Master graphic design tools and creative processes while building a portfolio that highlights your skills. Learn Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, explore design theory and visual principles, and create branding and marketing projects that demonstrate your ability to produce professional, industry-ready work.
Unit 1 18 Hours
Learn to design professional page layouts at your own pace using Adobe InDesign. Work with text, images, and multiple pages while mastering essential tools, styles, and advanced techniques to create books, magazines, and advertisements.
Unit 2 18 Hours
Unit 3 18 Hours
Learn to create and edit vector graphics at your own pace using Adobe Illustrator. This course covers everything from basic shapes to advanced design techniques, including the Pen tool, effects, layers, masks, and more—ideal for designing logos, icons, patterns, and packaging.
Unit 4 30 Hours
Build a strong foundation in graphic design while working on real-world projects to expand your portfolio. This course covers key design principles, typography, color theory, and layout techniques, preparing you to create logos, posters, book covers, and digital assets.
Unit 5
Throughout this program, you will complete a capstone project to showcase in your portfolio:
Attend the AI for Graphic Design class for free as part of this certificate. Choose your date after you register for the program.
Bonus 12 Hours
Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming graphic design with hands-on projects that integrate tools like Adobe Firefly, MidJourney, and ChatGPT. Learn to streamline creative workflows, enhance visual assets, and build cohesive brand packages using cutting-edge AI platforms.
This certificate includes this certification exam as well as the exam proctoring. The exam is optional.
The Adobe Photoshop Certification Exam is a professional credential designed to validate expertise in using Adobe Photoshop for a variety of creative and technical tasks. The exam tests essential skills such as image editing, color correction, typography, and working with layers.
Exam detailsIf you prefer to pay your tuition over time, we have payment options to meet your needs. Finance your education through an installment plan or a 0% interest tuition financing plan. We also assist with documentation should your employer offer tuition reimbursement.
See the Installment plan FAQ for more information.
Student financing plan provided through Climb Credit. See the Climb Credit FAQ for more information.
If you’re a company enrolling your employee or an employee seeking tuition reimbursement from your company, choose Corporate Invoice at checkout.
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This training will definitely help my career. I was able to show my supervisor and co-workers what the software programs have to offer and what I'm capable of when the time comes for creating that construction design team in the future. I was able to provide documentation to my employer that the money spent was well worth it. The training I received at VDCI will become an asset moving forward.
—Donahue Chase
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We want you to succeed in your career goals. In addition to 84 hours of hands-on, self-paced training, you’ll also receive a live 1-on-1 mentoring session where you can:
Upon completion of this course, you’ll receive an official certificate testifying to your mastery of the curriculum. We’ll send you a link where you can download your certificate, share it online with your friends, post it to your professional network on LinkedIn, and view all your earned certificates. Congratulations on your achievement!
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In addition to 84 hours of interactive training, you will receive 1-on-1 mentoring sessions that can be used for career and job support, including polishing your resume, preparing for interviews, and reviewing best practices for applying to jobs. Note, however, that we don’t provide job placement (i.e. reaching out to companies on your behalf).
Yes, this course is open to beginners. Students must be comfortable using a computer. No other prior knowledge is required.
Yes, this course is eligible for our installment plan or a 12-month financing plan through Climb Credit (no interest or financing fees).
Learn more in the Tuition section above.
This program is available for 150 days.
You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 150 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
Attend the AI for Graphic Design class for free as part of this certificate. Choose your date after you register for the program.
There are no extra fees or taxes for our courses. The price you see on this page is the maximum you’ll pay us.
This program is a discounted package of classes that is 15–25% off the individual class prices, so additional discounts do not apply.
