ADOBE GRAPHIC DESIGN MASTERCLASS COURSE DURATION: 40 HOURS
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION
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WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?
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WHY SHOULD YOU TAKE THIS COURSE?
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COURSE BREAKDOWN CONTACT
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INTRODUCTION NADIA Global provides world-class training programs and certified courses for professionals who wish to grow their skill sets and enhance their work performance. Our training programs are designed keeping customization in mind, catering to your immediate business needs and self-development, which will help you achieve your goals and capture success faster. Our soft and business skills development programs will assist you to build-on your motivation and accelerate your growth professionally while developing sound industry knowledge required for achieving new frontiers in your career. We are experts in the design, development and facilitation of structured courses that deliver a 100% success-rate.
WHY NADIA GLOBAL TRAINING? CERTIFIED & ACCREDITED ACTVET & KHDA EXPERT INSTRUCTORS Our trainers have more than 10 years of experience. CUSTOMIZE & COST EFFECTIVE Our programs are designed to suit our client's requirements. OUTSTANDING FACILITIES & RESOURCES
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Created for effective learning and development.
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WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE? USER EXPERIENCE (UX) DESIGNERS
Those who want to bring the product user interface live in the digital presence through creative designs and user-friendly flow.
VIDEO GAME DESIGNERS
Storytellers who would like to bring their games to life by creating and developing their gaming elements.
ART DIRECTORS
Those who wish to guide their team to develop a concept through illustrating and setting a direction to follow.
MARKETERS
Those who are responsible for managing a team of designers and would like to understand their work structure.
WHY SHOULD YOU TAKE THIS COURSE?
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Keeping up with the digital era and new technologies required for boosting your career.
Upgrade your skills set to meet the demand of service in a competitive market.
Your certifications demonstrates your skills and is considered as a necessity nowadays.
Boosting your opportunity to work for a reputable company.
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COURSE BREAKDOWN
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP (20 HOURS) ESSENTIALS
RE-TOUCHING TECHNIQUES
• The Photoshop Screen
• Custom colours
• Getting to know the Tools & Palettes
• Dodge and burn tools
• Using guides, grids and rulers
• Crop and rotate artwork
• Navigation and Zoom shortcuts
• Sharpen and Blur filters • Focus tools
SELECTIONS
• The Clone & Heal tools
• Why use Selections?
• The Healing Brush tools
• Creating selections using Marquee tools
• The Colour Replace tool
• The Lasso tools • The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools
• Red eye reduction • Digital darkroom techniques • Creating and editing gradients
• Adding or Deleting from selections • Saving and Loading selections • Controlling Tonal Values
FILTERS, PAINTING AND DRAWING
• Creating Toned and Tinted Images
• Using Filters and Plug-ins
• Selecting by color range
• Using the Unsharp Mask
• Feathering selections
• Cloning Images
• Quick Mask mode
• Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tool • Mixing and applying paint & fill colours
CORRECTING AN IMAGE • Using the Histogram palette
• Print and web safe colours
• Fixing colour with variations
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools
• Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast
• Using the Paint Bucket tool
• Colour balance and variations
• Drawing shapes • Creating vector shape layers
• Hue and saturation controls • The Vibrance command
• Polygon, line and custom shape tools • The add, subtract, intersect commands • Editing vector shapes using the pen tools • Adding colour fills, gradients & patterns 5
WORKING WITH LAYERS
SPECIAL EFFECTS
• Creating and Viewing multiple Layers
• Using Photoshop filters
• Moving, scaling and rotating layers
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Linking & aligning Layers
• Fading the effects of filters
• Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers • Locking and protecting layers
SAVING FILES
• Layer groups
• File formats
• Applying and editing type
• Choosing the right colour mode
• Rasterizing shape and text layers
• Adjusting resolution and image size
• Saving and flattening layered files
• Cropping or enlarging the canvas
MERGING LAYERS
PRINTING AND OPTIMIZING DOCUMENTS
• Applying transparency • Basic layer blending modes • Text layers • Adjustment layers • Special effects
• Colour modes, resolution & image size • Printing from Photoshop • Printing from other applications • The Save for web command
• Drop shadows, glows and embossing • Layer masks WORKING WITH TEXT • New Features • Creating a Text Layer • Text Paragraphs • Adding Text Effects • Painting Text • Text anti-aliasing
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COURSE BREAKDOWN
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR (10 HOURS) INTRODUCTION
DRAWING
• Custom workspace
• Using the shape tools
• Control Palettes & menus
• Drawing with the line tools
• Smartguides
• Transforming tools
• Rulers, guides, grids, snap to
• The ‘warp tool’ flyout
• Outline & Preview modes
• Symbols in Illustrator
• Navigation & Scroll shortcuts
• Creating a logo • Drawing a tin can
HOW ILLUSTRATOR WORKS
• Drawing a spoked wheel
• Vectors vs Bitmaps
• Selecting, Copying and Moving
• Components for Images
• Rotating and Skewing Objects
• Text, Shapes & Colour
• Align, group and duplicate Objects • Hiding and Locking
IMAGES
• Special Effects
• Importing & placing images
• Drawing Tools e.g. rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star
• Turning Bitmap into Vector
• Fills and Colours
COLOUR
• Drawing curves
• Basic Colours & Stroke palette
• The Average and Join commands
• Types of Colour; Colour modes
• Eraser tool
• Spot vs Process colours • Gradient and Patterns
LASSO SELECT
• Dragging colour
• Using Align and Distribute
• Understanding & using ‘stroke’ and ‘fill’ attributes
• Using ‘group’ and ‘duplicate’
• Using Swatches
• Hiding and locking layer objects • Using ‘isolation mode’
• Use the Paint Bucket tool
• Compound paths • Clipping masks
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TEXT
PRINTING & SAVING
• Creating Text objects
• Previewing
• Artistic and Paragraph text
• The Print Dialog & Printing
• Colouring and Filling text
• Defining a crop area
• Adding ‘point’ type
• Saving in non-Vector formats
• Adding ‘area’ type
• Save for Web
• Adding type to a vector path • Creating type outlines
USING BRUSHES
• Placing Text Around Objects
• Draw with the Paintbrush tool
• Linking Paragraphs
• Add/remove a brushstroke to an existing path
• Type Effects • Find & replace & Spellcheck
• Convert a brushstroke to outlined paths
WORKING WITH PATHS
• Edit a scatter, art or pattern brush
• Creating & Editing Paths
• Create a new brush library
• Creating and modifying brushes
• Pen Tool • Draw straight lines
GRADIENTS
• Draw continuous curves
• Fill an object with a gradient
• Convert smooth points into corner
• Create/edit gradient
• Convert points in an existing object
• Use the Gradient tool
• Move an anchor point or a line
• Creating and editing Gradient meshes
• Shaping a curve • Converting an anchor point
TRANSFORMING OBJECTS
• Pinch a curve inward
• Rotate, Scale or shear
• Add, adjust, delete points
• Flip and slant
• Bezier curves
• The bounding box
USING LIVETRACE
• Use the Free Transform tool
• Automatically trace artwork • Converting objects 8
LAYERS
FILTERS
• Creating and Editing layers
• Scribble or tweak
• The layers Palette
• Rough up a shape
• Create a sublayer
• Twirling path points
• Hide and Lock
• Punk or bloat an object • Raster filters
USING AND EDITING EFFECTS
• Pen and Ink filter
• Remove layer effects • Apply a Convert to Shape effect • Live shapes with text • Inner/Outer Glow & Add Arrowheads
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COURSE BREAKDOWN
ADOBE INDESIGN (10 HOURS) INDESIGN LAYOUT
WORKING WITH TEXT
• The InDesign Workspace
• Add/Edit & Spell Check
• Using shortcuts
• Thread and Wrapping Text
• Customize your workspace
• Importing text
• Setting preferences – rulers, guides, layers
• Apply/Edit Styles to text
DOCUMENT DESIGN • Altering Layout • Create the Structure of a Document • Develop Master Pages
• Dealing with missing fonts • Change Text Threads • Hyphenation and justification • The Eyedropper tool • Creating drop caps
• Manage Text and Graphic Placement
• Edit, Apply and Manage Paragraph Styles
• Develop Layers
• Format Characters and Paragraphs • Numbering paragraphs
CREATING BASIC DRAWN ELEMENTS
• Text on a path
• The Selection and Direct Selection Tool
• Creating ‘placeholder’ frames
• The Tool & Color Palettes • Grids, rulers and guides
• Flowing text through multiple frames • CS5 text options • Using the ‘tab’ command • The Glyphs window
THE ‘SWATCHES’ WINDOW • The ‘fill’ and ‘stroke’ settings
PEN & BEZIER TOOLS
• Create, use and edit solid colors and gradients
• Path tools in InDesign
• Adding and converting Pantone colors
EFFECTS • Inner Shadow
TABS AND TABLES • Create, Modify and Format a Table • Table Styles
• Bevel and Emboss • Gradient Feather
• Inner and Outer Glow
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WORKING WITH OBJECTS
GRAPHICS
• Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
• Common Graphic file formats
• The ‘place’ command • Resizing images and frames • Rotating objects • Using ‘text wrap’ • Managing object layers • Creating special effects
• Importing & Enhancing Graphics Files • Image Frames - simple, compound & custom
• Fitting options
• Inline graphics
• Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
• Tolerance and threshold options • Creating Text Run-arounds
• Shape and corner options • Transforming Objects • Group & Ungroup • Duplicating, Rotating, Scaling, Skewing, Mirroring • Managing Transparency
MANAGING MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS • Templates and libraries • The ‘book’ option
• Importing swatches
• Using Adobe Bridge
FRAMES
LOW AND HI RESOLUTION
• Threading/unthreading frames
• Creating a low-res PDF for the web
• Flowing text through frames • Multi-column text frames
PRINTING & EXPORT
• Document baseline grids
• Checking documents for problems
• Hanging punctuation
• Printing
• Using special characters
• Package Files
• Composition options
• Preview Output & options • Print, Separation, Flattening
THE ’PAGES’ WINDOW
• PostScript, refighting and Packaging
• Adding and deleting pages
• Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
• Working with master pages
• Creating automatic page numbering • Creating new numbering sections • Using multiple master pages
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