Online Courses for Design Skills

• How to separate out frequencies for both 8-bit and 16-bit images
• How to use the Phlearn action to simplify the frequency separation technique into one click of a button
• How to improve on your brush technique and use the brush tool, healing brush tool, clone stamp and dodge and burn to create perfect portraits
• How to master small and large scale retouching
• How to sharpen and save multiple versions of your image

• How to remove people, text and backgrounds like an expert
• Ho to create and work with layer masks including masking hair in portraits
• How to work with layers and combine images
• How to correct and enhance color using levels, vibrance, gradients, black and white and color selection
• How to draw shapes, create shadows and measure the size of your document
• How to create and warp text as well as get text to follow a line or circle
• How to work with text including outlines, bevel, emboss and drop shadows
• How to crop and image and straighten the horizon line
• How to make complex selections and use blending modes correctly
• How to work with Smart Objects and use Artboards in Photoshop CC

• All of the best selection and masking techniques available
• How to enlarge images without distorting them
• How to distort, bend, reshape images and use Content Aware Move and Extend tools
• How to customize your Photoshop with advanced preference changes
• How to speed up Photoshop if it’s running too slow and use CC Library
• How to batch process multiple images and export files ready for web and UI design
• How to perform advanced color and tone corrections using Levels and Curves
• How to get Photoshop to guess your font using Matching Fonts
• How to add Artboards to your workflow properly and add image correctly

• Have a deep understanding of typography, color theory, photos, layout, blocking and other design theory and skills
• Understand and learn the essential tools and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Create logos and branding packages for potential clients
• Learn photo editing and manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
• Master the pen tool, shape builder tool and other essential vector design tools in Adobe Illustrator.
• How to create editorial spreads and magazine layouts using Adobe InDesign
• Understand solid logo design and ad design principles to create compelling campaigns and logos
• Work through the entire package design process
• Learn non-destructive editing techniques in Adobe Photoshop
• Work through an event flyer design to understand strong type hierarchy, balance and overall design layout
• Learn a few of the upcoming design trends for 2021 and how to create them!
• Learn the history of fonts and typefaces and how to pair fonts
• Learn the basics of Affinity Designer and learn the difference between Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer
• Work through a 7 page vector tracing worksheet and feel confident creating a complex vector illustration by the end of this worksheet
• NEW! Learn how to work with multiple page layouts in Adobe InDesign and create a cookbook cover and book
• NEW! Learn the step-by-step process to becoming a graphic designer
• NEW! Learn how to work with Photoshop Mockups to create great presentations
• NEW! Learn word mapping and brainstorming techniques to increase your creativity in logo design and branding projects
• NEW! Learn the Double Exposure Effect in Adobe Photoshop
• NEW! Create Vector Art in Adobe Illustrator
• NEW! Learn How to Encourage and Spark Creativity
• NEW! How to create YouTube thumbnails and social media graphics
• NEW! How to properly give and receive critiques and feedback

• A crash course in basic design principles such as balance, rhythm, and more
• A behind-the-scenes look into Sophia’s inspiration and reference process
• Exploration into how to develop palettes that express emotion
• Several tips and tricks for fun and interesting Adobe Illustrator effects

• How to know which tool or tools to use in different scenarios
• How to use a range of tools to remove objects and reflections from a photograph
• How to use the brush, spot healing brush, healing brush, patch and clone stamp tools
• How to use fill and content aware fill features

• Photoshop Fundamentals: Go from zero to hero as you become proficient in all-things Photoshop.
• Product Retouching: Turn your product photos from ‘okay’ to ‘wow!’ with advanced retouching techniques.
• Color Grading: Learn how to color and tone any photograph and establish your signature edit style.
• Photo Manipulation: Capture your audience’s attention with exquisitely edited photo manipulations that are guaranteed to turn heads and get likes.

• Photoshop Fundamentals & Mastery: Go from zero to hero as you become proficient in all-things Product retouching, color grading and manipulation.
• Illustrator Fundamentals & Mastery: Cover everything from basic drawing, using brushes and fonts, masking and exporting to advanced productivity and workflow techniques.
• InDesign Fundamentals & Mastery: Create expert designs to elevate your brand’s visual content and hone your skills with advanced design theory and practice.
• After Effects Fundamentals: Enhance your videos with motion graphics and visual effects
• Premiere Pro Fundamentals: Navigate Premiere like a pro with video editing skills from essential to advanced techniques
• Lightroom Fundamentals: Learn how to use lightroom for all of your basic photo adjustments and move on to more advanced features to level-up your images.
• XD Fundamentals: Build on your UX/UI Design skills with basic to advanced XD skills that will take you from beginner to professional designer.

Learning objectives

• Understanding how good typography promotes reading
• Choosing web-safe fonts
• Applying web fonts in CSS with @font-face
• Adding and applying the Google Fonts syntax
• Finding and applying a good font size, line height, and line length
• Improving a color palette by improving contrast and reducing optical vibration
• Understanding how people mentally organize, or chunk, visual elements
• Applying a system of hierarchy in HTML and CSS
• Applying vertical spacing in CSS
• Adding emphasis within a heading
• Understanding classic and modernist typographic pages
• Adding a list of links
• Creating drop caps
• Fixing quotation marks, apostrophes, and dashes

• Design icons, business cards, illustrations, and characters
• Clean up face imperfections, improve and repair photos
• Use creative effects to design stunning text styles
• Remove people or objects from photos
• Cut away a person from their background
• Master selections, layers, and working with the layers panel

Learning Objectives:

• Make creative visual expression
• Learn the tools that can enhance your own image
• Open, navigate and work with multiple images

• Introduction. Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips will lay out the 5 basic principles of graphic design — symmetry, scale, framing, hierarchy, and grids — and preview what you’ll learn in the rest of their design course.
• Symmetry vs. asymmetry. Ellen will expound on her love for symmetry in design, and Jennifer will talk about her passion for asymmetry. You’ll learn how both should employ balance and can be dynamic, especially with the introduction of contrasting colors, shapes, and patterns.
• Scale. Scale is about size, but more than that, it’s about relationships. Ellen and Jennifer will explain how these relationships can tell a visual story by creating tension and energy on (and with) the page. You’ll discover how to surprise an audience using scale by playing with their expectations, and you’ll learn how scale can take on an especially important role in business logo design.
• Framing. “Every time you change the cropping in Instagram, you’re framing,” Ellen says, and it’s true — framing is something you already do all the time. In this lesson, you’ll learn how prevalent framing is in the design process and get introduced to the 3 main types of framing: margins, bleeds, and partial bleeds.
• Hierarchy. The keys to hierarchy are separation and difference. You’ll see how to use the two to order information and direct readers across a text — important lessons to keep in mind when creating logos. Ellen and Jennifer will go over an exercise in which you’ll apply hierarchy to a plain block of text, and you’ll learn the usefulness of color when it comes to textual hierarchy.
• Grids. A grid is a powerful tool for bringing structure and efficiency to your page design. In exploring different grids, you’ll learn the difference between margins and gutters, how blank space doesn’t have to feel like empty space, and how to make a basic grid in Adobe InDesign. You’ll also examine the difference between web and print grids.
• Demo: Bringing it all together. In this exercise, you’ll start by choosing 3 to 6 photographs and 1 to 2 typefaces. These will be the basic elements you’ll incorporate into your page layout design. You’ll learn how to create guides in InDesign and use pencil-drawn thumbnails as “mini blueprints” for your design. You’ll then watch as Jennifer defines typographic hierarchy, plays with scale, and anchors text to images.
• Conclusion. Ultimately, you’ll find that you can design icons, magazines, web pages, and even wedding scrapbooks using the 5 basic graphic design principles Ellen and Jennifer discuss in their class. Beyond the 5 basic principles, students can take their knowledge further by exploring advanced graphic design essentials like layers, transparency, time and motion, and gestalt psychology. The key takeaway from this course? Graphic design is all about relationships — the relationships between one design element and another, that element and the page, and that element and yourself.

• Thoughtfully seek out inspiration
• Play with composition and shapes
• Use Adobe Illustrator’s Live Paint Bucket tool for color
• Explore color theory through experimentation

• Analyse trends and communicate through sketching
• Grasp core interior design principles and build your design skills with theory
• Understand various interior design computer-aided programs and how to use them
• Gain practical skills to be able to run an interior design project
• Present a professional interior design project and create your own portfolio of work

• Design, draw and develop jewellery pieces
• Create computer-aided designs (CAD)
• Build a design portfolio
• Create a business plan

• Rough out sketches by hand for a sense of space and composition
• Use baselines and x-lines to keep your design consistent
• Map out letters quickly and efficiently
• Refine and finalize your design in Adobe Illustrator

• How to animate plants, hair, clothes, and more
• How to animate textures and apply them to objects
• How to generate animations using expressions
• How to loop seamlessly your animation
• How to give your animation the “hand drawn” look

• How to turn the dreaded hyphenation feature off once and for all
• How to transform, distort and blend like a pro
• Advanced anchor point and pen tool tricks, two-tones, repeating patterns and advanced typography
• How to use live shape effects, draw flowing curves, master corners and use the curvature and pen tools effectively
• Advanced artboards, pages and color tricks and how to use the Illustrator color guide
• How to make gradients bend, create long shadows, put text type into the shape of a letter and use the Touch Type tool
• Shortcuts for aligning and distributing using Actions
• How to make semi-flat 3D icons and animated GIF

• How to work with RAW images
• How to equalize levels and color tones, deal effectively with color casts, saturation and vibrancy, removing noise in an image and apply finishing effects
• How to create a selection using Quick Selection, Select Subject, Color Range, Channels or Pen tool
• The ins and outs of masking, sharpening, adjusting shadows, and removing reflections
• How to work with lighting effects, add features, apply blur and bokeh effects, digital displays and synthetic reflections
• How to composite a product convincingly into a stock image
• How to craft a digital scene using Adobe Dimension
• Best practices for social media, Amazon and other online retail sites