Week 1: Introduction to Graphic Design Basic 

• History & Importance of Graphic Design 
• Objective 
• Point and shape, texture and line, space, and color are graphic design elements.
• Principles of Graphic Design (Theoretical Part)
• Typography (Introduction to Typography)
• Typefaces
• Classification of Typography
• Anatomy of a Letter
• Typographic Measurements
• Typographic Standards
• Typographic Guidelines
• Adobe Illustrator

Week 2: Introduction Understanding vector graphics

• Setting preferences
• Exploring the panels
• Illustrator interface
• Creating and saving workspaces working with Documents
• Creating files for print& Web
• Managing multiple documents& Navigation
• Using rulers, guides, and grids
• Changing units of measurement
• Locking and hiding artwork
• Creating and using artboards
• Illustrator Artboards Selecting and Transforming Objects
• Using the Direct Selection and Group Selection tools
• Using the Magic Wand& Lasso tool
• Grouping objects
• Using isolation mode
• Resizing your artwork
• Rotating objects
• Aligning and distributing objects working with Color•RGB vs. CMYK

Week 3: Working with Fills and Strokes

• Understanding fills and strokes
• Working with fills&strokes
• Creating and editing gradients
• Applying gradients to strokes
• Applying and editing patterns fillsWorking with Paths
• Understanding paths
• Understanding anchor points
• Creating Shapes with the Knife and Scissors Tools
• Working with the Shape Builder tool
• Using the Erase and Blob Brush tools
• Working with the Paintbrush and Pencil tools
• Smoothing and erasing pathsPen Tool
• Exploring the Pen tool
• Drawing straight lines
• Drawing simple curves
• Converting corners and curves
• Making use of Typography in Illustrator's Pen tool to trace art
• Adjusting your type settings
• Basic text editing
• Using the type panels
• Creating text on a path
• Converting text into paths
• Saving time with keyboard shortcuts
• Working with Layers
• Exploring the Layers panel
• Creating and editing layers
• Targeting objects in the Layers panel
• Working with sublayers
• Hiding, locking and deleting layers
• Using the Layers panel menu
• Drawing in Perspective
• Defining a perspective grid
• Creating perspective-based art Creating, Exporting, and Printing
• Saving & Printing your artwork
• Saving for the web

Week 4: Employee Card, Business Card, Flyer, & Boucher

• Practices
• Employee Card
• Business Card
• Flyer
• Broucher 

Week 5:  Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

• Bitmap vs. vector
• Resolution and quality issues
• Viewing/opening documents
• Toolbar
• Most commonly used palettes Rulers, guides, and grids Layers
• Background v layer, creating layers
• Preserving data
• Re-arranging
• Hiding, locking/unlocking
• Naming, deleting
• Layer opacity Layers Styles
• Shadow effect
• Glow effect
• Bevel & Emboss effect
• Color Overlay
• Gradient Overlay
• Pattern Overlay
• Stroke Transformation
• Flipping, scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective
• Control options
• Freely rotate, slant, or straighten using Text
• Warp Text
• Text with underline and Strikethrough
• Text with mask Image
• Image sizes (handout)
• Image size vs. canvas size
• Cropping (and resizing), plus manual
• Image modes
• Using the clone, recuperate, and patch tools for simple repainting color correction
• Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
• Use levels (+ auto), shadows/highlights, and brightness/contrast where appropriate  

Week 6: 'Quality' adjustment 

• Dust and scratches, reduce noise
• Blur, Gaussian blur
• Sharpen/unsharpened, and size issues Selections
• Various tools, tool options
• Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth, expanding, similar
• Pen tool specifics
• Paths to selections
• Selection with Mask Outputting for the Web
• Optimizing for Web colors
• Resizing and compressing

Week 7 Photo Manipulation Instagram Post Gif

Week 8 Video Editing

Week 9 – 10 Figma