DTP (Adobe)
MKCL’S KLiC DTP Adobe course will lead the Learner to a promising career path in Printing Industry. She/he will be able to design advertisements, brochures, Newspaper layouts, book designs etc.
Track
Digital Designing
Level
Intermediate
Language
English, Marathi
Duration
120 hours
Learning Mode
Learn at ALC or at Home
What you'll learn ?
This course opens door to various career opportunities such as Print Media Designer, DTP Artist etc.
Syllabus
Adobe Photoshop
- Basics of Photoshop
- The Working Place
- Customizing
- Image and Color Modifications
- Tools
- Using the Brush and Paint
- Working with Selections
- Scaling
- Knowing the Layers
- Color Adjustments
- Filter Gallery
- Playing with Palettes
Adobe InDesign
- Getting Started
- Creating and Viewing a Document
- Managing Pages and Books
- Managing Text
- Formatting Text
- Placing and Working with Graphics
- Working with Objects
- Managing and Transforming Objects
- Working with Points and Paths
- Applying and Managing Colors
- Working with Tables
- Working with Styles
- Finalizing Document
- Exporting Document
- Printing a Document
- Setting Preferences
- Data Merge and Assets Handling
Adobe Illustrator
- Basics of Illustrator
- Introduction
- The Working Place
- Customizing
- Tools
- Layer and layer options
- Pen, Pencils and Paths
- Using the Brush and Paint
- Specialized Tools
- Getting Creative with Types
- Using the Symbols
- Designing Graphics
- Effects and Filters
- Playing with Palettes
- Exporting
Smart Tips
- Working with templates
- Shortcut Keys for smart work
- Building blocks of a publication – Elements of a print-ready output
- Types of design required in different mediums
- Data merging using Excel, Word etc., - images insertion, bulk images
- Competencies and techniques for Smart and Impressive work
Work-Centric Approach
The academic approach of the course focuses on ‘work-centric’ education. With this hands-on approach, derive knowledge from and while working to make it more wholesome, delightful and useful. The ultimate objective is to empower learners to also engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at bringing learners closer to their rewarding careers as well as to the development of the community.
- Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
- Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
- Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
- Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
- Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
- Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
- Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
- Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
- Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
- Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
- Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
- Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
