Course Details

Graphic Design course overview

This course explains how to create designs for business card, logo, website and newsletter using software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign and Adobe Illustrator. After completing our graphic design courses, you would be able to create graphic design elements yourself.

The complete course is hands-on based. Few practical graphic design projects at the end of the course will ensure that you go through graphic design process.

This short graphic design training is hands-on, instructor-led and classroom based. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course or even on the weekends.

Who is Graphic Design training for?

This course is for you if you are interested in learning how to create graphics for print and graphics for web using industry standard tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator. This course is designed for complete beginners of graphic design. No previous experience of Photoshop, Illustrator or Indesign is required.

Prerequisites for Graphic Design course

• You should be able to user computer and internet

Graphic Design Course Contents

PART 1. Idea Development in Design

Design Concepts & Idea development

• Colour
• Fonts
• Composition
• Layouts:
• Samples of different layout
• Branding
• Idea Development
• Brainstorming

Introduction

• Introduction to Photoshop and Adobe Creative suite
• Different file formats (PSD, JPG, TIFF, etc)
• Different colour modes (RGB and CMYK)
• Resolution explained (What is DPI?)
• Pixels and Vector files explained.

PART 2. Adobe Photoshop

• The Photoshop Workspace
• Explanation of the Photoshop Tool Box
• The menus
• Palettes
• Tools

Create a new image

• Open existing image
• Save design for website

Edit Menu in Photoshop

• Fill colour
• Apply stroke

Image menu in Photoshop

• Image adjustment
• Image crop
• Image canvas

Photoshop Layer Menu

• Introduction to layers
• New layer
• Blending options
• Shadows
• Gradient

Photoshop Select Menu

Select images

• Deselect images
• Inverse selection
• Transform images
• Apply Feathers
• Modify images

Filters in Photoshop

• What are filters?
• Apply different filters
• Download filters

Photoshop View Menu

• Zoom in and out
• Grid
• Ruler
• Slices for website

PART 3. Adobe Illustrator

Basic Concepts

• What are vector graphics?
• Anatomy of a vector illustration: objects, paths, line segments and anchor points
• Different formats explained (AI, EPS, etc)
• Illustrator’s Main Features

The main illustrator menus, tools and palettes explained

• Pencil tool
• Pen tool and settings
• Draw with an anchor point
• Stroke and fill
• Gradients
• Layers palettes

PART 4. Adobe Indesign

Basic Concepts

• Indesign Basics
• How to create a new document in Indesign
• Concepts of Layers in Indesign
• Creating frames and selecting its contents
• Indesign interface

Tools

• Palettes
• Menus
• Zooming and scrolling
• Navigator palette
• Control palette
• Changing view and creating custom workspaces
• Setup an Indesign Page

Page Layout

• Use of Rulers guides in page layout
• Preferences
• Printer and margin setup
• Guidelines
• How to create grid lines
• Master page
• Using the page palette
• Setup multi-page documents

How to handle open type fonts

• Optical kerning
• Paragraph level formatting

Import graphics

• Fitting options
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Managing links to images

The difference between Process and Spot colours

• Pantones colours
• What are colour swatches
• How to load swatches
• Apply a stroke colour
• Use a fill option
• Create tints
• Effects and Transparency

Find/ replace text

• Spell Checker in Indesign
• Export and Print Indesign documents

Export and Print options

• Printing Process colour
• Performing a pre-flight check
• Packaging files for handoff
• Export an indesign file as a PDF