
Learn CorelDRAW from scratch by exploring tools, color menus, and RAW workflow. Apply practice to design logos and a business card, building skills for a beginner graphic designer career.
After this lecture, students will have the basic knowledge about the graphics and how they work. This lecture is intended for students who are unfamiliar with graphics to explain them what actually they are learning about in this course.
After taking this lecture, students will be able to discover and understand the purpose of each and every basic tool available in CorelDraw.
Design a vintage logo by crafting a house shape from rectangles and basic shapes in green to symbolize nature, then export and save for banners.
Learn to design a 3d logo in CorelDRAW with color manipulation to simulate depth, add textures, transparency, and shadows, and apply these techniques to a business card.
Design a business card by defining the safe area and a 0.5 inch gutter between cards. Set document to 3.75 by 2.5 inches and duplicate the layout to prevent misprints.
Identify three YouTube thumbnail types: text-based, image-based, and composite with text and image. Bloggers and gaming journalists use these formats widely on YouTube.
Design the thumbnail background in CorelDRAW using a red color scheme, create a thumbnail-sized rectangle, add rotated play-button shapes, remove outlines, and emphasize red as the main color.
Design the foreground of a thumbnail in CorelDRAW by arranging elements, applying a red and yellow palette with black and gray, adding shadows, and removing outlines for clean text placement.
Insert and style text on a thumbnail, choose a creative text style, center and size it, break lines apart, and highlight key words with color for consistent YouTube thumbnails.
Learn to export a CorelDRAW thumbnail for YouTube by keeping only the thumbnail on the canvas, selecting a lossless format, and using power clips to fix transparency.
Explore two paths to monetize graphic design: secure local shop work or launch a freelancing career on platforms like Fiverr, building gigs, packages, and mockups to attract clients.
Want to enter the world of Graphics Designing but don't have any knowledge?
Don't worry just enroll in this course and get started. This course is specifically designed for beginner and intermediate level graphic designers who either don't have knowledge of Graphics or have insufficient knowledge to go ahead to be a professional. In this course we will have a brief introduction of everything that is must have thing for any graphic designer who plans to go ahead with it, we will start from a basic (pick tool) and in the end we eventually be designing 4 different logos using those logos to create a business card and at the end a 3D mock-up to practice all the tools that we have learned about. Also there will be a lecture on going ahead as a professional so if you decide to keep it as a profession you know how and where to get started. The key learning of this course include:
Tools
Toolbars
Menu Bar
Shortcut
Short-keys
Powerclip
Color Palette
Guidelines
Art-board
Color Picker
Major Projects in this course will include:
2D Minimal Logo
Vintage Logo
Texture Logo
3D Logo
Business Card
3D Mock-up of Business Cards
This course will give you detailed knowledge of basics for being a successful graphic designer. You can always contact me via my social media or Udemy. Hope to see you in.