Piks Career School International

Register for Our Certificate Course in Computer Graphic Design

Introduction
Learn the skills you need for an exciting, new career in graphic design – at home or at our Campus, at your own pace, with PIKS Career School International. Put your creativity to work for you as a graphic designer. With the PIKS Career School International Computer Graphic Designer Program, you can learn the graphic design skills you need quickly and conveniently.

Program Over View

You have an eye for design and a knack for working with technology. It's time to tap into that potential and take the first step toward the career you've always wanted as a digital Designer. With PIKS Career School International's Computer Graphic Designer career diploma program, you'll use Adobe Illustrator and other software commonly used in the field of computer graphic design.

Your comprehensive lessons include color theory, computer graphics, elements of design, graphic design and production, photo image editing from beginner to advanced and the home-based business. With PIKS Career School International, you can even train at home and at a pace that's right for you, and you can complete your program in as little as four months.

What you'll learn
✔ Have a deep understanding of typography, color theory, photos, layout, blocking and other design theory and skills
✔ Understand and learn the essential tools and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
✔ Create logos and branding packages for potential clients
✔ Learn photo editing and manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
✔ Master the pen tool, shape builder tool and other essential vector design tools in Adobe Illustrator.
✔ How to create editorial spreads and magazine layouts using Adobe Illustrator
✔ Understand solid logo design and ad design principles to create compelling campaigns and logos
✔ Work through the entire package design process
✔ Learn non-destructive editing techniques in Adobe Photoshop
✔ Work through an event flyer design to understand strong type hierarchy, balance and overall design layout
✔ Learn a few of the upcoming design trends for 2024 and how to create them!
✔Learn the history of fonts and typefaces and how to pair fonts
✔ Learn the basics of Affinity Designer and learn the difference between Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer
✔ Work through a 7-page vector tracing worksheet and feel confident creating a complex vector illustration by the end of this worksheet
✔ Learn how to work with multiple page layouts in Adobe InDesign and create a cookbook cover and book
✔ Learn the step-by-step process to becoming a graphic designer
✔ Learn how to work with Photoshop Mockups to create great presentations
✔ Learn word mapping and brainstorming techniques to increase your creativity in logo design and branding projects
✔ Learn the Double Exposure Effect in Adobe Photoshop
✔ Create Vector Art in Adobe Illustrator
✔ How to create YouTube thumbnails and social media graphics
✔ How to properly give and receive critiques and feedback
✔ Understand how to create 3d objects and typography in Adobe Illustrator
✔ Discover the latest 2024 updates to the Adobe software and understand the new artificial intelligence filters and tools
✔ Learn how to predict future design trends and complete projects that use the most up-to-date trends
✔ Learn about the history of graphic design styles in the last 130 years.

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Contact us
Bajjuuko Trading Center along Mityana Road,
Grey Plaza Level 1, next to GAZI Petro Station
Tel: +256 753 700 286 | +256 754 404 246
WhatsApp: +256 783 420 577 | +256 782 404 246
Website: www.piks.digitaleyeacademy.org

Register for our Career Certificate Course in Video & Sound Editing

Learn how to edit Advanced Music Videos, Documentaries and Films, and master your sound recording with Adobe Audition, Sound forge or audacity. The program walks you through the entire process of getting footage from the Camera, cutting it into nice pieces for further compositing in Adobe Premier pro.

Our seasoned experts will show you the tools and options available to create complex compositions using just Adobe Premiere Pro, without worrying about the Knowledge of Adobe after Effects or Adobe Photoshop. This Course gives students all the necessary skills to edit with Adobe Premiere Pro. Students are also taught multiple theoretical editing approaches.

Over the course of the Course, students are provided footage to edit 20 varying types of projects. Students will edit:
• a Montage,
• a short Documentary,
• music video and a Dialogue project.
• The final week of the Course is dedicated to cutting a Reel.

They will learn various theoretical concepts of editing and how to practically apply those theories. Editors are not solely limited to the film industry; they work in many areas of media, including news, documentaries, television, and web series.

This program provides students with hands-on instruction in editing theory, techniques and the fundamentals of digital editing. Students gain hands-on experience by editing various projects with footage provided to them in class and they shoot from the field. They also learn various theoretical concepts of editing and how to practically apply those theories.

What you'll learn
• Master Premiere Pro and be CONFIDENT Editing Your Own Videos.
• Edit an entire video from beginning to end, using professional and efficient techniques. By the end of the course, you'll have edited your promo video with the supplied footage (video clips, photos, graphics, music, etc.), or your own footage!
• Start a project with the right settings for any type of video, from any camera and Export and save your videos for 4K & High Definition playback.
• Edit your videos, and make them more dynamic with cutaway footage and photos.
• Add motion to your titles, photos, and videos... making them more visually interesting.
• Color correct your video to fix issues with white balance and exposure and Add a feeling to your video with color grading.
• Apply visual effects such as stabilizing shaky video, removing grain, and making video more cinematic with overlays.
• Edit green screen footage and, add backgrounds that actually look good.
• By the end of the course you'll have created your own Demo-Reel from 1min to 4/5 minutes - depending on your ambitions
• Efficiently use all the editing tools in Premiere Pro CC - The right tools with the right techniques at the right place and time.
• How to use the powerful Editing Monitors within Premiere Pro CC from the Trim Monitor to Speed Adjustment Monitors.
• The complete and professional Color Correction Process - A step-by-step approach, including how to use all Lumetri Scopes and the Lumetri Color Panel.
• The concept behind Color Grading and how to apply Color Grading in a professional way to create different moods and feelings for your Videos.
• How to use the latest Graphics within Premiere Pro CC to create Titles, Lower thirds and more.

Welcome to PiKS Career School International |PCSI
--Turning dreams into Careers---
Contact us
Bajjuuko Trading Center along Mityana Road,
Grey Plaza Level 1, next to GAZI Petro Station
Tel: +256 753 700 286 | +256 754 404 246
WhatsApp: +256 783 420 577 | +256 782 404 246
Website: www.piks.digitaleyeacademy.org

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Why you should enroll for our Multimedia Courses

With the increased number of TV Stations in Uganda today, the need for professional video producers, directors, screen writers, script supervisors, floor managers, editors, camera operators etc. is on the rise, though the available professionals are few and most of them lack practical advanced skills and creativity. This leads to providing poor visual content to audience who have no better alternative.
The increase in video on demand (VOD)and social network sites like YouTube, Facebook, Tiktok, Vimeo etc. has led to new demand to train video producers to provide good quality content to the eye of the viewer.
Video production includes all the aspects of making video either for screen or for web. Many business need videos to promote their products in form of adverts training manuals, product descriptions etc., all these have to be professionally produced. Thus, industrial videography and cooperate videography.
The music industry is growing which also provides a large market for video producers. Though the movie industry has not realized the role of using professionals in their projects, time is ready for them to do so as the demand for local content by international TVs like DSTv has come into place. Thus, the role of video producer in the business world and promotion of corporate identity should not be ignored.
About 90% of the population in the modern world prefer getting information in visual form. This provides a larger and continuously growing market for video Producers. Video producers are needed in:
• Filmmaking and VFX
• Educational Video production
• Advertisements production
• Wedding and Events videography
• Industrial and cooperate videography
• Documentaries Productions
• Music videos production
• Live Events Production

We emphasize the role of creative media, video, information communication technology and the word wide web in the global business today. Thus, we cover the main area which we think every business need in the global business world.
Register for one of our Certificate courses from the visual communication department:
• Certificate in Video editing and compositing
• Certificate in Music Video Production
• Certificate in Digital Photography & Photo Editing
• Advanced certificate in Film & TV production
• Certificate in Digital Graphic Design
• Certificate in Motion Graphics for TV Broadcast

Welcome to PiKS Career School International |PCSI
--Turning dreams into Careers---
Contact us
Bajjuuko Trading Center along Mityana Road,
Grey Plaza Level 1, next to GAZI Petro Station
Tel: +256 753 700 286 | +256 754 404 246
WhatsApp: +256 783 420 577 | +256 782 404 246
Website: www.piks.digitaleyeacademy.org

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