Track
Digital Designing
Duration
60 hours
Skill Level
Beginner
Language
English
About this Course
Edit and enhance photos using tools for retouching, filters, and creative effects.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- Classification of popular photo editing software (Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, GIMP, etc.)
- Familiarization with the user interface and tools available in editing software
- Techniques for improving image quality: brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments
- The art of cropping images for better composition
- Understanding the rule of thirds, leading lines, and framing
- Resizing images for various purposes (web, print, social media)
- Maintaining aspect ratio and resolution considerations
- Basics of colour correction: white balance, tint, and temperature adjustments
- Comparing various colour grading methods for creating specific moods and looks
- Adjusting brightness, shadows, highlights, and contrast for balanced exposure
- Applying creative effects: black and white conversion, sepia, vignettes, and experimenting with filters and textures
- Importance of ethical practices in photo editing
- Analysing critical aspects of images: visual aesthetics and composition principles
- Identification and mastery of layers, masks, and filters
- Overview of software offering these advanced features (e.g., Adobe Photoshop)
- Concepts of layers, blending modes, and stacking order
- Practical exercises on non-destructive editing with layers
- Various masking techniques, including layer masks and clipping masks, for precise editing control
- Exploring the flexibility of non-destructive editing
- Creating complex compositions using masks
- Organizing layers and masks to create cohesive digital montages and composites
- Application and comparison of artistic filters for achieving creative balance in images
- Advantages of working with RAW files for extended flexibility in post-processing
- Differentiating between various portrait retouching techniques for natural-looking results
- Strategies for handling diverse projects and summarizing approaches for a versatile portfolio
- Arranging an efficient editing workflow, addressing common editing challenges, and adopting best practices for speed and efficiency
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.
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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