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Composition and legibility
Grid, alignment, margins, information hierarchy. What separates a readable visual from a cluttered one.
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Course 06
Graphic design
A good visual is not a matter of taste, it is a matter of rules you can learn. This course gives you those rules, then the tools to apply them. Online or in person in Yaoundé.
Practical details
- Duration
- 3 months3 h a day, 4 days a week
- Format
- Online & in personOne to one or in a group
- Level required
- Beginners welcomeNo drawing skill required
- Price
- 100 000 FCFAFor the complete course
- Certificate
- YesWork Smart certificate of completion
Syllabus
What the course covers
02
Colour and typography
Building a coherent palette, pairing typefaces, keeping contrast high enough to stay readable on a small screen.
03
Photoshop
Retouching, cut-outs, layers, masks, exporting at the right formats and file sizes.
04
Illustrator and vector work
Logos, icons, pictograms. Understanding why a logo must be vector and how to produce its variants.
05
Canva for speed
Creating reusable templates and producing a consistent series of visuals in minutes.
06
Preparing for print
CMYK, bleed, resolution, file formats. What the printer needs so there is no bad surprise.
What you will be able to do
- ✓Design a poster, a flyer and a business card
- ✓Produce a consistent series of social media visuals
- ✓Cut out, retouch and export an image cleanly
- ✓Create a vector logo and produce its variants
- ✓Build reusable templates to save time
- ✓Hand a printer a file that comes out right
Who it is for
- →Beginners who want a sellable creative skill
- →Community managers producing their own visuals
- →Traders and craftspeople making their own marketing material
- →People using Canva without understanding why the result disappoints
Before you start
Prerequisites and equipment
A computer able to run Photoshop, 8 GB recommended
An Adobe licence, or the free alternatives we cover together
A free Canva account
No drawing skill required
A mouse, more comfortable than a trackpad
Your trainer
Before you enrol
Talk to the trainer
A question about the level required, the pace or the price? It goes straight to the person who runs the course, not to a sales desk.
Or book a meeting
A thirty minute conversation to place your level and check this is the right path. No obligation.
Reserve your seat
Tell me your level and your availability. I will confirm the format, the dates and the price, with no obligation.