About This Course
Master the leading tools in the world of digital design so you can develop your creative potential and at the same time enter the job market. We will teach you how to create vector designs in Adobe Illustrator, and you will be able to develop your designs in bitmap format, photo retouching, and animations with Adobe Photoshop.
You will be able to work in the fields of Graphic Design, Editorial Design, Photography, Illustration, Signage, Web Design, Design for the printed press, Corporate and Institutional Design, Infographics, poster and advertising production, Architecture, Industrial and Textile Design, large-format printing, and others.
You will be able to work as a designer in advertising agencies, publishing houses, media outlets, and public and private institutions.
Learning Objectives
With CorelDraw you can alter and transform images and pages, as well as create and manipulate vector drawings and lay out pages for print and/or web publication, making it one of the most versatile programs on the market.
With Adobe Photoshop you can retouch photographs and create graphics using filters and plug-ins professionally; it is the market-leading program chosen by professional photographers, web designers, graphic designers, and photo retouchers, among others.
With Adobe Illustrator you will achieve great versatility in producing flexible graphics used in layout-publishing, print, video, web publishing, and mobile devices, creating highly professional graphic-illustrative material.
With Adobe InDesign you can compose pages and perform editorial design tasks with professional quality, achieving high-quality prints or generating digital formats.
Material Includes
- Certificate of Completion upon finishing the course.
- Official Certificate issued by the corresponding authorized entities. It will incur an additional issuance fee and will require completing a final evaluation that validates the knowledge acquired.
Requirements
- Asynchronous modality, that is, totally flexible to your schedule. You will be able to study, train, inform yourself, and add complementary details in the time you have and when you can.
Target Audience
- Graphic design students.
- Design professionals who wish to update their skills.
- Creatives and visual artists.
- Entrepreneurs who want to design their own graphic pieces.
- Marketing and advertising professionals.
- Students and graduates of related fields (design, communication, advertising).
- Self-taught graphic designers who want to strengthen their knowledge.
- Professionals working in design and advertising agencies.
- People interested in acquiring basic knowledge of graphic design.
- Anyone who wants to explore and develop their creativity in graphic design.
Curriculum
32 Lecciones48h
Fundamentals of Graphic Design and CorelDraw
In this unit, you will acquire the fundamentals of graphic design and learn to use Adobe Illustrator, one of the most widely used tools in the industry. Through the lessons, you will explore vector-based illustration, learn how to perform operations with lines and shapes, and discover how to work with objects, color, and text.
Course presentation
Vector-based illustration.
Drawing: operations with lines and shapes.
Object operations.
Object color.
Text application.
Effects application.
Page operations and design tools.
File input and output.
Practical Assignment 1
Image editing and design with Adobe Photoshop
In this unit, you will immerse yourself in the world of image editing and graphic design with Adobe Photoshop. You will learn to use layers, brushes, and fill and color tools to perform creative edits and manipulations on your images. Additionally, you will explore text handling, photo retouching, and Photoshop file formats.
Layout and Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign
In this unit, you will delve into the world of layout and editorial design using Adobe InDesign. You will learn to create professional designs, from page layout to handling objects and compound shapes.
Your Instructors
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