Category: Graphics, Animation and Multimedia
| Medium of instruction: | English |
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Coreldraw
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lllustrator
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Adobe Photoshop
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InDesign
Illustrator
Illustrator is a vector graphics creation software for print media and web, allowing the user to produce World Class Illustrations with 16.7 million colors.
Salient Features
Creative tools for Print Media Output.
Sophisticated Web Graphic Tools.
Special Effects to Images.
Versatile Transparency Capabilities
Dynamic Media Projects
Application
Complex and High Quality Output.
Logos.
Libraries.
High Quality Illustrations.
Creating Banners, Posters, Handbills etc
Career Options
- Graphic Designer
Syllabus
PHASE - I
1) Introduction
2) Interface
3) Ruler,Guides,Grids,Workspace
4) Toolbox
5) Pen tool
6) Pencil tool
7) Basic Shapes
8) Editing shapes – Part 1
90 Editing shapes – Part 2
10) Demo 1
11) Demo 2
PHASE - II
1) Paint brush tool
2) Grouping
3) Demo 3
PHASE - III
1) Transform
2) Order
3) Layers
4) Demo 4
PHASE IV
1) Wrap Tool
2) Twirl tool
3) Pucker tool
4) Bloat tool
5) Scallop tool
6) Crystallize tool
7) Wrinkle tool
PHASE-V
1) Symbol
2) Symbol hilarary
3) Symbol spray tool
4) Symbol shiften tool
5) Symbol scruncher
6) Symbol sizer
7) Symbol spinner
8) Symbol staine
9) Symbol screener
10) Symbol styler
PHASE-VI
Graph tool
1) Column graph tool
2) Stacked column graph tool
3) Bar graph tool
4) Stacked graph tool
5) Line graph tool
6) Area graph tool
7) Scattered graph tool
PHASE-VII
Text
1) Text options
2) Area type text
3) Text on path
4) Text wrap
PHASE -VIII
Object Menu
1) Path Blend,Envelope Distort
2) Live paint,Live trace,Crop
3) Clipping Mask
PHASE IX
1) Mesh
2) Gradient
3) Demo 8
PHASE X
Filters
1) Illustrator filters
2) Create
3) Distort
4) Stylize
5)Photoshop filters
PHASE XI
1) Illustrator effects
2) Convert to shape
3) Distort,transform
4) Photoshop effects
5) Effects gallery
PHASE XII
1) Saving
2) Conversion of Raster to Vector
CORELDRAW
CorelDRAW is a Vector graphic software, allowing the user to produce World Class Illustrations with 16.7 million colours.
Salient Features
- With CorelDRAW you can create Illustrations from scratch, enhance the Designs, use and embellish scanned Photos of your Digital Art, and send your finished work out in many ways.
- Vector-based drawing Program with extensive text handling and precision-drawing features.
- Ideal tool for virtually any design project from Commercial Art to technical illustrations, advertisements, publishing and Internet publishing.
Application
- Full-color Design Illustrations.
- Complex Design Drawings.
- Commercial Art.
- Photorealistic Design Images.
- Surrealistic Images.
- Animation sequences.
- Libraries of Designs.
- High-quality drawings from low-resolution originals.
- Web page designing.
Syllabus
1) How to Start the CorelDRAW program ?
2) Introduction to the CorelDRAW program, Menu bar & Drawing Toolbox
3) Overview of Drawing tools
a) Freehand Tool
b) Rectangle Tool
c) Ellipse Tool
e) Polygon, Spiral & Graph Paper Tools Spiral- You can draw two types of spirals: symmetrical and logarithmic
4) Editing the object
- Deleting, Moving, Scaling, Rotating & Skewing
- Shape Tool - Used to give shape(curve) to a line.
- Knife Tool - Used to cut an object from node to node
- Erase Tool
- Smudge Tool - Smudging lets you distort an object by dragging the outline of an object or a group of objects
- Roughen Tool - The roughening effect lets you apply a jagged or spiked edge to objects (A generic term for any item you create or place in a drawing.Objects include line,shapes,graphic and text) , including lines, curves, and text
5) How to combine two lines
6) Learn to use Transformation (Mirror) of object and combine it -
Lets you rotate and create mirror images of objects.Mirroring an object flips it from left to right or top to bottom.
7) Learn to use Transformation (Rotation), to make a flower
8) Live Demos
- Live Demo- How to make a Heart
- Live Demo- How to make a Plane
- Live Demo- How to make a Hand
- Live Demo- How to make a Heartleaf
9) Differentiate Mode of Color
10) Color Fill Tool :-
- Fill Color
- Fountain Fill -
A fountain fill is a smooth progression of two or more colors that adds depth to an object(Gives shades of colors)
- Pattern Fill -
You can fill objects with two-color, full-color, or bitmap pattern fills.
- Texture Fill -
A texture fill is a randomly generated fill that you can use to give your objects a natural appearance.
- PostScript Fill
- No Fill
- Color Docker Window
11) Outline Tool :-
- Outline Pen
- Outline Color
- No Outline
- Outline Thickness
12) Arrange Menu
- Order:
You can change the stacking order of objects on a layer by sending objects to the front or back, or behind or in front of other objects.
- Group:
When you group two or more objects, they are treated as a single unit.
- Convert to curve:
Lets you shape objects by manipulating their nodes(The square point at each end of a line or curve segment) and segments(The line or curve between nodes in a curve objects)
- Convert Outline to object
13) Edit Menu
- Delete
- Symbol
- Duplicate
Duplicate an object
- Clone
- Copy Properties From
14) View Menu
- Simple Wireframe:
Displays an outline of the drawing by hiding fills, extrusions, contours, drop shadows, and intermediate blend shapes; also displays the bitmaps in monochrome. It lets you quickly preview basic elements in a drawing.
- Wireframe Wireframe:
Displays simple wireframe in addition to intermediate blend shapes.
- Normal
Displays a drawing without PostScript fills or high-resolution bitmaps. Refreshes and opens slightly faster than enhanced view.
- Enhanced
Displays a drawing with PostScript fills, high-resolution bitmaps, and anti-aliased vector graphics.
15) Interactive Tool :-
- Interactive Blending Tool:
Lets you create blends, such as straight-line blends, blends along a path((The basic components from which objects are constructed) , and compound blends.
- Interactive Contour Tool:
You can contour (An effect created by adding evenly spaced concentric shapes inside or outside the borders of an object) an object to create a series of concentric lines that progress to the inside or outside of the object.
- Interactive Distortion Tool
- Interactive Envelope Tool:
It gives curve effects
- Interactive Extrude Tool:
It gives 3D effect.
16) Interactive Extrude Tool
- Interactive Drop Shadow -
Drop shadows simulate light falling on an object from one of five particular perspectives: flat, right, left, bottom, and top.
- Interactive Fill Tool
- Interactive Mesh Fill:
A type of fill that lets you add patches of color to the inside of a selected object
- Interactive Transperancy
17) Eyedropper Tool & Paintbucket Tool
18) Artistic Media Tool
19) View Menu
20) Designing an Advertisement layout.
21) Designing an Greeting Card with proper measurements & Color effects.
22) Layout Menu
23) Text Menu
24) Live demo : Advertisement Layout with proper measurements.
25) Arrange Menu
- Shaping: Weld, Trim, Intersect,Simplify, Front Minus Back, Back Minus Front.
- Close path
26) Convert outline to object
27) Effects Menu
- Lens
- Powerclip
- Add Perspective
- Rollover:
Rollovers are interactive objects that change in appearance when you click or point to them. You can create rollovers using objects.
28) Bitmap Menu
29) Live Demo : Packet / Box Designing
30) Designing a Visiting Card
31) Designing a Letterhead
32) Final Project
PHOTOSHOP
Adobe Photoshop is an Image Processing software package that enables you to create & edit images on IBM personal Computers. Adobe Photoshop is acknowledged in professional fields as the cutting-edge Program, the final word in Commercial Art.
Salient Features
- With Photoshop's tools you can paint a likeness of a physical object.
- Mixing and Manipulating of colours at a click of a button.
- You can Blend 2 Images.
- You can create Patterns and Artistic Designs using Fills and Colours.
- You can manipulate your Design images with Special Effects and Techniques.
- You can Import and Export your Images.
- Retouch, Manipulate and Enhance Designs & patterns.
Application
- It has been used to edit and create images as diverse as Commercial Art, Cosmetic ads, New Photos, Motion picture footage, Animation cells & Fine Art work.
- Creates original Art & converts it to desired Platforms.
- Retouch, manipulate & enhance photographs of Digital arts.
- Master the special effects you've always wanted.
- Learn the secrets of Output & Storage of your Images.
- Web page designing.
Syllabus
1) What is Photoshop CS5?
Adobe Photoshop offers more non-destructive ways of working than any other photo editor, and Adobe is always adding enhancements to help get the job done faster and with less frustration. The latest version, PhotoshopCS(orPhotoshop8), offers improvements for everyone, but photographers will benefit most from this upgrade.It's the professional image-editing standard and the leader of the digital imaging line. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.
New Features of Photoshop CS5
* File Browser Improvements
* Photomerge Feature
* Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
* The New Filter Gallery
* Keep Track of Editing History
* Text on a Path or in a Shape
* Live Histogram Palette
* Customize Picture Package Layouts More Easily
* New Ways to Share Your Photos
* New Scrubber Controls
Interface
Adobe Photoshop offers more non-destructive ways of working than any other photo editor, and Adobe is always adding enhancements to help get the job done faster and with less frustration. The latest version, PhotoshopCS(orPhotoshop8), offers improvements for everyone, but photographers will benefit most from this upgrade.It's the professional image-editing standard and the leader of the digital imaging line. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.
New Features of Photoshop CS5
* New in Photoshop CS3
* System Requirements
* RAM Requirements
* Digital Tablets and Mice
Interface
1) The Welcome Screen
2) Color Spaces
3) Document Window
4) The Toolbox
5) Menus
6) Palettes
7) Options Bar
8) Shortcuts
9) Getting Assitance
10) Workplaces
File Menu
1) New
2) Open
3) Close
4) Close All
5) Save As
6) Save
Tool Bar
1) Rectangle Marquee Tool
2) Ellipitical Marquee Tool
The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections.
3) Edit Lasso Tool
The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic (snap-to) selections.
4) Polygon Tool
The Polygonal Lasso tool is useful for drawing straight-edged segments of a selection border.
5) Crop Tool
The Crop tool trims images.
6) Deselect the Selection
7) Magic wand Tool
The Magic Wand tool selects similarly colored areas.
8) Move selection
You can move a selection border around an image
9) Copy Using Move Tool
You can use the Move tool to copy selections as you drag them within or between images
10) Perfect Rectangle & circle
Edit Menu
1) Free Transform
2) Transform
3) Scale
Horizontal scale and vertical scale specify the proportion between the height and width of the type.
4) Rotate
The Rotate commands let you rotate or flip an entire image
5) Skew
6) Distort
The Distort filters geometrically distort an image, creating 3D or other reshaping effects.
7) Perspective
8) Wrap
9) Rotate 180°
10) Rotate 90° cw
11) Rotate 180° ccw
12) Flip Horizontal
13) Flip Vertical
Select Menu
1) Color Range
2) Drawing and Painting Tools
3) Brush Tool
The Brush tool paints brush strokes.
4) Air-Brush Tool
5) Pencil Tool
The Pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.
6) Eraser Tool
7) PaintBucket Tool
The Paint Bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.
8) Gradient Tool
The Gradient tool creates a gradual blend between multiple colors. You can choose from preset gradient fills or create your own.
9) Smudge Tool
The tool picks up color where the stroke begins and pushes it in the direction you drag.
10) Define Brush
11) Load Brush
12) Create a new Layer
13) Delete Layer
Layers
Layers allow you to work on one element of an image without disturbing the others. Think of layers as sheets of acetate stacked one on top of the other.
1) Rename a Layer
As you add layers to an image, it’s helpful to give them names that reflect their content. Descriptive names make layers easy to identify in the palette.
2) Position the Layers
3) Layer Opacity
A layer’s opacity determines to what degree it obscures or reveals the layer beneath it. A layer with 1% opacity appears nearly transparent, whereas one with 100% opacity appears completely opaque.
4) Draging Layer
5) Link Layers
6) Invisible Layers
7) Merge visible layers
Merge - When you have finalized the content of layers, you can merge them to create partial versions of your composite image
8) Flatten image.
Flattening reduces file size by merging all visible layers into the background and discarding hidden layers.
9) Edit Gradient colors
10) Swatches Palette
The Swatches palette stores colors that you need to use often.
11) Eraser Tool.
Image and Text Editing.
1) Image Size
* Wireframe Wireframe —
displays simple wireframe in addition to intermediate blend shapes.
2) Different Modes for filling colors
* Color Mode
* Multiply Mode
* Screen Mode
* Opacity of color
* Save selection
* Load selection
* Fill gradient
* Merge Down
* Strokes/outlines
* Rasterize the shapes
* Canvas Size
* Type Tool
* Vertical Type Tool
* Type Mask Tool
* Adjustments - Brightness/contrast
An adjustment layer applies color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing pixel values
Channel Palette and Mask Mode options
The Channels palette lets you create and manage channels. The palette lists all channels in the image—composite channel first (for RGB, CMYK, and Lab images).
1) Standard Mode
2) Quick Mask Mode
Quick Mask mode Lets you edit any selection as a mask.
3) Channel Palette
4) Load a channel as a selection
5) Adjustments
Auto levels
6) Inverse Selection
7) Filters
Artistic - Colored Pencil
Feathers
1) Feathers
2) Add Revelal Selection
3) Rulers
4) Clipping Mask
5) Adjustment - Hue/Saturation
6) Color Balance
The Color Balance command changes the overall mixture of colors in an image for generalized color correction.
Drawing & Editing Paths
1) Path
2) Pen tool
The Pen tool creates straight lines and smooth flowing curves.
3) Filter - Neon Glow
Neon Glow Adds various types of glows to the objects in an image. This filter is useful for colorizing an image while softening its look.
Clone Stamp
The Clone Stamp tool takes a sample of an image, which you can then apply over another image or part of the same image.
Adjustment - Replace color
The Replace Color command lets you create a mask to select specific colors in an image and then replace those colors.
INDESIGN
Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers. Since effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment with ease. Apply effects independently to an object's stroke, fill, or content.
Salient Features
- Extensive integration
Work smoothly with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy, and Dreamweaver software;enjoy consistency by using shared presets and color settings; work more efficiently with native file ;format ;support; and easily publish to multiple media.
- Creative effects and controls
Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers. Since ;effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment with ease. Apply effects independently to an ;object's stroke, fill, or content.
- Reliable prepress and printing
Have confidence in your output. Get accurate, consistent results every time you print using sophisticated preview capabilities, exporting reliable Adobe PDF files, and sharing custom presets.
Application
- Creative effects and controls
- Reliable prepress and printing
- Productivity enhancement
- Professional typographical controls
- Robust long-document support
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- New features in InDesign CS3
- InDesign workflow overview
Workspace
- The Document window
- Navigating your document
- Rulers and measurements
- Positioning panels
- Saving workspaces
- View options
- Opening a new window
Getting to the Tools
- The Tool panel
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Contextual menus
- Customizing menus
- Quick Apply
Creating a Document
- New documents
- Saving documents
- Using Undo
- Margin and column guides
- Layout adjustment
- Ruler guides
- Libraries and snippets
- Saving for CS or CS2
- Converting QuarkXPress files
Managing Pages
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Sections, page numbers, and chapter numbers
- Creating and applying master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Parent/Child master pages
- Loading master pages
Text
- Text frames
- Typing and editing text
- Filling with placeholder text
- Special characters
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- Text frame options
- Text on a path
- The Story Editor
- Spelling
- Auto Correct
- Finding and changing text
- Text variables
Graphics
- Importing graphics
- Importing InDesign files
- The Links panel
- Embedding links
- The Edit Original command
- Frame fitting options
- Transparency and Clipping Paths
- Colorizing images
- Turning image layers on and off
- Copying and pasting from lllustrator
Formatting Objects
- Selecting objects
- Basic strokes and fills
- Advanced strokes
- Transparency
- Drop shadows
- Feathering
- Other effects
- The Eyedropper tool
- Finding and changing object formatting
Managing Objects
- Stacking objects
- Layers
- Nesting objects
- Editing frame and path shapes
- Corner effects
- Grouping and locking objects
- Aligning and distributing
- Text wrap
- Editing text wrap
- Anchored objects
Transforming Objects
- Duplicating
- Rotating
- Scaling
- Skewing
- Mirroring
- The Transform Again command
Character Formatting
- Basic character styling
- Advanced character styling
- Changing case
- OpenType features
- Finding and changing text formatting
- The Find Font command
Paragraph Formatting
- Paragraph formatting
- Drop caps
- Hyphenation
- Justification
- Tabs
- The Align to Baseline Grid button
- The Keep Options command
- Paragraph rules
- Automatic bullets
- Numbering paragraphs
Styles
- Character styles
- Paragraph styles
- Nested styles
- Object styles
- Load styles
Working with Tables
- Creating a table
- Adjusting rows and columns
- Adding and deleting rows and columns
- Formatting a table
- Formatting cells
- Headers and footers
- Table styles
- Placing graphics in cells
- Working with Microsoft Word and Excel tables
Color
- Creating color swatches
- Unnamed colors
- Tint swatches
- Gradient swatches
- Applying gradients
- Overprinting
- Separations preview
Exporting
- Exporting a PDF
- Snippets and INX
- Exporting stories
- Exporting a JPEG
- Exporting an EPS
Printing
- Preflight
- Packaging for output
- The Print dialog box
| Classroom - Regular | ||||
| When | Duration | Where | Remarks | Price |
| Not Specified |
120 Sessions |
All Venues | 1 session is of 1hr. |
INR 26,000 Per Course (Taxes As Applicable) |
Mumbai, Bandra West (Branch):- 1st Floor. O'Priya Building, Near Mehboob Studio Peter Dias Road Bandra West, Mumbai - 400050, Maharashtra, India
Mumbai, Andheri West (Branch):- Wembley Society, Shop No 3 Shastri Nagar, Lane no2, Lokhandwala Andheri West, Mumbai - 400053, Maharashtra, India
Compufield Computer Institute
COMPUFIELD® Computer Institute was started in 1985 by Mr. M. E. Khairaz to impart training in Internet, Digital Art, Multimedia, Software and Network Engineering. Today we offer many different courses covering the latest and most widely used software worldwide.
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Our Training
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Our courses are upgraded frequently to meet the ever changing standards of the Industry.
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Our Students design galleries substantiate our claim of providing our students a creative and informative learning environment directed at all round growth.
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Our faculty are highly experienced in the respective software and help the students in the best possible manner.
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We have state of the art Hardware and Software facilities.
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We offer Crash courses of 6-10 hours per day to students who wish to complete their learning in a short period.
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Sessions : Each session will be of 1 hour
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