Want to create graphics that rock? Learn Photoshop or Want to create graphics that
rock? Learn Photoshop or Illustrator, study color theory or composition,
or immerse yourself in print production, layouts or packaging design. Software modules.Illustrator, study color theory or composition, or immerse yourself in print production, layouts or packaging design.

Software modules:
‹‹ Module 1: Adobe Photoshop
‹‹ Module 2: Adobe Indesign
‹‹ Module 3: Adobe Illustrator
‹‹ Module 4: Finishing Art for Designers/Adobe
Acrobat and Portfolio Preparation
Conceptual/theoretical modules
‹‹ Non-designers guide to design
‹‹ Digital text I (Intro to digital text treatment),
II (Design using digital text) and III (Typography
Advanced and projects)
‹‹ Digital photography basics
‹‹ Vector graphics I and II (Adobe Illustrator)
‹‹ Photoshop for Art Directors
‹‹ Page Layout I (Adobe Indesign basics), II & III
‹‹ Preproduction and Print
(software specific terminology and preferences)
‹‹ Workflow with Adobe Acrobat
‹‹ Co-ordinating large print jobs
‹‹ Stock photos, Fonts and Rights

Description:
Whether it's a magazine spread, a poster, or even a Web page, nothing connects or communicates like an effective layout. Layout design, the art of what goes where on a page or editorial spread, is a creative challenge for any graphic or digital designer.
Need to think like a designer? This course gives you a primer on the basic elements of design: typography, images, colour, and layout. You'll go inside the design process and learn how to evaluate designs using such time-honored principles as consistency and alignment. Through interaction with the instructor and other students, you'll with develop your ability to critique design — identifying what's right and wrong, and how to fix it.
Learn how to build strong foundations for your page design, explore creative applications for lines and shapes, and discover how to break the rules while maintaining the underlying structure of a page.
Digital illustration is a challenging but expressive area of digital design. It brings out each artist's unique personal style. You'll learn the tricks of the trade for creating illustrations, using Adobe Illustrator, that intrigue and delight. The course provides a workout in those Illustrator tools
(pentool, Bezier curves, gradients) that are critical for such designs, while retaining a focus on the principles of effective illustration.
Adobe Photoshop is the premiere image manipulation tool for both print and the Web. If you are planning on working with images in any way, you need to know it. Learn how to select, enhance,
distort, color, scale and manipulate scanned images and artwork — or create them from scratch.
Course projects include a magazine spread, a poster, patterned wrapping paper, a corporate logo and stationery, a book cover design and a calendar. You final project, completed during the 4 week final module, is an interactive E-book (electronic book) to showcase your classwork.

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Venue

Date: 08 September 2008 to 04 December 2008
Location: Friends Of Design Academy Of Digital Arts, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town
8001

Contact: Beverley
Company name: Friends of Design - Academy of Digital Arts
Telephone number: +27214610971
Email address beverley@friendsofdesign.net