Graphic Design Training in Nepal

• The InDesign Workspace
• Using shortcuts
• Your workspace customization
• Fixing preferences – rulers, guides, layers

• Develop Master Pages
• Altering Layout
• Manage Text and Graphic Placement
• Create the Structure of a Document
• Develop Layers

• The Selection and Direct Selection Tool
• The Tool & Color Palettes
• Grids, rulers and guides

• Add/Edit & Spell Check
• Threading , Wrapping and Importing Text
• Applying and Editing Styles to text
• Change Text Threads
• Deal with missing fonts
• Hyphenation and justification
• The Eyedropper tool
• Drop caps creation
• Editing, Applying and Managing Paragraph Styles
• Formatting Characters and Paragraphs
• Proper Numbering of paragraphs
• Place Text on a path
• Flow text through multiple frames
• ‘Placeholder’ frames creation
• CS5 text options
• Using the ‘tab’ command
• The Glyphs window

• Aligning, Arranging and Distributing 
• The ‘place’ command
• Images and frames resizing
• Using ‘text wrap’
• Managing object layers
• Rotating objects
• Creating special effects
• Shape and corner options>
• Transforming Objects
• Group & Ungroup
• Duplicating, Rotating, Scaling, Skewing, Mirroring
• Managing Transparency

• Settings for ‘fill’ and ‘stroke’ 
• Adding and converting Pantone colors
• Create, use and edit solid colors and gradients

• Threading/unthreading frames
• Flowing text through frames and Multi-column text frames
• Using special characters
• Hanging punctuation
• Composition options
• Document baseline grids

• Common Graphic file formats
• Import & Enhance Graphics Files
• Simple, compound & custom Image Frames 
• Fitting options
• Inline graphics
• Creating Text Run-arounds
• Tolerance and threshold options
• Clipping Paths, Alpha channels

• Inner Shadow
• Gradient Feather
• Bevel and Emboss
• Inner and Outer Glow

• Create, Modify and Format a Table

• Using multiple master pages
• Adding and deleting pages
• Working with master pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Creating new numbering sections

• The ‘book’ option
• Templates and libraries
• Importing swatches
• Using Adobe Bridge

• Checking documents for problems
• Printing
• Package Files
• PostScript, preflighting and Packaging
• Preview Output & options
• Print, Separation, Flattening
• Creating high and low resoultion Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
• Creating a low-res PDF for the web

This course is focused on the manipulation of digital images through image readiness, editing and image creation. You will learn how to create a new image, crop, transform, paint, enhance, retouch, resize and add artistic feel. Selection methods and working with layers are also dealt with in this course. 

The aspiring graphic designers interested to use Photoshop to manipulate images and those interested to understand basics with a view to using it with other applications InDesign. 

• Effectively Use tools/palettes and understand the terminology
• Image Selection using a variety of ways and Crop and Transform them
• Resize images, modify resolution, repair and retouch photos
• Properly understand and work with Layers, Masks and Channels
• Optimize graphics for printing and use with the web

• The Photoshop Screen
• Getting to know the Tools & Palettes
• Utilizing guides, grids and rulers
• Zoom shortcuts and convenient navigation

• Why use Selections?
• Creating selections using Marquee tools
• The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tool
• The Lasso tools
• Adding or Deleting from selections
• Saving and Loading selections
• Tonal Values Control
• Toned and Tinted Images creation
• Selecting by color range
• Feathering selections
• Quick Mask mode

• Properly Using the Histogram palette
• Fixing color with variations
• Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast
• Color balance and variations
• Hue and saturation controls
• The Vibrance command

• Custom colors
• Dodge and burn tools
• Crop and rotate artwork
• Sharpen and Blur filters
• Focus tools
• The Clone & Heal tools
• The Healing Brush tools
• The Color Replace tool
• Red eye reduction
• Digital darkroom techniques
• Gradients creation and editing

• Using Plug-ins and filters
• Using the Unsharp Mask
• Cloning Images
• Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tools
• Print and web safe colors
• Mixing and applying paint and fill colors
• Using the Paint Bucket tool
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools
• Drawing shapes
• Creating vector shape layers
• Polygon, line and custom shape tools
• Adding, subtracting, intersecting commands
• Editing vector shapes using the pen tools
• Adding color fills, patterns and gradients 

• Multiple Layers creation and viewing
• Moving, scaling and rotating layers
• Linking & aligning Layers
• Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers
• Locking and protecting layers
• Layer groups
• Applying and editing type
• Converting shape and text layers
• Saving and flattening layered files

• Applying transparency
• Fundamental modes of layer blending 
• Text and adjustment layers
• Special effects
• Drop shadows, glows and embossing
• Layer masks

• Fresh Features
• Text Layer Creation
• Text Paragraphs
• Adding Text Effects,
• Painting Text 
• Anti-aliasing Text

• Photoshop filters utilization
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Fading the effects of filters

• File formats
• Right color mode selection
• Adjusting resolution and image size
• Canvas cropping and enlargement
• Printing and Optimizing Documents
• Color modes, resolution & image size 
• Printing from Photoshop and other Applications
• The Save for web command
• Developing Transparent GIF files

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based graphics program that enables the aspiring graphic designers to develop professional high quality print, type effects and web designs. The mentioned course has its main objective to guide trainees to produce good-looking, high quality graphics such as logos and advertisements with type and graphics. The trainees will create logos with professional look and feel, type effects and convert bitmaps to vector artworks by rightly using the colors, layers, gradients, fonts, and photos with illustrations and text effects. The audiences for overview illustrator course are Graphic designers or individuals looking for design job and responsibilities.

After the successful completion of Adobe Illustrator course the trainees will:

Understand Bezier curves, create and enhance logos and images using simple shapes and custom paths, manage complex illustrations using layers, create type effects and prepare Illustrator files for printing as well as using in websites. 

• Custom workspace
• Control Palettes & menus
• Smartguides
• Rulers, guides, grids, snap to
• Outline & Preview modes
• Navigation & Scroll shortcuts
• How Illustrator Works
• Components for Images
• Vectors v Bitmaps
• Text, Shapes & Colour

• Using the shape tools
• Transforming tools
• Drawing with the line tools
• The ‘warp tool’ flyout
• Symbols in Illustrator
• Developing a logo
• Tin can drawing
• Spoked wheel drawing
• Selecting, Copying and Moving
• Rotating, Skewing, Aligning, Grouping and Duplicating Objects
• Locking and Hiding
• Special Effects and alterations
• Drawing Tools such as rectangle, ellipse, polygon, Star
• Fills and Colors
• Drawing curves
• The Average and Join commands
• Eraser tool

• Importing & placing images
• Turning Bitmap into Vector
• Color
• Basic Colors & Stroke palette
• Types of Color; Color modes
• Spot v Process colors
• Gradient and Patterns
• Dragging color
• Understanding & using ‘stroke’ and ‘fill’ attributes
• Using Swatches
• Use the Paint Bucket tool

• Creating Text objects
• Artistic and Paragraph text
• Coloring and Filling text
• Adding ‘point’ type and ‘area’ type
• Add type to a vector path
• Create type outlines
• Linking Paragraphs
• Type Effects
• Placing Text Around Objects
• Find & replace & Spellcheck

• Using ‘group’ and ‘duplicate’
• Layer objects hiding and locking
• Using ‘isolation mode’
• Using Align and Distribute
• Compound paths
• Clipping masks

• Creating & Editing Paths
• Pen Tool
• Draw straight lines
• Draw continuous curves
• Shift an anchor point or a line
• Convert smooth points into corner
• Convert points in an existing object
• A curve shaping
• Converting an anchor point
• Pinch a curve inward
• Add, adjust, delete points
• Bezier curves

• Previewing
• The Print Dialog & Printing
• Defining a crop area
• Saving in non-Vector formats
• Save for Web

• Draw using Paintbrush tool
• Edit a brushstroke to an existing path
• Conversion of a brushstroke to outlined paths
• Creation and modification of brushes
• Create a new brush library
• Edit a scatter, art or pattern brush

• Object filling using a gradient
• Creation and modification of gradient 
• Use the Gradient tool 
• Create and edit Gradient meshes

• Rotate, Scale or shear
• Flip and slant
• The bounding box
• Use the Free Transform tool

• Creation and modification(Editing) of layers
• Create a sub layer
• Hide and Lock
• The layers Palette

• Removal of layer effects 
• Live shapes with text 
• Applying a Convert to Shape effect 
• Inner/Outer Glow & Add Arrowheads

• Automatically trace artwork
• Converting objects

• Scribble or tweak
• Punk or bloat an object
• Rough up a shape 
• Rotating path points
• Raster filters
• Pen and Ink filter