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Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Get started with three graphic design projects using some of the world’s most widely-used design tools: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Syllabus

Introduction

Introduction to graphic design: Projects
Course requirements
About the course projects

1. Photoshop

The Photoshop project
Creating an artboard document
Creating a guide layout
Using wireframe elements
Challenge: Build the wireframe
Solution: Build the wireframe
Populating the frames
Choosing type
Using type styles
Challenge: Using type styles
Solution: Using type styles
Creating a color theme
Using Layer Comps
Creating alternate layouts
Exporting assets

2. Illustrator

The Illustrator project
Preparatory steps
Challenge: Choose fonts and colors
Setting the main text
Setting the footer text
Creating an image frame
Styling the image frame
Using type on a path
Challenge: Hierarchy
Solution: Hierarchy
Creating a background
Finishing up

3. InDesign

Project overview
Document setup
Setting margins
Adding guides
Challenge: Layout guides
Solution: Layout guides
Choosing and pairing fonts
Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors
Splitting images for the covers
Creating tints for the cover flaps
Adding image content
Importing and organizing text
Styling the title block
Styling the cover quote
Optical margin alignment
Setting the back cover text
Adding character style overrides
Challenge: Set flap texts
Solution: Set flap texts
Creating the spine content
Adding the publisher's assets
Exporting assets
Creating a print finish

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Tony Harmer

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