CorelDraw Essentials
Track Digital Designing
Duration 60 hours
Skill Level Beginner
Language English

About this Course

Learn CorelDraw tools for vector illustration, layout design, and graphic creation.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Getting introduced to the DTP Course
  • Design Principles
  • Fundamentals of Typography
  • What Are Font File Types?
  • What Are Typesetting, Legibility, Hierarchy and Readability?
  • Understanding and using the image resources
  • What are copyrights?
  • How to choose images?
  • Learning features and tools
  • Introduction to the basics
  • Exploring workspace and customization
  • Image, Color Modification Understanding
  • Mastering photo editing tools
  • Exploring drawing and coloring tools
  • Using the advanced tools
  • Using the text tools
  • Using Brush and Paint
  • Working with Selections
  • Scaling
  • Utilizing Layers
  • Working with Layers
  • Getting Creative with Types
  • Advanced Text Options
  • Masks
  • Filter Gallery
  • Arranging the Workspace
  • Various Palettes
  • Printing
  • Output Options
  • Colors in Printing
  • Exploring the user interface
  • Understanding the basics
  • Working with Page Set-up
  • Working with files and documents
  • Knowing and using the basic controls
  • Using the Viewing options
  • Understanding the psychology of colors
  • Understanding what Harmonious colors are
  • Working with colors
  • Working with the Color Palette
  • Exploring the use of various color fills
  • Working with other Fill tools
  • Manipulating the objects
  • Inserting and formatting text
  • Working with Layers
  • Working with Tables
  • Creating a Visiting Card
  • Formatting the Visiting Card
  • Studying Bitmaps
  • Going 3D
  • What are primary sketches?
  • The process of designing an output
  • What is a Moodboard?
  • Concluding lines/Outcome
  • Listing various types of printers
  • Printers based on technology: Learning
  • Printers based on characteristics: Learning
  • Learning about the different printer qualities
  • Designing Shapes, Completing Brochure design
  • Learning about the printing concepts
  • Learning about the printing terms
  • Learning about the printing terms
  • Creating a nice Product Box Package design
  • Formatting, exporting Product Box design
  • Defining DPIs, resolutions
  • Defining the printing fonts
  • Identifying the ideal file formats
  • Identifying various printing methods
  • Studying Digital Printing vs. Offset Printing
  • Defining the types of printer papers
  • Types of printer papers: Understanding
  • Types of printer papers: Understanding
  • Suitable papers for printer types: Understanding
  • Suitable papers for printer types: Understanding
  • Attributes of printer papers: Learning
  • Attributes of printer papers: Learning
  • Completing a Print Project
  • Design anything easily
  • Suitable platforms for
  • Design graphics with purpose
  • Bring out your creativity
  • Other enabling tools
  • Enable powerful machine learning
  • Using cutting-edge typography
  • Some user-inspired enhancements
  • Putting these features into practice
  • Designing field: Various job opportunities
  • Requirements to start your designing career
  • Role of vector graphic tool in Print Media
  • Designing Tri-fold Brochure in Adobe Photoshop
  • Modifying Tri-fold Design
  • Creating Magazine Cover and Back Page: Beginning
  • Enhancing, Exporting Magazine Cover design
  • CSV file and its role in Data Merging: Understanding
  • Data Merging: Understanding utility
  • Data Merging from a Microsoft Excel document
  • Data Merging from a Microsoft Word file
  • Data Merging from a PDF file
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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