What you'll learn
Learn graphic design skills with our Adobe training courses in Sydney!
Graphic designers are visual communicators - their ideas inspire, inform and captivate consumers through imagery, typography and graphics. This graphic design essentials course will give you a solid foundation in the principles and software that help to make ideas and designs recognisable and prominent. You will work with a variety of media and software so you can enhance your design competency. You will be given the tools to communicate effectively with the fast-paced visually literate society we all live in today.
If you want a quick, easy and affordable introduction to graphic design then this graphic design essentials course is for you!
Learning outcomes
By the end of this graphic design course, you should be able to:
- Recall an overview of the history of design, colour theory, typography and layout to inform the design process
- Develop basic skills in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop programs in Adobe Creative Cloud
- Exercise communication and critical analysis of design
- Gain an understanding of the overall design process and how it can be used for creative purposes
Course content
What will be covered in this graphic design course?
The topics covered will include the history of graphic design, colour theory, typography and composition as well as touching on the basics of the three main industry-standard design software programs: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop in Adobe Creative Cloud. The theory elements in class will be comprehensive and initiate a process of personal enquiry and research to discover what participants find appealing to them individually.
Lesson 1: History of graphic design and branding
- Overview of topics
- Principles and Elements of design
- History of Graphic Design
- Show work of successful Graphic Designers from the late 20th and 21st Century
- Discuss the importance of Graphic Design in brand recognition
- Show examples of successful branding exercises
- Homework activity: to select two pieces of graphic design with a focus on brand for discussion in lesson two
Lesson 2: Colour
- Discuss homework activity from lesson one
- Tie back into principals and elements of design
- Discuss colour in the context of branding
- Discuss how colour is used in software (overview of RGB, CMYK and web colour)
- Demonstrate where colours are chosen in software packages
- Homework task: finding two pieces of Graphic Design with a focus on typography for discussion in lesson three
Lesson 3: Typography
- Discuss homework activity from lesson two
- Introduce typography
- Cover history of typography
- Introduce students to prominent typographers and fonts
- Introduce software and where the typography is set in each program
- Homework task: begin to think of a product or service for which they would like to create an advertisement
Lesson 4: Adobe Photoshop
- Overview of what the different software packages are for?
- Discuss areas of the industry that utilise different software packages
- Introduce Adobe Photoshop
- Search for images for advertisement
- Photoshop tutorial: Introduce colour alteration and enhancement, cloning, transform functions, selecting and masking, layers and painting tools
Lesson 5: Adobe Illustrator
- Introduce Adobe Illustrator
- Discuss its predominant uses
- Illustrator tutorial: Introduce tools, colours, pathfinder, and stroke
- Illustrator activity: Draw a logo
Lesson 6: Adobe InDesign
- Introduce Adobe InDesign
- Discuss its uses
- InDesign tutorial: Introduce tools, colour, typesetting, page layout, and layers
- InDesign activity: Begin to layout advertisement
Lesson 7: Project workshop
- Work on advertisement for rest of class assisting students
- Roup critique
- Review topics covered
Intended audience
Who is this graphic design course for?
This course is for those looking to develop their design skillset, business owners wanting to be more creative with their advertising, or artists looking to expand into digital mediums.
Basic computer literacy is assumed as part of this course.
Course materials
What to bring to class
- An 8GB USB
- Pen & paper, or a tablet for writing notes
- Feel free to bring any drawing material that you have at home but not essential. Black felt tip Artline pen will suffice for most sketching exercises
Additional information
Please note the following:
This Graphic design training course runs in our computer lab, fitted with 27-inch Apple computers as well as Dell computers running the Windows operating system. Adobe products function in the same way on both Windows and Apple computers except for minor differences with keyboard usage and where files are located within the computer.
Course testimonials
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Jennifer said: Our tutor was absolutely terrific, super knowledgable and an excellent communicator, and endlessly enthusiastic about sharing what she'd learned in her many years of experience in the graphic design world. The course is hands-on and practical, and the tutor gave us lots of things to read outside of class if we were keen to do so.
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Andrea said: I really enjoyed the combination of practical and theory. I liked how the tutor would give real-world examples. It was so great to get into the mindset of a graphic design professional and to understand how to apply the learnings practically.
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Jennifer said: The tutor is a very good teacher, she is very patient, helpful and qualified. The course was very good, very interesting and we did lots of activities. I highly recommend these classes :)
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Sean said: The tutor was excellent. She was extremely knowledgeable about the history, theory & practice of graphic design. I had a great experience.
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Sean said: The course provided a nice starting point for someone new to the graphic design industry. The theory covering the design fundamentals helps put a lot of things in to context. I now understand the how photoshop-illustrator-indesign are intended to be be used together, which is particularly informative. The basics of the applications were covered. I will now look at doing another SCC course covering each of the application in more detail.
Course tutors
Melissa Fitzgerald
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