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Get a quick orientation to Corel's Paint Shop Pro, focusing on essentials to speed your print business and understand how the software fits together with Corel's three type system.
Explore the edit tab in PaintShop Pro, mastering brush controls, layers, and blending modes while navigating the main and admin menus, to prepare print-ready composites with CMYK color workflows.
Gain confidence with PaintShop Pro's intuitive interface and learn to apply core tools in practical tasks, while staying aligned with the course pace and preparing for the next module.
Explore the pre-production phase to optimize your workflow through planning, opening a new document at the right scale, dimensions, and resolution, and organizing assets.
Plan the business card layout with guides, margins, gutters, borders, and a metric scale; balance with a two-column grid, rule of thirds, and logo placement.
Import assets and place a logo, scale it to fit guides, and adjust with the move and pick tools; add text with a bold typeface and refine color and stroke.
design a simple business card in PaintShop Pro, add a separating line, and explore vector drawing with the pencil tool and Bezier curves for future logo work.
Feel empowered to create your own print materials with PaintShop Pro, save money, and outsource less as you raise the bar and advance these processes in the next module.
Learn production and printing options for your design projects, including print bureaus, remote online printing, and template-based printing you can run at home to save costs and make business cards.
Export Paint Shop Pro projects to a PDA format using Nova PTF and trial tools via the print dialog for compatibility with high street printers.
Practice tracing and drawing, import your artwork into a layout using a business card example, and create a finished piece for collateral in this two-lecture module.
Import your own art into PaintShop Pro, remove the background, and apply color effects to the logo. Merge layers and reposition the logo on a business card for branding.
Practice applying bezier curves and control handles to sketch freely, then leverage PaintShop Pro’s drawing tools to compensate for rough ideas and improve your final print materials.
Explore branding and relevance to help your audience relate to your print collateral. Create a personal, coherent theme across all corporate materials that reflects your products or business.
Branding and relevance keep your company's visual identity recognizable through invoices and collateral, while templates in Paint Shop Pro enable consistent, efficient print materials across campaigns.
Learn to carry a corporate identity from a logo into print materials by identifying dominant colors, orange and gray, and applying the exact color across the design to ensure cohesion.
Turn a logo into a reusable postcard template with aligned typography and a gray design box to strengthen brand identity; import imagery, manage layers, and archive templates for efficient reuse.
Master design theory essentials, including proportion, color theory, and typography, to implement these concepts in print materials and approach final projects with confidence.
Explore basic color theory focusing on complementary colors and the color wheel; learn how to use Paint Shop Pro's complementary tool to find exact opposites for print design.
Deliver a simple, culminating flyer that recaps everything learned so far, while demonstrating a reusable asset with interchangeable typography and imagery for brand-consistent campaigns.
Learn how to plan print dimensions and orientation for a business flyer using PaintShop Pro and online printing services, verifying quarter-page size, 300 dpi, and front/back options.
Create attention-grabbing flyers in PaintShop Pro by establishing a cohesive corporate identity, selecting a dominant color, and building a template using assets and selection and fill tools.
Balance branding and imagery by referencing the logo, sizing it for emphasis, and aligning typography with product shots for a cohesive brochure composition. Apply subtle drop shadows to enhance depth.
Save your file as a PaintShop Pro document with layers for future edits and consistent logo placement. Flatten for print, check bleed and safe area, and preview before submission.
Celebrate completing the course and gain confidence to produce print materials in-house or outsource to a printer like Vistaprint, and explore design courses such as thinking like an art director.
The course is aimed at SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), with the sole intention of enabling business professionals to produce their own print material
The focus of learning is shifted from general usage, to a very specific set of requirements
All lectures use and promote; ONLY the tools that are necessary for serving the course’s goals
The Instructor has selected several executions that are common in business, which includes the creation of; Business Cards, to Flyers, To Brochures etc
The course ends with a live scenario, and uses some useful design practices that will help make your company’s brand memorable and noticeable
By the time it’s all over, our Students will be confident in the methods required to execute an idea and ultimately see it through to physical form
Aspects learned in this course are inclusive of, but not limited to: