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Graphic Design BTEC Level 3

This is a course for those who need to improve their skills in graphic design. You will cover both traditional and digital approaches to communicating through image and text and will encompass typography, page layout, illustration and computer applications. This course is ideal for those who wish to enhance their career potential within the advertising, marketing and publishing industries.

Intro Adobe Photoshop

This is an exciting course looking at an introduction to an equally exciting area of digital design practice. It is an entry level course aimed at professionals and non-professionals who would like to use Adobe Photoshop to get the best from the digital images they produce. Ideal for photographers, designers or art-workers you will not only learn how to use key tools within Photoshop and produce images of a high quality, but also add and manipulate text. The aim of the course is to provide you with a solid introduction to the image manipulation software Adobe Photoshop.

Intermediate Adobe Photoshop

This course is aimed at the more practitioners who may have already obtained more than a basic level of Photoshop experience. It will concentrate on the more complex though not advanced areas of image manipulation, compositing and image remediation whilst also considering aspects of good professional practice within the Digital Imaging Industry.

Advanced Adobe Photoshop

This course is aimed at the more advanced practitioners of Photoshop and is designed to enhance basic skills in the areas of image colour correction, composition, remedial work and final output techniques for both web and print.

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

This course is aimed those who may not have had experience with Adobe Illustrator before. The software is an industry standard design tool and can be used in a variety of ways within the context of design and illustration. Whether you’re a designer or illustrator you will learn how to develop ideas from sketches into more formalised visualizations and illustrative designs. The course will also consider issues concerning outputting files and file types for exporting to both web and print mediums.

Intermediate Adobe Illustrator

This course is aimed at those with some knowledge concerning design and using Adobe Illustrator software. This software is an industry standard design tool and can be used in a variety of ways within the context of design and illustration. Designers and illustrators will be able to learn about creating mock-ups, using Illustrator as a layout tool and the development of complex graphics. Designer and illustrators will also learn about the development of 3D models and the more complex aspects of software use and design through combining images, type and objects.

Design Your Own Business Card

This course is aimed at creating an opportunity to work with a professional graphic designer working in the graphic design industry. This course will address all types of professions and will help to provide an understanding of the importance of graphic design as a powerful communication tool. The course will provide basic skills in graphic design using computer design software (Adobe Illustrator) along with considering the effects of graphic design as a branding and marketing tool.