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Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
Import images.
Transform images.
Bring in content from other applications.
Mask content.
Add text.
Format text.
This lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. Please log in to your account on peachpit.com to download the lesson files for this chapter, or go to the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of this book and follow the instructions under “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition.”
Your Account page is also where you’ll find any updates to the chapters or to the lesson files. Look on the Lesson & Update Files tab to access the most current content.
Starting the lesson
In this lesson, you’ll bring raster images into and add text to your app design.
To start, you’ll open a final lesson file to get an idea for what you will create in this lesson.
Start Adobe XD CC, if it’s not already open.
NoteIf you have not already downloaded the project files for this lesson to your computer from your Account page, make sure to do so now. See the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of the book.
On macOS, choose File > Open or, if the Start screen is showing with no files open, click the Open button in the Start screen. On Windows, click the menu icon (
) in the upper-left corner of the application window and choose Open, or, if the Start screen is showing with no files open, click the Open button in the Start screen. Open the file named L4_end.xd, which is in the Lessons > Lesson04 folder that you copied onto your hard disk.If you see a message at the bottom of the application window about missing fonts, you can click the X on the right side of the message to close it.
Press Command+0 (macOS) or Ctrl+0 (Windows) to see all of the design content.
This file is simply meant to show what you will create by the end of the lesson.