Graphic Design Masterclass

This comprehensive graphic design masterclass explains and demonstrates design theories, including typography, colour theory, compositions & layout theories, and all the essential tools of adobe photoshop, illustrator, and Indesign.

The course has been developed by an industry professional who has over 20 years of experience in teaching Design & Art. The instructor helps and advises students in more than 171 countries on design and art.

The masterclass will guide you to becoming a professional graphic designer.

The course covers adobe photoshop including cropping images, layers, retouching, tools, objects, selection & masking, etc.

The masterclass guides you on how to work with adobe illustrator. It will guide you to learn the preferences & settings, shapes, guides, grids & rulers, typography, and all the essential tools, including type tools, path tools, pencil tools, pen tools, and brush tools.

The course also demonstrates Adobe InDesign. It will guide you on the Indesign essentials, including several tools and grids, and show you how to design brochures.

The course is perfect for an absolute beginner or even an advanced designer to standout in the crowd as a pro.

A course completion certificate at the end of the course will add extra value to your CV to stand out in the job market.

You will be able to do the following after completing this course:

• Understand and work with design theories.

• Design with photoshop tools panels
• Use Illustrator in a creative way to create a brand identity
• Present your graphical work designed in a great way to easily get your designs approved by clients
• Design with Illustrator tools panels & essentials
• Create brochures, catalogues & flyers
• Build your own portfolio through the entire course
• Learn printing & screen designs technicals
• Create printing PDFs & Impositions for your editorial design
• Design precisely in photoshop using design grids & guides.
• Create graphics from scratch.
• Apply different drawing & illustrations tools & techniques
• Know the details of Glyphs, Stylistic Sets, Variable fonts
• Know the details of colour theory
• Know the details of grid systems
• Creatively use Photoshop to create stunning Ads
• Understand typography anatomy & use type & fonts properly
• Use illustrator to design Logos, business cards, letterheads, envelopes..etc
• Save & export different formats
• Creatively use Indesign to create amazing editorial designs
• Create multipage editorial designs up to 16 pages & more
• Get a portfolio template to customise it according to your style
• Export your designs in different formats
• Learn to select & mask images with different techniques, including challenging areas like Hair, Smoke..etc.
• Work like a professional in photoshop, mastering all Non- destructive techniques.
• Use the pen & drawing tools like a professional in Photoshop, Illustrator & Indesign

Why Choose this course?

• Conducted by industry experts
• Get Instant E-certificate
• Fully online, interactive Text course
• Developed by qualified professionals
• Self-paced learning and laptop, tablet, and smartphone-friendly
• 24/7 Tutor Support

And you will also get these gifts

• Free PDF Certificate
• 12-Month Course Access

***Course Content ***

Introduction & Resources

• Promo
• How to study for this course
• Course Resources & Facebook group

Design Theories

• Color Theory Fundamentals for designers working with Graphics
• layout composition rules
• grids (Grid systems)
• New York Museum of Illusion (visual Illusions for graphic designers)

Photoshop Creative Design

• Photoshop Boeing Minimal Design Project
• Photoshop Artboards designs for advertising campaigns (resolution) (Exercise)
• Photoshop Vodafone Ad Design project
• Dental Clinic Design (photoshop Project)(Part1)
• Dental clinic Design ( social media photoshop Project)(Part2)
• Social media Advertising Campaign in Photoshop Ad2 (exercise)
• Social media Advertising Campaign in Photoshop Ad3 (exercise)
• Mercedes Benz Ad design & concept (part1)
• Mercedes Benz Ad design & concept (part2)
• Juice Brand logo & label design & mock-up customization (part1)
• Juice Brand Ad design (part2)
• Juice Brand Ad design (part3)
• Photoshop Nike Ad design
• Creative Typography design ideas in Photoshop

Illustrator Creative Design

• Illustrator Creative Design
• Logo design concept & Graphic designer's dilemma
• Brand's logo Design Process in Illustrator
• Importance of branding & how to set brand's visual rules
• Design the brand Identity in Illustrator & Logo Option
• Presenting your designs & designing inside mockups (photoshop & Illustrator)
• Illustrator Logos & Full Branding exercise

Indesign Creative Design & Essentials

• Indesign Creative Design & Essentials
• Indesign essentials brochure project Introduction
• Indesign New Documents & Design Templates
• Indesign Workspace tour & familiarization & save
• Indesign Brochure Project: Cover Design (Part1)
• Indesign Brochure Project: Cover Design (Part2)
• Indesign Brochure Project: Inside pages Design (design grid) (Part3)
• Indesign Brochure Project: Inside pages Design (Part4)
• Indesign Packages & Exporting (Printing Technicals)
• Indesign 2022 New Updates (New Name for Master pages)
• Portfolio Introduction
• Portfolio Cover (5 design options)
• Portfolio Pages (2-3 resume-cv) (text wrap)
• Master Pages, gradient tool, page numbering & special characters
• Pages 4,5 (paragraph styles, dynamic design, object style, triangular grid)
• Pages (6,10,11) Tips & tricks: Content placer, content collect, gap tools
• Indesign Exercise (Designing Pages & Frame masking techniques)
• Indesign Tables (styling, formatting, rounded corners & tricks)
• Golden ratio grid, Fibonacci Grids using Indesign Gap tool
• Type in depth in InDesign (Auto thread, styles, spelling, open type, glyphs)
• Indesign Packages, Impositions, pre-checking, preflight, find change & spelling

Photoshop Essentials Training

• The Power of Photoshop
• Creating Photoshop documents
• Photoshop workspaces
• Navigation in Photoshop
• Cropping images
• Colour Modes in Photoshop
• Resolution & enlarging images without losing quality
• Saving Artwork in different formats (psd,jpeg,psb,tiff,png)
• Photoshop 2022 (Save a Copy & NFT)
• Layers concept & Handling them
• Photoshop's Layers Panel
• Photoshop 2020 New Layers Navigation
• Unleash creativity with Blend modes
• layer styles
• Transformation Modes & Tricks
• Puppet warp in photoshop
• Perspective warp in photoshop
• Align & Distribute in photoshop
• Mastering Precision in photoshop (guides, grids, rulers, snap)
• Brush basics & colour panel & symmetrical drawing in photoshop
• brushes panel & getting cool photoshop brushes
• Creating brushes & brush settings in photoshop
• Digital painting Essentials, mixer brush&color replacement brush tools
• Digital painting Tutorial using Photoshop
• Tilde key brush shortcut (Photoshop CC 2020)
• Vector shapes essentials & tools
• Live shapes & Path operations in photoshop
• selection concept in Photoshop & basics part1
• selection concept in Photoshop & basics part2
• Photoshop selection tools part1
• Photoshop selection tools part2
• Photoshop Object selection tool & properties panel update 2020
• Photoshop 2022 Updates (New object selection & Neural filters)
• Photoshop Masking & Non-destructive editing
• Focus range combined with Photoshop selection tools
• Colour range selection & Photoshop photo manipulation techniques
• Photoshop Pen tools & curvature tools & vector masks
• Soft Edges selection tricks
• Raster smart objects
• Vector smart objects & linked files
• Smart Objects To Layers (Photoshop CC 2020)
• Updated Presets photoshop 2020
• Smart Filters
• Photoshop Adjustment Layers Fundamentals
• Colour Adjustment layers
• Tonal & contrast Adjustment layers
• Photoshop filters: Liquify Filter
• Spot healing brushes & Patch tool
• Photoshop Ai: Content Aware move-extend tool
• Photoshop Ai: Content-Aware Scaling (Enlarging images without distortion)
• Clone Stamp tools & smudge tool
• Dodge, burn & sponge tools
• Photoshop Content Aware Fill
• Photoshop Content-Aware fill Update 2020
• Photoshop Retouching project part1 (Editing (Camera Raw settings)
• Photoshop Retouching Project part2
• Photoshop Retouching project Part3 (eyes)
• Photoshop Retouching project Part 4 (Professional touches)
• Fix & whiten Teeth in Photoshop (Natural look)
• Repairing & colouring damaged images Project in Photoshop part1
• Repairing & colouring damaged images Project in Photoshop part2
• Creating Mockups in Photoshop using Vanishing point
• Clone stamp in Photoshop Vanishing point
• Font Selection & filtering
• Character control panel
• Paragraph Control Panel
• Character & Paragraph Styles in Photoshop
• Text warp & typing on a path
• Advanced Type in Photoshop
• Text Improvements (Photoshop CC 2020)
• 3D Neon Type effect in Photoshop (Nike Ad)(Graphic desgin)
• Creating Animated Gifs & Videos in Photoshop
• Video editing in photoshop (complete video project)
• Preparing our file for printing & creating Photoshop pdf files
• Image Optimization & Save for web
• Photoshop CC 2021 New features
• Turning images into 3D Using Photoshop
• Photoshop 3D Layers & moving cameras & elements
• Adding materials & saving photoshop views in 3D
• Photoshop lights in 3D & exporting
• 3D Photoshop Animation
  And many more.......

Certificates

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Transcripts

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Graphic design is an essential skill. Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the most requested skill in job postings. The graphic design optimises marketing efforts across all channels and is key to building a professional brand. Consistent marketing collateral allows a brand to be easily recognisable and lets customers and clients quickly get familiar with what a company has to offer. Good design helps a business gain high visibility and increase sales. Attractive visuals, effective communication of ideas, higher visibility, and enhanced credibility push traffic to a brand, communicate, and build a stronger image, creating awareness and a positive impact on customers and clients.

Effective designs communicate information that inspires and informs consumers, making it critical for any business' success. A designer uses colours, shapes, images, and words to create visual content that surrounds us in many forms—print and digital media.

Good graphic communications can convey the summary of a blog post, showcase a new product, be used to explain statistics clearly, and, most importantly, the implant itself into your target audiences' memories. Graphic communication inspires people to take action and can be emotive and persuasive.

Graphic Design is essential for businesses. Solid first impression, attracting the right audience, contributing to sales, advertising, and publication design. Digital marketing everyday use motion, UI and web design for countless business sector. Because design thinking is so user-centric, innovative products, by definition, add value to customers' lives and drive revenue for a firm.

Graphic design exists to persuade, advertise, promote, or otherwise elicit an emotional response. Expertise in this field is crucial in almost all marketing campaigns, and marketers need to know how to use it effectively. In one way or another, you’ll need to visually communicate your product or service’s features, benefits, and differentiators to your target prospects and customers.

Graphic design not only makes something look good, but it also organises information to help deliver a message in the most impactful way possible when you combine the right image and a well-written headline professionally executed in a well-established package, the message hits its target.

Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text. Ninety per cent of the information transmitted in the human brain is visual, so your business needs robust design to communicate its purpose. You can grow and improve your business by utilising well-thought-out design in the correct mediums.

Custom logos, advertising, website, sales collateral, marketing collateral, social media, presentations, and packaging design are critical to successfully incorporating visual communications into your brand.

Graphic design plays a vital role in the modern marketing environment and creates a competitive edge for companies. You only have to think about brands that have conquered their graphic design, such as Apple, Tesla, and Coca-Cola, to know the power of design.

From branding to digital marketing, graphic design can be used by any business organisation to communicate concepts and ideas visually. In a changing world where business is done online and on the street, great design can set even a small business apart from a significant brand. You only have to look at Instagram to see the creativity pouring out of small artisan businesses setting out their stall of products and services to create their following.

Every company today needs the services of a graphic designer not only to create impressive marketing materials like brochures, stationery, websites, and social media designs but also to communicate the message to the target audience effectively.

Digital marketing has become a prime requisite in every business or marketer’s arsenal. And graphic design works as fuel in igniting the marketing for your company to reach out to people and capture their attention.

Existing qualification level: No specific previous qualification is required. However, a basic understanding of Maths, English and ICT would benefit in understanding the content.

Existing skill levels: Minimum ICT skills to operate any computer system is beneficial. No skill in working with Graphic design is essential.

Technical requirements: Access to any computer or laptop would benefit from practising and following the instructions.

Graphic design will open many opportunities for anyone because of its ability to attract attention, and helps a business grow and achieve a higher level of sales success. Freelance graphic designer, creative director, (UX) designer, (UI) designer, product developer, marketing specialist, and not limited to this.

The salary expectation can grow from £35,000 per annum to £55,000 per annum.

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included