Pack of 4 free and online graphic design courses

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Graphic design is one of the most demanded professions in the creative industry and which is lately more in need for organizations and companies. If you are starting in this world of graphic design then we will recommend 4 free courses that you must take to be well prepared and have the necessary bases.

Create the image of a digital campaign in Photoshop

The course will be taught by one of our top professors who is Fabián Moncada and you will discover how the Art Direction is a specialization within the creative department where you should be able to conceptualize design projects, as well as devise, develop and undertake campaigns successfully integrated communication, according to the needs of each brand, effectively impacting the target audience and adjusting to current market trends.

The first free course that we recommend is graphic design but focused on Branding since you will learn to discover, quickly, how to create the Visual Key of a campaign, also known as the main image that responds to a brief, concept and main message of every campaign.

The course is as follows: First you will see What is a Visual Key and how the Brief is its base? You will get to understand the concept and the campaign message that you must create. You will learn design processes such as visualization, sketching and selection of graphic material. Finally see the composition and creation of the Visual Key and you will be able to make the final campaign presentation. Do you sign up

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Use Photoshop to do gastronomic retouching

Have you been a victim of a McDonalds combo? It looks very appealing in the photo but the reality is different. Something like that:

Well, the next course that we recommend is focused on becoming the number 1 magician of gastronomic retouching and make any food you photograph shine.

Discover how the art of a gastronomic photography is to reflect the texture and flavor of the dish, for this it is necessary to master certain techniques to achieve it and ensure that your gastronomic images do not differ from reality.

You will take the course with our teacher Roberto de Roa: photographer and creative retoucher. He has worked in agencies as a graphic designer and art director.

The path of the course is as follows: Learn lighting schemes for shooting, perform post production of images and make an impeccable selection of the perfect image. Finally you will learn to make image adaptations for social networks.

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Digital retouching with Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is one of the most complete software in the creative industry and allows you to perform different types of work related to illustration, graphic design, branding, digital retouching, postproduction and much more. Its friendly interface, and its different and varied tools will allow you to communicate and translate your creativity into incredible final results.

The next free course that we recommend is creative digital retouching so you can take your first steps in the program, as well as discover a creative process of digital advertising retouching, using either your own photographs or internet support elements.

Like the previous course, the teacher who will teach you these tricks is Roberto Roa.

The course path is as follows: You will have a brief introduction to Photoshop, then you will learn the process of creative digital retouching, you will go through the use of layer mask, selection and finally you will learn to detail your pieces.

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Learn Illustrator

In Adobe Illustrator there are incredibly useful tools. And it is that the phenomenon of the illustration is not limited only to the drawing, but also to the painting that you will learn when using the meshes. What are they? With the meshes you can map any illustration and replicate it in the cleanest way, with perfect gradients and a well-polished finish. Thus you will begin to master the technique with any image, and then apply it to our own illustrations.

In the same course you will use the gradients thoroughly and paint using several colors making them interact. Also, you will improve your technique of painting with meshes by learning more advanced tricks for your work. It doesn’t seem like the course is free!

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