Official Course Content
Official DBI page lists DTP 3-month and 1-month tracks.
Introduction to Desktop Publishing
- Hardware components
- Computer basics and functioning
Photoshop
- Understanding tools
- Workspace
- Creating new documents for digital and offset use
- Image editing and enhancement
- Image manipulation and layer masking
- Effects, shapes and texts
- Project work
Corel Draw
- Understanding tools
- Work area
- Creating new documents
- Properties and menu
- Basic drawing, shapes and colours
- Texts and paragraphs
- Page layout
- Page composition alignment
- Text effects
- Importing images and paperclipping
- Exporting files for different media
- Printing
- Project work
Video Editing
- Developing visual vocabulary
- Camera techniques and location scouting
- Video camera operating tips
- Camera angles and movements
- Framing shots
- Planning and filming
- Audio and video script terms
- Editing process
- Storyboard and timeline
- Adding, arranging, splitting, combining and trimming clips
- Video FX and transitions
- Text screens
- Audio import and levels
- Exporting the movie