Make Compelling Design. Learn and apply the principles of graphic design towards a comprehensive branding project.

In this course, you will learn:

gain the fundamental skills needed to be a graphic designer.

communicate through image-making and typography.

complete a capstone project to add to your professional portfolio.

everything you need to know to work in interface design, motion graphics, and editorial design.

This course will teach you the fundamental principles of graphic design: imagemaking, typography, composition, working with color and shape and foundational skills that are common in all areas of graphic design practice.

You will study, name, and measure the characteristics of letterforms. You will consider the pragmatic concerns involved in selecting and combining type.

You will peek into the rich historical, cultural, and aesthetic histories of familiar typefaces. You will discuss time-tested conventions and best practices in setting type, as governed by principles of hierarchy and spatial organization. And you will explore the expressive, meaning-making potential of type.

You will experiment with a range of materials and techniques to make images for graphic design. You will expand your visual vocabulary both in terms of making and talking about work, in order to discuss your work and work of others.

You will learn how to make, manipulate and arrange images to create compositions, eventually culminating in the design and production of an-image-based book.

Learn about the concepts and software that every designer needs to know.

In this course you will learn about:

The creative process behind graphic design

How to create layout, composition and grid concepts

Use of typography and color

How to transform images and assets using Photoshop

Drawing logos using adobe Illustrator

Design graphics and documents using adobe InDesign

on completion of this course, you will have a better knowledge that requires to become graphic designers.

Learn the essential tools of Adobe Photoshop CC to jump right in and design beautiful graphics and photos in Photoshop.

In this course, you will learn:

Photoshop CC as a beginner.

customizing your workspace and panels.

creating a new photoshop project preview.

placing photos into your project.

selecting, zooming, and moving around your project.

Premiere Pro CC as a beginner.

After Effects CC.

Adobe InDesign CC.

This course will teach you the fundamental principles of graphic design: imagemaking, typography, composition, working with color and shape.

In this course, you will learn how to:

explore and investigate visual representation through a range of image-making techniques.

understand basic principles of working with shape, color and pattern.

understand the language and skills of typography.

This course will show you a range of analog and digital imagemaking techniques and discuss how they work.

In the first peer review assignment you will create your own series of images, experimenting with formal techniques.

After that, you will rework those images to enhance their ability to communicate an idea through connotation in an optional assignment.

You will learn about typographic terminology and the basic rules for creating typography.

The course will show you a range of tips and techniques for working with type, in both a functional and expressive manner, and you will find out about the process involved in making and controlling typography.

You will learn about visual contrast, color, rhythm and pattern in design. The course will show you the process involved in making an abstract design from shapes, and how to use that element to create a repeating pattern design.

You will understand how visual contrast and color work. You will create your own simple and complex design motifs, and you will use them as the central elements in designing a repeating pattern in the second assignment.

You will look at how designers work with visual contrasts, cropping, hierarchy and direction in single images and complex compositions.

You will find out how to control and use scale, weight, direction, texture, and space in a composition, and how to compose work that ranges from the complex to the minimal.

You will create your own abstract compositions that demonstrate your knowledge and control of visual contrast.

Learn what you need to know to break into the world of graphic design. In this course, you will:

Master the most widely used software in graphic designing

Learn the principles of graphics design and visual communication

Gain an insight into the current graphic design industry

Understand how to forge a career path as a graphic designer

You’ll learn everything from working with layers and selections in Photoshop, to formatting text and menus in Dreamweaver, to using pathfinders and special effects in Illustrator.

On completion of this course, you will have the strong foundation needed to get started in the world of graphic design, along with the skills needed to start working professionally straight away. Tools used in this course are:

Adobe Photoshop: Used for editing and manipulating photographs and images. Improve lighting and colour, add special effects, remove blemishes, create your own images from scratch, and more.

Adobe Illustrator: The standard software for graphics design, and where you do the majority of your work. Create any kind of vector art or illustration your mind is capable of thinking up!

Adobe Acrobat: Transform your work into a format than anyone can view a PDF. This program also enables you to create, manipulate, print and manage your finished project files.

Adobe Dreamweaver: Design and develop beautiful websites with ease, complete with both a design view and code editor so you can see changes you make on all sides in real time.

Learn how you can create your own professional game graphics quickly in Photoshop! With this course:

Build professional stylized backgrounds from scratch in Photoshop

Make Money from your new skills

Create your own game graphics

The 2D Game Background Creation Course will show you how to create quick high quality stylized backgrounds for games and animations that will stand up as professional work. The techniques taught in this course can be translated into prop and character creation. This course will enhance or give you skills in the world of digital art creation.

The course is your track to building amazing attractive backgrounds. Whether for your own games or for other peoples projects. This course will take you from having little knowledge in Photoshop to creating professional backgrounds in as little as one week.

You’ll gain instant access to all five sections of the course including the bonus section where you will be shown where and how to find jobs creating digital art work that you can do from anywhere in the world. You’ll also gain access to 50 assets that have been created for your personal and commercial use. These assets can be used over and over again in your own games. The course is setup to quickly take you through step by step, the process of creating a digital background in Photoshop.

A survey course that explore nine graphic design specialties. In this course, you will:

Learn that good design is often concept driven

Understand why some design mediums need to communicate more quickly than others

Learn the thinking behind great graphic design and get a birds eye view of the entire field

This is a survey course, so it does not go into specifics about how the work is created, rather it’ll explore why the work is good, the thinking that went into it, and any other anecdotes it may have about each field.

It covers nine graphic design specialties. They are: