Photoshop

• Aspiring Graphic Designers: Individuals aiming to build a foundation in graphic design and digital art.
• Photographers: Professionals and enthusiasts seeking to enhance their photo editing and retouching skills.
• Students and Graduates in Art and Design: Those pursuing studies in art, design, or related fields, looking to gain proficiency in industry-standard software.
• Marketing and Advertising Professionals: Individuals responsible for creating visual content for branding and promotional materials.
• Content Creators and Social Media Managers: Those aiming to produce engaging visual content for online platforms.
• Educators and Trainers: Teachers and trainers interested in incorporating digital design into educational materials.
• Freelancers and Entrepreneurs: Individuals offering design services or seeking to enhance their business’s visual identity.
• Hobbyists and Art Enthusiasts: Individuals passionate about art and design, looking to learn digital tools for personal projects.

• 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!