Graphic design

• Graphic design has an immensely colossal role to play in the modern competitive business environment. Businesses need the accommodations of graphic designers to engender impressive marketing materials such as brochures, business cards, websites, leaflets, stationeries, and so on. Getting into the field of graphic design can seem daunting, but it’s the easiest way to keep yourself up-to-date to the latest designs. Moreover, it provides you with plenty of opportunities. Graphic design is a technology-intensive field.

Photoshop

Photoshop is an extremely powerful program for creating prints and patterns to do the best in your designing world. Moreover, Photoshop serves countless options, tools, and settings to open up new opportunities, to create an authentic design for designers. Take your artistic style into a digital world with confidence because it is a program that compliments your artistic style.

Attributes

• Stroke smoothing
• Better brush organization
• Colour and luminance range masking
• Access Lightroom photos
• Quickly share creations and menus
• Variable fonts
• Speed-up the design process
• Bring ideas to the screen

ProofHub-Proofing tool

Designing is overloaded with creative work like discussions, drafting the framework for the design and making changes to handle. The design you make will be checked at multiple levels before it gets ready. This whole process includes countless changes and feedbacks. So, the biggest challenge for designers is proofing.

For your ease, all your tasks easily will be managed with an online proofing tool like ProofHub.  This will help you to make changes in your file instantly, add comments, highlight the flaws in the design while keeping everyone in the circle.

Attributes

• No more time wastage
• Instant results
• Your work will be visualized clearly
• Points the defects

Illustrator

2D or 3D graphics manipulation is done through adobe illustrator to increase productivity in the design workflow. Designers and digital artists use Illustrator to create many different types of digital products like icons, logos, and sketches which rolls out many exciting features.

Attributes

• Variable fonts
• Faster document creation
• Easier image cropping
• Stylist sets to texts
• Stability enhancements
• Modern user experience

Pixelmator

Every designer needs to bring out innovation from time to time. Pixelmator Pro is a tool packed with innovations that features a single-window interface and simplified editing tools with image editing qualities. This tool is perfect for building up various projects with intuitive tools for moving, resizing, and arranging layers.

Attributes

• Uses technologies
• Uses layers-based editing
• 40+ tools
• Selecting, cropping, painting, retouching, typing, measuring, shaping, navigation and 16 color correction tools.
• 50+ filters.
• Integrates with macOS
• Quick file conversion

Sketch 3

Sketch 3 has all set of nested symbols that will help create the best design and is a great tool for designers to explore. Along with the symbols, you can engender reusable, flexible design with facileness. There are a number of features and attributes that are extremely useful for designers, like:

• Artboards
• Text and shared styles
• Colour picker
• Pixel perfection

Pixlr

Pixlr is an online Flash-based image editing software tool and is easy to learn. It has a large library of effects and filters to enhance your images and adjust your images. In order to do so, you can use many tools like crop, adjust contrast or add text. The features of pixlr are endless which helps you to make effective and enthralling designs.

Attributes

• Free to use
• Versatile and light-weight
• Quick-fixer
• Features include: effects, layers, brushes, filters, adjustments, and erasing options
• Colour Replacement
• Image retouching and Object transformation
• Digital Painting and inking

• Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC
  • How to use Adobe Photoshop
  • Bitmap vs. vector
  • Resolution and quality issues
  • Viewing/opening documents
  • Toolbar
  • Most commonly used palettes

  Rulers, guides and grids Layers

  • Background v layer, creating layers
  • Changing background
  • Preserving data
  • Re-arranging
  • Hiding, locking/unlocking
  • Naming, deleting
  • Layer opacity

  Layers Styles

  • Shadow effect
  • Glow effect
  • Bevel & Emboss effect
  • Color Overlay
  • Gradient Overlay
  • Pattern Overlay
  • Stroke

  Transformation

  • Flipping, scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective
  • Control options
  • Free transform, straighten or tilt

  Working with Text

  • Warp Text
  • Text with underline and Strikethrough
  • Text with mask

  Image

  • Image sizes (handout)
  • Image size vs. canvas size
  • Cropping (and resizing), plus manual
  • Image modes
  • Basic retouching with clone, heal, patch tools

  Color adjustment

  • Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
  • Brightness/contrast: when to use levels (+ auto), shadow/highlight

  ‘Quality’ adjustment

  • Dust and scratches, reduce noise
  • Blur, Gaussian blur
  • Sharpen/unsharpened, and size issues

  Selections

  • Various tools, tool options
  • Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth, expand, similar
  • Pen tool specifics
  • Paths to selections
  • Selection with Mask

  Outputting for the Web

  • Optimizing for Web colors
  • Resizing and compressing an image for quick rendering

  Saving

  • Save options, file formats for InDesign, web etc.
  • Paths to Illustrator
  • Keyboard shortcuts

  Project achievements:

  • House ad/poster
  • Duotone photograph
  • Repaired photograph

• What is Illustrator?
  • Introduction
    Understanding vector graphics
  • Setting preferences
  • Exploring the panels
  • Illustrator interface
  • Creating and saving workspaces

  Working with Documents

  • Creating files for print & Web
  • Managing multiple documents & Navigation
  • Using rulers, guides, and grids
  • Changing units of measurement
  • Locking and hiding artwork
  • Creating and using artboards
  • Illustrator Artboards

  Selecting and Transforming Objects

  • Using the Direct Selection and Group Selection tools
  • Using the Magic Wand & Lasso tool
  • Grouping objects
  • Using isolation mode
  • Resizing your artwork
  • Rotating objects

  Distorting and transforming objects

  • Reflecting and skewing objects
  • Aligning and distributing objects

  Working with Color

  • RGB vs. CMYK

  Working with Fills and Strokes

  • Understanding fills and strokes
  • Working with fills & strokes
  • Creating and editing gradients
  • Applying gradients to strokes
  • Applying and editing pattern fills

  Working with Paths

  • Understanding paths
  • Understanding anchor points
  • Using the Scissors tool and the Knife tool

  Creating Shapes

  • Working with the Shape Builder tool
  • Working with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools
  • Working with the Paintbrush and Pencil tools
  • Smoothing and erasing paths

  Pen Tool

  • Exploring the Pen tool
  • Drawing straight lines
  • Drawing simple curves
  • Converting corners and curves
  • Tracing artwork with the Pen tool

  Using Type in Illustrator

  • Adjusting your type settings
  • Basic text editing
  • Using the type panels
  • Creating text on a path
  • Converting text into paths
  • Saving time with keyboard shortcuts

  Working with Layers

  • Exploring the Layers panel
  • Creating and editing layers
  • Targeting objects in the Layers panel
  • Working with sublayers
  • Hiding, locking, and deleting layers
  • Using the Layers panel menu

  Drawing in Perspective

  • Defining a perspective grid
  • Drawing artwork in perspective

  Printing, Saving, and Exporting

  • Saving & Printing your artwork
    • Saving for the web

• Understanding the Interface
  • Timeline, Layer Controls, Edit Bar, Panels

  Animation Basics

  • Understanding Keyframes and Frames
  • Frame-by-Frame Animation with Keyframes
  • What Is the Frame Rate?
  • Recommended Frame Rates
  • Copying, Reversing, Inserting and Deleting Frames
  • Using Onion Skinning
  • Testing Movies

  Motion Tweening and Timeline Effects

  • Classic Tween
  • Shape Tweening vs. Motion Tweening
  • Understanding Basic Motion Tweening
  • Using Tweening Effects Editing Multiple Frames
  • Using a Motion Guide
  • Animating Text
  • Animating with the Blur Filter
  • Animating with the Drop Shadow Filter
  • Basic use of Bone Tool

  Working with Bitmaps

  • Understanding the Benefits of Bitmaps
  • Compression in Flash
  • Importing and Compressing Bitmaps
  • Importing Bitmap Sequences
  • Converting Bitmaps to Vectors

  Masking

  • Using Basic Masking
  • Using Animated Masks {motion and shape}

  Buttons

  • Creating Rollover  & Invisible Buttons
  • Duplicating and Aligning

  Movie Clip

  • What Is a Movie Clip?
  • Creating a Movie Clip
  • Animated Graphic Symbols vs. Movie Clip Symbols
  • Creating an Animated Rollover Button with movie clips
  • Putting an Animated Rollover Button into Action

  Importing Sounds

  • Creating Background Sound with Sound Effects
  • Controlling Animation and Sound with Stop/Play Buttons

  Publishing and Exporting

  • Creating Projectors
  • To Publish or to Export?
  • Exporting Image Files
  • More About the Publish Settings
  • Flash, HTML, GIF, JPEG, and PNG Settings

  Final Project

  • Create a MOVIE to Audience

• Introduction to COREL DRAW
  • Welcome screen + workspace tour + overview
  • Vector vs. bitmap
  • Customizing the page layout
  • Working with multiple pages
  • Using snap to + guidelines

  Drawing shapes

  • Rectangle tool – ellipse tool – ctrl +shift
  • The pick tool + zooming
  • Polygons, stars, spirals + graph paper
  • The perfect shapes collection
  • Selecting objects
  • Deleting objects
  • Duplicating objects + step + repeat
  • Cut, copy, paste
  • Undo, redo, repeat
  • Arranging objects
  • Grouping + un-grouping

  Creating custom shapes

  • Curve tools
  • Freehand tool
  • Bezier tool
  • Curves + nodes
  • Adding, deleting nodes
  • Bending + straightening lines

  Colors + Fills

  • Introducing color palettes
  • Cmyk, rgb and pantones

  Filling objects

  • Using the interactive fill tool
  • Solid fills
  • Linear, radial, conical + square fills
  • Two color patter fills
  • Full color pattern fills
  • Bitmap pattern fills
  • Texture fills
  • No fill

  Outlines

  • Outlines and advanced outline options
  • Converting outlines to objects
  • Using the eye dropper and paint bucket tool

  Working with artistic text

  • Creating artistic text with the text tool
  • Character formatting + fonts
  • Spelling + quick correct
  • Fitting text to path
  • Inserting symbol characters
  • Converting text to curves

  Working with paragraph text

  • Creating paragraph text with the text tool
  • Creating columns
  • Additional paragraph features

  Shaping objects

  • Using commands: Trim, break-apart, weld, simplify

  Working with bitmaps

  • Importing bitmaps
  • Cropping bitmaps
  • Using the image adjustment lab
  • Applying effects to bitmaps
  • Using photo-paint + the cut-out lab
  • Using the magic wand mask tool
  • Using the clone tool
  • Resolution
  • Re-sampling bitmaps
  • Converting vector objects to bitmaps
  • Exporting to jpeg + png formats

  Using the interactive tools

  • The interactive blend tool
  • The interactive contour tool
  • The interactive distortion tool
  • The interactive drop shadow tool
  • The extrude tool
  • The interactive transparency tool

  Final Assessment

  • Designing a business card
  • Designing a flyer
  • Designing an invitation
  • Designing a logo
  • Publishing to pdf for print + web