Graphic Design Training

Transform Your Passion into a Profession: Master Graphic Design with IT Training Nepal! Dreaming of a career where art meets technology? Our Training is your launchpad to become a skilled visual communicator, ready to shape brands and captivate audiences in Nepal's booming digital landscape. Graphic Design is an important means of visual communication, which is achieved by mixing art with technology. Visual communication is an effective way to give knowledge about an organization's products or services. It plays an important role in the success of an organization in today's digital era. Along with graphic design tools, designers must also have a solid understanding of typography, color psychology, user experience, wireframing, layout and composition, and communication skills to make an effective design. Therefore, Graphic Design Training at IT Training Nepal is a project-based learning institute, where students learn to design different graphic elements like logos, brochures, advertisements, interfaces, magazines, and app interfaces using design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Along with the Adobe suite, students are also taught Figma and Canva to accomplish the modern-day requirement of interface design, social media visuals, and marketing materials. Students develop their design portfolio by the end of the training using all the design concepts they have studied during the course. 

How is the Graphic Design course designed?

The course is designed and tutored by industry professionals having years of experience with one clear objective in mind—to make professional Graphic Designers out of every student who walks in. Granted, those are some grand ambitions, but IT Training Nepal has thus far lived up to those expectations, as is evident from the success stories we share. 

We have devised each module very carefully and thoroughly, keeping both theoretical and practical concepts. In the beginning phase, students are introduced to graphic tools. They start the course by learning how to use these tools. Slowly, the course advances by introducing color concepts, typography, and design theory. After that, students start to create designs that can communicate visually. 

Our course incorporates lots of practical work and mini projects to evaluate the capacity of the students. Once a tool is completely taught, a major project is assigned to students to measure their progress. The course is designed in such a way that after the completion of the training, one can learn how to use graphic design tools to create visually stunning designs. 

Besides the primary objective established in the preceding paragraphs, here are a few more important objectives of our graphic design training program.

Objectives of learning Graphic Design training at IT Training Nepal

  • To teach industry-standard software like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, and Canva
  • To grow with the syllabus designed by a team of industry experts and academicians
  • To develop your ability to choose appropriate color palettes and typography depending on the type of design.
  • To impart an understanding of both print and web media.
  • To craft interfaces for both print and web media, keeping user experience in mind.
  • To use Photoshop retouching effects to prepare images for publication.
  • To empower the creation of logos that symbolically represent the brand.
  • To help students design visually appealing layouts using advanced design techniques.
  • To help students create professional magazines and brochures.
  • Grab a placement opportunity after the successful completion of the training
  • To create banners and infographics for social media.

Why choose IT Training Nepal for your Design Career?

Project-based learning:

After each module, you will be engaged in different mini projects, and at the end of a module,l you will be assigned to work on a main project.

Build a professional portfolio:

You will develop a professional portfolio throughout the course. A professional portfolio is required to showcase your employers.

Modern, In-Demand Tools:

Master Adobe Suite along with some other popular tool like Figma for prototyping, user interface design and Canva required to design banner ads, videos without much hassle. 

Taught by Industry Experts:

Our trainers are highly professional and belong to the industry where they work on challenging cutting edge projects. 

Internship and placement assistance:

After the successful completion of the training, learners are engaged in our guaranteed internship program, where they get the opportunity to do projects under the supervision of our experts. We have already partnered with 25+ companies for placement after completion of our internship.

What will you master in our Graphic Design Training

  • Adobe Photoshop: Photo editing, manipulation, and digital art.
  • Adobe Illustrator: Vector graphics, logo design, and illustrations.
  • Adobe InDesign: Magazine layouts, brochures, and professional publications.
  • Figma: Design seamless user experiences for the next generation of digital products.
  • Canva: Create stunning, on-brand content quickly for social media and marketing campaigns.
  • Core Design Principles: A solid foundation in typography, color theory, composition, and UX principles.

Career Opportunities for Graphic Designers in Nepal

In Nepal, industries like advertising agencies, IT companies, Digital Marketing Agencies, NGOs/ INGOs, Publishing House etc can easily hire you after the completion of our training and internship.

  • Graphic Designer
  • UI/UX Designer
  • Brand Identity Designer
  • Social Media Designer
  • Layout Artist for Print & Digital Media

Meet Your Mentor

I'm Suraj Shrestha, a graphic designer with over 15 years of industry experience and more than 10 years of teaching in the field. Throughout my career, I’ve worked with leading brands like Machhapuchchhre Bank, Siddhartha Bank, Surya Nepal, Nagarik Daily, SAWDF, and many more. As a teacher, I focus on making complex design concepts simple, practical, and inspiring for students. I believe in nurturing creativity while grounding it in real-world application. 

I have already taught hundreds of students aspiring to develop a career in the area of Graphic Design at IT Training Nepal. Most of them are already working as professional graphic designers. Join me to transform your creative vision into a tangible skill set, ready for a thriving career in design.

Prerequisite for Graphic Design Training

There are no prerequisites before enrolling in the Graphic Design course. A person who has a creative mind and has some experience making visual art (drawing, painting, etc.) can do the best in this field. However, basic familiarity with the computer is always a plus.

Training Duration: 2 months (1.5 hrs per day) 
Internship Duration: 3 months, optional internship

Enroll in our Graphic Design Training now. Visit our training center in Putalisadak, Kathmandu, for a free counseling session. We'll walk you through our entire training and internship process.

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Introduction to Graphic Design

  • Overview of design fundamentals: Balance, contrast, alignment, repetition, proximity, and white space.
    Importance of design in communication and user experience.

Color Theory Basics

  • Primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
  • Hue, saturation, and brightness (HSB).
  • Warm vs. cool colors and their impact. 

Color Wheel

  • Using color wheel to create harmony in designs. 

Color Psychology

  • How colors evoke emotions and influence perception.
  • Cultural differences in color interpretation. 

Emotion and Branding

  • How brands use color to establish identity and connect with their target audience.
  • Case studies of successful brand color strategies.

Learning Goal:

Understand how colors interact in design and how to make effective color choices based on the target audience, project goals, and emotional impact.

Typography Basics

  • Typefaces vs. Fonts: Typefaces are families (like Helvetica), and fonts are specific styles (like Helvetica Bold).
  • Anatomy of Type: Learn about baseline, x-height, ascenders, descenders, and serifs.

Style & Appearance

  • Serif vs. Sans-Serif: Serif fonts have small strokes at the ends of letters; sans-serif fonts don’t.
  • Script, Display, and Monospaced: These fonts have unique purposes for headings or coding.
  • Weight, Style, and Spacing: Bold, italic, letter-spacing, and line height affect readability.

Typography in Practice

  • Hierarchy: Use size, weight, and spacing to guide the reader’s eye.
  • Alignment: Left, right, centered, or justified text changes the look and flow.
  • Color & Contrast: Ensure readability while maintaining style.

Advanced Concepts

  • Kerning, Tracking, and Leading: Adjusting space between letters, words, and lines.
  • Grid Systems: Organize content for clarity and structure.
  • Responsive Typography: Ensure fonts look good on different screens.
  • Photoshop Interface, Customizing Interface as per the requirement of the designer, saving interface
  • Introduction to Photoshop
  • Difference between web and print media
  • Concept of resolution for print and web
  • Image type used for web like JPG, GIF, PNG and for print like TIFF, EPS, PDF
  • Image resizing techniques and optimizing images
  • Selection tools
  • Brushes, loading brushes, saving brushes, creating brushes
  • color correction, retouching
  • enhancing brightness, shadows, midtones
  • rectangle, ellipse tools to design interface for both web and press
  • concept of layers, locking layers
  • blending options
  • working with gradients
  • using pen tool to trace shapes, creating logos, custom shapes
  • using pen tool to extract selected portion from an image
  • using custom shapes, loading shapes, modifying existing shapes
  • concept of clipping mask
  • using filters

During the training session students will be asked to design logo, brochures, advertisements, book cover, banners etc. 

Freehand is very popular among the Desktop publishing house in Nepal. Some of the best features that we get in latest freehand software are mentioned below:

  • apply unlimited stroke, fill and effects to your designs
  • change color, size, stroke, fill using the object panel very easily
  • see live effects of objects with altering the original object and apply different raster and vector based effects
  • get sufficient editable points in object to transform their shapes easily
  • integration of flash
  • using action tool
  • easily draw flowchart, map using connector line tool which is highly flexible
  • apply extrude feature to get 3D effects and use lighting effects
  • integrate fireworks easily and modify the objects in freehand

some of the popular tools and techniques that we learn in freehand are:

  • Knowing the FreeHand Interface
  • Working with documents and drawing
  • knowing layers, symbols and styles
  • Using objects, stroke and fills tools
  • using color
  • applying special effects
  • Using type tool
  • Import artworks and its customization
  • learn about web graphics and animation
  • Saving, Printing and Exporting documents in different formats
  • learn keyboard shortcuts

It is a raster tool which is used to design logos, artworks etc. It has been very popular among the graphics designers because of its advanced features and easy to use tools. It has a rich set of tools which can be customized while using. Certain tools and flexibility that we get in Illustrator is not present in other graphic designing tool.

Course Outline:

  • knowing the interface of Illustrator
  • using selection tools and learning group selection, lasso selection, magic wand selection
  • introduction to pen tool
  • use pen tool to add and remove anchor points, joining anchor points
  • concept of layers, organizing layers, grouping layers, selecting layers, duplicating layers, merging layers
  • using strokes, converting strokes size, dashed stroke, removing strokes, joining strokes
  • using text tool also popularly known as type tool, vertical type tool, path type, area type tool
  • using font attributes and formatting paragraphs, transforming text 
  • using shape object like rectangle tool, polygon tool, star tool, rounded rectangle tool
  • transforming a shape using different techniques like rotate, scale, reflect, twist, sheer, reshape, reposition etc
  • learning how to align and distribute objects evenly
  • using different line tools
  • using clipping path and mask
  • applying color using color picker tool, color swatches, color palettes
  • learn the use of pencil tool, eraser tool
  • using brush tool, load and save brushes
  • learn the use of gradient
  • concept of transparency and masking
  • learn envelope and its options, using mesh, text distortions
  • using guides and rulers while creating an illustration
  • using scissor tool and knife tool while designing an illustration
  • using pathfinder and liquify tool
  • learning the use of appearance and styles
  • using filters
  • use blend tool and learn blending multiple objects
  • display chart and graphs 
  • knowing different image formats and learn how to save images for web
  • learn to use slice tool to generate images for web
  • using different symbol tools
  • integrating with photoshop images
  • using auto trace feature

It is used to design interactive pdf forms, book design, brochure, magazines and also very popular in media and desktop publishing house.

Some of the important things we need to know in InDesign is mentioned below:

Getting Started

  • Understanding the interface
  • Showing and Hiding Panels
  • Exploring document properties to setup margin and page size
  • Exploring general preferences
  • Concept of Bleed and its use

Creating and managing document

  • Creating documents
  • Using rulers and guides in the document
  • Using Zoom tool to change the view

Creating and managing pages

  • Deleting unnecessary pages
  • Moving pages within the document
  • Creating master pages
  • Multiple master pages concept
  • Applying master pages 
  • Inserting page numbers

Working with text

  • Inserting and importing text
  • Concept of paragraph spacing
  • Applying and removing hyphens
  • Changing case
  • Creating text styles
  • Applying text styles to paragraphs
  • Concept of placeholder
  • Flowing text across multiple frames
  • Inserting Drop Cap
  • Concept of text kerning, leading and tracking
  • Paragraph alignment and its distribution
  • Using eyedropper tool for color

Working with Graphics

  • Inserting graphics
  • Exploring text wrapping options
  • Inserting graphics within frames
  • Difference between frame and image resizing
  • Modifying corners

Working with Objects

  • Inserting shapes and lines
  • Using selection and direct selection tool
  • Resizing and moving objects
  • Concept of Scaling and Rotation objects
  • Concept of Locking and unlocking objects

Using Fills, Stroke, and Effects

  • Applying different fills and strokes color
  • Exploring stroke variations
  • Applying shadow and feather options

Creating and customizing tables

  • Inserting table
  • customizing size and design
  • applying alternate row and column colors
  • creating header and footer in tables
  • adjusting table within a frame

Finalizing document

  • Automatic spelling correction
  • Checking links to resources within the document
  • Checking hidden text within text frames
  • Designing Cover page with binding space

Exporting a document for print

  • Understand different export options
  • Exporting documents as PDFs with high resolution for press
  • Exporting documents as PDFs with medium or low resolution for online
  • Concept of Package
  • Creating a Package

A graphics designer is required by a desktop publishing company, advertising agency, and other offices. Creating logos, advertisements, newspapers, books, brochures, certificates, and website templates are some of the regular jobs of a graphics designer. Good Graphics Designers are always in high demand in Nepal and abroad countries. Therefore, a graphics designer who has a good command over graphics tools can make a good money.

Canva is useful for Graphic Designers as it helps them to generate social media marketing content rapidly and efficiently. It also helps us to maintain brand consistency easily throughout our designs. 

Canva Fundamentals

  • Navigating the Canva Interface
  • Using Templates vs. Blank Canvas
  • The Core Toolkit: Elements, Text, and Uploads
  • Exporting for Web and Print (PNG, JPG, PDF)

Core Design Tasks

  • Social Media Graphics (Posts, Stories, Ads)
  • Basic Video and Animations (Reels, GIFs) 
  • Digital and Print Documents (Posters, Flyers, Menus)

Advanced & Efficiency Features

  • Brand Kit for Brand Consistency
  • Magic Studio AI Tools (Magic Write, Magic Edit, Magic Resize)
  • Collaboration (Sharing, Commenting, Teamwork)

Some of the features of Figma are useful for graphic designers to build interactive user interface along with designing digital products. It offers vector based editing features for creating scalable graphics. Figma has a rich community support which help designers with free rosources to enhance design capabilities. Collaboration has been made very easy in Figma which helps team work. Some of the important topics included in Figma is listed below:

Figma Fundamentals

  • Frames & Layout Grids
  • Vector Drawing & Asset Importing
  • Creating & Applying Color and Text Styles

Building Reusable UI

  • Components & Variants
  • Auto Layout (for responsive elements)
  • Nesting Auto Layout (for complex components)
  • Constraints for Resizing

Interactive Prototyping

  • Linking Frames to Create User Flows
  • Triggers, Actions, and Transitions
  • Smart Animate for Fluid Motion
  • Designing Overlays and Scrollable Areas

Collaboration & Handoff

  • Sharing for Comments & Feedback
  • Using Community Files & Plugins
  • Understanding the "Inspect" Panel for Developers

Students are associated with different types of project work throughout the Graphic Design Course as mentioned below:

  • Logo Design
  • Brand Style Guides
  • Business Collateral (Business Cards, Letterheads, Envelopes)
  • Brochures and Flyers
  • Posters (Movie, Event, Social Campaign)
  • Magazine/Book Layout (Spreads, Covers, Interiors)
  • Packaging Design
  • Social Media Graphics
  • Web Design Mockups/UI Design
  • Banner Ads/Digital Advertising
  • Infographics
  • Vector Illustrations (Icons, Spot Illustrations, Characters)
  • Photo Manipulation/Retouching
FAQs

It requires normally 2 to 2.5 months to learn the tools of Graphic Designing software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign.

You have to do internship or job to hone your skills in order to learn the tools professionally.

First you need to complete the training and then we recommend you to do at least 3 to 6 months internship under the supervision of industry experts. Then you can apply for a job.

There is a huge demand of Graphic Designers in Nepal since, these days everything is going digital from online presence to promotion.

Yes, there are lots of freelancing opportunities available for a good Graphic Designer. Designers these days can apply for online job in different freelancing websites

You can join IT Training Nepal for a professional training as well as internship. We have been developing industry ready graphic designers since 2010.

Normally the price ranges from NRs. 15000 to NRs. 25000. The cost of the training largely depends upon the level of the training and its objective.

.There are lots of online resources that you can refer to develop your skills. However, it is advisable to join a professional learning center like IT Training Nepal which has been providing Graphics Designing training since decades at an affordable cost. Learning under the supervision of industry experts helps to develop skills faster

AI will not completely replace the scope of Graphic Designers. AI will automate most of the mundane task however creativity is needed in most of the designs which requires human touch.

The salary range may vary as per the experience. However, a beginner may start to earn as low as NRs. 15000 and a senior graphic designer with 5+ years of experience may earn NRs. 50000 to NRs. 80000 on a monthly basis.

To become a successful graphic designer one should have knowledge of Typography, Color Theory and Design Principles besides mastering software tools.
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My life changed very much after the professional training I have taken from IT Training Nepal. I had completed my BCA and was searching for jobs. I joined Graphics Designing course and was the knowledge and skills I received made me prepare for high pressure situation, complex problem solving yet being creative designer. I can now work in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, CorelDraw and InDesign. I am working as freelance designer and enjoying my work life. I owe lot to IT Training Nepal for the sincere and dedicated service.

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The knowledge and skills I received and mastered during the training course at IT Training Nepal has really helped in my work. Now, I feel more confident in my designing approach and creative in thinking. I really appreciate the institute for providing such a good platform for a learners like me. I am sure lots of students will benefit from this training.

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I was recommended to take Graphics Designing Training since my I was interested to open a design studio in the future. Our trainer Mr. Suraj Shrestha was very professional. He first introduced us the tools ad techniques. After being familiar with the tools we were asked to make designs like banners, logo, advertisements and so on. There were lots of mini projects that we are involved during the training period. I think the practical skills that we got during our class will help me to work as a Graphics Designer or similar other positions.

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I am currently pursuing a Bachelor in Business Studies (BBS) and was interested in studying Graphic Design from the very beginning. After successfully completing a course at IT Training Nepal, I was offered an internship opportunity. Following a three-month internship period, I was hired as a Junior Graphic Designer. I would like to express my gratitude to IT Training Nepal for providing such an excellent platform and for helping me excel in my career as a Graphics Designer. Moreover, the trainer was highly professional and his training methodology helped me to excel in this area within a short duration of time.

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Due to the interest in the area of Graphic Design, I was looking for a professional training center. I was recommended by one of my friend who had taken graphic design training from IT Training Nepal. The trainer was very friendly and professional. He gave some of the best designing tips which helped me to sharpen my skills. The practical based training approach helped learners like me to understand the concepts easily even though I had no prior experience of using graphic designing software.

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