Computer Art

This course will enable you to target your customers with professional-looking sales literature without the costs associated with using an external design agency. You’ll learn all the skills you need to create a wide range of high impact visual documents, including wall charts, posters and flyers.

To begin, you'll learn how to create simple shapes in Word, how to position text and how to move objects around in your drawing. You'll be shown how create professional looking posters using a combination of text and pictures.

Next, you'll explore how photographs can add real impact to your work - you'll see how to import and format photographs in a word document and how to get the best results when you print them out.

As your confidence grows, you'll explore the huge potential of Microsoft Paint - from starting a new document from scratch to creating different styles of computer art on your own PC.

By the time you have finished the course, you’ll have developed a good range of computer art skills and will know how to manipulate images and use drawing software.

What will you learn?

On completion of this course you will be able to:

• Understand the difference between bitmap and vector graphics
• Open, navigate and close Microsoft Word and Paint
• Create a new document and drawing canvas
• Create simple shapes and lines
• Add text to a drawing canvas
• Import, move and resize images
• Use font styles and WordArt
• Add colour, borders and shadows
• Print documents

Qualifications

Taking this course can count towards part of the following qualifications:

• ITQ
• New CLAIT

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