دانلود Lynda Graphic Design Tutorial Series - آموزش طراحی گرافیکی

Topics include:
- The creative process
- Layout and composition
- Grids
- Typography
- Color
- Transforming images and assets in Photoshop
- Drawing logos in Illustrator
- Designing graphics and documents in InDesign

Graphic Design Careers: First Steps
New to graphic design? You're in the right place. Discover the most crucial skills, tools, and techniques for graphic designers today, and which courses you need to kick-start your career. Learn about the importance of planning and sketching, and review resources that can help you tap into your inner creativity. Explore the building blocks of design—color, typography, and layout—and the main goals of projects like infographics and other common design jobs, so you step off on the right foot. Then, find out how to get started with essential design software, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Finally, get tips on digital output options and how to leverage different ebook distribution options.

Creative Pro Careers: Staying Ahead
Often, creative professionals find themselves in their current roles due to a combination of aptitude for a particular craft—photography, for example—and an insatiable curiosity that drives them to cultivate a diverse skill set. In today's market, where photographers often need to know design and designers often need to know how to take great pictures, these varied skill sets are crucial. Essentially, the more you know, the greater your professional value. In this course, get a high-level overview of some of the most popular creative fields—including graphic design, photography, video, and UX design—and learn which techniques you need to know to stay competitive. Join instructor Jim Heid as he shows the tools needed for various kinds of work, the skills that you'll need to get the most out of those tools, and the LinkedIn Learning courses that allow you to explore these tools and skills at your own pace.

Topics include:
- Identifying essential creative professional skills
- Reviewing different creative tools
- Learning about the field of graphic design
- Working in the photography and video fields
- Working with audio and music
- Reviewing motion graphics and 3D animation
- Working in UX and web design

Creative Collaboration
Despite the prevalent myth of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can you best leverage your team’s collective wisdom? Join international speaker and trainer Denise Jacobs for a fresh approach to creative collaboration that makes the process productive and fun. Learn how to recognize and remove personal creative blocks, connect and communicate with others, combine ideas using play, and construct a collaborative environment to tap into a group’s creative brilliance. With these techniques and exercises, you’ll be able to embrace and leverage a diverse range of ideas and create better together.

Topics include:
- Unblocking your creativity
- Experimenting and failing on purpose
- Sharing ideas
- Listening
- Remixing ideas
- Using improve for collaboration
- Creating the right environment

Color Trends
Color is a deeply rooted form of communication—a universal language than can be understood 60,000 times faster than text alone. Leveraged the right way, color can elicit positive emotion and associations that other imagery cannot. Brands are embracing more use of color in their campaigns, and knowing how and when to use the newest color trends will keep you on top of your design game. In this course, designer and brand strategist Nicte Cuevas shares how you can use the Pantone color of the year—Classic Blue—and other color trends to engage your audience. Learn how to understand the emotional triggers behind the color trends, identify what colors work well together, what industries are best suited for the latest trends and why, and how to incorporate new colors in your designs.

Color for Design and Art
Color for Design and Art removes the mystery from color theory, showing artists and nonartists alike how to confidently choose, apply, and modify palettes of eye-catching hues. Jim Krause is a designer, a photographer, and an illustrator. He is also the author of 17 books, including Color for Designers and Color Index, part of his famed Index series of design books. In this course, Jim explains the essential components of color theory in simple language, showing how hues can be assembled into good-looking palettes and how you can use your design and illustration software to apply colors to logos, layouts, and illustrations. The training provides clear advice on how to create color schemes based on current trends and the tastes of different target audiences. Jim also shows how color can attract attention and affect mood and meaning.

Primarily aimed at designers and illustrators, the course leans heavily toward digital tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator, but concludes with some challenges using real-world media (inks and paints!), so members can get a solid understanding of mixing colors and what tools and combinations work best.

Topics include:
- Navigating the color wheel and color vocabulary
- Why a color's value is so important
- RGB vs. CMYK vs. spot
- Finding the perfect color
- Working with grays and browns
- Building a color palette
- Borrowing hues for palettes
- Establishing color hierarchies
- Fixing color problems
- Altering color in photos and illustrations
- Using texture with color
- Painting for learning and fun