Graphic Design
Graphic Design Training & Certification Course
Objectives:
Scope of Course
Graphic Design requires active participation, a willingness to learn, and a commitment to practicing design skills regularly. Creativity is encouraged, and mistakes are part of the learning process. Students are expected to meet assignment deadlines and actively engage in class discussions and critiques.
Corel Draw Syllabus
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Exercise files and challenges overview.
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Getting started and using the workspace
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Seeking additional help
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Touring the interface
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Exploring drop-down menus
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Locating the toolbar and the toolbox
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Understanding dockers
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Setting up the page
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Using rulers, grids, and guidelines
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Navigating a multi-page document.
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Master layer & page numbering.
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Starting with a template.
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Understanding file formats
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Using the Pick tool.
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Using the Shape edit flyout.
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Setting and resetting default properties
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Changing the appearance
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Exporting and sharing workspaces.
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Exploring the Crop tool flyout
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Exploring the Curve flyout
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Creating a basic shape
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Dealing with dimension lines.
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Using connector lines
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Looking at the Interactive tool flyout.
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Other interactive tools
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Understanding font types.
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Installing fonts.
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Corel Font Manager. Using WhatTheFont_!. Types of text. Creating layouts. Working with tables. Shaping commands, including combine and weld.
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Grouping and ungrouping.
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Alignment commands and alignment guides
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Copying versus duplicate and paste special.
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Challenge - Create a lighthouse logo.
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Solution - Create a lighthouse logo.
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Importing bitmaps.
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Cropping, resizing, and rotating bitmaps.
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Removing backgrounds from bitmaps.
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PowerTRACE
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Working with PhotoZoom Pro.
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Exporting web graphics
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Working with PowerClips
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Using Find and Replace
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Exploring CorelCONNECT.
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Examining scripts and macros.
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Publishing to PDF.
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Object styles.
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Discovering color palettes
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Creating a colour palette
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Challenge - Create a business card
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Solution - Create a business card.
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Discovering the print dialog.
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Working with print merge
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Challenge - Print merge
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Solution - Print merge
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Creating keyboard shortcuts and toolbars
InDesign Syllabus
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Adobe Indesign
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Introduction
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Learn Indesign in thirty Minutes
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Understanding your workspace
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Creating a Document
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Managing Pages, Text, Graphics.
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Formatting Objects, Color.
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Frames and Paths.
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Managing Objects.
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Transforming Objects.
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Character Formatting.
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Paragraph Formatting, styles, tables
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Long Documents
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Interactive Documents
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Packaging, Printing, and Exporting
Photoshop Syllabus
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Working with Smart Objects.
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Creative Transformations for Designers
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Essential Filters for Designers.
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Basic Shape Layers. Pen Tool. Fill Layers and Blend Modes. Essential Layer Effects and Styles Type Essentials
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Painting Essentials
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Working with Libraries
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Art boards.
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Exporting Files and Sharing Images.
Advanced Photoshop
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Opening Files
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Documents and Navigation.
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Customising the Photoshop Interface.
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Digital Image Essentials.
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Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size
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Layers
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Colour and Brush Essentials
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Working with Layer Masks.
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Making Selections.
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Local Pixel Editing and Retouching
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Blend Mode Essentials
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Smart Object Essentials.
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Essential Transformations
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Adjustment Layer Essentials.
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Essential Filters.
Illustrator Syllabus
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How to use exercise files
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How to send feedback
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What is Adobe Illustrator_ Installing Illustrator via Creative Cloud Touring the Illustrator interface Navigating a single document Working with Illustrator's panels Building and saving your own workspace Creating and using custom views What are Illustrator Art boards Creating multi-art board documents Exploring the Art boards panel
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Changing the size and shape of Art boards
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Layers in Illustrator Files
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Creating and editing Layers
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Targeting objects inside the layers panel
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Hiding, locking, and deleting layers
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Using the Selection and Direct Selection Tools
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Drawing basic shapes
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Drawing with the line tools
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The Pencil Tool and Brush Tool
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Modifying existing shapes and paths
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Grouping and Ungrouping objects
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Using Isolation Mode to edit grouped artwork
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Transforming Objects
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Repeating transformations
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Using Transform Each
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Cropping, resizing, and rotating bitmaps.
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Removing backgrounds from bitmaps.
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PowerTRACE
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Working with PhotoZoom Pro.
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Exporting web graphics
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Working with PowerClips
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Using Find and Replace
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Exploring CorelCONNECT.
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Examining scripts and macros.
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Publishing to PDF.
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Object styles.
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Discovering color palettes
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Creating a colour palette
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Challenge - Create a business card
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Solution - Create a business card.
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Discovering the print dialog.
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Working with print merge
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Challenge - Print merge
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Solution - Print merge
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Creating keyboard shortcuts and toolbars
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Legacy Save for Web
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Using the Asset Export panel
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Exporting image files
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Deciding which courses to watch next
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Smoothing and erasing paths
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Creating artwork with the Shape Builder tool
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Using the Shaper tool
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Mastering the Pen tool
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Challenge - Using the Pen tool
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Solution - Using the Pen tool
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Creating point and area type objects
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Using placeholder text
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Exploring the type panels
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Setting type onto a path
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The Touch-Type tool
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Adding Type kit desktop fonts to Illustrator
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Converting text into paths
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Placing linked images into Illustrator
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Working with the Links panel
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Embedding images into your Illustrator documents
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Using clipping masks
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Using the image trace panel
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Converting pixels into paths
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What are CC libraries
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Adding content to CC libraries
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Mobile tools and Illustrator
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Printing your artwork
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Packaging files for print production