In this first week, we’ll get acquainted with Adobe Creative Cloud and Photoshop. You’ll learn about the various applications and capabilities of the program, and we’ll guide you through the interface. Additionally, you’ll get an overview of the most commonly used tools. The week concludes with a creative assignment where you edit images and transform existing visuals.

This week, we’ll dive deeper into working with layers in Photoshop. You’ll learn how to crop and frame images, as well as how to combine multiple photo files. During the creative assignment, you will manipulate three self-selected images from your own professional context. You’ll work in layers to create a collage, applying various layout techniques in image and color use.

In week three, we explore more advanced Photoshop applications such as masks, transformations, perspective, and shadows. You’ll learn how to add graphic elements and manipulate files. For the creative assignment, you’ll develop a webpage relevant to your professional context, using various images with a focus on cohesion and consistency in the layout.

This week, we transition to Illustrator. We cover the basic principles of the program and its applications. You’ll learn various tools and techniques to better understand the fundamentals of Illustrator, such as the pen tool, shape tools, and selection tools. By the end of this lesson, you’ll understand how to draw paths, lines, and shapes using Illustrator.

In week five, we delve deeper into creating vector images using the knife and scissors tools, various types of lines, colors, gradients, arrangement, and layers. This lesson will give you more technical insight into how logos and/or icons are created.

In the final Illustrator lesson, you’ll learn to work with various tools such as Shape Creation, Pathfinder, and text tools. We’ll also cover image vectorization and provide a brief introduction to AI applications. Additionally, there will be an opportunity to ask questions from your own context, which we will address as a group. By the end of the lesson, you’ll have a solid overall understanding of how to work as a designer using Illustrator.

In the final week, we focus on integrating the various techniques. For the creative assignment, you’ll design a portfolio based on your own professional context that you can immediately use in your work. All the skills you’ve acquired in previous weeks will be applied.