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VISUAL DOCUMENTATION

PRESENTATION

#FABRICADEMY2021 TUTORIALS

23-09-2021 | CLAUDIA SIMONELLI | 15:00 CEST

Fabricademy | textile & technology academy 2021

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AGENDA� OF TODAY

  • CLASS ARCHIVE
  • GREAT DOCUMENTATIONS
  • ONLINE TOOLS OVERVIEW
  • PHOTO/VIDEO PRODUCTION
  • MEDIA EDITING SOFTWARE
  • DEMO OPEN SOURCE / SOFTWARE
  • RESOURCES

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STUDENTS DOCUMENTATIONS

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Different documentations pages

(CC) Fabricademy 2017-21 websites

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What makes a great documentation

Custom look

aesthetics

Technical

information

Clear

structure

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Week 01 - Your Assignment

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fabricademy.fabcloud.io/gitlab-documentation-tutorial/

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Collect your inspirations

(CC) Betiana Pavon, Fabricademy 2018

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Collect your inspirations

Collages - moodboards

(CC) Stephanie Santos, Fabricademy 2018

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ONLINE RESOURCES

MEDIA�EDITING

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Pinterest

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Pinterest - Fabricademy

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Unsplash - photos for everyone

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Pexels - free photo/video footage

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Color Palette Tools

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PhotoCollage

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Canva

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GIFS - Giphy / ezgif.com

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PHOTO EDITING

MEDIA�EDITING

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Raster vs Vectors

  • Resolution / Bitmap images vs mathematically generated points and paths

(SVG / PDF) (TIF,...)

(SVG / PDF) (TIF,...)

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Raster vs Vectors

PHOTO EDITING / (.JPG) (.PNG) (.TIFF) 2D (GRAPHIC) DESIGN / (.SVG) (.EPS) (.PDF)

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Laser cutting

Workflow

  • 2D Design software
  • Vector Lines
  • Closed loops
  • RGB colors

0,001mm

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Set up - Laser cutting jobs

  • CUT: (vector file) closed loop, RGB Color, High Power - Low Speed
  • ENGRAVE: (vector file) closed loop, RGB Color, Low Power - High Speed
  • [RASTER: (bitmap file) closed loop, RGB Color, High Power - High Speed]
  • RGB: 255, 0, 0
  • RGB: 0, 255, 0
  • RGB: 0, 0, 255
  • RGB: 0, 0, 0

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Resize your pictures - Workflow

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Scale / Resize your pictures - Workflow

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Gimp - Batch resize images plugin

  • Scale down / Resize or Compress your pictures all at once!

With BIMP you can apply a set of manipulations to an entire group of images

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MEDIA PRODUCTION

PHOTOS/VIDEOS

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(CC) Loes Bogers, Fabricademy 2019

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Taking great pictures/videos�for your documentation

REQUIREMENTS

  • Great set-up
  • Great light source
  • Great background

AVOID

  • Pixelated pictures
  • Blurry pictures
  • Meaningless pictures
  • Vertical videos/square videos

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(CC) Loes Bogers, Fabricademy 2019

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DIY Photo�-Video stand

The stand can be laser cut from a 50x30 cm sheet of 4 mm MDF.�You can download these cut files below.

Download files here

(CC) Loes Bogers, Fabricademy 2019

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DIY Lightbox

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Lightbox - Instructables

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DIY Lightbox - Tutorial

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Photo Sweep Stand - Thingiverse

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Creative Common License

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Creative Common License

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Photoshoot - Resources - How to shoot portraits

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Photoshoot - Resources - How to crop portraits

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VIDEO PRODUCTION

MEDIA�EDITING

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LightWorks / Adobe Premiere - Adobe Rush

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Video Editing - Workflow

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Taking Videos for your

documentation

REQUIREMENTS

  • Horizontal format is preferable
  • 16:9 ratio is generally used
  • HD Video - 720p minimum resolution (1080x720p is considered a good output)
  • Embed your videos from your vimeo/youtube account in your documentation

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GIT - How to embed your video in your documentation

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HandBrake - Encode your video for different platform

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Free Stock Photo Footage

Resources

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Resources

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Free Stock Video Footage

Resources

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Free Music Libraries

Resources

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  • class.textile-academy.org
  • gitlab.fabcloud.org/fabricademy/handbook

communications@textile-academy.org

References