to have a shape already. OK. So let's say that I've got this circle here. OK? It could be a rectangle with it selected. I can say actually, I don't want you to have a fill of this primary color. I'm gonna break that link and we saw before images are fills. So I can just go, I wanna change the color of this fill from a solid not to linear or radio gradients as great as those are, I can go to image, you get this like little checkerboard thing and you say it's just like a placeholder and you can say uh choose image and we kind of go this way. It's great if you've already got shapes on your document like I do, OK. Kind of mocked up, click out delete these things. Now we're starting to move along. So there's a couple of places just to click the button. There's a shortcut. You can drag it on from your desktop. Did I cover that one? I didn't if I do this problem is it comes as a giant size. So if yours are appropriately sized, you can just drag them in from your finder window. And that last one there where we just clicked on a shape and went into the fill. OK? And said you are an image now. All right, I'll do one more randomly picking these. Um Last thing I want to do before we go is I'm gonna use uh I'm gonna get rid of this colored background and I'm gonna kind of combine the things we just learned a little bit. OK? Cos I want a background image. It might be a hero box. I'm using it for the full website. OK? So I'm gonna grab um you've got two options here. So I wanna use say this image and this is not the bad way, but I it's a way, OK? It's a kind of natural way you might do it. So I'm gonna put this on here. OK? And I'm gonna make it bigger. If you hold shift, it will do it proportionally, which is normally good. But what I wanna do is I wanna hold not down because can you see what it does? It naturally wants to be responsive so I can just drag it out to the size of this uh window. And then you think, all right, just move it to the back. Where is it? Here it is there. So I'm just going to right, click it and say move to back or use that Sweet Cher. OK? And then you start working that way. Now there's an image here at the background that's fine, but it's an object that can be moved around. OK? It's a bit of uh there's nothing wrong with it, but it's actually easier to just switch out the fill of the actual frame itself. You don't have to. But the cool thing about it is over here home page, I've got selected again, I'm going to break the link to that style because actually I want that fill to be an image you need to play with both because you'll get lots of stuff from the community that is set up this way and it's not intuitive, but it's useful. OK? So let's go to choose image and I'm going to find that one. Which one is it? That one there? Cool. So it works the same sort of way we already had our shape. OK? And it's filled it. But the cool thing about it is there's nothing in my layers. It's tidy. And even though we've applied it to this kind of like top level homepage, it's actually right at the bottom. And I'm gonna go back to where I did it before my image settings and I'm gonna say actually exposure is a good way to kind of lower it down. It's the most obvious one. What I find useful though is often get the exposure down a little bit, but it's not so much everything being down, it's mainly the highlights lowering. OK, to kind of remove some of that uh strong contrast. So you can just play around with these, decide where you want this to be gonna pull the saturation out as well. Not all of it. I just wanted to do this like background thing and you're like, I can't see the text. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do in between videos. I'm gonna grab all this and make it white uh Just so it stands out in the background. All right. That was my quick going through all image stuff in one video. All right. Let's get on to more image stuff in the next video.
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Great class, Daniel drops so much knowledge in every video and in all the in between unexpected moments that helps speed up your process!
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