Online Graphic eLearning

Graphic Design Foundation Certificate ...Graphic Design certificate program focuses on creating intelligent and powerful visual communication. Students build a strong foundation for a graphic design career by learning design techniques, visual thinking, concept development, color, composition, and typography, through case studies and hands-on exercises. Graphic Design students learn the professional applications for Adobe  more...

Graphic Design Advanced Certificate ...Graphic Design certificate program focuses on creating intelligent and powerful visual communication. Students build a strong foundation for a graphic design career by learning design techniques, visual thinking, concept development, color, composition, design training, and typography, through case studies and hands-on exercises. Graphic Design students learn the professional applications  more...

Web Design Foundation Certificate Program ...sign Certificate Program focuses on developing the visual graphic and information design skills required to create compelling Web sites. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, or equivalent software tools. Course projects include critique, digital imaging, color, typography, and composition, Web page design using HTML, tables, frames,  more...

Graphic Design Masters Certificate ...Graphic Design certificate program focuses on creating intelligent and powerful visual communication. Students build a strong foundation for a graphic design career by learning design techniques, visual thinking, concept development, color, composition, and typography, through case studies and hands-on exercises. Graphic Design students learn the professional applications for Adobe  more...

Web Design Advanced Certificate Program ...This Certificate Program focuses on developing the visual graphic and information development skills required to create compelling Web sites. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, or equivalent digital imaging, HTML editor, and interactive animation tools. Advanced Certificate students select a single area of professional  more...

Multimedia Design Advanced Certificate The Multimedia program focuses on providing the conceptual, technical, and visual design skills required to create multimedia applications and environments. Students build a strong foundation for a multimedia design career by learning design principles, digital imaging, Flash, basic ActionScripting, video and sound editing, animation, and interaction design, through case studies and hands-on  more...

Multimedia Design Master's Certificate The Multimedia program focuses on providing the conceptual, technical, and visual design skills required to create multimedia applications and environments. Students build a strong foundation for a multimedia design career by learning design principles, digital imaging, Flash, basic ActionScripting, video and sound editing, animation, and interaction design, through case studies and hands-on  more...

Digital Arts Advanced Certificate The Digital Arts Certificate program focuses on developing technical skill and creative artistry in digital photography and imaging. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or equivalent digital imaging and vector drawing tools. Advanced Certificate students select a single area of professional concentration. Concentrations include: Digital Illustration,  more...

Digital Arts Master's Certificate This certificate program focuses on developing technical skill and creative artistry in digital photography and imaging. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or equivalent digital imaging and vector drawing tools. Master's Certificate students select two areas of professional concentration. Concentrations include: Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, and  more...

Business Marketing Design Advanced Certificate The Business Marketing Design Certificate focuses on developing the visual identity, advertising, and marketing design skills required for a corporate or small business environment. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or equivalent digital imaging and vector drawing tools. Advanced Certificate students select a single area of professional concentration.  more...

Business Marketing Design Master's Certificate The Business Marketing Design Certificate focuses on developing the visual identity, advertising, and marketing design skills required for a corporate or small business environment. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or equivalent digital imaging and vector drawing tools. Master's Certificate students select two areas of professional concentration.  more...

3D Modeling Using Form_Z Course ...on the lookout for new design techniques to spice up your graphic or Web design portfolio. Whatever the case, this fun, project-based course provides a thorough introduction to the advanced Autodessys Form_Z 3D modeling tool. You'll be making your own 3D images by the second lesson, and creating your own 3D environments by the fifth. LESSON 1 Getting in Control of 3D Space In this lesson  more...

Advanced Flash Multimedia Projects Course ...colorful and interactive kaleidoscope that loads external graphic files. LESSON 2 New Directions in Animation Flash animation extends a few light years beyond the humble tween. This lesson will take you beyond tweening and into programmatic animation animation using ActionScript code. With ActionScript, you'll learn to take more control over your animation and create more realistic  more...

Advanced Graphic Design Course ...Graphic design is the art of visual communication, the visual representation of ideas or concepts. How do you succeed as a graphic designer? Study the movements that shaped today's visual world, and learn how to conceptualize projects, reinvent clich s, create balanced layouts, distill complex information, and motivate your audience. In this advanced, hands-on course, you'll build skills  more...

Advanced Layout Design Take your layout skills to the next level by studying advanced concepts in page design. Students explore how to use esoteric composition and typography and color to create layout designs that attract attention and challenge the viewer. Open-ended projects provide maximum opportunity for portfolio development.  more...

Graphic Design I Establish a firm foundation for taking on professional design work. You ll gain insights from industry veterans and explore the challenges of designing posters, logos, magazine covers, book layouts, 3D designs, and brand identities. Looking to establish a career as a freelance designer? The course provides you opportunities to hone your design process, as you research each project, develop  more...

Advanced Logo Design Build your portfolio by tackling professional logo and branding design projects. Lessons cover such important concepts as corporate identity, image, branding, and repositioning, with reference to intriguing real-world case studies. Course projects offer a range of challenges from a record company logo to an airline branding system, allowing you to build your personal style within constraints of  more...

Advanced Packaging Design Explore the exciting medium of packaging design by creating branded products for retail display. How do you make a product stand out from the shelves? What makes the targeted consumer want to buy it? Students address these questions via course projects including champagne packaging, pizza box, perfume bottle, and mass versus prestige applications.  more...

Advanced Typography Learn advanced concepts in typography including type fusion, information hierarchy, expressive type, and 3D type applications. Assignments include advertising, product packaging, civic branding, and currency design. The focus of the course is on improving your design by learning to see type differently.  more...

Advertising Design Course ...ts, the written word should never be neglected. Excellent graphic design and copy must work together to deliver the message. Lesson Four explores the goals of ad copy, exploring some copywriting techniques useful for freelancer designers who may need to work with copy: active words, alliteration, onomatopoeia, irony, brevity, and Q and A. Agency designers learn some tips on working efficiently  more...

Design Business Learn the essentials of starting a career in visual design. Strategies are discussed for presenting a portfolio, finding work, and marketing yourself, in addition to building a professional persona, networking online and off, and writing an effective resume and cover letter. Assignments include a visual identity, resume, online portfolio, job research, and self-promotion plan.  more...

Color Correction Learn how to achieve an effective color balance in your Photoshop images and optimize them for print output. Students explore professional techniques for working with scanned, film, and digital source material, learn how to control, correct, and enhance the color palette of digital images for print media. Course projects emphasize developing a technical knowledge and an artistic understanding of  more...

Advanced Graphic Design Prepare yourself for high-level graphic design projects. The focus is on understanding different styles that influenced graphic design, in addition to how to conceptualize projects, reinvent clich?s, create balanced layouts, distill complex information, and motivate your audience. Course projects include postage design, annual report layout, poster and book design, an art poster, and a direct mail  more...

Color Theory Focus on developing appropriate color systems for graphic design projects. Projects explore the principles, terminology, and applications of color theory, with an emphasis on manipulating color. A working knowledge of the expression and perception of color, and color interaction, lends credibility and sophistication to a designer's work.  more...

Design and Composition Discover the principles of effective composition in print design and advertising. Composition, literally the assembly of elements, is the artful arrangement that guides the eye and unifies a design work. Case studies and hands-on projects address closed/open space, negative space, movement, and more.  more...

design for non-designers Need to think like a designer? This course gives you a primer on the basic elements of design: typography, images, color, and layout. Through a series of real-life case studies, you'll go inside the design process and learn how to evaluate designs using such time-honored principles as consistency and alignment. Through interaction with the instructor and other students, you'll with develop  more...

digital illustration basics ...graphic design since its inception in the 1920s. Today, most of those friendly little graphics and icons that give order and humanity to the world around us are created digitally, using powerful software applications such as Adobe Illustrator. In this hands-on introductory class, you'll learn the tricks of the trade for creating illustrations that intrigue and delight. The course  more...

Digital Photography I Explore the interaction of photography techniques and environmental factors to create powerful digital images. Students learn the fundamentals of lighting, perspective, and set up and explore techniques for classic assignments: portraits, product shots, indoor and outdoor location shoots, and fast-action sports. Whether you're a fine artist, graphic designer, or Web developer, a mastery of digital  more...

freehand basics ...romedia Freehand is the vector program of choice for many graphic and Web designers. It's used to create razor-sharp illustrations that print or enlarge to any size with little or no degradation. In this 6-lesson course, you'll explore the wide horizons open to Freehand users. You'll create illustrations, Web graphics, animations, newsletter layouts for print and Web, and more. Once  more...

fundamentals of logo design Logos are the front line, the identity of a company. They are ubiquitous, and they are vital. But how many of us understand the philosophy and process behind designing a logo? In this logo design online course, learn the importance of corporate identity, and how to design logos that will strengthen the visual image of your own or your client's company. The course is theoretical in focus,  more...

Fundamentals of Typography Explore the critical role of typography in graphic design. Course projects build an understanding of the anatomy of the letterform, the distinguishing features of different typefaces, and creative applications of type. An assured grasp of typography is essential in any visual communication project.  more...

graphic design I ...graphic design and get an excellent basis from which to begin to create your own design work. Students will complete a wide variety of design projects from ideation, sketches to final presentation. Case studies and essays about important cornerstones in graphic design such as proportion, positive and negative space and grids adds logic to the lessons. Start training in the three major  more...

graphic design business ...s building a portfolio brimming with beautiful work; your graphics groove, your logos lift, and your posters pop. Now the bad news. All the talent in the world is worthless (or, worse, low paid) unless you know how to set up your business and position yourself for successful career. In Graphic Design Business, you'll learn the essentials of setting up and managing your graphic design  more...

Illustrator Basics Build a working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, the graphic designer's vector program of choice. Course projects explore selection tools, drawing tools, layers, the Pen tool, transformations/distortions, type tools, and modifying paths and shapes. Tapping the power of vector software allows you to produce detailed and scalable art for almost any application.  more...

illustrator by example Learn how to design using Illustrator. Complete a professional design project and master Illustrator's most important features. Students will design a series of Swatch™ watches faces, bands, promotional materials, and all with a design plan based on a fictional client's brief from Swatch headquarters. The course also covers many essential features of Illustrator and how it interacts  more...

InDesign Basics Explore fundamental techniques for Adobe InDesign and develop your print design skills. The course will impart a working knowledge of the main InDesign tools and features, everything from basic features to using master pages, importing and manipulating objects, controlling text flow and style, to graphic effects such as transparency, drop shadow, and feathering. Projects give you practice in a  more...

information design I ...onsistent navigation schemes, slow-to-load or distracting graphics, dead-end pages, broken links, dull or uninformative messages all in the hope of finding worthwhile information. Clearly organized, consistent, and functional sites reap big rewards from both a user and business perspective. A great Web site is one that has been specifically planned, designed, tested, and promoted to connect  more...

interface design Interfaces are crucial to the success of your design in essence, they link your audience to your material. Good web interface design is intuitive, easy to navigate, user-friendly, and built on past user experience (on-line and off). Bad interfaces turn away visitors like the plague. On a VCR, you know the red circle means "record" and the green triangle means "play", right? The internet has  more...

intro to graphic design ...graphic designers. Explore the history of graphic design, learn how it has evolved, and discover what the future holds for one of the fastest growing careers in the world. This course will give you thorough understanding of the field and a good idea of how you can make your mark in it. You'll read lectures, review case studies, develop your critiquing skills, and get feedback from your  more...

intro to digital arts With your computer screen as your canvas and your mouse as your paintbrush, you too can create digital art. In this creative and fun 3-lesson course, you'll explore the tools and technology used to create digital art today. You'll get familiar with key concepts in bitmap and vector art, learning how leading artists develop creative approaches to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and digital  more...

intro to marketing Tired of walking the walk, without talking the talk? Understanding marketing can add a whole new dimension to your design services. Sure, talent is important. But today's business clients are looking for designers who can apply their creative talents in ways that enhance strategic business goals. This is a three-lesson introductory course for designers who want to understand basic  more...

intro to web design The field of Web design rewards a unique blend of technical skills, creativity, visual communication, information science, and entrepreneurship. In this introductory class, you'll learn how the Web evolved, cover the technical fundamentals, and learn the design principles that characterize the leading sites. Through exposure to best (and worst) practices on the Web, you'll learn how to  more...

Photoshop Basics Get a thorough grounding in Adobe Photoshop, the premiere digital imaging program for graphic and digital designers. Hands-on projects show how to select, enhance, distort, color, scale, and manipulate scanned images and artworks or create them from scratch. Every designer must tame this creative powerhouse of a program.  more...

Print Production Learn the technical fundamentals of producing professional-looking print publications. Areas of focus include managing a print job effectively, communicating with printers, and identifying the best solution within a budget. Course projects build skills in choosing papers and inks, modifying your materials and processes based on a budget, using Adobe InDesign to prepare designs for print, managing  more...

sketchup basics ...graphics for architecture, construction, landscaping, interior design or more? Then try SketchUp, a powerful program that makes 3D modeling intuitive and easy to learn. A powerful new tool from Google software, SketchUp makes creating 3D sketches and creating professional-looking renders as effortless as drawing on a napkin. In this 3-lesson course, you'll learn how to draw two-dimensional  more...

sketchup intermediate If you're an architect, builder, planner, interior designer, or game artist using SketchUp, you'll want to get the most out of this powerful application. In this 3-lesson course, you'll build on the skills for creating 3D objects developed in SketchUp Basics and learn how to use groups and components, tap the potential of inferences, interconnect forms, create lathed and extruded objects, and  more...

web design I ... compete in this field, you'll need not only a mastery of graphic design, navigation design, and page layout, but also a basic proficiency in Web foundations like HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Sounds like a tall order? This distance learning course equips you for the challenge through industry-foundation online, instructor-led web design projects. Course assignments focus on project  more...

web graphics using photoshop/imageready ...ain. Nowhere is this more true than on the Web, where graphics enhance a site's experience, support its content, and create a visual hierarchy. Logical and intuitive designs help us to figure out (often subconsciously) how content is organized and what information is important. This course covers the essentials of making superior Web graphics using Photoshop/ImageReady. We'll explore  more...

web portfolio design You're a designer, and you're good at designing. But design skills are one thing, and selling these skills is another story entirely. Suddenly, you'll find that you also have to be a marketer. This course is a practical guide for designers who want to successfully present their work to potential clients via the Internet. You'll learn how to identify your strengths and weaknesses as a designer,  more...

Web Site 101 ...o I create and structure my site? How do I post pages and graphics correctly to the Web? In this 3-lesson course, we offer a one-stop solution: a painless start to establishing your Web presence. We'll help you select and register your domain name, set up a Web hosting account, and build your first site, posting it to the Web for all to see. Along the way, you'll learn the technical  more...

Graphic Design Professional Certificate Learn fundamental software techniques (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) and challenge your design skills (color, typography, composition, and identity design) through hands-on projects. Get feedback from a Faculty of professional designers as you build a portfolio of work.  more...

Digital Arts Professional Certificate Develop fundamental technical and creative skills in digital imaging, illustration, and photography. Gain confidence in aesthetics, drawing, and photography, and expertise in creating bitmap and vector artwork. Get feedback from a Faculty of professional designers as you build a portfolio of work.  more...

Marketing Design Professional Certificate Learn fundamental software techniques (Photoshop, Illustrator, and Powerpoint) and challenge your design skills (color, typography, composition, and identity design) through hands-on projects. Get feedback from a Faculty of professional designers as you build a portfolio of work.  more...

InDesign I ...bout three primary disciplines: typography, illustration/ graphic images, and page layout. Projects from all three disciplines will be designed throughout the course. In addition, students will explore the development of interactive publications, suitable for viewing online with i-digital devices. Note: Prerequisite: MAC or PC basic computer knowledge is required. Online participants must  more...

Digital Design Essentials ...graphic design and digital media, this course has been organized to introduce students to the elements and lexicon of basic two dimensional design, gestalt design theory, basic color uses in design and their inherent psychological impacts upon the viewer, use of type as object, use of type as psychological design element, and the combination of type and image for successful integration of  more...

Adobe Photoshop I and II ...as an introduction to Photoshop. Learn to manipulate photographic images to create professional effects. The class will focus on scanning, photo restoration/ colorizing, working in layers, and special effects. See notes for more info regarding books, and instructions. Note: All classes taught online, no face-to-face. A valid email is required. Textbook: Included in the tuition www. lynda.  more...

Digital Art Certificate Using CorelDraw, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe PageMaker and QuarkXPress software train for a new career in digital art. Designers may produce promotional displays and marketing brochures for products and services, design distinctive logos for products and businesses, and develop signs and signage systems for businesses or government. In addition a growing number of graphic designers are developing  more...