Certificate Course in Graphic Designing

Diploma Course in Graphic Designing (DGD)

Duration: 4 months
Prerequisite: Basic Computer
Software: CorelDraw, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
CORELDRAWINTRODUCTION
  • Welcome screen + workspace tour + overview
  • Vector vs. bitmap
  • Customizing the page layout
  • Working with multiple pages
  • Using snap to + guidelines Drawing shapes
  • Rectangle tool - ellipse tool - ctrl +shift
  • The pick tool + zooming
  • Polygons, stars, spirals + graph paper
  • The perfect shapes collection
  • Selecting objects
  • Deleting objects
  • Duplicating objects + step + repeat
  • Cut, copy, paste
  • Undo, redo, repeat
  • Arranging objects
  • Grouping + un-grouping
CREATING CUSTOM SHAPES
  • Curve tools
  • Freehand Tool
  • Bezier tool
  • Curves + nodes
  • Adding, deleting nodes
  • Bending + straightening lines Colors + Fills
  • Introducing color palettes
  • Cymk, rgb and pantones Filling objects
  • Using the interactive fill tool
  • Solid fills
  • Linear, radial, conical + square fills
  • Two color pattern fills
  • Full color pattern fills
  • Bitmap pattern fills
  • Texture fills
  • No fills
OUTLINES
  • Outlines and advanced outline options
  • Converting outlines to objects
  • Using the eye dropper and paint bucket tool Working with artistic text
  • Creating artistic text with the text tool
  • Character formatting + fonts
  • Spelling + quick correct
  • Fitting text to path
  • Inserting symbol characters
  • Converting text to curves
WORKING WITH PARAGRAPH TEXT
  • Creating paragraph text with the text tool
  • Creating columns
  • Additional paragraph features Shaping objects
  • Using commands: Trim, break-apart, weld, simplify Working with bitmaps
  • Importing bitmaps
  • Cropping bitmaps
  • Using the image adjustment lab
  • Applying effects to bitmaps
  • Using photo-paint + the cut-out lab
  • Using the magic wand mask tool
  • Using the clone tool
  • Resolution
  • Re-sampling bitmaps
  • Converting vector objects to bitmaps
  • Exporting to jpeg + png formats Using the interactive tools
  • The interactive blend tool
  • The interactive contour tool
  • The interactive distortion tool
  • The interactive drop shadow tool
  • The extrude tool
  • The interactive transparency tool Final Assessment
  • Designing a business card
  • Designing a flyer
  • Designing an invitation
  • Designing a logo
  • Publishing to pdf for print + web
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
  • Bitmap vs. vector
  • Resolution and quality issues
  • Viewing/opening documents
  • Tool bar
  • Most commonly used palettes
RULERS, GUIDES AND GRIDS LAYERS
  • Background v layer, creating layers
  • Preserving data
  • Re-arranging
  • Hiding, locking/unlocking
  • Naming, deleting
  • Layer opacity
LAYERS STYLES
  • Shadow effect
  • Glow effect
  • Bevel & Emboss effect
  • Color Overlay
  • Gradient Overlay
  • Pattern Overlay
  • Stroke
TRANSFORMATION
  • Flipping, scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective
  • Control options
  • Free transform, straighten or tilt Working with Text
  • Warp Text
  • Text with underline and Strikethrough
  • Text with mask Image
  • Image sizes (handout)
  • Image size vs. canvas size
  • Cropping (and resizing), plus manual
  • Image modes
  • Basic retouching with clone, heal, patch tools Color adjustment
  • Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
  • Brightness/contrast: when to use levels (+ auto), shadow/highlight
'QUALITY' ADJUSTMENT
  • Dust and scratches, reduce noise
  • Blur, Gaussian blur
  • Sharpen/unsharpened, and size issues Selections
  • Various tools, tool options
  • Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth, expand, similar
  • Pen tool specifics
  • Paths to selections
  • Selection with Mask
OUTPUTTING FOR THE WEB
  • Optimizing for Web colors
  • Resizing and compressing an image for quick rendering Saving
  • Save options, file formats for InDesign, web etc.
  • Paths to Illustrator
  • Keyboard shortcuts Project achievements:
  • House ad/poster
  • Duotone photograph
  • Repaired photograph

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

WHAT IS ILLUSTRATOR?
  • Introduction Understanding vector graphics
  • Setting preferences
  • Exploring the panels
  • Illustrator interface
  • Creating and saving workspaces Working with DOCUMENTS
  • Creating files for print & Web
  • Managing multiple documents & Navigation
  • Using rulers, guides, and grids
  • Changing units of measurement
  • Locking and hiding artwork
  • Creating and using artboards
  • Illustrator Artboards
SELECTING AND TRANSFORMING OBJECTS
  • Using the Direct Selection and Group Selection tools
  • Using the Magic Wand & Lasso tool
  • Grouping objects
  • Using isolation mode
  • Resizing your artwork
  • Rotating objects
DISTORTING AND TRANSFORMING OBJECTS
  • Reflecting and skewing objects
  • Aligning and distributing objects Working with Color
  • RGB vs. CMYK
WORKING WITH FILLS AND STROKES
  • Understanding fills and strokes
  • Working with fills & strokes
  • Creating and editing gradients
  • Applying gradients to strokes
  • Applying and editing pattern fills Working with Paths
  • Understanding paths
  • Understanding anchor points
  • Using the Scissors tool and the Knife tool Creating Shapes
  • Working with the Shape Builder tool
  • Working with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools
  • Working with the Paintbrush and Pencil tools
  • Smoothing and erasing paths Pen Tool
  • Exploring the Pen tool
  • Drawing straight lines
  • Drawing simple curves
  • Converting corners and curves
  • Tracing artwork with the Pen tool Using Type in
ILLUSTRATOR
  • Adjusting your type settings
  • Basic text editing
  • Using the type panels
  • Creating text on a path
  • Converting text into paths
  • Saving time with keyboard shortcuts Working with Layers
  • Exploring the Layers panel
  • Creating and editing layers
  • Targeting objects in the Layers panel
  • Working with sublayers
  • Hiding, locking, and deleting layers
  • Using the Layers panel menu Drawing in Perspective
  • Defining a perspective grid
  • Drawing artwork in perspective
PRINTING, SAVING, AND EXPORTING
  • Saving & Printing your artwork
  • Saving for the web
ADOBE INDESIGN
  • Knowing The Tools
  • Constructing A Publication
  • Text Formatting And Word Processing
  • Composition And Technology
  • Graphics And Text Objects
  • Indexes, Contents, And Pagination
  • Defining, Applying And Trapping Color
  • Color Management
  • Using Adobe Table
  • Importing, Linking And Exporting
  • Printing
  • Creating Adobe PDF And Html Files
  • Data Merge
  • InDesign Tags
WEB DESIGNING CONCEPTS
PRINTING TECHNOLOGY
SCANNING
Expected Outcome
  • This being a job-oriented course, futureprospects are there for the candidates.
  • For those who wants to develop their career in this field, the course contents and the training gives significant inputsand skills to the students.
Eligibility
  • 10th, 12th, Diploma, BFA, Bcom, BA, BCA, BCCA, B.Sc., B.E. or any other graduate.
Job Prospects
  • Job prospects at Indian IT companies,MNCs, Digital and print media, Nationaland international Advertising agencies,Event management Companies.
  • Many Corporate and Institution havetheir own designers.

Features of the course


Advance Lab

Excellent Trainers

Reasonable Fees

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