
Level up your design skills with intermediate Photoshop and Illustrator techniques, logo design, typography, editorial layouts, and portfolio building through real-world projects and isometric grid explorations.
Make sure to download the Resource Guide for links to most of the resources, photos and mock-ups used throughout this course. A pdf has been attached, just in case a word doc is not compatible with your setup.
Explore gestalt theory in book cover design, examining figure and ground, symmetry, the law of continuation, and law of experience to reveal how typography and focal points create readable visuals.
Observe real-world designs, photograph varied items, and identify gestalt theory principles like symmetry to understand how visual elements influence perception in graphic design.
Learn to remove objects in Photoshop using content aware fill, refine selections, and build non-destructive edits with new layers.
discover techniques to remove a person from a photo using content-aware fill, the clone tool, lasso selections, and perspective warp, with careful sampling and shadows considerations.
Master photo compositing by painting soft shadows, aligning the light source, and using layers and blending modes to create a cohesive two-photo scene.
Design an engaging, full-page hamburger ad for a fast-food chain in Photoshop, balancing hot and juicy imagery with a simple website URL CTA, using RGB, trim, bleed, and live area.
Explore solid logo design principles, including balance between symbols and type, recognizability, color versatility, readability, negative space, and timeless branding aligned with audience needs.
Master the logo design process from sketching to exporting in Adobe Illustrator, using the Video Flux client brief to craft a flexible, color-ready mark and learn client-ready workflows.
Phase eight adds effects and refinement to the logo and app icon, exploring gradients, 3d extrude and bevel, subtle shadows, borders, and branding assets after color approval.
Export a comprehensive logo package by producing horizontal, square, and vertical variants in black and white, flat and detailed styles, including embroidery single-color options and ai, eps, pdf files.
Create a traditional, warm logo for the Golden Hop Brewery and Restaurant, emphasizing readability, hop imagery, and optional gold accents for signs, cans, and bottles.
The student project review video reviews 250 logo submissions from the Golden Harp challenge, offering constructive critique and insights on presentation, balance, and branding.
Use the golden ratio circles in Illustrator with the shape builder tool to quickly craft logos, donuts, and shapes, then refine curves from rough bird sketches.
Design a logo for Petlove, a dog-focused online retailer, delivering a simple, memorable mark that works in color or one color and aligns with a client brief.
NEW CONTENT ADDED FREQUENTLY!
New - How Much Do Designers Make and How to Make More!
New - Create A Dynamic Poster with Movement and Depth
New - Master Gestalt Theory to Elevate your designs and layouts!
New - Learn How to Create Mockups from Photos!
New - New Adobe Dimensions Section! Create a 3D product mockup!
New - New Video on My top preforming Instagram posts and how to grow
New - Create a Dynamic Seamless Instagram Carousel Post!
New - Creating effective Highlights & Shadows on mockups
New - The Guide to Print Design 22 page pdf resource
New - The Practical Guide to Print Design!
New - Logo Design Presentation Template!
New - Adobe InDesign Portfolio Building Template!
New - The Full Logo Design Process and Downloadable Logo Design Worksheet Template
New - Mastering Isometric Grids!
New - Portfolio Building Section - How to Build Strong Design Portfolios
New - InDesign Project Added - Creating a Magazine Front Cover and Article Spread
New - full page ad design project and Photoshop section added!
New - Create Compelling Infographics!
New - How to Price Your Freelance Projects! Updated lessons
New - Package Design Lessons! Design a chocolate bar wrapper from start to finish
New - Project: Create a Poster Using Only Typography
New - New Lesson - Characteristics of Solid Logo Designs
New - The Legal Side of Design: Properly Using Photos, Fonts and Resources
The Graphic design masterclass intermediate level, are you ready to level up your design skills
Who should take this class? Those with very basic skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. You already may be familiar with the pen tool basics understand the layering system and know a few other basic tools. You have a little experience using these programs and have a solid basic working knowledge of these programs.
Or you have taken my Graphic Design Masterclass: Learn Great Design, the first in this masterclass series, although taking this class is not a requirement to join on this one, just those basic software skills. But this class Is a natural next intermediate step.
This is a practical design course meant to teach you techniques and skills by producing real world projects.
We will first talk about intermediate techniques when it comes to Adobe Photoshop, like diving deep with removing complex objects from photos and using the content aware tools. We then will talk about photo composites and put two totally different photos together using curves and other more intermediate Photoshop tools.
We will brush up on your brush tool in Photoshop to learn how to paint on realistic shadows that can be applied to a variety of situations.
We quickly get into real world projects by tackling a fast food burger ad that is both dynamic and helps us practice working with typography, headlines and effects in Adobe Photoshop.
This course includes a fairly large logo design section. We talk about the power of sketching our ideas on paper or in a digital sketching app. This course even includes an extensive downloadable logo design worksheet and we will work through the entire logo design process with the help of this worksheet. We talk about client presentation, when to present to clients, color and even exporting files.
The golden ratio is a great intermediate logo design concept to master and we will do just that in this course.
Speaking of grids we will not stop there, we talk all about the isometric grid system and work through an entire project using isometric grids to create a realistic 3D illustration.
New to this course is an intermediate InDesign section. We will walk through the creation of a magazine spread and cover and talk in more depth about creating strong editorial designs, headlines and crafting compelling stories with photos.
Infographics is a tough topic for designers and can have a steep learning curve, I thought it would make for the perfect project to work through together in this extensive section.
We will walk through topics about how to legally and safely use fonts photos and downloadable vector resources as this is impotent to any maturing designer.
Knowing how to craft effective ads is a great quality to have and can help you have more success as a designer, we will talk about how to create effective advertising as well as work through an entire social media campaign.
There are tons of extra project sections including one on creating a poster using just typography.
Package design is another great intermediate topic and we will go in-depth about the package design process including how to work with files, set them up and create a rich looking package design for a chocolate bar.
Graphic design is more than just creating projects it also about finding work and clients. I have included an entire portfolio building section where we talk about how to create stunning portfolio presentations and how to build them online and offline.
I hope you decide to join me for this incredible journey through lots of fantastic intermediate design topics, projects and more.
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This course is dynamic, so new lessons and bonus content will be added frequently!