Ultimate Graphic Design: Create Beautiful 40+ Real Projects

Course overview - 129

• Section 1: Discover the World of Graphic Design

• Download the Course Workbook & Resources

• Graphic Design - A Down-to-Earth Explanation

• Activity: Create your first Facebook Ad Design

• Using Photoshop for Every Project

• Design Assets Explained

• Best sources for design assets

• Optional – Setting up Photoshop

• Activity: Mix and Match Design Assets

• What does it take to create beautiful graphics?

• Section 2: Design a Facebook Cover Project

• Project Settings & Aspect Ratios

• Optional: Creating Text Assets From Scratch

• Selecting Image Assets

• Arranging the Assets on the Canvas

• Designing the Cover

• Typography for the Facebook Cover

• Fine Tuning the Cover

• Conclusion

• Section 3: Design a Facebook Cover Project #2

• Analyze your assets and options

• Setting the project’s foundation

• Creating a neutral background with a noise texture

• Sizing up the products correctly

• Creating shadows for the products

• Fine Tuning the Cover

• Using vector graphics to create version 2

• Creative Facebook cover iteration

• Section 4: Create Clickable Youtube Thumbnails

• The power of a mockup

• The Absolute best way to design YouTube Thumbnails

• Classic YouTube Thumbnail – Part 1

• Classic YouTube Thumbnail – Part 2

• Abstract YouTube Thumbnail – Part 1

• Abstract YouTube Thumbnail – Part 2

• Choose your own style

• Before and After Thumbnail

• Illustration-based Thumbnail – Part 1

• Illustration-based Thumbnail – Part 2

• Personal Brand Thumbnail

• Text Behind & In Front of you

• Conclusions

• Section 5: Designs for Instagram

• How to Post on Instagram from your Computer

• Instagram Content Creation Hack

• Clean Product Presentation – Part 1

• Clean Product Presentation – Part 2

• Instagram Mockups – Easy!

• Inspirational Content – Part 1

• Inspirational Content – Part 2

• Black & White Content

• Food Content

• Personal Branding – Part 1

• Personal Branding – Part 2

• Content Striking Colors – Part 1

• Content Striking Colors – Part 2

• Section 6: Designs for Facebook Ads

• Framing Facebook Ads & Quality Standards

• Colorful Product Ad – Part 1

• Colorful Product Ad – Part 2

• Colorful Product Ad – Part 3

• Colorful Product Ad – Part 4

• The question of stock photos & freebies in FB ads

• Vector Based Ad – Part 1

• Vector Based Ad – Part 2

• Vector Based Ad – Part 3

• Vector Based Ad – Part 4

• The Pros and Cons of People-based Facebook ads

• People-Based Facebook Ad – Part 1

• People-Based Facebook Ad – Part 2

• People-Based Facebook Ad – Part 3

• Best Facebook Ad Template – The Foundation

• Best Facebook Ad Template – The Details

• Conclusions

• Section 7: Desing Business Cards

• Colorful Business card for the CEO – The essentials

• Colorful Business card for the CEO – The details

• Colorful Business card for the CEO – Beautiful Icons

• What do ‘simple’ and ‘clean’ mean?

• Personal Branding Business Card

• Business Card Best Design Practices

• Corporate Business Card – Foundation

• Corporate Business Card – Icon Design

• Section 8: Design Beautiful CVs (Resumes)

• Deciding on a CV style

• Section 10: Design Great Newsletters

• Newsletter styles

• Colorful Newsletter in Mailchimp & Photoshop

• Create a catchy newsletter hero-element in Photoshop

• Adding extra details

• The most important element: the CTA

• Create effective layouts in Mailchimp

• Inserting new content in Mailchimp

• Balancing graphics with content

• Design overview

• Section 11: Create Animated Newsletters

• Create the product presentation in Photoshop

• Animating the product presentation – Method #1

• Animating the product presentation – Method #2

• Create the call to action

• Creating a gift design for the newsletter in Photoshop

• Animating the gift box – the lid

• Animating the gift box – the stars & text

• Section 12: Graphic Design Analysis with Chris Barin

• Mazda 3 Launch Ad

• Travel Agency Templates – Good or bad?

• Original Design versus Templates

• Hiring People Through Beautiful Ads

• Premium Office Building Ad – Shocking!

• Huge Telecom Company Blunder!

• 50% for 5%

• The reason why most designs are cluttered

• Clichés and Stereotypes in Graphic Design

• Section 13: Printed Design: Indoor Ad Banner

• Everything’s about the Style Guide

• Indoor Ad Banner: Laying things out

• Indoor Ad Banner: Typography & Layout

• Indoor Ad Banner: Styling

• Indoor Banner: Final touches & Conclusions

• Extras: Create an indoor ad banner mockup

• Section conclusions

• Section 15: What you need to know about Logo Design

• Should you design logos as a freelancer?

• Creating logos in Photoshop

• The complexity behind a logo

• Gathering information

• Worst techniques for logo design

• Best techniques for logo design

• Section 16: Final thoughts