Graphic Design
Basic

Raster and vector graphics: differences and features → What is the Adobe Creative Cloud → What is design? General concepts, terms, and definitions → Technical issues and parameters of the required devices

Workspace: settings of the interface, panels and color profiles. → Basics of raster graphics: document settings, simple drawing, working with a brush and layers. → Retouching, tone and color correction: non-destructive retouching of images, tools for removing defects, adjustment layers, correction of selective areas of images, smart filters. → Selection and cutting (masking) of objects: selection tools, quick mask, raster and vector layer masks, cutting complex objects using channels, saving alpha channels. → Photo collage and work with text: smart objects, fill layers, clipping mask layers, transformation and deformation of objects, overlay modes, adding text. → Prepare photos for a portfolio: correct lens distortions, retouch and correct with Camera Raw, content-aware filling and scaling, auto-aligning and auto-blending layers. → Visualizations and mockups: photorealistic visualization of printing on paper, on fabric and in volume, adding shadows, relief, texture using layer effects, deformation, plastics, filters. → Frame gif animation, saving and exporting files.

Workspace: settings of the interface, panels and color profiles. → Basics of vector graphics: document settings, artboards, vector paths and anchor points, attributes of vector objects, pen tool, arranging and grouping of objects. → Basics of color theory. Practice: RGB, HSB and CMYK colors, swatches and global colors, creating a harmonious palette. → Free drawing: vector brushes, pencil, eraser, plastic, puppet warp deformation, gradient, masks and symbols. → Additional tools for creating graphics: automatic vectorization of a raster іmage (tracing), pixel art, blends, patterns, effects, three-dimensional graphics: mesh and 3D. → Geometric graphics: creating shapes and their settings, transformations, moving and aligning objects, perspective, mirroring and repetition of objects in a circle. → Creating a complex object by combining simple shapes: pathfinder, compound shapes and paths, deformations, creating offset paths, guide and the basic document grid. → Basics of typography. Practice: font and font styles, size, leading, kerning, tracking and their settings, text tools and containers, text justify, text on the path and in the area, glyphs, types of dashes, quotes and spaces, character and paragraph styles. → Building a modular grid: baselines, columns, rows, modules, snap text to a modular grid. → Basics of prepress. Practice: preparing a layout for printing, format and resolution, CMYK space, triad colors, converting fonts to outlines, expanding effects, flattening transparency, making bleeds, exporting a file for printing

Work with shapes, grid → Texts → Masks → Components → Styles → Effects → Integration of raster images → Working with color and gradients → Prototyping tools → Basics of site prototyping

Working with color → About the basics of color and how to work with it → Composition → Posters and posters, cases and examples → Animation workshop → Design portfolio