Graphic Design Training Course

 

ThisGraphic Design Training Course covers the most popular pieces of Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat. It’s held onsite UK wide including the Midlands, Nottingham, Leicester, Liverpool, Lincoln, Oxford and all major cities, counties and surrounding areas. These Graphic Design Courses are perfect for 121 sessions and closed company groups and ideal for companies looking to trim costs by bringing their design in-house. Unless otherwise requested all the Adobe Courses on the graphic design training course are run at introductory level but according to individual ability these can always be mixed and matched with other level Adobe Courses.

 

You are more than welcome to get in touch for an informal chat about your Graphic Design Training needs and the direction you would like to take with your Adobe Training. On this Graphic Design Course you will learn the main elements of each piece of software and how by working with them together you can create, design and publish your own publications for print or digital. It also covers the elements needed for graphic design including working with colour, type, putting together digital mood boards.

 

Graphic Design Course Info

The training is run over 5 days and breaks down to two days Photoshop Training, two days InDesign Training followed by a one day Illustrator Course. As with all the training this has a very fluid approach and can be customised to suit individual need.

 

Photoshop & Graphic Design Training

On the Photoshop Training you will learn how to work with photographs and the tools and techniques used by the professionals every day to give your photographs that extra pop. Once you have learned how Photoshop works you will then refine techniques such as selections, layers and colour to produce professional graphics for both print and digital output. This is a course ideal for anyone totally new to the software or looking to build on their current skills. As part of the Graphic Design Course these graphics are then included into the InDesign training as part of the design process.

 

Full Photoshop Training Content can be viewed from the menu at the side:

• Work with Photoshop Tools, Panels & Interface
• Image Size & Image Resolution
• Understand Layers and None-Destructive workflows
• Create, edit and use accurate colour
• Swatches & Gradients
• Smart Objects & Smart Filters
• Select & Mask /Select & Masks Properties Panel
• Make precise selections, add to and remove from selections
• Prepare images for both print and web output

 

InDesign & Graphic Design Training

The InDesign course teaches you how to create and layout documents using grids, work with paragraph styles for consistent text. Working with the images created in the Photoshop part of the Graphic Design Course you will learn how to create beautiful text wraps using both clipping paths and the text wrap panel. Again as part of the Graphic Design Training you will work with colour and typography to create highly communicative, branded and attractive professional documents.

 

Full InDesign Training Content can be viewed from the menu at the side:

 

• Edit & Update existing documents
• Create New Documents (including bleed, slug, margins & columns)
• Colour, Swatches & Gradient Panels
• Colour Sampling Tools & Matching Colour
• Use Grids for precise layouts
• Character & Paragraph Styles
• Pages & Master Pages
• Bullets & Numbering
• Create, Design & Publish effective and communicative layouts and spreads
• Publish to various outputs including InDesign, PDF
• Export to ePubs, JPEG 

 

Illustrator & Graphic Design Training

Adobe Illustrator training part of the course shows you how to work with vector graphics to produce vibrant colourful artwork for both digital media, print and the web. On the Illustrator course you will learn how to use type to produce individual logo design, create vector based social media icons, work with charts and create basic infographics.

 

Full Illustrator Training Content can be viewed from the menu at the side to:

 

• Work with Illustrator Tools, Panels & Interface
• Understand and use selection tools in Illustrator
• Create, edit and manipulate geometric shapes
• Drawing tools, pen, anchor points, pathfinder
• Use Illustrator’s layout tools including Grids, Guides, Smart Guides
• Illustrator Type Tools /Create Logos
• Working with Images
• Exporting /Printing to Print & Web

 

 

Onsite Graphic Design Courses
benefits of:

This onsite graphic design training course is ideal for large team roll outs, 121 sessions, company groups /workshops. There are a number of benefits to onsite training but the main ones are:  

 

• The training is focused entirely on your and your company requirements

• No traveling involved for you or your team saving travel & expenses

• Cheaper than traditional training

• The approach is focused specifically on you and your specific needs this is not a generic one size fits all course. 

• Prior to the training you chat with me about your aims, content preferences and levels of delegate /s knowledge

• InDesign course is tailored to suit you or your team

• Flexible dates & times to suit you

 

Laptop Hire

Short of a laptop or 6 for the training?  If so, then I can supply up to 6 laptops and projector and take care of all aspects of your Graphic Design Training Course please don’t hesitate to get in touch for an informal chat about your needs.

 

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