Company Name: Giga Skills Training Telephone: Fax: Cell Phone: Email: infogigaskills.co.za Website:
Course Title: Diploma in Graphic Design
This is an excellent course for creative people interested in becoming a Graphic Designer, Commercial Artist, illustrator, Digital imagist or a Web-graphics Designer. During the course you will learn how to use the leading computer graphics packages to design, create, edit, enhance, and publish illustrations, photographs, corporate logos, technical illustrations, and much more. With the CorelDraw Graphics Suite you will learn to create professional brochures, CD-covers, posters, business cards, book-covers and adverts with precision and ease. PhotoPaint will help you to easily modify photographs, for example to get rid of the red-eye problem in photos, cut somebody out of a photograph, or place a photo of yourself with an exotic background. You will then do Adobe Photoshop which is a fantastic graphics programme with so many features that you can use to make amazing images. We will teach you step-by-step how to use Photoshop to modify images – you will be amazed by the things you can do. You will also learn about photo printing and colours. FrontPage has everything you need to design and build a great looking, easy to navigate Web site. At the end of the course you will learn how to create your own DVD as a skills portfolio containing all the projects you have done.
Subjects:
Windows Essentials
CorelDraw 12 Introduction
CorelDraw 12 Advanced
Colour and Composition Theory
Digital Photography Introduction
PhotoPaint
Adobe Photoshop Introduction
Adobe Photoshop Advanced
Encore DVD - Basic DVD Creation
Internet Studies
FrontPage
Additional Subjects:
Enhance your skills by adding AutoCAD to your Diploma for an additional fee of R1 350. This practical subject will teach you how to use AutoCAD to easily create technical as well as architectural drawings. This course includes PLENTY of practical projects, because it is important that you know how to use the different tools with ease. You will be able to be a draughtsman for engineers, architects, and designing companies.
Add Marketing, Advertising and Selling Skills to learn the essentials of becoming a good Sales Representative or Marketing Consultant. An additional fee of R800 will help you gain experience with marketing and selling.