GRAPHICE DESIGN COURSE
What is graphics? Types of Graphics, uses of graphics, software used for graphics
designing.
Introduction:Photoshop Interface, Raster graphics & vector graphics, Image
formats, Operations on image.
Manipulation of Image:The marquee tool, the lasso tool, magic Wand tool,
Inverting Selection, Layers, Brush tool, Eraser tool, Fill tool, Blur tool, Smudge
tool, Sharpen tool, Dodge tool, Sponge tool, Darken tool.
Transformation & Retouching:Free transform, Scaling, rotation, Skew,
perspective, Wrap, Distort, Crop, Image size, Canvas size, Clone stamp tool,
Healing brush tool, patch tool, red eye tool, history brush tool.
Colour Correction:Colour swatch, image modes, color adjustments, color
selection.
Text:The text tool, editing text, formatting, line & spacing, wrap text, text effects.
Effects: Blending modes, styles, filters, liquefy, Vanishing point.
Drawing:The pen tool, Drawing shapes, managing paths, converting path to
selection
- Adobe Photoshop
- Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
- Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop
- Working with Images
- Typography
- Resizing & Cropping Images
- Working with Basic Selections
- Getting Started With Layers
- Painting in Adobe Photoshop
- Photo Retouching
- Layout design
- Introduction to Color Combination
- Using Quick Mask Mode
- Working With the Pen Tool
- Creating Special Effects
- Exporting Your Work
- Adobe Illustrator
- Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
- Workspace: Workspace basics, Customizing the workspace, Artboard overview,
Files and templates, Recovery, undo, and automation, Rulers, grids and guides,
Using multiple artboards, Viewing artwork
- Drawing : Drawing basics, Drawing simple lines and shapes, Drawing with the
Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool, Editing paths, Adjust path segments, Using Live Trace,
About Perspective Grid, Perspective drawing, Symbolism tools and symbol sets,
Symbols.
- Drawing : Drawing basics, Drawing simple lines and shapes, Drawing with the
Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool, Editing paths, Adjust path segments, Using Live Trace,
About Perspective Grid, Perspective drawing, Symbolism tools and symbol sets,
Symbols.
- Colour: About color, Selecting colors, Using and creating swatches, Create color
themes with Kuler, Adjusting colors
- Painting: About painting, Painting with fills and strokes, Live Paint groups,
Brushes, Transparency and blending modes, Gradients, Gradient panel and
Gradient tool overview, Apply or edit a gradient, Stroke an object, Meshes,
Patterns
- Selecting and arranging objects: Selecting objects, Grouping and expanding
objects, Moving, aligning, and distributing objects, Rotating and reflecting
objects, Layers, Locking, hiding, and deleting objects, Duplicating objects,
Stacking objects
- Reshaping objects: Transforming objects, Scaling, shearing, and distorting
objects, Reshape using envelopes, Combining objects, Cutting and dividing
objects, Clipping masks, Creating shapes using Shape BuilderTool, Blending
objects, Building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool, Creating 3D objects,
Reshaping objects with effects
- Type: Importing and exporting text, Creating text, Creating type on a path,
Scaling and rotating type, Fonts, Character and paragraph styles, Formatting
paragraphs, Formatting type, Hyphenation and line breaks, Line and character
spacing, Special characters
- Creating special effects: Appearance attributes, Working with effects, Summary
of effects, Create a drop shadow, Drop shadows, glows, and feathering, Graphic
styles
- Importing, exporting, and saving: Adobe PDF options, Creating Adobe PDF
files, Exporting artwork, File information and metadata, Importing Adobe PDF
files, Importing artwork files, Importing artwork from Photoshop, Importing
bitmap images, Saving artwork
- Adobe InDesign
- Introduction to Adobe InDesign
- Looking at the Work Area:Using the tools, Using palettes, Workspaces, Using
context menus, Opening and closing documents, Changing the view, Selecting
objects, Saving a document, Recovering a document after a failure, Undoing
mistakes, Working with preferences and defaults
- Setting Up Pages:Setting up basic layout options, Using rulers, grids, and guides,
Working with pages and spreads, Numbering pages, Changing Numbering and
Section Options, Using master pages, Laying out pages with frames, Adjusting
layout objects automatically, Working with layers
- Working with Text: About text frames, About threading text frames, Adding text
to frames, Setting text frame properties, Editing text, Finding and changing text,
Finding and changing fonts, Combining text and graphics, Creating path type
- Setting Type:Formatting characters, Formatting paragraphs, Working with tabs,
Copying type attributes with the eyedropper tool, Working with the type
composition engines, Controlling hyphenation and justification, Paragraph and
character style sheets, Creating nested styles, OpenType, Glyphs palette
- Arranging and Combining Objects:Modifying objects using graphics frames,
Grouping and ungrouping objects, Stacking objects, Aligning and distributing
objects, Locking object position, Moving objects, Changing size, proportions, or
orientation, Duplicating objects
- Applying Color:About spot and process color types, Working with swatches and
unnamed colors, Applying color, Using the Swatches palette, Mixed inks, Mixed
ink groups, Using swatch libraries, Using the Color palette, Applying colors by
dragging and dropping, Creating gradients
- Creating Tables:Creating and editing tables, Importing spreadsheets from Word
or Excel, Advanced table techniques, Placing graphics into tables
- Adobe Product Integration:Working with Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator
files, Using Photoshop layer masks instead of clipping paths, Using Photoshop’s
file browser, Copy and Paste from Illustrator to InDesign CS
- PDF, Print, Preflight, and Package:PDF styles, Export options, PDF in detail,
Other export formats (ID Interchange), Pre-flighting your files, Using the Package
command, Printing and transparency, Flattener settings, The Separations palette
- Corel Draw
- Introduction to Corel Draw
- Introduction: An overview, interface, menus and tools, working with new
document, advanced options, page setup, dockers.
- Drawing: Lines, Shapes, objects, tables, templates
- Import/Export : Importing files, Using Corel Connect, Exporting files.
- Manipulation : Viewing options, pick tool, selection, moving, sizing, mirroring,
rotating, skewing, undo, redo, staking order.
- Text: Artistic text, Paragraph text.
- Duplication &Alignment : understanding duplication, aligning objects,
distribution, spacing.
- distribution, spacing.
Colour :colouring objects, uniform fill, fountain fill, understanding colour
palette, interactive fill, eyedropper tool, outline, convert to curve, outline
properties, advanced outline options.
Group, Combine, Weld, Trim, Intersect
WITH PROJECT