• Custom workspace
• Control Palettes & menus
• Smart Guides
• Rulers, guides, grids, snap to
• Outline & Preview modes
• Navigation & Scroll shortcuts
• How Illustrator Works
• Components for Images
• Vectors v Bitmaps
• Text, Shapes & Colour

• Using the shape tools
• Transforming tools
• Drawing with the line tools
• The ‘warp tool’ flyout
• Symbols in Illustrator
• Developing a logo
• Tin can drawing
• Spoked wheel drawing
• Selecting, Copying and Moving
• Rotating, Skewing, Aligning, Grouping and Duplicating Objects
• Locking and Hiding
• Special Effects and alterations
• Drawing Tools such as rectangle, ellipse, polygon, Star
• Fills and Colors
• Drawing curves
• The Average and Join commands
• Eraser tool

• Importing & placing images
• Turning Bitmap into Vector
• Color
• Basic Colors & Stroke palette
• Types of Color; Color modes
• Spot v Process colors
• Gradient and Patterns
• Dragging color
• Understanding & using ‘stroke’ and ‘fill’ attributes
• Using Swatches
• Use the Paint Bucket tool

• Creating Text objects
• Artistic and Paragraph text
• Coloring and Filling text
• Adding ‘point’ type and ‘area’ type
• Add type to a vector path
• Create type outlines
• Linking Paragraphs
• Type Effects
• Placing Text Around Objects
• Find & replace & Spellcheck

• Using ‘group’ and ‘duplicate’
• Layer objects hiding and locking
• Using ‘isolation mode’
• Using Align and Distribute
• Compound paths
• Clipping masks

• Creating & Editing Paths
• Pen Tool
• Draw straight lines
• Draw continuous curves
• Shift an anchor point or a line
• Convert smooth points into corner
• Convert points in an existing object
• A curve shaping
• Converting an anchor point
• Pinch a curve inward
• Add, adjust, delete points
• Bezier curves

• Previewing
• The Print Dialog & Printing
• Defining a crop area
• Saving in non-Vector formats
• Save for Web

• Edit a brushstroke to an existing path
• Conversion of a brushstroke to outlined paths
• Creation and modification of brushes
• Create a new brush library
• Edit a scatter, art or pattern brush
• Draw using Paintbrush tool

• Object filling using a gradient
• Creation and modification of gradient 
• Use the Gradient tool 
• Create and edit Gradient meshes

• Rotate, Scale or shear
• Flip and slant
• The bounding box
• Use the Free Transform tool

• Creation and modification(Editing) of layers
• Create a sub layer
• Hide and Lock
• The layers Palette

• Removal of layer effects 
• Live shapes with text 
• 3D Shapes with Revolve
• Applying a Convert to Shape effect 
• Inner/Outer Glow & Add Arrowheads

• Automatically trace artwork
• Converting objects

• • Scribble, tweak & Twist
  • Puker or bloat an object
  • Rough up a shape 
  • Rotating path points
  • Raster filters
  • Pen and Ink filter

• The Photoshop Screen
• Getting to know the Tools & Palettes
• Utilizing guides, grids and rulers
• Zoom shortcuts and convenient navigation

• The InDesign Workspace
• Using shortcuts
• Your workspace customization
• Fixing preferences – rulers, guides, layers

• Develop Master Pages
• Altering Layout
• Manage Text and Graphic Placement
• Create the Structure of a Document
• Develop Layers

• The Selection and Direct Selection Tool
• The Tool & Color Palettes
• Grids, rulers and guides

• Add/Edit & Spell Check
• Threading , Wrapping and Importing Text
• Applying and Editing Styles to text
• Change Text Threads
• Deal with missing fonts
• Hyphenation and justification
• The Eyedropper tool
• Drop caps creation
• Editing, Applying and Managing Paragraph Styles
• Formatting Characters and Paragraphs
• Proper Numbering of paragraphs
• Place Text on a path
• Flow text through multiple frames
• ‘Placeholder’ frames creation
• Text options
• Using the ‘tab’ command
• The Glyphs window

• Aligning, Arranging and Distributing 
• The ‘place’ command
• Images and frames resizing
• Using ‘text wrap’
• Managing object layers
• Rotating objects
• Creating special effects
• Shape and corner options>
• Transforming Objects
• Group & Ungroup
• Duplicating, Rotating, Scaling, Skewing, Mirroring
• Managing Transparency

• Settings for ‘fill’ and ‘stroke’ 
• Adding and converting Pantone colors
• Create, use and edit solid colors and gradients

• Threading/unthreading frames
• Flowing text through frames and Multi-column text frames
• Using special characters
• Hanging punctuation
• Composition options
• Document baseline grids

• Common Graphic file formats
• Import & Enhance Graphics Files
• Simple, compound & custom Image Frames 
• Fitting options
• Inline graphics
• Creating Text Run-arounds
• Tolerance and threshold options
• Clipping Paths, Alpha channels

• Inner Shadow
• Gradient Feather
• Bevel and Emboss
• Inner and Outer Glow

• Create, Modify and Format a Table

• Using multiple master pages
• Adding and deleting pages
• Working with master pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Creating new numbering sections

• The ‘book’ option
• Templates and libraries
• Importing swatches
• Using Adobe Bridge

• Checking documents for problems
• Printing
• Package Files
• PostScript, preflighting and Packaging
• Preview Output & options
• Print, Separation, Flattening
• Creating high and low resolution Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
• Creating a low-res PDF for the web

• Why use Selections?
• Creating selections using Marquee tools
• The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tool
• The Lasso tools
• Adding or Deleting from selections
• Saving and Loading selections
• Tonal Values Control
• Toned and Tinted Images creation
• Selecting by color range
• Feathering selections
• Quick Mask mode

• Properly Using the Histogram palette
• Fixing color with variations
• Using Levels and Curves to fix tone & contrast
• Color balance and variations
• Hue and saturation controls
• The Vibrance command
• Color correction using AI platforms and final compilation in Photoshop

• Custom colors
• Dodge and burn tools
• Crop and rotate artwork
• Sharpen and Blur filters
• Focus tools
• The Clone & Heal tools
• The Healing Brush tools
• The Color Replace tool
• Red eye reduction
• Digital darkroom techniques
• Gradients creation and editing

• Using Plug-ins and filters
• Using the Unsharp Mask
• Cloning Images
• Using the Burn/Dodge/Sponge Tools
• Print and web safe colors
• Mixing and applying paint and fill colors
• Using the Paint Bucket tool
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush and Eyedropper tools
• Drawing shapes
• Creating vector shape layers
• Polygon, line and custom shape tools
• Adding, subtracting, intersecting commands
• Editing vector shapes using the pen tools
• Adding color fills, patterns and gradients 
• Introducing in Mid Journey AI platform
• Writing script to generate AI images for designing

•  Multiple Layers creation and viewing
• Moving, scaling and rotating layers
• Linking & aligning Layers
• Merging, Flattening and Saving Layers
• Locking and protecting layers
• Layer groups
• Applying and editing type
• Converting shape and text layers
• Saving and flattening layered files

• Applying transparency
• Fundamental modes of layer blending 
• Text and adjustment layers
• Special effects
• Drop shadows, glows and embossing
• Layer masks

• Fresh Features
• Text Layer Creation
• Text Paragraphs
• Adding Text Effects,
• Painting Text 
• Anti-aliasing Text
• Introducing ChatGPT
• Creating content for designing material

• Frame Animation
• Video timeline
• gif file export

• Photoshop filters utilization
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Fading the effects of filters

• File formats
• Right color mode selection
• Adjusting resolution and image size
• Canvas cropping and enlargement
• Printing and Optimizing Documents
• Color modes, resolution & image size 
• Printing from Photoshop and other Applications
• The Save for web command
• Developing Transparent GIF files

As per the Institute Rules, four of the following projects will be done by the student themselves!  For Final Project

• Brand Identity Design
• Packaging Design
• Poster Design
• Infographic Design
• Magazine Layout Design
• Social Media Design
• Logo Design
• Book Cover Design