It's time to prep! Along with your essential ingredients,
think about how these aspects will impact your design.
It's time to prep! Along with your essential ingredients,
think about how these aspects will impact your design.
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think about how these aspects will impact your design.
Shadowing
Shadowing
Adding shadows to an object can add qualities like depth, dimension, perspective, realism, and visual interest to designs.
This can simultaneously draw viewers into a design and make it seem to pop off the page or screen.
Add Shadows in Google Slides or Drawings
Add Shadows in Canva
Add Shadows in Adobe Express
Ordering Layers
Ordering Layers
Layers are the different levels at which one can place an object. Whatever object you last added will be on the topmost layer.
Reorder or re-position to change how items are layered.
Order Layers in Google Slides or Drawings
Order Layers in Canva
Order Layers in Adobe Express
Cropping
Cropping
Remove or adjust the outside edges of an image to improve framing or composition. In Google Slides or Google Drawings,
you can also crop images into shapes.
Cropping in Google Slides or Drawings
Cropping in Canva
Cropping in Adobe Express
Grouping
Grouping
Grouping lets you rotate, flip, move, or resize multiple shapes or objects as though they're a single item.
You can group shapes, pictures, or other objects.
Grouping in Google Slides or Drawings
Grouping in Canva
Cropping in Adobe Express
The CRAP process, otherwise known as Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity is strongly used throughout the design world.
Contrast
Contrast
Creating contrast in objects through size or color can draw your attention.
Repetition
Repetition
By utilizing repeating patterns or objects, you increase the importance and draw more attention to it. This can also be done through the use of color: using the same colors, or lighter or darker shades and tints of colors.
Alignment
Alignment
The position of objects can draw your attention to certain aspects. Is it left aligned or centered? Is it vertically or horizontally aligned?
Proximity
Proximity
How you place objects to show their relationship can also show importance. A textbox placed next to an image shows that the two objects go together or several images may be grouped in a corner together.
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