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Who should take this course?

The course is aimed at people with basic computer operating skills. 

Course Syllabus

       Module 1 : Graphic Design Essentials ( 1 month )

    - What is Graphic Design?  

    -   The graphic project. Stages in a graphic project. Graphic composition. Concepts and historical and current case studies.

   - Design types.

    - Different means of publishing graphic jobs. 

Module 2 :  Illustration and Graphic Edition ( 5 months ) 

- Working on Bitmaps and Vector Graphics.

- Illustration techniques.

- Bitmap image editing.

Adobe Illustrator (8-9-10 versions): 

- Tools. Colour Palettes. The Workspace. 

- Visual representations. Colour adjustments. Colour channels. 

- Selection tools. Most frequently used commands. 

- Photo retouching. Create composite images. Image montage and effects. 

- Masks and Filters. Layers and Channel utilities. 

- Using a scanner. 

- Montage and special effects. 

- Graphics file format conversion.

Vector Drawing and Illustration: Corel Draw, Illustrator

Corel Draw (10 -12 - x versions )

- Introduction. Object and Vector Graphics: Concepts.

- Tools: How to draw using Corel Draw. Guidelines, rules, etc. Nodes editing. 'Arrange' tab.

- Change text, character, paragraph, text boxes. 'Effects' tab.

- Inserting graphics. Precision work. 'Transform' tab.

- Create patterns and arrows. Using layers.

Adobe Illustrator (8-9-10 versions):

- Introduction and fundamentals.

- Selection types.

- Basic Forms. Drawing tools. 

- Combined forms.

- Painting. Painting techniques. 

- Straight and curved lines. Open and closed paths. 

- Text Work.

- Layers. Advanced features. 

- Printing.

    Module 3  : Layout ( 3 months ) 

Layout:

      -   Text handling. 

    - Text typography, different document types editing (leaflets, brochures, magazines, etc).

    -   Documents and print-ready originals preparation..

Adobe InDesign 

- Tools. 

- Master pages. Page numbers on master pages

- 'Place’ command. ‘Autoflow’ command. 

- Rules, guides and columns. Editing objects. Tabs. 

- Texts and text boxes. Capital letters. Text editor.

- Text objects contouring. 

- Graphics. Image scanning.

- Create colours. Colour palette. The ‘Style’ window. Control palette. 

- Insert objects from Corel Draw and other software. 

- Printing.

QuarkXpress  

- Installation. Quark’s screen. 

- Create a document. Save. Open and close.

- Paragraphs format. Text boxes.

- Partition and justification. Interline grid. Tabs. Borders.

- Picture boxes. The ‘Picture Style’ Tab.

- Creating lines on the page. Text paths. 

- Framing boxes. Object contouring. Duplicate and eliminate objects. Grouping objects. Changing object shape and content.

- Colour in Quark. Applying colour in Quark.

- The ‘Page’ Tab. Editing and applying page layout. E

- The ‘Utilities’ Menu. Spelling and dictionaries. Fonts and images in a document.

    Module 4 :  Colour and Printing ( 2 months ) 

Colour 

- Colour theory. The chromatic circle. Primary colours.

- Colour, light and pigment. Harmony and contrast. Scales and shades.

- The meaning of colour. Pantone system. Colour calibration. 

- Colour separation. The CMYK model.

Printing

- Técnicas de impresión . 

- Typography. Typology and graphism. Papers and inks.

- Paper types according to the technical or economic aspects of the project presentation.

- Make a printing model. Printing modes. 

- Quality control in printing. Preparing print-ready originals. 

- Printers in the market. The Printer Operator’s Role.

- Pre-printing production and filming. Different print software: Corel Draw, Photoshop, PageMaker, etc.

    Module 5: Web and Multimedia Design (3 months)

HTML

- Introduction to HTML.

- Create hyperlinks, insert images, insert backgrounds, animated images and audio files.

- Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers design. Similarities and differences.

- Create tables, fonts and colour hyperlinks.

- Create frames and maps. Design interactive visitors’ forms to fill in with comments inputs.

- Publish a website. Webpage hosting: sending files to a web server.

Macromedia Dreamweaver

- Creating web pages using a web page editor upon the professional designers’ preferences.

- Create pages using Dreamweaver. The basics.  

- The workspace. Different windows. The ‘Object’ menu. Context menus.

- Webpage elements. Titles. Formats. Links. Colours.

- Defining hyperlinks. Defining information order and structure.

- Layers: a unique feature of this software.

- Tables: creating and formatting tables.

- Style sheets and templates.

Macromedia Flash

- Create Internet or other multimedia applications and presentations for Internet or other media.

- Introduction. Tools.

- Rationale. Timeline. Workspace size.

- Motion Tweening effect. Exercises - Object motion, Text motion, Text and Object motion, Text Fade effect.

- Motion Guide effect. Font effects.

- Symbols. Animated clips basics. Practice exercise on animation - Movie clips.

- Audio. How to insert audio in animations. MP3 format files essentials. 

- Publishing. How to turn an animation into HTML and .EXE file formats.

 

    Module 6 :  Professional Development ( 1 month )

   - How to organize and plan a professional job.

    - Business and corporate image. 

    - The Professional Contact Network on the Internet and Red21.com.

    - Teleworking: Design goes global.

- Quality requirements for the Graphic Arts industry.

- Advice on Specific Aspects of this course.