Requirements

• No prior Graphic Experience is required
• You can use either Windows or macOS for Graphic Designing
• Have 20GB of free space on your hard drive and 16 GB of RAM
• Access to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

Course Content

Course Introduction (FREE SESSION)

• What is Graphic Design?
• Usage of Graphic Design Tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• What is UI/UX?
• What is the difference Between Graphic Design and UI/UX?
• Designing Principles
• Basics of Design Theory
• Market Opportunities for Graphic Design

Setup Environment

• Install Photoshop for Windows and Mac
• Install Illustrator for Windows and Mac
• Install InDesign for Windows and Mac
• Overview of Editors

Designing Fundamentals

• Design Principles
• Colors Concept
• Typography

Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop Workspace Overview

• Tools
• Layers and Channels
• The Info Panel and The Status Bar
• The Navigator Panel
• Zooming and panning
• Libraries, History, and Properties
• File formats

Filters

Retouching

Color correction and layers

Text Formatting

Tracing raster images

Pen tool

Layer masking and clipping

Blending options

Workshops

• Design a Flyer
• Design a Poster
• Social Media Posts (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)
• Image corrections
• Photo Editing
• Logo Designing
• Gif

Project # 1 Flyer/Poster/Posts

Project # 2 Photo Editing/Logo Design

Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator Quick Tour

• Introducing Adobe Illustrator
• Opening/Creating Document
• Exploring the workspace
• Zoom tool and Scrolling through a document
• Tools and Control panel
• Resetting and saving your workspace
• Navigating artboards and Using the Artboards panel
• Arranging multiple documents

Tools Overview

• Drawing a shape and corners of a shape
• Color and Strokes
• Layers and Properties
• Magic Wand tool
• Pencil, Pen, Selection, and Direct Selection Tool
• Shaper and Eyedropper Tool
• Image Trace
• Gradients
• Type, Text Formatting, and Shape Conversion
• Aligning artwork with artboard and distributing objects
• Grouping items
• Isolation mode
• Hiding and locking objects
• Brushes and Symbols
• Clipping mask
• RGB vs. CMYK

Combining Shapes and Paths

• Paths, Shapes editing, and joining
• Cutting with the Scissors and Knife tool
• Combining shapes with the Shape Builder Tool
• Pathfinder panel
• Compound path
• Width tool

Quick Artwork Transformation

• Adding, editing, Renaming, and Reordering Artboards
• Transform and Arrange
• Rulers and guidelines
• Scaling, Rotating, Reflect and Shearing objects
• Free Transform tool
• Outlining strokes

Drawing Tools

• Pen tool
• Paths and straight lines with the Pen tool
• Curves paths with the Pen tool
• Artwork with the pen tool
• Curvature tool
• Editing, Deleting, and Adding paths and points
• Smooth points to corner points
• Anchor Point tool
• Pencil tool

Colors

• Save, Copy or Edit a color as a swatch
• Creating and editing a global swatch
• Using the Color Picker to create color
• Illustrator swatch libraries
• Appearance attributes

Type

• Modifying text with the Touch Type tool
• Applying text styles
• Paragraph style
• Character style
• Warping text
• Type on a path

Organizing your Artwork with Layers

• Understanding layers and Creating layers, sublayers
• Locating and Moving layers
• Duplicating layer contents
• Merging layers and Pasting layers
• Changing layer order
• Viewing layers
• Clipping Mask
• Export Artwork
• Locking the layer
• Pen tool to trace the image

Gradients, Blends, and Patterns

• Gradients Type
• Editing and saving a gradient
• Gradient stroke
• Gradients applied to multiple objects
• Transparency to gradients
• Blend Tool
• Modifying and creating a smooth color blend
• Painting with patterns
• Creating your pattern

Brushes

• Calligraphic brushes
• Paintbrush tool
• Brush stroke
• Art brushes
• Art using a raster image
• Bristle brushes
• Pattern brushes
• Blob Brush tool
• Eraser tool

Effects

• Effects
• Text with a Warp effect
• Offset Path effect
• 3D effects

Illustrator Artwork

• Dynamic symbols
• Creating and Duplicating symbols
• Breaking a link to a symbol
• Perspective grid and Preset grid
• 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
• Masking images
• Editing a clipping path (mask)
• Masking an object with text
• Opacity mask
• Photoshop and Illustrator Artwork Communication

Workshops

• Design a Flyer
• Design a Poster
• Social Media Posts (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) 
• Logo designing with 3D Effects
• Game Assets

Project # 1Flyer/Poster/Posts

Project # 2 Logo Design/Game Assets

Adobe InDesign

Introduction to the InDesign

• What is InDesign?
• Opening/Creating Document
• Exploring the workspace
• Zoom tool and Scrolling through a document
• Setting up Your Document
• Inserting, Deleting, and Rearranging Pages
• Working with Multiple Documents
• Saving and Exporting Work

Working With Documents and Layouts

• Place and Resize Images
• Add, Flowing and Formatting Text
• Text Wrap and Shape Tool
• Gradient Tool
• Color swatches and Pen Tool

Multi-Page Documents

• Pages and Layers
• Links and Master Pages
• Automatic Page Numbering
• Create Hyperlinks
• Export and Print Documents

Tables

• Creating/importing a Table
• Formatting Tables
• Create an Analytic Report

Workshop

• Animation
• Create a Book/Brochure

Project # 1 Create a Book/Brochure

Project # 2 Animate scene of a Book/Brochure