If someone wants to make career designing but confused about the job options. Please do not take any worries, graphic designing is now arriving as ideal career path.
But how?
You can check on internet that graphic designing are available in abundant. The title of job can be different according the post. According to an estimate the jobs in graphic designing field will in 10 years.
That means if anyone whether he/she is school student or a working person. Who are looking for career options in which they get many job options?
Can go for graphic designing course?
In graphic design courses, you will be learning the essential designing software applications. These applications are important in order to make a big start in making career as a creative designer. Do you want to know what these applications are?
For this let’s have a glance on the following list.
Famous software applications
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- CorelDraw Graphics suite
- Adobe InDesign
- Sketch
- Affinity Designer
- GIMP
- Gravit designer
- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Publisher
- Adobe XD
The designing field is completely occupied by these above mentioned designing software applications. By looking on each software you can understand the fact behind different job titles.
There are two ways of learning these software.
First way:
You can go for a diploma course
Second way:
Another way is to go for certificate course
Now the question that arise in every mind. In between certificate and diploma which one they can choose. In my opinion both of these are amazing but diploma Courses. It’s totally depends on the person which is suitable for him or her.
If anyone is looking for short term job oriented courses. Then certificate courses are the best option for them.
Top certificate courses:
- Adobe illustrator master course
- Adobe InDesign master course
- Photoshop master
- CorelDraw master
- Autodesk sketch pro master
- Digital painting master
- Photo editing course
These certificate can of duration one months to three months. Every course is different from each other.
Job options in certificate course
But if I talk about job options. Then jobs are limited in certificate courses. for example if you have learnt
- Illustrator: you will be limited to create vector flat designs and only got job related to it.
- Photoshop: Photoshop is the best short term certificate to pursue. Because after learning it. You can create many fabulous designs and images. Also it is a basic course of every designing work from web designing to video editing to image manipulations. But after only learning you get job of image manipulator or creator with limited salary and job option.
Quick tips while choosing certificate courses
That is lack of commercial art classes and design thinking. A designer cannot be considered as the designer if he or she lacks basic design knowledge such as
- Typography
- Color scheme
- Measurements of poster, banner
- Design trends etc.
If a person wants to make career in graphic design. But does not have any back ground in designing. It becomes difficult for him or her to flourishing well in this designing field. They will only work only on design given by other as operator of designing software applications.
Their salary will also not exceed much in the future with knowledge of any one software.
Let’s move on diploma programs and know their advantages
If someone have time, patience and hard work to learn long term courses for having a great future and career. Then choosing diploma courses are the best choices. But before discussing in brief about diploma courses. Let’s firstly see best programs on it.
Best diploma programs on graphic designing
- Graphic premium course
Software applications:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- CorelDraw
- Dimension
- Bridge
- Commercial art
- Visual grammar
- Graphic master course
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- CorelDraw
- Dimension
- Bridge
- InDesign
- Light room
- Commercial art
- Visual grammar
- Graphic master plus course
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- CorelDraw
- Dimension
- Bridge
- InDesign
- Adobe XD
- Sketchbook
- UX design
- Light room
- Commercial art
- Visual grammar
Benefits for pursuing graphic designing diploma course: there are many benefits of pursuing diploma course such as includes many software application as you see above.
Second each of them includes commercial art and visual grammar classes.
Due to these special art classes, it’s become easy to learn basic designing for graphic designers. Who lacks designing background and knowledge?
Third after completion you will get many jobs options.
Career options after pursuing graphic design course
- Art director
- Graphic designer
- Logo designer
- Image editor
- Illustrator artist
- Illustration designer
- Photoshop artist
- Banner designer
- Poster designer
- Magazine designer
- Apparel designer
- Pattern designer
- Photoshop designer
- Video editor
- Web designer
- UI Designer
- UX designer
- CorelDraw mentor
- Photoshop mentor
- InDesign mentor
- XD designer
- Animator
- Creative designer
- Layout artist
- Advertising designer
- Brand designer
- Flash designer
- Multimedia artist
- Brand identity designer
- Design consultant
- Visualization artist
- Industrial designer
- Marketing manager
- Digital designer
- Photo/image editor
- Freelancer
After looking on career options for graphic designer. Here, we can say that graphic designing is the ideal career option.
But you cannot get succeeded in this field only by pursuing graphic design because completion level is not very easy to handle. Millions of peoples in the world are running after this field. You also need other essential qualities to face this tough competition.
Essential qualities to become a successful graphic designer.
- Need of excellent communication skills to explain and represent you designs to variety of clients.
Fluent English and fluency of your mother language play a major role to.
- Curiosity is the key source of success. A designer imagine things far away from the reality and beyond the surface. After having that kind of thinking they create something very unique and fabulous
- Passion: you can’t do any work if you do not have interest in it.
For example: in school we have many different subject to study such as
- Mathematics
- Science
- Geography
- General knowledge
- Literature
- Grammar both English and Hindi
- Sanskrit
- And many more
But we only spend 80% of our study time on the subject we like. I like chemistry and biology the most other likes different subjects than me according to their choices.
Same as in graphic designing you also need that kind of interest and passion by which you can work too long.
- Open-minded: for surviving in the graphic design field. Your designs should have to be very unique. And it only happens when you will left your comfortable zone to try something new. In other words, do not afraid to show yourself in your designs.
- Continuous learner: According to science evolution brings variation and new form for better survival. Same as in designing fields that why try new technologies, share advice and follow other advice with huge creative community and do not end your learning until you achieve your life target.
- Hard working: talent is valuable but do not forget “handwork can beat talent if the talented one is not doing handwork” just like “The Tortoise and Hare story”.
If you have all these qualities plus you have dedicatedly have learnt all the designing software. Then it will become very easy for you to get success in field of graphic designing.
The field of graphic design is good to enter into if you are aspired by the media of digital world. It is important to know for every beginner that this field takes designing sense and technical knowledge on software applications that we have read on this.
