Short Term Diploma Course in Graphic Design

Module 1: Introduction to Photoshop

• Raster And Vector
• Set Image Size, Unit, Resolution & Color Mode
• Color Profile
• Photoshop Overview

Module 2: Selection

• Make Selection With Tools
• Rectangular Marquee
• Elliptical Marquee
• Single Row
• Single Column
• Lasso
• Polygonal Lasso
• Magnetic Lasso
• Quick Selection
• Magic Wand

Module 3: Crop & Select Color

• Crop Tool
• Perspective Crop
• Slice
• Slice Selection
• Eyedropper
• Color Sampler

Module 4: Image Editing Tools & Color Correction

• Spot Healing
• Healing
• Patch
• Content-Aware Move
• Red Eye
• Adjustments
• Brightness/Contrast
• Levels
• Curves
• Exposure
• Vibrance
• Hue/Saturation
• Color Balance
• Black & White
• Photo Filter
• Channel Mixer
• Color Lookup

Module 5: Brush Tools

• Brush
• Create Brush
• Upload Brush
• Use Brush Setting
• Pencil
• Color Replacement
• Mixer Brush
• Clone Stamp
• Pattern Stamp
• Eraser
• Background Eraser
• Magic Eraser
• Blur
• Sharpen
• Smudge
• Dodge
• Burn
• Sponge

Module 6: Color

• Fill Color In Selection
• Pattern
• Gradient
• Paint
• Bucket

Module 7: Create Path

• Use Pen
• Freeform Pen Tool
• Add Anchor Point
• Convert Point

Module 8: Text

• Use Horizontal & Vertical Type
• Use Horizontal & Vertical Type Mask
• Character & Paragraph Palette
• Font Size
• Font Family
• Font Style
• Leading
• Kerning
• Tracking
• Horizontal & Vertical Scale
• Baseline Shift
• Paragraph Align
• Left & Right Indent
• Before & After Paragraph Space
• Module 9: Create Shape
• Rectangle
• Rounded Rectangle
• Ellipse
• Polygon
• Line
• Custom Shape Create And  Add Shape

Module 10: Work Mask

• Clipping Mask
• Layer Mask
• Type Mask
• Vector Mask
• Quick Mask

Module 11: Layer Style

• Bevel & Emboss
• Stroke
• Inner Shadow
• Inner Glow
• Satin
• Color Overlay
• Gradient Overlay
• Pattern Overlay
• Outer Glow
• Drop Shadow

Module 12: Practice Work

• Create Banner
• Poster
• Mobile App UI
• Website UI (Responsive)
• Social Media Post

Module 13: Filter

• Filter Gallery
• Camera Raw
• Liquify
• Oil Paint
• Vanishing Point
• Blur
• Distort
• Noise
• Pixelate
• Render
• Sharpen
• Stylize

Module 14: 3D

• Create 3D Shape
• 3D Text
• 3D Custom Shape
• Apply Texture
• Use 3D Material Eyedropper 
• Use 3D Material Drop

Module 15: Use Adv. Option

• Action
• Animation
• Create GIF File

Module 16: Export File In

• .Psd
• .Jpg
• .Png
• .Gif
• .Pdf
• .Pdf

Import and Manage Photos

• Store your photographs
• Import Images
• Organizing your photos
• Finding photos

Global Adjustments

• Using the Develop module
• Syncing changes to multiple photos

Local and Creative Adjustments

• Using the Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, Adjustment Brush  tool
• Removing distractions with the Spot Removal tool
• Adding creative color effects
• Saving metadata to files

Roundtrip Workflow

• Setting up Lightroom for smooth integration
• Sending raw,  JPEG or TIFF  file from Lightroom

Combining Photos

• Combining photos for texture and collage effects
• Combining photos into the perfect group click
• Making HDR & images
• Making

Selecting and Masking

• Combining photos for texture and collage effects
• Combining photos into the perfect group shot
• Making HDR images
• Making panoramas

Retouching

• Removing unwanted content in Photoshop
• Moving content in Photoshop
• Smoothing skin realistically in Photoshop
• Using Photoshop’s Liquify filter

Special Effects

• Artistic portrait treatments
• Adding creative blur effects
• Creating a social media Images (post)

Exporting and Showing Off Your Work

• Using identity plate
• Create a watermark
• Exporting and sharing using publish services
• Creating prints File
• Creating Books, slideshows, and web galleries

GETTING TO KNOW THE WORK AREA

• Introducing Adobe Illustrator
• Opening a file
• Exploring the workspace
• Getting to know the Tools
• Using Control panel
• Saving your workspace
• Change the artwork
• Using the Artboards panel

SELECTING ARTWORK

• Selecting objects
• Using the Selection, Direct Selection  tool
• Creating selections with a marquee
• Hiding and locking objects
• Selecting similar objects
• Selecting in Outline mode
• Aligning objects
• Aligning objects to each other
• Aligning to a key object
• Aligning anchor points
• Distributing objects
• Aligning to the artboard
• Working with groups
• Grouping items
• Editing a group in Isolation mode
• Creating a nested group
• Exploring object arrangement
• Arranging objects
• Selecting objects behind
• USING SHAPES TO CREATE ARTWORK
• Creating a new document
• Working with basic shapes
• Creating and editing rectangles, ellipse, circle, polygon
• Rounding corners
• Changing stroke width and alignment
• Drawing lines, star
• Creating a
• Working with the Shaper tool
• Combining shapes
• Using the Draw Inside mode
• Using Image Trace

EDITING AND COMBINING SHAPES AND PATHS

• Starting the lesson
• Editing paths and shapes
• Cutting with the Scissors tool
• Joining paths
• Cutting with the Knife tool
• Using the Eraser tool
• Combining shapes
• Shape Builder tool
• Working with Pathfinder panel
• Creating a compound path
• Using the Width tool
• Outlining strokes
• Finishing up the illustration
• Starting the lesson
• Working with artboards
• Adding artboards
• Editing artboards
• Renaming artboards
• Reordering artboards
• Working with rulers and guides
• Creating guides
• Editing the ruler origin
• Transforming content
• Positioning artwork using the Transform panel
• Positioning artwork using Smart Guides
• Scaling objects
• Reflecting objects
• Rotating objects
• Distorting objects with effects
• Shearing objects
• Transforming with the Free Transform tool
• Creating a PDF

CREATING AN ILLUSTRATION

• Starting the lesson
• An intro to drawing with the Pen tool
• Selecting paths
• Drawing straight lines with the Pen tool
• Introducing curved paths
• Drawing a curve with the Pen tool
• Drawing a series of curves with the Pen tool
• Converting smooth points to corner points
• Combining curves and straight lines
• Creating artwork with the Pen tool
• Drawing a coffee cup
• Drawing with the Curvature tool
• Editing curves
• Reflecting the spoon shape
• Rounding corner points
• Editing paths and points
• Deleting and adding anchor points
• Converting between smooth points and corner points
• Anchor Point tool
• Create Dashed line
• Adding arrowheads to a path
• Working with the Pencil tool
• Drawing freeform paths with the Pencil tool
• Drawing straight segments with the Pencil tool
• Joining with the Join tool

USING COLOR TO ENHANCE SIGNAGE

• Starting the lesson
• Exploring color modes
• Working with color
• Applying an existing color
• Creating a custom color using the Color panel
• Saving a color as a swatch
• Creating a copy of a swatch
• Editing a swatch
• Creating and editing a global swatch
• Using the Color Picker to create color
• Using Illustrator swatch libraries
• Adding a spot color
• Creating and saving a tint of a color
• Converting colors
• Copying appearance attributes
• Creating a color group
• Creative inspiration with the Color Guide panel
• Editing a color group in the Edit Colors dialog box
• Editing colors in artwork
• Assigning colors to your artwork
• Working with Live Paint
• Creating a Live Paint group
• Painting with the Live Paint Bucket tool
• Modifying a Live Paint group

ADDING TYPE TO A POSTER

• Starting the lesson
• Adding type to the poster
• Adding text at a point
• Adding area type
• Working with Auto Sizing
• Converting between area and point type
• Importing a plain-text file
• Threading text
• Formatting type
• Changing font family and font style
• Fixing missing fonts
• Changing font size
• Changing font color
• Changing additional character formatting
• Working with Glyphs
• Changing paragraph formatting
• Modifying text with the Touch Type tool
• Resizing and reshaping type objects
• Creating columns of text
• Creating and applying text styles
• Creating and applying a paragraph style
• Editing a paragraph style
• Creating and applying a character style
• Editing a character style
• Sampling text formatting
• Wrapping text
• Reshaping text with a preset envelope warp
• Editing the envelope warp
• Working with type on a path
• Creating type on a path
• Creating type on a closed path
• Creating text outlines

ORGANIZING YOUR ARTWORK WITH LAYERS

• Starting the lesson
• Understanding layers
• Creating layers and sublayers
• Creating new layers
• Creating sublayers
• Editing layers and objects
• Locating layers
• Moving content between layers
• Viewing layers
• Reordering layers
• Collecting into a new layer
• Duplicating layer content
• Pasting layers
• Changing layer order
• Applying appearance attributes to layers
• Creating a clipping mask

GRADIENTS, BLENDS, AND PATTERNS

• Starting the lesson
• Working with gradients
• Applying a linear gradient to a fill
• Editing/Saving a gradient
• Adjusting a linear gradient fill
• Applying a linear gradient to a stroke
• Editing a gradient on a stroke
• Applying a radial gradient to artwork
• Editing the colors in the radial gradient
• Adjusting the radial gradient
• Applying gradients to multiple objects
• Adding transparency to gradients
• Working with blended objects
• Creating a blend with specified steps
• Modifying a blend
• Creating and editing a smooth color blend
• Painting with patterns
• Applying an existing pattern
• Creating your own pattern
• Applying your pattern
• Editing your pattern

USING BRUSHES TO CREATE A POSTER

• Starting the lesson
• Working with brushes
• Using Calligraphic brushes
• Applying a Calligraphic brush to artwork
• Drawing with the Paintbrush tool
• Editing paths with the Paintbrush tool
• Editing a brush
• Removing a brush stroke
• Using Art brushes
• Applying an existing Art brush
• Creating an Art brush
• Editing an Art brush
• Using Bristle brushes
• Changing Bristle brush options
• Painting with a Bristle brush
• Using Pattern brushes .
• Creating a Pattern brush
• Applying a Pattern brush
• Editing the Pattern brush
• Working with the Blob Brush tool
• Drawing with the Blob Brush tool
• Merging paths with the Blob Brush tool
• Editing with the Eraser tool

EXPLORING CREATIVE USES OF EFFECTS AND GRAPHIC STYLES

• Starting the lesson
• Using the Appearance panel
• Editing appearance attributes
• Stroke and fill to artwork
• Stroke and fill to text
• Reordering appearance attributes
• Applying an effect
• Editing an effect
• Styling text with a Warp effect
• Editing text with a Warp effect
• Offset Path effect
• Photoshop Effect
• Working with 3D effects
• Using graphic styles
• Graphic style
• Creating and applying a graphic style
• Graphic style to a layer
• Scaling strokes and effects

CREATING ARTWORK FOR A T-SHIRT

• Working with symbols
• Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
• Editing a symbol
• Working with dynamic symbols
• Creating, Duplicating,Replacing symbol
• Breaking a link to a symbol
• Working with Creative Cloud Libraries
• Adding assets to CC Libraries
• Using Library assets
• Updating a Library asset
• Working with the perspective grid
• Using a preset grid
• Adjusting the perspective grid
• Drawing artwork in perspective
• Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
• Moving planes and objects together
• Drawing artwork with no active grid
• Adding and editing text in perspective
• Moving objects in a perpendicular direction
• Moving a plane to match an object
• Bringing content into perspective
• Editing symbols in perspective
• Releasing objects with perspective
• Finishing up

USING ILLUSTRATOR CC WITH OTHER ADOBE APPLICATIONS

• Starting the lesson
• Combining artwork
• Placing image files
• Placing an image
• Scaling a placed image
• Placing a Photoshop image with Show Import Options
• Placing multiple images
• Applying color edits to an image
• Masking images
• Applying a simple mask to an image
• Editing a clipping path
• Masking an object with text
• Creating an opacity mask
• Editing an opacity mask
• Sampling colors in placed images
• Working with image links
• Finding link information
• Embedding and unembedding images
• Replacing a linked image
• Packaging a file

EXPORTING ASSETS

• Starting the lesson
• Creating Pixel-Perfect Drawings
• Aligning new artwork to the pixel grid
• Aligning existing artwork to the pixel grid
• Exporting artboards and assets
• Exporting artboards
• Exporting individual assets

Introducation

• What is CorelDRAW?

Getting Started

• Exploring the CorelDRAW Screen
• Getting Assistance
• File Management
• Setting Up the Page

Moving Around And Viewing Drawings

• Moving Around the Current Page
• Viewing Modes
• Inserting and Deleting Pages
• Changing Pages

Drawing And Shaping Objects

• Drawing and Shaping Tools
• Using the Freehand Tool
• Drawing Lines and Polylines
• Drawing Freehand Polygons
• Drawing Shapes and Polygons
• Reshaping Lines and Polylines
• Drawing Curves
• Reshaping Curves
• Drawing Rectangles
• Drawing Circles

Arranging Objects

• Arranging Objects
• Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
• Using Guidelines
• Using Dynamic Guides
• Using Snap To
• Aligning Objects

Working With Text

• Text
• Choosing Paragraph Options
• Setting Indents Using the Ruler
• Importing Text
• Using the Spell Checker

Outlining & Filling Objects

• The Outline Tool
• Choosing Outline Thicknessesv
• Choosing Outline Colors
• Using Fill ToolThe Text Tool
• Creating Artistic Text
• Editing Text
• Formatting Paragraphs
• Setting Text Options
• Creating Paragraph 
• Copying Attributes
• Setting Outline and Fill Defaults

Using Symbols And Clipart

• Inserting Text Symbols
• Adding Clipart
• Modifying Clipart
• Using the Scrapbook to Search for Clipart

Transforming Objects

• Mirroring Objects
• Rotating and Skewing Objects
• Using Transform Docker

Special Effects

• Fitting Text to a Path
• Drawing With the Artistic Media Tool
• Shaping an Object with an Envelope
• Extruding an Object
• Blending Two Objects
• Using the Lens Effect
• Adding Perspectives
• Using PowerClips
• Applying Contours
• Applying Drop Shadows

Exporting Drawings

• Exporting to Graphic Formats
• Copy and Pasting Into Other Applications

Printing

• Print Options
• Print Previewing

Method of Assessment:

• At the end of the CorlDraw software will also take a project. Like: logo, banner, brochures, business cards, Magazines, Prospects etc.

• Pre-press
  Artwork Check
  Artwork Redraw

• Printing
  Offset
  Digital
  Direct Print
  Screen Print
  Letterpress
  Variable Data

• Post-Press
  Foiling
  Gloss/Matt Varnish
  Embossing
  Edge foiling & Painting
  Spot UV
  Round Corners
  Diecutting
  serial Numbering
  scoring
  HoleGrilling
  Perforation
  Lamination
  E-flute Lamination

• Abstract Objects
  point
  line
  surface
  volume
  dimensions
  format

• Abstract Structures
  Formal Structures
  informal Structures
  Gradaintion
  Radiation
  Visual Distribution

• Concrete Objects
  Form
  Size
  Color

• Concrete Structures
  Visible Structures
  Active Structures
  Texture