The Designer in Her

Content:

1. Introduction to Graphic Design
2. Elements and Principle of Design
3. Color Theory
4. Print Vs Screen Design
5. Vector Vs Raster Design
6. Adobe Illustrator Vs Adobe Photoshop

This course is focused on the manipulation of digital images through image readiness, editing and image creation. You will learn how to create a new image, crop, transform, paint, enhance, retouch, resize and add artistic feel. Selection methods and working with layers are also dealt with in this course. 

Essentials

1. The Photoshop Screen
2. Getting to know the Tools 
3. Utilizing grids and rulers
4. Zoom shortcuts and convenient navigation

Selections

1. Why use Selections?
2. Creating selections using Marquee tools
3. The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tool
4. The Lasso tools
5. Selecting by color range
6. Pen Tools
7. Adding or Deleting from selections
8. Saving and Loading selections
9. When to use which Selections Tools

Working With Layers

1. Multiple Layers creation and viewing
2. Moving, scaling and rotating layers
3. Linking & aligning Layers
4. Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers
5. Locking and protecting layers
6. Layer groups
7. Applying and editing type
8. Converting shape and text layers
9. Saving and flattening layered files

Merging Layers

1. 1. Applying transparency
   2. Fundamental modes of layer blending 
   3. Text and adjustment layers
   4. Special effects
   5. Drop shadows, glows and embossing
   6. Layer masks
   7. Clipping Masks
   8. Adjustment Layers

Operating With Text

1. 1. Text Layer Creation
   2. Basic Typography (Font Selections for Project)
   3. Text Paragraphs
   4. Adding Text Effects

Filters, Painting And Drawing

1. Cloning Images
2. Mixing and applying paint and fill colors
3. Brush and Eyedropper tools
4. Drawing shapes
5. Creating vector shape layers
6. Adding color fills, patterns and gradients

Files Saving

1. File formats
2. Right color mode selection
3. Adjusting resolution and image size
4. Canvas cropping and enlargement
5. Printing and Optimizing Documents
6. Color modes, resolution & image size 
7. Printing from Photoshop and other Applications
8. The Save for web command

This includes revisions in past designs and practical projects. 

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based graphics program that enables the aspiring graphic designers to develop professional high quality print, type effects and web designs. The mentioned course has its main objective to guide trainees to produce good-looking, high quality graphics such as logos and advertisements with type and graphics. The trainees will create logos with professional look and feel, type effects and convert bitmaps to vector artworks by rightly using the colors, layers, gradients, fonts, and photos with illustrations and text effects.

Introduction

1. Custom workspace
2. Control Palettes & menus
3. Smartguides
4. Rulers, guides, grids, snap to
5. Outline & Preview modes
6. Navigation & Scroll shortcuts
7. How Illustrator Works
8. Vectors v Bitmaps
9. Text, Shapes & Color

Drawing

1. Using the shape tools
2. Transforming tools
3. Spoked wheel drawing
4. Selecting, Copying and Moving
5. Rotating, Skewing, Aligning, Grouping and Duplicating Objects
6. Locking and Hiding
7. Drawing Tools such as rectangle, ellipse, polygon, Star
8. Fills and Colors
9. Drawing curves
10. Join commands

Shape Builder Tools/Pathfinder

1. Unite
2. Minus Front
3. Intersect
4. Exclude
5. Divide
6. Trim
7. Merge
8. Crop
9. Outline
10. Minus Back

Images

1. Importing & placing images
2. Turning Bitmap into Vector
3. Color
4. Basic Colors & Stroke palette
5. Types of Color; Color modes
6. Gradient and Patterns
7. Dragging color
8. Understanding & using ‘stroke’ and ‘fill’ attributes
9. Using Swatches
10. Use the Paint Bucket tool

Text

1. Creating Text objects
2. Artistic and Paragraph text
3. Coloring and Filling text
4. Adding ‘point’ type and ‘area’ type
5. Add type to a vector path
6. Create type outlines
7. Linking Paragraphs
8. Type Effects
9. Placing Text Around Objects
10. Find & replace & Spellcheck

Arranging And Aligning Objects

1. Using ‘group’ and ‘duplicate’
2. Layer objects hiding and locking
3. Using ‘isolation mode’
4. Using Align and Distribute
5. Compound paths
6. Clipping masks

Creating & Editing Paths

1. Pen Tool
2. Draw straight lines
3. Draw continuous curves
4. Shift (move) an anchor point or a line
5. Converting an anchor point
6. Add, adjust, delete points
7. Bezier curves

Gradients

1. Object filling using a gradient
2. Creation and modification of gradient 
3. Use the Gradient tool 

Transforming Objects

1. Rotate, Scale or shear
2. Flip and slant
3. The bounding box
4. Use the Free Transform tool

Layers

1. Creation and modification(Editing) of layers
2. Create a sub layer
3. Hide and Lock

Effects

1. Crop Mark
2. Distort
3. Pathfinder
4. Rasterize
5. Stylize
6. Wrap

Using Live Trace

1. Automatically trace artwork
2. Converting objects

This includes revisions in past designs and practical projects.