Graphic Designing Course

Graphic Design, also known as communication design, is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. This course is focused on both theoretical and practical parts. The aim of the course is to develop design sense in students by the help of theoretical concepts and practice.

The focus of practical part will be on designing software e.g. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Different exercises related to online market requirements will be assigned to the students. So that they can work professionally in online market.

Course Content

You will learn the following skills:
Content Time Period
About Photoshop
Vector vs. bitmap graphics/ Image resolution
Menus and panels
Opening new files
Opening existing files
Saving your work files
Exploring the Toolbox
Bar & the Options Bar
Exploring Panels & Menus
Creating & Viewing a New Document
Setting Preferences
Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee Tool
Using the Magic Wand & Free Transform Tool
Selecting with the Regular & Polygonal Lasso Tools \
Combining Selections
Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool
Using the Quick Selection Tool & Refine Edge
Modifying Selections
Layer Concept
Creating, Selecting, Linking & Deleting Layers 		1st Week
Locking & Merging Layers
Copying Layers
Filling & Grouping Layers
Controlling transparency/opacity
Introduction to Blending Modes
Clipping Mask
Using the Brush Tool
Working with Colors & Swatches
Creating & Using Gradients
Using the Pencil & Eraser Tools
Eye dropper tool
Detailed Color psychology
Different Shapes
Transforming- scale/rotate/skew/distort/wrap
Combining Shapes
Alignment
Type Tool options
Converting type into shape and modify it.
Typography Psychology 		2nd Week
Character & Paragraph settings
Justification & Hyphenation
Warping Type
Type on a Path
Vertical Type
The Red Eye Tool
The Clone Stamp Tool
The Patch Tool & the Healing Brush Tool
The Spot Healing Brush Tool
The Color Replacement Tool
The Toning & Focus Tools
Painting with History
Content Aware healing tool
Auto adjustments- tone/color/contrast
Color balance/ color replacing
Hue/ saturation
Levels- adjusting tonal balance		 3rd Week

Black and white
Applying filters
Filter gallery
Liquefy filters
Pen Tool
Using Paths
Creating straight and curved paths
Scaleable Objects
Importing Smart Objects (Illustrator/ Acrobat)
Overview
Flat icons
Freepik
How to design a banner/flyer/brochure
UI Design practice
Practice Logo designs
Practice Mock ups
Stationery designs
Some effects of image 		4th Week

Course Fee: 15000pkr | 1.5 Months

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