Red Hat Graphics Course

Red Hat are going to run a 1.5 day course on open source graphic design with InkScape. Open source graphic design: Inkscape, Scribus & Gimp Instructor:  Andy Fitzsimon of Red Hat 1/2 day   Introduction;  August 8;    $200  (or $50 for student / not-for-profit)

This hands-on class will introduce participants to the fundamentals of graphic design and illustration using Inkscape, which is a powerful Open Source vector editing program comparable to Adobe Illustrator, freehand and Corel Draw. Participants will create photo realistic vector renderings and learn about how to best manage design considerations for icons and logos.

1 day Master class; August 9; $700 (or $200 for student / not-for-profit)

In this master class, participants will explore the depths of Open Source graphic design.  In particular they will learn:

* How to implement powerful graphic workflow solutions using XML and SVG.

* Deal with designing for translations and other dynamic data.

* Creating colour managed PDF’s with spot and registration colours.

* Web optimisations including compression and advanced stylesheet techniques.

About the lecturer

Red Hat’s Andrew Fitzsimon is an Inkscape developer, participant in Scribus development and most notably a passionate open source graphics user.

Following A background in animation, Andrew is currently involved in technical Illustration, desktop, web, and publishing design for print.

Speaking history:

Andrew has presented technical talks about free graphics software at Australia’s linux.conf.au for the past two years as well as the Libre Graphics Meeting held in Montreal, Canada and Lyon, France the year before that.

Location.  The courses will be run in Melbourne.

For more information or to register, please contact Paul Took <ptook@redhat.com>