Welcome back, everyone!
I thought it would be pretty cool to go over a few things with Adobe Spark.
Previously, I created a couple of videos on how to create a logo and videos in Adobe Spark.
In today's video, we will create a flyer in a few minutes for free.
With Adobe Spark, we can quickly create flyers.
You don't need a design degree or a background.
Keep in mind; creativity is a process that can be learned and implemented.
It can be imaginative, and your gut feelings bring it all together.
Do you need to create a flyer? A brochure? How about a poster or an ad?
Being a graphic designer helps to know how to layout the images, artwork, using colours and typography.
Over the years, I have seen some great designs and well some questionable ones.
Many businesses will get a
staff member to create these marketing materials,
and some have no clue how to approach this.
Microsoft Word? No, that's for office stuff, not for designing!
Let's be honest with you,
do these inspire you?
And now, the same content, but designed in a way that evokes an emotion or feeling.
The minimalistic design principle
is a great way to keep the necessary information and remove unnecessary artwork, content, and colours.
We can either log in to your Adobe Spark account or link one of your accounts to get started.
I will log into my fake account on Adobe Spark
so that you will see what I see with the free version.
After logging in, you should see your welcome screen here.
This is your home page.
Click on 'View All.'
And you can view the most popular templates
to different ideas of templates.
I am going to click on Flyer in Popular.
While Adobe Spark is loading all the different flyers,
what it does is, it creates a project under a section called My Post.
In the search field, you can expand the search by adding whatever you may be working on.
For example, maybe a business re-opening.
And it will load templates relating to those words.
Or let's say you want to do a flyer for dog services.
And you will see a different set of samples that will load.
You can scroll down to see close to 2900 examples for dog services.
Let's go ahead and pick one.
What happens next, a pop-up window will open,
click on 'Create' to grab this new template.
Here you can easily change the text,
prices, company name and add your contact information!
I will show you the text styles first,
as this will have more options available,
but it will give you a broad view of what Adobe Spark can offer.
Click on the text once,
and you should see an interface for text styles on the right-hand side.
You have the option to select your primary or secondary text.
Wherever you look, you have the opportunity to add your brand to the design.
Unless you want to pay to upgrade Adobe Spark to add your logo,
I suggest adding the logo as an image instead.
You can change the type of fonts.
You can also change the text alignment from left, centre or right justification.
or make it ALL CAPS.
You can change font sizes.
You can change letter-spacing
the space between each letter.
Line spacing in design terms, this is called leading.
The space between the sentences or adjacent lines of type.
Opacity is how much light you want to show through a text or an object.
And of course, order is
which is layers,
do you want it on top or on the bottom.
Anytime you want to change colour, image or text,
use your mouse or trackpad to select your item.
And the side
interface will adjust accordingly.
You can change the colour of the text and objects.
You can add a shape to your text.
For example, if I want to add a circle to this text,
it will create a circle for me.
Or I can change it to be a hexagon on the fly.
Or you can go backwards and have no shape.
Adding special effects to your text is a snap.
I'll be honest with you,
adding the text effects could make it harder to read,
so go easy on this one!
The cool thing with Adobe Spark is that you can a style to your text
and spin the dial to a suggestion of text with special effects, shapes, and size.
Let's click on the image now.
You have the option to scale the image smaller or bigger
or rotate the image.
Flip it horizontally or vertically.
You can either move the image freely
or pin it to the background.
By pinning to the background,
means it will be flush against the edges of your template.
You can also crop your image to the shape or resize it by taking the corner and drag inwards to be smaller, and outwards to be bigger
The next option is pretty cool because
Adobe Spark will allow you to remove the background.
Depending on the image itself,
some will be better than others.
So, in this case, the scenery behind the dog is gone.
And if you want to replace the photo with a different picture
you can use
copyright-right free images
Pixabay or Unsplash or
or use one of your own.
Within the images panel,
you can use filters, by changing the
colour modes to different blend modes and adjustments.
Like everything,
you have an undo and re-do at the top of the page.
The trash can is for deleting.
If you are in an image, clicking on the 'i'
will give you information about the picture.
Click on the picture icon will allow you to replace the image as well.
If you see the plus sign in a box,
this will enable you to duplicate an item.
You can expand or decrease the height of the image or colour background by taking the handle and dragging it up or down.
You can also resize the text by selecting the solid white circle here.
In the middle icon here
allows you to rotate the item.
I am going to delete a few things here. I will be using the trash icon to hitting DELETE on my keyboard. Either method works.
If you double click on the text,
you can change your text.
Hit Return to add a new line.
Shift + Return to confirm
or click on Done.
If you double click on icon or symbol,
you can replace one within Adobe Spark.
Do you see the Adobe Spark logo in the template?
Don't worry! That won't show up your flyer!
Like to share this with somebody?
Click on the icon beside 'Download' on the left-hand side,
or click on Share,
and scroll down to select Share (or Invite).
If you want to post this flyer on
Facebook or any other social media platform,
click on Publish.
And if you're going to print this out, click on download.
If this were for print,
I would suggest a PDF as the quality will be better than say a PNG or JPG.
And the best part is,
you created a flyer that looks better than say Microsoft Word
and it was free.
A word of advice,
remember, try to keep the design simple.
Thanks, everyone, for watching. If you have any issues, please let me know in the comments.
If you enjoy the video, like it, share it, and subscribe to the channel. And I will see you next time!