The KLiC DTP (CorelDRAW) is a 120 hours course is designed to equip learners
with the essential skills needed for effective desktop publishing using …
Track
Digital Designing
Duration
120 hours
Skill Level
Intermediate
Language
English
About this Course
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- Purpose of Learning DTP
- Getting introduced to the DTP Course
- Understanding what Desktop Publishing is
- Understanding what Desktop Publishing is
- Knowing where DTP is used.
- Knowing where DTP is used.
- Understanding who uses DTP.
- Understanding who uses DTP.
- DTP in marketing: importance and usage
- DTP in marketing: importance and usage
- Learning DTP formats and outputs
- Learning DTP formats and outputs
- Taking real-life examples of DTP
- Taking real-life examples of DTP
- Understanding print and online in DTP
- Understanding print and online in DTP
- Learning about tools for DTP
- Working with images
- How to choose images
- Understanding and using the image Resources
- What are copyrights?
- Learning the basics of CorelDRAW
- Understanding what CorelDRAW is
- Exploring the CorelDRAW user interface
- Understanding the Basics in CorelDRAW
- Getting to learn more about CorelDRAW.
- Working with the Page Set-Up
- Working with files and documents
- Getting Started with CorelDRAW
- Knowing and using the basic controls
- Understanding the Color Palette
- Understanding the Viewing Options
- Understanding the psychology of colors
- Exploring the Color Palette in CorelDRAW
- Understanding what Harmonious colors are
- Working with colors
- Working with the Color Palette
- Exploring the use of various color fills
- Working with Objects in CorelDRAW
- Working with other Fill tools
- Manipulating the objects
- Working with Objects in CorelDRAW
- Inserting and formatting text
- Case Study: Letterhead with Logo
- Learning to design a Letterhead with Logo
- Working with Objects in CorelDRAW
- Settings for Typing in Shree-Lipi
- Case Study: Visiting Card
- Creating a Visiting Card in CorelDraw
- Formatting the Visiting Card in CorelDraw
- CorelDRAW controls and features: Understanding
- Working with Layers
- Case Study: Sticker
- Designing a Sticker in CorelDRAW
- Getting to know other controls and features in CorelDRAW.
- Working with Tables
- Case Study: Flex Banner
- Creating a Flex Banner in CorelDraw
- Modifying the Flex Banner design
- Case Study: Wedding Card
- Designing a Wedding Card in CorelDRAW
- Wedding Card design: Completing and exporting.
- Case Study: Flyer with Coupon
- Designing a Flyer with Coupon
- Completing the design of Flyer with Coupon
- Learning about the other features
- Studying about Bitmaps
- Going 3D
- Meeting the client
- Client Brief
- Content and Graphics
- Marketing Plan
- Look n feel.
- How to start designing an output
- What are primary sketches?
- The process of designing an output
- What is a Moodboard?
- Outcome
- Printing and scanning basics: Understanding.
- Listing various types of printers
- Printers based on technology: Learning.
- Printers based on characteristics: Learning.
- Learning about the different printer qualities
- Case Study: Brochure
- Learning about shapes and designing a Brochure
- Designing Shapes, Completing Brochure design
- Learning about the printing concepts
- Learning about the printing terms
- Case Study: Product Box Package
- Creating a nice Product Box Package design
- Formatting, exporting Product Box design.
- Learning about the printing concepts
- Understanding DPI & Resolution
- Defining the printing fonts
- Identifying the ideal file formats
- Learning about the printing technologies
- Identifying various printing methods
- Learning about the printing technologies
- Studying Digital Printing vs. Offset Printing
- Defining the types of printer papers
- Types of printer papers: Understanding
- Suitable papers for printer types: Understanding
- Attributes of printer papers: Learning
- Post Press – Print Project Finishing
- Completing a Print Project
- Case Study: Book Cover
- Creating, designing Book Cover in new document
- Finishing Book Cover design
- Introduction to CorelDRAW
- Introduction to new version of CorelDRAW
- Choosing a workspace in CorelDRAW
- CorelDRAW default workspace: Understanding and use.
- Case Study: Newspaper advertising
- Designing an advertisement in CorelDRAW
- Enhancing and completing the Newspaper advertising
- Introduction to CorelDRAW
- Customizing Toolbars
- Customizing the Property Bar
- Corel Font Manager
- Customizing Workspace Appearance
- Getting to know the new CorelDRAW.
- Design anything easily using CorelDRAW.
- Suitable platforms for using CorelDRAW.
- Design graphics with purpose.
- Bring out your creativity.
- Other enabling tools
- Exploring the new features of CorelDRAW
- Using CorelDRAW smartly for impressive work
- Using the shortcut keys for smart work
- Case Study- Hoarding Design
- Objective
- Designing Hoarding in new CorelDRAW document
- Enhancing the Hoarding design
- Summary
- Outcome
- Exploring new features
- Enable powerful machine learning.
- Using cutting-edge typography
- Some user-inspired enhancements
- Putting these features into practice
- Career opportunities
- Designing field: Various job opportunities
- Requirements to start your designing career.
- Introduction to building blocks of publication
- Role of CorelDRAW in Print Media
- Combine Case Study Adobe Photoshop-CorelDRAW
- Case Study - Brochure
- Objective
- Designing Tri-fold Brochure in Adobe Photoshop
- Modifying Tri-fold Design in CorelDRAW
- Summary
- Case Study-Magazine Cover and Back
- Objective
- Creating Magazine Cover and Back Page: Beginning
- Enhancing, exporting Magazine Cover design
- Summary
- Case Study-e-Book
- Objective
- Creating an e-Book in Inkscape
- Formatting and completing the e-Book design.
- Summary
- Case Study-Business Proposal
- Objective
- Creating a Business Proposal in CorelDRAW
- Modifying, finishing Business Proposal
- Summary
- Understanding the objective behind merging data
- CSV file and its role in data merging: Understanding
- CorelDRAW for data merging: Understanding utility.
- Data Merging from a Microsoft Excel document
- Data Merging from a Microsoft Word file
- Data Merging from a Microsoft Word file
- Data Merging from a PDF file
- Getting started with Adobe Illustrator
- Learning the basics of Adobe Illustrator
- Getting introduced to Adobe Illustrator
- Learning about colors in Illustrator
- Basic tools of Illustrator: Introduction
- The Working Place
- Getting to know the user interface.
- Customizing the designs
- Organizing files
- Saving files
- Understanding Artboards
- Tools
- Learning about the Selection tools
- Drawing and painting tools: Introduction
- Efficient use of drawing, painting tools
- Tools
- Mastering the use of artistic tools
- Using artistic tools
- Learning best way to use artistic tools.
- Learning more tools for drawing, painting
- Using the painting and drawing tools
- Tools
- Mastering artistic tools and more
- Using new drawing and painting tools
- Discovering the Type tool
- Using the Zoom and Moving tools
- Introduction to Layers and its options
- Layers, options for better organization
- Case Study- Business Card
- Creating a Business Card
- Using Pen, Pencils, and Paths
- Paths and options: Learning more
- Using the Brush and Paint
- Exploring the Brushes
- Exploring the Brush Library
- Painting in Illustrator
- Blending in Adobe Illustrator
- Envato
- Learning what Envato is
- Understanding the use of Envato
- Getting the overview of user interface
- Learning the smart tips for working
- Outcome
- Recalling key factors of ready-to-use templates
- Discovering the major factors about templates
- Exploring when to and how to use templates.
- Efficient Designing within Deadlines
- Identifying templates for various mediums
- Identifying software using templates for work
- Understanding how templates can ease and speed up your work.
- Outcome
- Learning Presenter Media and template use
- What is PresenterMedia and its use?
- Alternatives to PresenterMedia?
- Use of Templates in PresenterMedia
- Use of Templates in other websites
- Interface Overview of PresenterMedia
- Smarter tips for PresenterMedia, other sites
- Outcome
- What is Canva and what are its uses?
- What are free Templates in Canva?
- Essential Elements in Canva
- Interface Overview of Canva
- Smart tips to work in with Canva.
- Combine Case Study Adobe Illustrator – Scribus
- Case Study-Product Manual
- Objective
- Product Manual: Understanding and Designing
- Customizing and finalizing the Product Manual
- Summary
- Outcome
- Case Study- Story Board
- Objective
- Beginning to design a storyboard.
- Designing screens in storyboard with page setups
- Summary
- Outcome
- Copyright
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Target Audience & Who Should Join
• Aspiring Graphic Designers: Individuals aiming to develop foundational skills in graphic design and desktop publishing.
• Students and Graduates in Art and Design: Those pursuing studies in art, design, or related fields, seeking to enhance their digital design capabilities.
• Marketing and Advertising Professionals: Professionals looking to create compelling visual content for branding and promotional materials.
• Content Creators and Social Media Managers: Individuals responsible for producing engaging visual content for online platforms.
• Educators and Trainers: Teachers and trainers interested in incorporating digital design into educational materials.
• Freelancers and Entrepreneurs: Individuals aiming to offer design services or enhance their business’s visual identity.
• Hobbyists and Art Enthusiasts: Individuals passionate about art and design, seeking to learn digital tools for personal projects.
• Students and Graduates in Art and Design: Those pursuing studies in art, design, or related fields, seeking to enhance their digital design capabilities.
• Marketing and Advertising Professionals: Professionals looking to create compelling visual content for branding and promotional materials.
• Content Creators and Social Media Managers: Individuals responsible for producing engaging visual content for online platforms.
• Educators and Trainers: Teachers and trainers interested in incorporating digital design into educational materials.
• Freelancers and Entrepreneurs: Individuals aiming to offer design services or enhance their business’s visual identity.
• Hobbyists and Art Enthusiasts: Individuals passionate about art and design, seeking to learn digital tools for personal projects.
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!
• 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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