ABOUT THE COURSE

The CorelDraw Graphics Design Mastery course is a 6-day hands-on training programme that shows participants how to use some of the common tools and features of CorelDraw to produce engaging designs. The course will expose learners to the principles of graphic design in areas such as fonts and typography, colour scheme, measurement, creating awesome background and the use of the freehand tool to design logos and shapes.

Course Outline

DAY I:  

1.   What is Graphics?

2.   Understanding the Tool bar

3.   Understanding the use of the workspace

4.   Use of the ruler, grids and guidelines

5.   Setting up the a new workspace

6.   Setting up a Master Layer and Page Numbering

DAY II:

1.    Starting with a template

2.   Alignment and Measurement

3.   Setting up a new page

4.   Navigating a multi-page document

5.   Creating Master Layer and Page Numbering

6.   Understanding various File Formats

DAY III:

1.   Introduction to Fonts and Typography

2.     Creating a unique color palettes

3.   Understanding colour scheme 

4.   The application of colour

5.   Distort and apply drop shadow and 3D effects to objects

6.   Organizing a brochure layout and how to manage pages

DAY IV:

1.   Grouping and Ungrouping

2.   Importing bitmaps

3.   Aligning Objects

4.   Setting the order

5.   How to Weld, Trim and Intersect objects

6.   Combining vector shapes to create logos and graphics

DAY V:

1.   Creating a graphics from scratch using the Pen Tool

2.   How to retouch photographs like a pro

3.   Cropping and resizing images

4.   Create distorted images

5.   Grouping and Ungrouping

6.   Design clean and professional business cards

DAY VI:

1.   Creating posters

2.   Creating a postcard

3.   Creating a backdrop and rollup banners

4.   Aligning Objects

5.   Setting the order

6.   Exercises and Review