Diploma In Graphics Designing
Diploma In Graphics Designing
Diploma in Graphic Design (DGD)
Programme outcomes
The course is specially designed for the students who wish to make their careers into the graphics and designing job profiles across the various industries like Exports- imports, Advertising, marketing, media , digital and print media, Animation, Handicrafts, apparel & garments etc.
Duration
1 year (2 Semesters)
Eligibility
12th passed
Course Fee
20000/-
COURSE STRUCTURE
| S.NO. | MODULE | MODULE/ SUBJECT CODE | MODULE NAME | PERIODS | EVALUATION SCHEME | COURSE TOTAL | CREDITS | ||||||
| L | T | P | MID TERM EXAM | EXTERNAL EXAM | |||||||||
| IA | AS+AT | TOTAL | |||||||||||
| 1ST SEMESTER | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Module-1 | DGD-101 | Basics of computer | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 2 | Module-2 | DGD-102 | Basics in designing | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 3 | Module-3 | DGD-103 | Adobe illustrator | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 4 | Module-4 | DGD-104 | Adobe photoshop | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 5 | Module-5 | DGD-105 | Adobe In-Design | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 1st semester Credits | 10 | 5 | 10 | 500 | 25 | ||||||||
| 2ND SEMESTER | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Module-6 | DGD-201 | Adobe dimension | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 7 | Module-7 | DGD-202 | Corel DRAW | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 8 | Module-8 | DGD-203 | Photo, audio and video editing | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 9 | Module-9 | DGD-204 | 2D animation, 3D animation | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 100 | 5 | |
| 10 | Module-10 | DGD-205 | 3 months Project/ training | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 200(100*+100*) | 100** | 300
(100*+ 100*+ 100**) |
20 | |
| 2nd semester Credits | 8 | 4 | 28 | 700 | 40 | ||||||||
| Total | 1200 | 65 | |||||||||||
*Marks for Project report by HVKC supervisor + /Presentation Internal
** Marks for Industrial training by Industry supervisor
IA- Internal Assessment
AS- Assignment
AT-Attendance
L-Lecture
T-Tutorial
P-Practical
SEMESTER I
MODULE 1
DGD-101: BASICS OF COMPUTER
UNIT I- Introduction to computer application, MS office (word, excel PowerPoint),
UNIT II- Introduction to Graphic Design, Process of designing, Language of design, elements of design, design analysis, Social Media & Internet, Digital Marketing
UNIT III- Layout principals, layout for magazines, Alignment and page composition, photo editing and process, web page designing
Unit IV- Lab of Module 1
MODULE 2
DGD-102: BASICS IN DESIGNING
UNIT I- Drawing- sketches (2D & 3D), scenery, use of different pencils, types of brushes, geometric drawing, creative and concept building, conceptual creativity workshop, content writing, story writing and story-telling.
UNIT II- Principles of design, poster design, card design, logo design, stationery design, packaging design, colour in design, colour theory, understanding psychology of colour, mode of colour, Typography, classification of group, selection and use of fonts, masking, design by using typography.
UNIT III- Template editing, photo editing, banner design using CANVA.
Unit IV- Lab of Module 2
MODULE 3
DGD-103: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
UNIT I – Workspace: Workspace basics, Customizing the workspace, Artboard overview, Files and templates, Recovery, undo, and automation, Rulers, grids and guides, using multiple artboards, Viewing artwork
Drawing: Drawing basics, drawing simple lines and shapes, drawing with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool, editing paths, adjust path segments, Using Live Trace, About Perspective Grid, Perspective drawing, Symbolism tools and symbol sets, Symbols.
Colour: About colour, selecting colours, Using and creating swatches, create colour themes with Kuler, Adjusting colours
Painting: About painting, Painting with fills and strokes, Live Paint groups, Brushes, Transparency and blending modes, Gradients, Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview, Apply or edit a gradient, stroke an object, Meshes, Patterns
UNIT II- Selecting and arranging objects: Selecting objects, Grouping and expanding objects, Moving, aligning, and distributing objects, Rotating and reflecting objects, Layers, Locking, hiding, and deleting objects, duplicating objects, Stacking objects
Reshaping objects: Transforming objects, Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects, reshape using envelopes, combining objects, Cutting and dividing objects, clipping masks, creating shapes using Shape Builder Tool, blending objects, building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool, Creating 3D objects, Reshaping objects with effects
UNIT III- Type: Importing and exporting text, creating text, creating type on a path, Scaling and rotating type, Fonts, Character and paragraph styles, Formatting paragraphs, Formatting type, Hyphenation and line breaks, Line and character spacing, Special characters
Creating special effects: Appearance attributes, working with effects, Summary of effects, create a drop shadow, Drop shadows, glows, and feathering, Graphic styles
Importing, exporting, and saving: Adobe PDF options, Creating Adobe PDF files, exporting artwork, File information and metadata, Importing Adobe PDF files, Importing artwork files, Importing artwork from Photoshop, Importing bitmap images, Saving artwork
Unit IV- Lab of Module 3
MODULE 4
DGD-104: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
UNIT I – Introduction: Photoshop Interface, Raster graphics & vector graphics, Image formats, Operations on image.
Manipulation of Image: The marquee tool, the lasso tool, magic Wand tool, Inverting Selection, Layers, Brush tool, Eraser tool, Fill tool, Blur tool, Smudge tool, sharpen tool, Dodge tool, Sponge tool, Darken tool.
UNIT II- Transformation & Retouching: Free transform, Scaling, rotation, Skew, perspective, Wrap, Distort, Crop, Image size, Canvas size, Clone stamp tool, Healing brush tool, patch tool, red eye tool, history brush tool.
Colour Correction: Colour swatch, image modes, colour adjustments, colour selection.
UNIT III- Text: The text tool, editing text, formatting, line & spacing, wrap text, text effects.
Effects: Blending modes, styles, filters, liquefy, Vanishing point.
Drawing: The pen tool, drawing shapes, managing paths, converting path to selection
Unit IV- Lab of Module 4
MODULE 5
DGD-105: ADOBE IN-DESIGN
UNIT I- Looking at the Work Area: Using the tools, using palettes, Workspaces, Using context menus, Opening and closing documents, Changing the view, Selecting objects, Saving a document, Recovering a document after a failure, Undoing mistakes, Working with preferences and defaults
Setting Up Pages: Setting up basic layout options, Using rulers, grids, and guides, Working with pages and spreads, Numbering pages, Changing Numbering and Section Options, using master pages, laying out pages with frames, adjusting layout objects automatically, Working with layers
UNIT II- Working with Text: About text frames, about threading text frames, adding text to frames, setting text frame properties, editing text, Finding and changing text, Finding and changing fonts, combining text and graphics, Creating path type
Setting Type: Formatting characters, formatting paragraphs, working with tabs, copying type attributes with the eyedropper tool, working with the type composition engines, controlling hyphenation and justification, Paragraph and character style sheets, Creating nested styles, OpenType, Glyphs palette
Arranging and Combining Objects: Modifying objects using graphics frames, Grouping and ungrouping objects, stacking objects, Aligning and distributing objects, locking object position, moving objects, Changing size, proportions, or orientation, Duplicating objects
UNIT III- Applying Colour: About spot and process colour types, working with swatches and unnamed colours, applying colour, Using the Swatches palette, Mixed inks, Mixed ink groups, using swatch libraries, Using the Colour palette, applying colours by dragging and dropping, Creating gradients
Adobe Product Integration: Working with Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator files, Using Photoshop layer masks instead of clipping paths, Using Photoshop’s file browser, Copy and Paste from Illustrator to InDesign CS
PDF, Print, Pre-flight, and Package: PDF styles, Export options, PDF in detail, other export formats (ID Interchange), Pre-flighting your files, Using the Package command, Printing and transparency, Flattener settings, The Separations palette
Unit IV- Lab of Module 5
SEMESTER II
MODULE 6
DGD-201: ADOBE DIMENSION
UNIT I- An overview of adobe dimensions, working with object, tools and camera, working with 3D models, basic shape properties, working with text, importing custom models, group and ungrouping, duplicate objects and align distribute, camera navigations and camera bookmarks.
UNIT II- Texture and lighting– Magic Band selection, sampler tool, working with textures, working with direction and environmental lights,
UNIT III- Focus point, Auto Alignment and Lighting with Image Backgrounds, Choosing Illustrator Artboards for Textures, application of 2D art with 3D design, create photorealistic comp with 2D and 3D assets.
Unit IV- Lab of Module 6
MODULE 7
DGD-202: Corel DRAW
UNIT I- Introduction: An overview, interface, menus and tools, working with new document, advanced options, page setup, dockers.
Drawing: Lines, Shapes, objects, tables, templates
UNIT II- Import/Export: Importing files, Using Corel Connect, Exporting files.
Manipulation: Viewing options, pick tool, selection, moving, sizing, mirroring, rotating, skewing, undo, redo, staking order.
Text: Artistic text, Paragraph text.
UNIT III- Duplication & Alignment: understanding duplication, aligning objects, distribution, and spacing.
Colour: colouring objects, uniform fill, fountain fill, understanding colour palette, interactive fill, eyedropper tool, outline, convert to curve, outline properties, advanced outline options.
Group, Combine, Weld, Trim, Intersect
Unit IV- Lab of Module 7
MODULE 8
DGD-203: PHOTO, AUDIO AND VIDEO EDITING
UNIT I- Photo Editing- Still photography, portrait photography, photo editing
UNIT II- Sound Editing
Introduction: Learning the sound forge workspace, getting started, navigating, zooming and selecting, Recording & Editing.
Processing Audio: Auto trim/crop, Bit-depth Converter, Channel Converter, fade-in, fade-out, Insert Silence, Invert/Flip, Mute, Time Stretch, Volume, Working with effects, Sampling, looping, Mixing, Pitch, Noise reduction.
UNIT III Video Editing
Introduction: Basics of Adobe Premiere, Creating a new project, Video formats, aspect ratio, the interface, project window, Monitor, Timeline, supported file formats.
Manipulation of files: Importing files, capturing video, trimming clips, working with clips in a sequence, rearranging clips, previewing sequence, opacity
Effects & transitions: Working with effects, applying & adjusting effects, duration & speed, colour correction effects, keying effects, transition effects
Animation: Animation effects & clips, adding navigating and setting keyframes, moving & copying keyframes.
Titles: Creating titles, adding text, adding shapes & images, text styles, creating rolling & crawling text.
Exporting: Basics of exporting, Adobe Media Encoder, Exporting editable movie & audio files.
Unit IV- Lab of Module 8
MODULE 9
DGD-204: 2D animation, 3D animation
UNIT I– Introduction to Flash CS4, Vector Graphics, Flash Layout & Interface, The Toolbox, Brush, Pencil, Eraser, options of tool, Shapes & Objects, Transformation, Colours, Palettes, frame, key frame, animation.
UNIT II– Shape Tween, Symbols, Types of symbols, Motion Tween, Motion Guide, Mask, Character design and animation.
UNIT III– Application of Rhinoceros 3D
Unit IV- Lab of Module 9
MODULE 10
DGD-205: PROJECT/ TRAINING
3 Months internship
