DTP (CorelDRAW)

• Aspiring Graphic Designers: Individuals aiming to develop foundational skills in graphic design and desktop publishing.
• Students and Graduates in Art and Design: Those pursuing studies in art, design, or related fields, seeking to enhance their digital design capabilities.
• Marketing and Advertising Professionals: Professionals looking to create compelling visual content for branding and promotional materials.
• Content Creators and Social Media Managers: Individuals responsible for producing engaging visual content for online platforms.
• Educators and Trainers: Teachers and trainers interested in incorporating digital design into educational materials.
• Freelancers and Entrepreneurs: Individuals aiming to offer design services or enhance their business’s visual identity.
• Hobbyists and Art Enthusiasts: Individuals passionate about art and design, seeking to learn digital tools for personal projects.

This 120-hour course is structured to provide a balance between theoretical knowledge and practical application, making it suitable for beginners and those looking to enhance their existing skills in desktop publishing. Learners of the KLiC DTP program emerge with a comprehensive skill set, ready to make a meaningful impact in the dynamic field of graphic design and desktop publishing.

Course Highlights:

• Introduction to Desktop Publishing: Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the principles and practices of desktop publishing, exploring its role in creating visually appealing documents.
• Adobe Creative Suite: The course extensively covers Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, enabling learners to master these tools for creating professional-grade layouts, images, and vector graphics.
• CorelDRAW Mastery: Learners will delve into the versatile features of CorelDRAW, honing their skills in vector illustration and page layout to create stunning designs.
• Typography and Layout Design: The program emphasizes the importance of effective typography and layout design, guiding learners in creating visually appealing and readable documents.
• Print Production Techniques: Learners will learn about the intricacies of print production, including colour management, resolution, and preparing files for print.
• Project Work: Practical application is a key component of the course, with hands- on projects allowing learners to apply their skills in real-world scenarios.
• Industry-Relevant Skills: The curriculum is tailored to meet industry demands, ensuring that learners are well-prepared for careers in graphic design, advertising, and print media.

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!