Course Description

• This course provides students with the advanced knowledge and skills to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for making designs, illustrations, logos, and brand Identity. Students will learn how to use the programs efficiently based on design principles and theories. This course offers an in-depth overview of what graphic design is and the immense professional opportunities it provides. Students will also be introduced to the most popular designer sites encompassing work within the various industries that designers work in.
  

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Define graphic design academically
• Use Photoshop and Illustrator proficiently.
• Edit photos and create effects and illusions.
• Illustrate for prints and web designs.
• Manipulate color using color tools.
• Put design elements and principles into practice.
• Differentiate types of color perception.
• Understand the vocabulary needed to communicate as a designer.
• Create and design a personal identity system.
• Create an impactful portfolio.

Who Should Attend?

This is an advanced course that is intended for designers fairly experienced with designing programs who want to learn more about using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator professionally.

Course Schedule

Adobe Photoshop:

Day-1 

• Color management
• Color Modes: RGB and CMYK
• Basic color principles and theories.
• Tone and color adjustment
• Info panel and histogram
• Changing and manipulating color
• Monochrome (B&W) conversions
• Adjustment layers and layer fx
• Intermediate retouching
• Cloning, healing, patching and retouching
• Image stacking techniques

Day-2

• Masking and selection
• Layer techniques and composite images
• Going deeper into blending modes
• Advanced blending
• Layer grouping, clipping and merging
• Advanced uses for brushes
• Working with smart objects
• Smart filters, blending and masking
• Smart Shadow/Highlight
• Warping
• Content replacement
• Reviewing previous lessons.

Day-3 

• Introduction to actions
• Creating basic actions
• Batch actions
• Making Gifs
• Timeline and exporting
• Working with other file formats
• Layer comps and saving for web
• Exporting / importing to other file formats

 

Adobe Illustrator:

Day–1

• Drawing and Path editing
• Drawing complex bizarre shapes
• Setting anchor points and handle display preferences
• Using the Control Panel to edit paths
• Outlining strokes
• Compound Shapes and paths
• Using Shape Builder to combine, edit and fill shapes
• Creating shapes with Pathfinder options.
• Using the shape builder

Day-2

• Managing colors efficiently
• Use of color
• Editing colors using menu commands
• Extracting colors from artwork
• Using the Color Theme panel
• Creating ASE Swatch libraries
• Appearances and effects
• Document Raster Effects settings
• Applying resolution independent raster effects
• Targeting object attributes
• Adding multiple attributes to a single object
• Manipulating the appearance stacking order
• Applying Live Effects
• Editing Live Effects
• Expanding Appearances and Artwork
• Using Clipping Masks
• Working with clipping masks
• Modifying clipping masks

Day-3

• Complex painting techniques
• Painting with the Paintbrush
• Creating custom brushes
• Using “Drawing Behind” and “Drawing Inside”
• Working with Gradients
• Working with Blends
• Compound Shapes and paths
• Using Shape Builder to combine, edit and fill shapes
• Creating shapes with Pathfinder options

Day-4

• Working with Symbols
• Creating and editing symbols
• Managing symbols
• Creating symbol libraries
• Updating symbols
• Creating Patterns
• Working with the Pattern Options panel
• Creating symmetrical patterns
• Creating asymmetrical patterns
• Saving pattern swatches

Day-5

• Working in 3D
• Creating custom 3D shapes
• Creating 3D type
• Using lighting effects
• Mapping symbols onto surfaces
• Exporting and printing
• Cleaning up your files
• Printing attributes
• Advanced printing concerns
• Exporting Assets
• Packaging a document
• Setting Artboard sizes for social media content