Is learning Premiere Pro good for Graphic Designer?

[shawnmohsin]

Since it's Video Editing related software, Do you think it will still be good Idea to take Premiere Pro classes?

P.S: I'm at the moment just starting my Graphic Designing Study, Will take short course for now (later for bachelor) with 3 Main Topics Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Also, Do you think CorelDraw will be good to learn too since what i heard is You can do all it's work on Illustrator.

Please feel free to suggest any other Software i should learn for Graphic Designing.

[Ann Bens]

Premiere is mainly a video-editor. I think After Effects would be more appropriate.

Dont think CD will be a good choice unless you can intergrate with PS, Ill and InD.

[shawnmohsin]

Thanks Ann.

[Dean_Utian · Accepted solution]

Hi shawnmohsin,

First, wish you all the best with your study of graphic design.

My advice to you is to start with the short courses and see what area of graphic design most excites you. You could become an illustrator, web designer, do print marketing or lost of other things. If video work is something that interests you, then yes, definitely look into Premiere.

What type of short courses are you doing? Lynda.com has good tutorials:

Lynda: Online Courses, Classes, Training, Tutorials

To your question on CorelDraw, since you're starting with Photoshop and Illustrator, CorelDraw products are not vital to explore at this stage. It's hard to give advice on what other tools are useful without knowing more details of what interests you. So, as you explore the field further, expand on the tools you learn based on the career direction you want to take.

Hope that's helpful.

[shawnmohsin]

Thanks Dean. Appropriate the help.

[R Neil Haugen]

Ann and Dean have very good responses.

I can only add that most shops hiring graphics do at least some video these days ... it's one of the big conversations going on at Adobe's MAX program in hallways & even from the platforms. So having some at least awareness of video editing practices and terminology can be a very good thing as even if you don't do any, you'll be better able to understand and work with the colleagues that do.

Second ... get proficient at one thing first. Have a reliable skill-set with a particular design tool/area. Then as you build from that, you can start adding other skills. Most colorists I know started in as assistant editors ... maybe got stuck handling some basic Fx stuff, then thrown at some basic color ... then tabbed for more color work ... then ... found themselves in a colorist suite.

A couple started in graphics, and got involved with some of the people doing editing for their firm's web videos ... were aghast at what passed for the color aesthetic of the editors, jumped in offering to advise them ... and ended up being a colorist because of their better sense of color as part and parcel of the whole project.

This is happening all over the "graphics/design" world these days. Still image specialists get a bit of knowledge in Animate, and all of a sudden ... are now full-time working in animation. Graphics people become something else. It's ... kind of blurry out there at times, what are the different jobs?

Neil