URBAN COHESION HUB (UCH) and Inspire Pakistan

Course Contents / Lesson Plan

Course Title: Advance Computer
Duration: 3 Months
Course Title Advance Computer
Employable skills and hands-on practice for Graphic Designing
This course offers a broad, cross-disciplinary learning experience for
students
Looking to pursue career in Graphic Design (Print Media). The purpose of
the
Objectives & Graphics Design (Print Media) course is to provide a comprehensive
Expectations introduction to young people that will provide them with the
contemporary
Terminologies, processes, issues and trends to start their professional
career in Pakistan. The course has been established to address specific
concerns, such as the national, regional and local cultures, the work force
availability within the country, and meeting and exceeding the needs and
potentials of their companies. The course prepares the trainee to design
and publish work for industries such as advertisement, publishing
houses, education sector etc.

Expectations:

The course under reference should be delivered by professional

instructors in such a robust hands-on manner that the trainees are
comfortably
Able to employ their skills for earning money (through wage/self-
employment) at its conclusion.
This course thus clearly goes beyond the domain of the traditional
training
practices in vogue and underscores an expectation that a market-centric
Approach will be adopted as the main driving force while delivering it.
The
instructors should therefore be experienced enough to be able to
identify the
Training needs for the possible market roles available out there.
Moreover, they
should also know the strengths and weaknesses of each trainee to
prepare
Them for such market roles during/after the training.

Entry level of
Middle/Above
Trainees
Learning
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Outcomes
Choose and use media techniques and procedures, subject matter, and
topics to convey ideas through artwork.

Student will be able to select respective elements of designs; all designs

will contain most of it but not all the elements.

Understanding of applications of design principles and can identify

difference in a good or bad design.

Interpret importance of certain colors with respect to culture and mood

depiction

Study and make use of graphics development software

Students will produce a portfolio of art using a variety of graphic design

techniques, styles, and media.

Job
Opportunities Real Estate Industry

Advertising Agency

Marketing Firms

Freelance Industry

Media Houses

Educational Sectors

Publisher Industry
 Brand Identity Designer

Layout designer

Logo Designer

Graphics Designer

YouTube / Instagram / Tikor content creators

Freelancing Websites

Course The total duration of the course: 3 months (13 Weeks)

Execution Plan Class hours: 1.5 hours per day
Theory: 20%
Practical: 80%
Weekly hours: 6 hours per week

Yearly Target To
90
Train Students
Learning Place Computer Lab
 Weekly Scheduling of Training

Scheduled
Module Title Learning Units Remarks
Weeks

Week 1 Orientation/  Explore great works Activities

Introduction to graphic of past and present The tool panels
design/ Introduction to iconic graphic Workspace panels
design software designers The document area
 View samples of Panels review
professional graphic How to create a
design in the workspace
industry
 Discuss how graphic
design impact visual
space and visual
culture
 Course Introduction
 Job market ,Course
Applications
 Institute/work
ethics
 Introduction to
Adobe Photoshop
 Workspaces in
Adobe Photoshop
 Canvas in Adobe
Photoshop
 Vector basics /
Selection & Direct
selection tool
Week 2 Introduction to Adobe  Getting to Know
Photoshop
Activities
your workspace Menu bar, application
 Starting to work in bar, options bar, tools
Adobe Photoshop panel, panel dock on
 Using the tools right
 Sampling a color
 Working with tools
 Difference between
Raster and vector

Basic
Week 3  Why make selections? Activities
Selection/Marquee
Tools /Work Space  Rectangular Marquee Making color and
tonal adjustments,
Adjustments Tool
Creating an
 Elliptical Marquee adjustment layer
Tool ,Adjustment presets,
 Single Row Marquee ,Common image
Tool corrections
 Single Column
Marquee Tool
 Lasso Tool
 Polygonal Lasso tool
 Magnetic Lasso tool
 Object Selection tool
 Quick Selection tool
 Magic Wand tool
 Direct selection Tool
 Move tool
 Blur tool
 Sharpen Tool
 Smudge Tool
 Dodge Tool
 Workspace
Adjustment Panel
 Saving adjustments as
a preset
 Shortcut keys
Week 4 Type Tools/Brush Tool  Text Tool
Activities
and Shape  Type Tool Colors Text Tool practice
tools/Background  Text properties and shapes
Removing Techniques  Typography designing practices
 3d Text
 Shape Tools
 Circle
 Rectangle
 Polygonal
 Star
 Line
 Shape Colors
 Custom Shapes
 Stroke
 Fill Colors
 How to change and
add new colors
 Brush Tool
 Eye Dropper Tool
 Background
Changing

Monthly Test 1
Week 5 Adobe Photoshop  Basic Photo
Photo Manipulation
Activities
Corrections/Strategy for Photo Editing and
retouching
color correction
 Resolution and image
size
 Opening a file with
Adobe Bridge
 Straightening and
cropping the image in
Photoshop
 Adjusting the color and
tone
 Using the Spot Healing
Brush tool
 Applying a content-
aware patch
 Repairing areas with the
Clone Stamp tool
 Sharpening the image
Week 6 Layers Panels and Layers  Background layer
Styles
Activities
 Hide, view, Practice
reposition, delete,
rename
 Convert background
layer to regular layer
 Convert regular layer
to background layer
 Layer styles
 Deleting adjustment
layer
 Applying adjustment
layer to another
layer

Week 7 Gradient Features  What is Gradients Activities

 How to Make Editing colors,
Gradient Saving gradients
 Gradient Mask Shadows and
 Fading images highlights adjustment
together Correcting Red Eye
 Fading color to black
and white
 Fading solid color
into a photo
 Creating a photo
reflection
 Faded text
Week 8 Professional Logo and  Professional Logo
Printing Material
Activities
Designing Logo Designing,
Designing Ideas/Social  Social Media Posts Social Media Post
Media Platforms Designing Designing
Understanding  Banners Designing
 Cover Designing
 Posters Designing
 Templates Editing
 Social Media
Platforms,
 Social Media
Marketing Basic
Ideas
 Social Media Online
Working Guidelines

Monthly Test 2

Fundamentals of design/ The following art and design

Week 9 exploring adobe illustrator Activities
fundamentals:
Picking colors from an
 line image
 shapes Gradient bar
 color Transparency
 value Stroke effects Stroke
 textures align effects Stroke
 space corner effects
 forms Stroke dash effects
 Fill & Stroke effects Arrowhead effects
 Zooming
 Duplicating objects
 Select Multiple objects
 Aligning
 Rulers & guides
  Smart guides
 Scale strokes & Effects
 Shift & Full screen
 Grids

Adobe illustrator Tools 

Week 10 Creating shape vectors Activities
 Drawing with the Pen Click & drag technique
tool Click & convert
 Curvature tool technique
 Type Tool Deleting anchor points
 Paint Brush tool Free transform tool
 Shaper Tool
 Gradient Tool
 Slice Tool

Introduction to the design  The use of color in real

Week 11 process/ introduction to Activities
life as well as design
typography  Set up a new
 Color theory/Color
document
wheel
 Place in a sketch
 The knowledge of
different types of color  Apply
perception transparency
 The color vocabulary  Prepare layers
needed to  How do we use
communicate as a the image trace
designer ways in which tool?
color is created,
manipulated and
applied using software
 The use of text
systematically as per
the requirement of
work
 Explore typographic
design and its impact
 Setting up a document /
Placing in a drawing /
Sketch
 mage trace tool
 Branding & identity 
Week 12 design/Designing different
Logo Design Activities
 Minimalist Logo Practice of different
logotypes/Logo Types
 Signature Logo logos making
 Emblem Logo
 Mascots Logo
 Abstract Logo
 Exporting ready for
print
 Practice and Review
 what branding means
 Various fields of design
that fall within branding
 what is the process of
creating branding for a
client/project
o projects created by
professionals in the field
of identity design

Start Preparing your  The concept of design

Week 13 portfolio Activities
portfolios Online Portfolio
 the concept of present Websites ,Job
design work/projects in searching Techniques
a professional manner and Websites
 websites that provide
free portfolio hosting
such as Behance etc
 creating a portfolio
o how to select work for
presenting in your
portfolio

Revision
Final Exam