How To Start A Successful Design Freelance Career

Freelancer 's step-by-step guide on how to become a successful graphic design freelancer Graphic Design Freelance

What you'll learn
Start a successful graphic design freelancing career
Get their first client and, ultimately, more clients
Avoid most common mistakes fresh freelancers make
Set up an interactive client brief
Design a professional logo based on the client brief
Design a professional business card in Illustrator and Photoshop
Design a responsive website
Design a modern flyer
Design a Facebook cover photo
Requirements
You will need Adobe Photoshop at least CS5
You will need Adobe Illustrator at least CS5
You will need Microsoft Word at least 2007
Description
"Dawid is doing a great job explaining how you can become a successful freelancer. What I liked most about this course is the balance between freelancing information and web-design information because in reality the best web-designers are not always the most highly-paid ones. Even if you are a web-designer already but you want to make additional income working from home, then this comprehensive course will show you step-by-step how to do it. Highly recommended."Aren’t you tired of working 9-5, answering to your boss who doesn’t always get it right…But most of all aren’t you tired of not getting paid for doing what you really love?
Well if you are, you need a change.This course gives you a chance to gain confidence in your skills and open your eyes to the possibilities of a graphic design freelance career.You’ll play a role of a graphic designer who will create a complete, real-life project.
But you’ll also find answers to the most common questions that fresh graphic design freelancers have.   So if you want to learn
What is the best way to start as a freelance graphic designer?How to get clients?And how to avoid the most common mistakes fresh freelancers make?You will find the answers inside.   Let me take you step-by-step through the whole process of creating a complete graphic design project:   We will start with a client brief: you will learn what it is, what it should contain and how to set one up yourself using Ms Word.And then, based on the client brief we'll design:Fantastic logo and business cards that compliment itClean and professional website – you will  learn how to design it for responsive web design as wellModern flyer – this skill is particularly useful when working for local clientsFacebook cover photo (and you’ll be amazed how simple it is to set your own template that is always accurate)This course will give you everything you need if you are looking for professional and easy to follow Illustrator and Photoshop skills that will jump start your graphic design freelance career.    It’s a series of standalone projects: you don’t have to sit all day and watch everything: you can jump to what’s your interest for the day and don’t feel guilty that you didn’t watch the rest.    If you are taking this course, you should have some basic understanding of how to work with Illustrator and Photoshop.   Click that enroll button and take your first step to having a career you always dreamed about.     See you inside!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction To The Course

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Freelancing A-Z: How To Start Your Freelancing Career

Lecture 2 1. What is Freelancing and Can It Be Something For You?

Lecture 3 2. Working as a part-time and a full-time freelancer

Lecture 4 3.How To Start Your Career As A Frelance Graphic Designer

Lecture 5 4.How To Get Your First Client

Lecture 6 5.How To Get More Clients

Lecture 7 6.Freelance Bid Platforms

Lecture 8 7. Most common mistakes fresh freelancers make

Lecture 9 8.What We've Learnt So Far

Section 3: Freelancing A-Z: How To Set Up A Client Brief

Lecture 10 What is a Client Brief?

Lecture 11 1.Let's make some arrangments first

Lecture 12 2.How to create input fields

Lecture 13 3.How to Create Checkboxes

Lecture 14 4.How to add the Calendar

Lecture 15 5.How to Create a Drop-down List

Lecture 16 6.How to add font styles

Lecture 17 7. How to add our branding to the client brief

Lecture 18 8.How to Protect Your Client Brief

Section 4: How To Design An Awesome Logo

Lecture 19 1.Introduction To The Design Process

Lecture 20 2.How To Create The Leaf And The Stem

Lecture 21 3.How To Make The Leaf Bend

Lecture 22 4.How To Create The Anntenae

Lecture 23 5.How To Complete The Butterfly Look

Lecture 24 6.How To Add The Text

Lecture 25 7.Let's Sum Up What We've Learnt

Section 5: How To Design A Professional Business Card

Lecture 26 1.How To Set Up A Business Card Template

Lecture 27 2.How To Set Up A European Template

Lecture 28 3.How To Set Up A US Template

Lecture 29 4.Let's start the design process

Lecture 30 5Let's add the logo

Lecture 31 5.Let's add the logo

Lecture 32 6.Let's add the main text

Lecture 33 7.Let's Create The Grass

Lecture 34 8.Let's Finish the Business Card

Lecture 35 9.Business Card in Photoshop - Introduction

Lecture 36 10.How To Add The Guides

Lecture 37 11.How To Create The Transition - Step 1

Lecture 38 12.How To Create The Transition - Step 2

Lecture 39 13.How To Add The Text

Section 6: How To Design A Responsive Website

Lecture 40 1Introduction To The Design

Lecture 41 2 How To add multiple elements with one click

Lecture 42 3 How To Create The Logo And Navigation Sections

Lecture 43 4 How To Align The Navigation

Lecture 44 5 How To Create The Content Container

Lecture 45 6 How To Add Text Containers To The Sidebar

Lecture 46 7 How To Add The Text To The Sidebar

Lecture 47 8 How To Finish The Sidebar

Lecture 48 9 How To Create The Featured Image

Lecture 49 10 How To Add The Blog Post Excerpt

Lecture 50 11 How To Add The Second Blog Post

Lecture 51 12 How To Add The Footer

Section 7: How to Create The Subpage

Lecture 52 13 How To Add The Subpage Elements

Lecture 53 14 How To Create The Content Placeholders

Lecture 54 15 How To Add The Main Image

Lecture 55 16 How To Add The Author Info

Lecture 56 17 How To Add The Shop Info

Lecture 57 18 How To Add The Social Media Icons

Section 8: How to Create the Tablet and the Smartphone Versions of the Website

Lecture 58 19 Let's Understand The Responsive Design Part

Lecture 59 20 Let's Add The Logo and The Nav

Lecture 60 21 How To Add The First Blog Post

Lecture 61 22 How To Add The Second Blog Post

Lecture 62 23 How To Add The Footer

Lecture 63 24 How To Create The Hamburger menu

Lecture 64 25 How To Add The Smartphone Blog Posts

Lecture 65 26 How To Finish The Smartphone Design

Section 9: How To Design A Professional Flyer

Lecture 66 How To Create A Multi Purpose Template

Lecture 67 How To Add The Header

Lecture 68 How To Add The Main Image

Lecture 69 How To Add The Main Text

Lecture 70 How To Create Lists

Lecture 71 How To Add The Google Map

Lecture 72 How To Finish The Design

Section 10: How To Design A Perfect Facebook Cover Photo

Lecture 73 How To Start The Template Creation Process

Lecture 74 How To Create The Main Template

Lecture 75 How To Add The Cover Photo

Lecture 76 How To Create The Template In Ilustrator

Lecture 77 How To Add The Profile Image

Lecture 78 How To Generate The Cover Photo and The Profile Image

Section 11: Freelancing A-Z: Let's sum what we've learnt

Lecture 79 Freelancing A-Z: Let's sum what we've learnt

Lecture 80 Bonus Lecture

Lecture 81 License

If you are thinking about starting your career as a graphic design freelancer, this course is for you,If you are looking for speciic knowledge on every step of a graphic design freelancing project, this course is for you,If you want to learn professional Illustrator and Photoshop techniques, this course is for you,If you are an experienced graphic design freelancer and/or Illustrator and Photoshop user, this course is NOT for you