SN

Module & Project

Duration (Hrs.)

Remarks

Theory

Practical

Total

1

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

6

-

6

2

Occupational Safety and Health

2

-

2

3

Color Theory, Design Layout Composition and

Typography

4

5

9

4

Adobe Photoshop

2

18

20

5

Adobe Illustrator

2

13

15

6

Adobe InDesign

2

19

21

7

Adobe XD

2

9

11

8

Core skills

-

12

12

Total (hrs.)

20

76

96

SN

Module & Projects

Duration (Hrs.)

Remarks

Th.

Pr.

Total

1

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

6

6

A

Concept of Computer Graphics

0.5

0.5

B

Introduction to Graphic Design

0.5

0.5

C

Importance of Graphic Design

0.5

0.5

D

Application areas of graphics

0.5

0.5

E

Communication using Graphics

1

1

F

Graphics designing process

1

1

G

Essential skills for Graphic Designer

• Creativity
• Knowledge of Design Software
• Typography
• Print design and layout

2

2

2

Occupational Safety and Health

2

2

A

Concept of safe digital design

0.5

0.5

B

Health risk and safety measures

1

1

C

Laws related to Copyright and intellectual

property

0.5

0.5

3

Color Theory, Design Layout Composition and

Typography

4

5

9

A

Color Theory for Graphic Design

1

1

B

Layout Composition of Graphic Design

1

1

C

Typography/Script

1

5

6

D

Graphic files

1

1

4

Adobe Photoshop

2

18

20

A

Introduction to Photoshop

2

-

2

B

Photoshop Essentials

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

0.5

0.5

C

Selections

• Using Marquee tools while creating selections
• The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tool
• Adding or Deleting from selections
• The Lasso tools
• Loading selections and saving
• Feathering selections

2

2

D

Image Correction

• Color balance and variations
• Hue and saturation controls

2

2

E

Re-Touching Techniques

• Crop and rotate artwork
• Focus tools
• Sharpen and Blur filters
• The Clone & Heal tools
• The Healing Brush tools
• Red-eye reduction
• Color Replace tool
• Painting and Drawing, Gradient creation and editing
• Portrait re-touching

3

3

F

Filters, Painting, and Drawing

• Using the Unsharp Mask

5

5

• Using plug-ins and filters
• Mixing and applying paint and fill colors
• Using the Dodge/Burn/Sponge Tools
• Using the Paint Bucket tool
• Web-safe colors and print
• Using the Airbrush, Pencil, Paintbrush, and Eyedropper tools
• Drawing custom shapes
• Editing shapes using the pen tools
• Adding patterns, color fills, and gradients

G

Working with Layers

• Multiple Layers creation and viewing
• Moving, scaling, and rotating layers
• Linking & aligning Layers
• Merging, Flattening, and Saving Layers
• Locking and protecting layers
• Layer groups
• Converting shape and text layers
• Applying transparency
• Text and adjustment layers
• Drop shadows, embossing, and glows
• Layer mask with Text

3

3

H

Operating with Text

• Text Layer Creation
• Text Paragraphs
• Painting Text
• Adding Text Effects,
• Anti-aliasing Text
• Text wrap
• Fonts and Script

1.5

1.5

I

Special Effects

• Photoshop filter utilization
• Fading the effect of the filter
• Working with the Filter Gallery

0.5

0.5

J

Files Saving

• Right color mode selection
• File format
• Adjusting resolution and image size
• Canvas cropping and enlargement
• Printing and Optimizing Documents
• The Save for web command
• Action Scripts

0.5

0.5

5

Adobe Illustrator

2

13

15

A

Introduction

• Custom workspace
• Control Palettes & menus

2

-

2

• Smart guides
• Rulers, guides, grids, snap to
• Outline & Preview modes
• Navigation & Scroll shortcuts
• How Illustrator Works
• Components for Images
• Vectors v Bitmaps
• Text, Shapes & Color

B

Drawing

• Using the shape tools
• Transforming tools
• Drawing with the line tools
• Symbols in Illustrator
• Selecting, Copying, and Moving
• Aligning, Grouping, and Duplicating Objects
• Locking and Hiding
• Alterations and Special Effects
• Colors and Fills
• The Average and Join commands
• Drawing curves
• Eraser tool

2

2

C

Images

• Importing & placing images
• Image Tracing
• Colors palette
• Gradient and Patterns
• Understanding & using ‘stroke’ and ‘fill’ attributes

2

2

D

Text

• Type tool
• Characters and paragraphs
• Add type to a vector path
• Type Effects

2

2

F

Working with Paths

• Pen Tool
• Convert smooth points into a corner
• Shift an anchor point
• Converting points in an existing object
• Converting an anchor point
• Add, adjust, delete points

2

2

G

Printing & Saving

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

0.5

0.5

• Save for Web

I

Gradients

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

0.5

0.5

K

Layers

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

2

2

M

Using Live Trace

• Automatically trace artwork
• Converting objects
• Tweak or scribble
• Bloat or Punk an object
• Rough up a shape
• Rotating path points
• Raster filters

2

2

6

Adobe InDesign

2

19

21

A

Introduction to InDesign

2

-

2

B

InDesign Basic Layout

• InDesign Basic Layout
• Using shortcuts
• The InDesign Workspace
• Fixing preferences - rulers, layers, guides
• Your workspace customization

0.5

0.5

C

Document Setup

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

1

1

D

Creating Basic Drawn Elements

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

2

2

E

Working with Text

• Add/Edit & Spell Check
• Threading, Wrapping and Importing Text
• Change Text Threads
• Editing and Applying Styles to text
• The Eyedropper tool
• Hyphenation and justification
• Deal with the missing fonts

4

4

• Editing, Applying, and Managing Paragraph Styles
• Formatting Characters and Paragraphs
• Drop caps creation
• Proper numbering of paragraphs
• Place text on a path
• Flow text through multiple frames
• ‘Placeholder’ frames creation
• Using the ‘tab’ command

F

Working with Objects

• Arranging, Aligning, and Distributing
• Using ‘text wrap’
• The ‘place’ command
• Frames and images resizing
• Rotating objects
• Managing object layers
• Creating special effects
• Corner and shape options
• Transforming Objects
• Group & Ungroup
• Duplicating, Rotating, Scaling, Skewing, Mirroring
• Managing Transparency

3

3

G

The ‘Swatches’ Window

• Settings for ‘fill’ and 'stroke'
• Create, use and edit solid colors and gradients

1

1

H

Graphics

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

3

3

J

Tables

• Create, Modify and Format a Table

2

2

K

Using Pages Window

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

1

1

L

Managing Multiple Documents

• The ‘book’ option

0.5

0.5

• Templates and libraries
• Importing swatches

M

Printing & Export

• Printing
• Package Files
• PostScript, pre-flighting, and Packaging
• Preview Output & options
• Print, Separation, Flattening
• Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Files/TIF files for printing & web

1

1

7

Adobe XD

2

9

11

A

Introduction to Adobe XD

2

-

2

B

Designing

• Artboards
• Layers
• Scroll Groups
• Guides and grids

2

2

C

Shapes, Paths and Objects

• Resize & Rotate Objects
• Moving & Aligning Objects
• Styling Objects
• Text Tool
• Fonts
• Gradient Colors
• Masking
• Responsive Resize
• Padding

3

3

D

Components and Components States

1

1

E

Prototyping

1

1

F

Share design and artboards using Adobe XD

0.5

0.5

G

Export design assets

0.5

0.5

H

Plugins for Adobe XD

1

1

8

Core skills

12

12

A

Design a logo

2

2

B

Design a brochure

2

2

C

Design newspaper ads

2

2

D

Use photo effects

2

2

E

Design webpage components layouts

2

2

F

Design book/magazine covers

2

2

Total (Hrs.)

20

76

96

S No

Name of Items

Specification

Qty

Remarks

1

Computer Set

With graphics card

20 Nos

2

Printer

laser

2 Nos

3

Color Printer

inkjet/laser

2 Nos

4

Scanner

4 Nos

S No

Name of Items

Specification

Qty

Remarks

1

Adobe Photoshop

Genuine

20 Nos

2

Adobe Illustrator

Genuine

20 Nos

3

Adobe InDesign

Genuine

20 Nos

4

Printing Paper

80 gsm

4 Bundle

S.N

Name of content experts

Organization

1.

Mr. Nabin K Poudel, CEO

Curl Labs, Suryabinayak

2.

Mr. Prabin Shrestha, Instructor

Nepal Banepa Polytechnic Institute, Banepa

3.

Mr. Arjan KC, ED

Gurkha Technology, Kathmandu

4.

Mr. Sushil Ghaley, ED

Gurkha Technology, Kathmandu