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Creative Digital Design - Week-long
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Creative Digital Design – Week-long
Graphic Design
Learn how to take your graphic design skills from average to awesome and create an envy-worthy portfolio, with Adobe Creative Cloud.
Course highlights
Use professional level design tools
This is a crash course on the Adobe Creative Cloud - the pro software used by the creative industry as they use graphic design and video tools to create the messages all around us.
A portfolio to share
You will create your own movie posters with Photoshop, learn vector-based art with Illustrator, edit videos with Adobe Clip and Premiere Pro, and produce sound clips (or podcasts!) with Adobe Audition. Wrap up the week with a portfolio that you can be proud of and keep working on after the course is done!
Supercharge your creativity
You'll be amazed at how you can bring your ideas to life and make slick original projects with the Adobe Creative Cloud. Creativity powered by tech can be your superpower!
Featured FAQ
My daughter has only worked on Apple Mac and iPads and not on Windows based PCs. Is this an issue?
The Adobe software used on this course is the same on Apple Mac and Windows PC so there shouldn't be any issue. We deliver this course on PC or Mac depending on availability of hardware. The projects being …
The Adobe software used on this course is the same on Apple Mac and Windows PC so there shouldn't be any issue. We deliver this course on PC or Mac depending on availability of hardware. The projects being worked on would be more complex than what could likely be done on iPads though.
Course Overview
Learn how to take your graphic design skills from average to awesome and create an envy-worthy portfolio, with Adobe Creative Cloud.
This course is designed for students interested in graphic design, digital publishing and online media creation. During this course, students will learn how to use the Adobe Suite, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip, Premiere Pro, and Audition.
Students will attain core skills within creative digital design that will be highly adaptable and applied across personal, academic and professional contexts, and learn how to create different digital media using professional-level Graphic Design tools.
This is an online learning course led by an onscreen expert who is fully DBS-checked. You will join a small group of other young learners online, working together and making lots of progress in fun and engaging sessions. All classes are monitored and recorded for safety.
PLEASE NOTE: students will need an iPhone or Android smartphone to use for filming and for editing with Clip. This course requires you have an active Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, a capable computer to work on and a broadband internet connection. Details on how to access the service at the discounted student rate are here. A PC/Mac computer with at least 8GB of RAM is recommended.
This course is also available in part-time formats.
Course ratings
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How much did you enjoy your course? Score: 4.6/5 |
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How would you compare your experience at Fire Tech to school? Score: 5/5 |
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How likely are you to create with technology for fun, using the skills you learned? Score: 4.7/5 |
Source: Post-course reviews, 36 ratings, Apr-Aug 2020
What your child will learn
- Image editing and compositing within video editors and photography management and editing applications
- Bring life into art using digital animation tools
- Create amazing graphics, video stories and web pages
- Design your own website without needing any coding knowledge
- Ability to design, edit and create various images, graphics, web pages and more!
- The confidence and skills to continue to grow their personal portfolio and apply this knowledge to other projects
- Students finish with their own digital portfolio
Typical daily schedule
All Day
Part Day
1 hour
Lesson time
15 minutes
Break
1 hour
Lesson time
1 hour
Lunch
45 minutes
Lesson time
15 minutes
Break
45 minutes
Lesson and finish
1 hour
Lesson time
10 minutes
Break
50 minutes
Lesson and finish
Meet Will
Will studied at the Royal Academy of Music and is one of Fire Tech most long-standing digital music tutors. He's a drummer, composer, and loves teaching young people how to combine technology with music to build sounds, songs, compositions and much more.
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