Jewelry Designing Certificate

Program Description

DESIGNING jewelry is an exciting way of giving vent to creative energy. The recent years have seen a spurt in demand for custom made as well as designer jewelry.  It is an ever-growing industry.  Because of this jewelry design as a career is steadily grabbing international attention and the trend is catching up in the US also. This field offers an exciting career option to the design minded person.

Jewelers or accessory designers have to have an eye for detail, keen observation, fashion awareness and precision. This type of designing requires working with materials which are expensive and precious. Thus a meticulous and precise approach is required.

Course Curriculum

CorelDraw

This course begins from starting the CorelDraw Program and covers its powerful features used to create professional graphics. How to add basic drawing elements, and create different diamonds and precious stones, how to modify those elements and then edit and color are covered in the exercises. You are then taken through some of the special effects that can be applied to them. The creative aspect of making bangles, rings, jewelry sets and other professional artwork is also covered.

PHASE - I

1) How to Start the CorelDraw program

2) Introduction to the CorelDraw program, Menu bar & Drawing Toolbox

3) Overview of drawing tools

  a) Freehand Tool

  b) Rectangle Tool

  c) Ellipse Tool

  d) Polygon, Spiral & Graph Paper Tools

4) Editing the object

  a) Deleting, Moving, Scaling, Rotating & Skewing

  b) Shape Tool 

  c) Knife Tool

  d) Erase Tool

  e) Smudge Tool

  f) Roughen Tool 

5) How to combine two lines

6) Learn to use Transformation (Mirror) of object and combine it

7) Learn to use Transformation (Rotation), to make a flower 

8) Live Demos

PHASE - II

1) Differentiate Mode of Color

2) Color Fill Tool:-

 a) Fill Color

 b) Fountain Fill

 c) Pattern Fill

 d) Texture Fill

 e) PostScript Fill

 f) No Fill

 g) Color Docker Window

3) Outline Tool:-

 a) Outline Pen

 b) Outline Color

 c) No Outline

 d) Outline Thickness

4) Arrange Menu

 a) Order

 b) Group

 c) Convert to curve

 d) Convert Outline to object

5) Edit Menu

 a) Delete

 b) Symbol

 c) Duplicate

 d) Clone

 e) Copy Properties From

6) View Menu

 a) Simple Wireframe 

 b) Wireframe

 c) Normal

 d) Enhanced

PHASE III

1) Interactive Tool:-

 a) Interactive Blending Tool

 b) Interactive Blending Tool

 c) Interactive Contour Tool

 d) Interactive Contour Tool

 e) Interactive Distortion Tool

 f) Interactive Envelope Tool

 g) Interactive Extrude Tool

2) Interactive Extrude Tool

 a) Interactive Drop Shadow

 b) Interactive Fill Tool

 c) Interactive Mesh Fill

 e) Interactive Transparency

3) Eyedropper Tool & Paintbucket Tool

4) Artistic Media Tool

5) View Menu

6) Designing an Advertisement layout.

7) Designing a Greeting Card with proper measurements & Color effects.

PHASE IV

1) Layout Menu

2) Text Menu 

3) Live demo : Advertisement Layout with proper measurements. 

4) Arrange Menu

 a) Shaping - Weld, Trim, Intersect, Simplify, Front Minus Back, Back Minus

Front.

 b) Close path

 c)  Convert outline to object

5)  Live demo: To make a Logo.

6) Effects Menu

 a)  Lens

 b) Powerclip

 c) Add Perspective

 d) Rollover

7) Bitmap Menu

8) Live Demo: Packet / Box Designing

9) Designing a Visiting Card

10) Designing a Letterhead

Photoshop

Adobe PhotoShop is an Image Processing software package. It enables you to present your jewelry designs with appropriate special effects like the glow of a diamond or light and shadow on gold, etc. You can also create a whole range of designs by modifying one design. Adobe Photoshop is acknowledged in professional fields as the cutting-edge Program, the final word in inspirational Designing

PHASE - I

1) How to Start the Photoshop program

2) Introduction to the Photoshop program, Menu bar & Drawing Toolbox

3) Selection Tools

4) Live Demo - Selecting Images

  Exercise 1

Phase II

5) Drawing & painting tools

6) Image editing & manipulation

7) Working with text, rasterizing text and images

8) Working with layers

9) Live Demo - Loading a Selection and coloring the Selected Area

  Exercise 2

Original Modified

10) Live Demo - Making a Layer (Layer Mask)

Phase III

11) Explanation of various tools like Dodge & blur tool, Rubber Stamp & pattern stamp tool, etc

12) Working with images

13) Working with channels & masks

14) Saving and loading selections

15)  Using paths i.e. pen tool

16) Special effects on images - using Filters

Phase IV

17) Saving files with different extensions i.e. GIF, JPEG, PDF and other web supported formats

18) Importing files from CorelDraw or any other applications

19) Scanning images

3D Jewelry Design with JewelCAD

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

-       You can be a PC user to take our courses. You'll need a Pentium II with Internet connection and a web browser (Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher).

-       Basic dial-up Internet access is adequate but a high speed connection is recommended.

-       Depending upon the course taken by you, you can either download the free trail versions of the software from the respective sites (the links of which are displayed on our webpages of that particular course) or you can purchase the software from the respective software sites.

Required Materials:

-       We do not suggest you buy any textbooks. Our courses have been developed by a team of designers, educators, writers and programmers with more than 16 years of combined experience. So the courses are really like textbooks themselves. We also give you notes in the form of PDF files.

Instructor Interaction and Grading:

-       Interacting with Instructors is one of the most important aspects of our training. We offer multiple opportunities for interaction, such as email, chat rooms, and a virtual bulletin board for student comments. We will also be sending a newsletter on an ongoing basis and there is also an online portfolio area. Your queries and mails will be attended to instantly.

-       The lectures and instructions are based on asynchronous learning models, and have removed the limits normally associated with real-time learning. You need not schedule specific hours of the day, where you must sit in front of the computer. Rather, you can learn at your own convenience.

-       All Notes & Assignments are turned in as PDF files posted in our members section and student-instructor interaction takes place via e-mail or chat. Teaching is highly interactive, with ongoing feedbacks, assessments, evaluation, monitoring & projects.

-       We have a grading policy of - A, B, C grades awarded to the student based on the evaluation of the student’s progress and other related qualities. The project plays an important role in the Grading.

-       On an average, a student is expected to spend MINIMUM 10 hours PER WEEK. For Example- To complete a course of 80 sessions it would take approximately 8 weeks. But you could spend more time per week and complete your course earlier.

-       You cannot skip or jump to another course before completing the previous one. The reason being we evaluate your performance and the course is designed in a very structured and systematic way, to make you understand every feature of that particular topic.