This comprehensive graphic design masterclass course explains and demonstrates graphic design theories including typography, colour theory, graphic design compositions & layout theories, all the essential tools of adobe photoshop, illustrator, and Indesign.
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This comprehensive graphic design masterclass course explains and demonstrates graphic design theories including typography, colour theory, graphic design compositions & layout theories, all the essential tools of adobe photoshop, illustrator, and Indesign.
The course has been developed by Khalil Ibrahim, 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 demonstrates graphic design theories, layouts, and grid systems.
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 demonstrates logo design and its relation with graphic design in detail. It will guide you to learn the preferences & settings, shapes, guides, grids & rulers, typography, 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 graphic designer to become a professional graphic designer.
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 graphic design theories.
- Design with photoshop tools panels
- Use Illustrator in a creative way to create a brand identity
- Present your graphic design work 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, and Variable fonts
- Know the details of colour theory
- Know the details of grid systems
- Use Photoshop in a creative way 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
- Use Indesign in a creative way 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 techniques including tough 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
Is this course for you?
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.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
- Student Support
Career Path
Graphic design will open many opportunities for anyone because it attracts 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.Industry Expert Instructor
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Course Content
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- Graphic Design Masterclass Promo FREE 00:04:00
- How to study for this Graphic Design MasterClass (Very Important) FREE 00:04:00
- Graphic Design Course Resources & Facebook group 00:01:00
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- Color Theory Fundamentals for graphic designers 00:06:00
- Graphic design layout composition rules 00:09:00
- Graphic Design grids (Grid systems) 00:05:00
- New York Museum of Illusion (visual Illusions for graphic designers) 00:06:00
- Photoshop Boeing Minimal Design Project 00:12:00
- Photoshop Art boards designs for advertising campaigns (resolution) (Exercise) 00:17:00
- Photoshop Vodafone Ad Design project 00:20:00
- Dental Clinic Design (photoshop Project)(Part1) 00:18:00
- Dental clinic Design ( social media photoshop Project)(Part2) 00:17:00
- Social media Advertising Campaign in Photoshop Ad2 (exercise) 00:02:00
- Social media Advertising Campaign in Photoshop Ad3 (exercise) 00:02:00
- Mercedes Benz Ad design & concept (part1) 00:23:00
- Mercedes Benz Ad design & concept (part2) 00:08:00
- Juice Brand logo & label design & mock-up customization (part1) 00:11:00
- Juice Brand Ad design (part2) 00:15:00
- Juice Brand Ad design (part3) 00:26:00
- Photoshop Nike Ad design 00:16:00
- Creative Typography design ideas 00:07:00
- Indesign essentials brochure project Introduction FREE 00:01:00
- Indesign New Documents & Templates 00:11:00
- Indesign Workspace tour & familiarization & save 00:04:00
- InDesign Brochure Project & Cover Design (Part1) 00:21:00
- Indesign Brochure Project & Cover Design (Part2) 00:16:00
- Indesign Brochure Project & Inside pages Design (design grid) (Part3) 00:11:00
- Indesign Brochure Project & Inside pages Design (Part4) 00:21:00
- Indesign Packages & Exporting (Printing Technicals) 00:10:00
- Indesign 2022 New Updates (New Name for Masterpages) 00:07:00
- Graphic designer Portfolio Introduction 00:04:00
- Graphic designer Portfolio Cover (5 design options) 00:13:00
- Portfolio Pages (2-3 resume-cv) (text wrap) 00:18:00
- Master Pages, gradient tool, page numbering & special characters 00:27:00
- Pages 4,5 (paragraph styles, dynamic design, object style, triangular grid) 00:19:00
- Pages (6,10,11) Tips & tricks: Content placer, content collect, gap tools 00:16:00
- Indesign Exercise (Designing Pages & Frame masking techniques) 00:03:00
- Indesign Tables (styling, formatting, rounded corners & tricks) 00:15:00
- Golden ratio grid, Fibonacci Grids using Indesign Gap tool 00:07:00
- Type in depth in indesign (Auto thread, styles, spelling, open type, glyphs) 00:10:00
- Indesign Packages, Impositions, pre-checking, preflight, find change & spelling 00:12:00
- Indesign 2022 New Updates (New Name for Masterpages) 00:07:00
- The Power of Adobe illustrator FREE 00:01:00
- Illustrator Documents 00:04:00
- Illustrator workspaces & Properties Panel 00:14:00
- Illustrator 2022 Workspace Minor Update 00:00:00
- Artboards 00:13:00
- Illustrator Navigation & zooming 00:09:00
- Illustrator Preferences & Settings 00:12:00
- Illustrator Basic geometric shapes 00:16:00
- Illustrator Transformation & Rotation (resized) 00:12:00
- Illustrator Pathfinder & shape builder tool 00:11:00
- Illustrator Selection tools & methods 00:09:00
- grouping elements in illustrator 00:06:00
- illustrator Layers & Arranging elements 00:08:00
- Illustrator Align & distribute panel 00:04:00
- Illustrator Guides, Grids & Rulers 00:11:00
- Exercise: Drawing Basic Geometric shapes 00:17:00
- Illustrator Stroke Panel 00:09:00
- Illustrator color panels ( color, swatches, themes, guide) 00:19:00
- Illustrator Gradient colors panel 00:13:00
- illustrator puppet warp tool 00:04:00
- Illustrator Appearance & Graphic style panels 00:10:00
- Illustrator effects 00:14:00
- Exercise (Appearance, Graphic Style, Gradients, strokes) 00:09:00
- Illustrator Typography Anatomy & Character control 00:15:00
- illustrator Touch type tool 00:02:00
- illustrator Paragraphs control 00:12:00
- Illustrator Fonts (Filtering, Variable, glyphs, stylistic sets, open type panel, svg) 00:16:00
- Illustrator type on a path tools 00:07:00
- illustrator text wrap 00:02:00
- Illustrator Typography Art directions & trending visual effects 00:15:00
- Illustrator type envelope distort 00:04:00
- Exercise: Typography composition 00:03:00
- Illustrator pencil tool 00:07:00
- Illustrator Pen Tools 00:14:00
- Illustrator curvature tool 00:05:00
- Pen Tools & curvature tool exercise 00:18:00
- Illustrator drawing modifying tools 00:14:00
- illustrator Transform & Liquify tools 00:10:00
- illustrator envelope distort 00:07:00
- Drawing Symmetric Shapes 00:09:00
- Drawing Concentric Symmetrical design 00:11:00
- Illustrator Brush tool 00:04:00
- Drawing modes & blob brush tool 00:17:00
- Illustrator Clipping Masks 00:11:00
- Illustrator Opacity Masks 00:08:00
- Clipping Typography Masks 00:04:00
- illustrator live paint bucket tool 00:09:00
- Recolor Artwork 00:09:00
- Complex Drawing Exercise 00:09:00
- Illustrator Complex Drawing techniques 00:15:00
- Illustrator Art Brushes 00:14:00
- Illustrator Scatter Brush 00:10:00
- Illustrator Scatter Brush 00:10:00
- illustrator Bristle Brush 00:07:00
- Illustrator Calligraphic brush 00:10:00
- Illustrator Pattern brush 00:08:00
- Illustrator Images brushes 00:09:00
- Illustrator brushes exercise 00:03:00
- Illustrator blend tool 00:10:00
- Illustrator Symbols 00:12:00
- Creating Patterns in illustrator 00:09:00
- illustrator perspective drawing 00:12:00
- Illustrator Graphs 00:15:00
- handling images in illustrator 00:16:00
- images modifications before tracing 00:07:00
- Tracing images in illustrator 00:13:00
- Enhancing traced Vectors & coloring hints 00:07:00
- Illustrator image exercise 00:03:00
- Exporting illustrator files & save for web 00:07:00
- Preparing & exporting illustrator file for printing 00:07:00
- Asset Export Panel 00:02:00
- illustrator export for screens, save for web & Archiving files 00:09:00
- Illustrator CC 2021 New Features & Updates 00:07:00
- Illustrator CC 2022 Updates New 3D panel & Material 00:10:00