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

3.70 (76 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Graphic Design
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2,567
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5 hours
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Apr 2017
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$44.99
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What you will 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

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 it

  • Clean and professional website – you will  learn how to design it for responsive web design as well

  • Modern flyer – this skill is particularly useful when working for local clients

  • Facebook 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!

Content

Introduction To The Course

Introduction

Freelancing A-Z: How To Start Your Freelancing Career

1. What is Freelancing and Can It Be Something For You?
2. Working as a part-time and a full-time freelancer
3.How To Start Your Career As A Frelance Graphic Designer
4.How To Get Your First Client
5.How To Get More Clients
6.Freelance Bid Platforms
7. Most common mistakes fresh freelancers make
8.What We've Learnt So Far

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

What is a Client Brief?
1.Let's make some arrangments first
2.How to create input fields
3.How to Create Checkboxes
4.How to add the Calendar
5.How to Create a Drop-down List
6.How to add font styles
7. How to add our branding to the client brief
8.How to Protect Your Client Brief
Question #1

How To Design An Awesome Logo

1.Introduction To The Design Process
2.How To Create The Leaf And The Stem
3.How To Make The Leaf Bend
4.How To Create The Anntenae
5.How To Complete The Butterfly Look
6.How To Add The Text
7.Let's Sum Up What We've Learnt
Question #2

How To Design A Professional Business Card

1.How To Set Up A Business Card Template
2.How To Set Up A European Template
3.How To Set Up A US Template
4.Let's start the design process
5Let's add the logo
5.Let's add the logo
6.Let's add the main text
7.Let's Create The Grass
8.Let's Finish the Business Card
9.Business Card in Photoshop - Introduction
10.How To Add The Guides
11.How To Create The Transition - Step 1
12.How To Create The Transition - Step 2
13.How To Add The Text
Question #3

How To Design A Responsive Website

1Introduction To The Design
2 How To add multiple elements with one click
3 How To Create The Logo And Navigation Sections
4 How To Align The Navigation
5 How To Create The Content Container
6 How To Add Text Containers To The Sidebar
7 How To Add The Text To The Sidebar
8 How To Finish The Sidebar
9 How To Create The Featured Image
10 How To Add The Blog Post Excerpt
11 How To Add The Second Blog Post
12 How To Add The Footer
Quiz #4

How to Create The Subpage

13 How To Add The Subpage Elements
14 How To Create The Content Placeholders
15 How To Add The Main Image
16 How To Add The Author Info
17 How To Add The Shop Info
18 How To Add The Social Media Icons

How to Create the Tablet and the Smartphone Versions of the Website

19 Let's Understand The Responsive Design Part
20 Let's Add The Logo and The Nav
21 How To Add The First Blog Post
22 How To Add The Second Blog Post
23 How To Add The Footer
24 How To Create The Hamburger menu
25 How To Add The Smartphone Blog Posts
26 How To Finish The Smartphone Design
Quiz #5

How To Design A Professional Flyer

How To Create A Multi Purpose Template
How To Add The Header
How To Add The Main Image
How To Add The Main Text
How To Create Lists
How To Add The Google Map
How To Finish The Design
Quiz #6

How To Design A Perfect Facebook Cover Photo

How To Start The Template Creation Process
How To Create The Main Template
How To Add The Cover Photo
How To Create The Template In Ilustrator
How To Add The Profile Image
How To Generate The Cover Photo and The Profile Image

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

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

Hamad
June 26, 2021
My own personal experience with this course was quite good. I think, I can say, that this course was a good match for me!
Nicholas
August 7, 2017
The course information has been very well layed out. The instructor is easy to understand, enthusiastic, honest, and engaging. I appreciate the section on how to get your first job offer, as this is a bery helpful realization for most freelance beginners.
Alan
October 8, 2016
Would have liked to have learned more about the business side of freelancing rather than design techniques. Saying that, Dawid has a knack for making design look easy and I certainly learned more than a few useful techniques and short cuts that can make my own design work better and easier.
Sapir
June 18, 2016
Great course , the instroctur is very simple and clear , i think that the facebook cover and flyer design are techniques without the thinking behind of the design. overall i personally enjoyed the course andd i was great best regards!
Hari
May 27, 2016
really more powerful and more detail about freelancing career . its make my life to think about to jump on freelancing career and make the boss of my own life.. this is the course i never saw before on internet ever.. thanks a lot for this wonderful and useful information . thanks once again...

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