Do you like colour, texture, shape, image and text? Do you enjoy working with the computer? Then graphic design and desktop publishing could be the career for you. Your fist step is to read about the course.

Graphic Design & Desktop Publishing

Correspondence courses are flexible and comfortable way of studying that allows you to study at home. They are ideal for people who have a full-time job or other commitments. They are open for everybody. This might be a professional who needs to update his knowledge or skills, or a mother who wants to refresh her qualifications before re-entering the labor market.

This is one of those careers that lets you either work from home and have a paid lifestyle or work from an office being paid by someone else.

You don’t need to have artistic talent to do graphic design and desktop publishing. But you have to understand the elements and principles of design so you can create quality work that people will enjoy.

In the comfort of your own home you will find out how to design brochures, video covers, CD cases, posters, and a whole range of artwork. This course is specifically organized for the home learner, so it takes you step-by-step through each project. And you have to present every step of your work to professional designer.

This is an exciting course if you have little or no design experience and want to get these skills from scratch, right up to the point of being a professional and setting up your own graphic design and desktop publishing business.

You can be a: Graphic Designer, Desktop Publisher, Freelance Graphic Design and Desktop Publisher. Industries include: all businesses, particularly the printing and publishing industries, but graphic designers can specialize in the music industry, advertising, corporate, and so on.

Graphic designers and desktop publishers create designs and layouts of text and images for reproduction in print and electronic media such as advertising and promotion, events and exhibitions, packaging and product covers, magazines and newspapers, books and websites, and for corporate stationery and branding materials.

In fact, graphic designers plan, design and create the material, which is used for reproduction (print or web). This is called 'prepress' and usually includes a combination of text and graphics, though it can be just text or graphic in nature.

A desktop publisher with the help of a computer try to create high-quality printed documents. Desktop publishing software help you to use a variety of typefaces, define different margins and justifications, and insert photographs, images and graphs into the text. So a desktop publisher lays out the text and/or graphics on the page.

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