LC
Oct 8, 2017
I'm so happy i did this course. Gail, you're amazing and you made my imagination go wild with just your words. I can see you love your craft and that's very inspiring. Enjoyed this course all the way!
TA
May 22, 2023
In fact i am very much glad for this because before taking this course, i know nothing about Indesign but i can now use it and more, Thank you for this financial aid opportunities, Blessings coursera
By Minuette W
•Jan 16, 2023
Unfortunately I thoroughly disliked this course. The concepts in it were taught better in the first course of the Graphic Design specialization, Fundamentals of Graphic Design, and the rest was about how to make a book, not how to create images. It´s good if all you want is the basics of layout and inspiration to make your own art projects, but its very very basic and too vague and to be honest pretentious for intermediate to advanced artists.
In short, you may find this course helpful if you don´t have much or any art or graphic design experience, but otherwise it is too vague to be of much help.
By Anjani
•Dec 22, 2022
This was my least favourite course in this specialization. The theory was explained in a very unclear manner, the instructor starts a sentence then finishes with something entirely different. No clear explanations of terms. And the peer reviews are practically non-existent. People either give a few words of "review" or nothing at all. Can't believe I actually paid to get reviews saying "good" and "n/a". And in the forum the staff keeps saying they will work on this, looking back they have been saying this for over a year without any change. You're better off spending your money elsewhere.
By Claudia L T
•May 26, 2020
This course was the least informative in the specialization so far. There were little to no new concepts taught. I felt like I even got a better idea of imagemaking with the first course. The classes were boring, there was not enough new concepts, and I did not feel like I improved in imagemaking despite actually doing all the assignments and getting good reviews. I could have just drawn whatever I wanted myself and gotten the same experience because I only got to practice what I already knew.
By Tamara S
•Mar 19, 2024
This course is mostly a repeat of the imagemaking and composition sections of the Introductory course: Fundamentals of Graphic Design. However, I found the content less informative , constructive, and applicable than what I learned in the first course. What would have been more helpful is expanding on noticing the denotative and connotative elements of images such as physical quality like lines, textures, textiles, etc. and applying them to context to evoke or portray specific images.
By Greg M
•Aug 18, 2023
I didn't get on with this course at all. I found the teaching to be quite unclear, the projects to also be quite unclear in what they wanted, and that I didn't learn any skills or knowledge I could apply to the projects. I felt I was heavily relying on skills learned in previous courses to complete assignments. Had I not been trying for the graphic design specialisation, I may have quit this one. 2 stars instead of one as it did force me to become a little more familiar with InDesign.
By Veena V
•May 9, 2016
I found the course videos quite dull and uninteresting. The topics covered could have been taught a lot better. I finished this course only because I wanted to get through the specialization course. I found that the course 'Fundamentals of Graphic Design' did an exponentially better job of explaining image making techniques and composition. The assignments in this course are reasonably good but the instruction videos can definitely benefit from some additional in-depth material.
By Rui A M d S
•May 20, 2020
I was a bit disappointed with this part of the course I felt I didn't improve my skills. Maybe works better for people that are looking for a really basic introduction to image-making. The information available was very rudimental and in a very storytelling book. It was kind of boring, I wish it would have been more modern and more graphic.
By Yuliya S
•Oct 14, 2019
It's a very abstract course. Peer review is absolutely useless here. I made some images but I didn't learn something new or interesting. Teacher's information is very unclear and sketchy. Very strong contrast with the previous two courses from the specification in a bad way for this course.
By Ana B
•Feb 3, 2021
It is my third course in Coursera and it has been the worst of all them. The videos are very short and I could learn nothing. The videos contain very obvious information that contributes little to learn something. The best videos are in the last week but you can ignore the previous ones.
By Tim V
•Aug 29, 2020
While a number of broad subjects are covered, the video sections are scant and light on helpful details. An absolutely absurd amount of time was spent looking over old art books. I could have gotten more information from watching YouTube videos than I did from going through this course.
By Alim B
•Jan 10, 2021
I like the concepts mentioned. But they aren't explained well. It would have been great if they were explained in detail. Also the assignment instructions are confusing. I saw many peers confused as their submissions seemed uninformed or they lacked enough clarity on concepts.
By Julija S
•Oct 26, 2020
I have waited much more from the imagemaking course, but at the end it was quite difficult for me to push myself to make exercises, as I found them boring and senseless. Many topics were repeated during the course. I have learned almost nothing new.
By Fahed N
•May 29, 2022
For some reason I don't think this course added to my knowledge of graphic design, there were some interesting exercises for sure, but the whole approach was a little metaphysical and about finding a meaning out of abstract designs.
By mahnoor a
•Nov 27, 2020
The level of difficulty on this course was much higher than previous ones and due to the leap in difficulty levels, I could not keep up. Instructions on this course also did not prove to be sufficient for timely completion.
By Patrick C
•Jun 26, 2018
The worst course of the Graphic Design Specialisation so far.Unclear instructions for each assignment and too much asked for so that the focus becomes on getting them done rather than producing pieces of quality.
By Leticia C R
•May 11, 2016
I understand it was a more practical course but still more information would have been great. Same assignments but more information would have been great. Other courses had more videos.
By Mary E C
•Nov 5, 2020
I honestly didn't learn much from this course. Some of the conventional information about graphics were already included in the first course from the Graphic Design Specialization.
By Winetta D
•Mar 20, 2021
The course wasn't well explained and I didn't seem to learn a lot from this course. I'm sorry for the blunt feedback, but I'm not happy with it.
By Stella S
•Nov 23, 2021
The instructor makes me sleepy and I really didn't learn a lot. I like other courses in the Graphic Design specification though.
By Pragati N
•Sep 26, 2020
The instructions in assignments are very complicated and there is no response from staff in forum
By arshla j
•Sep 24, 2016
Quite a repetition of Fundamentals of Graphics Design, the first course in the specilization.
By galvaron123
•Aug 10, 2020
I thought that the assignments were artistically restricting...
By Hiro W
•Jun 16, 2020
One of assignments was really confusing...
By Ayah O
•Jan 14, 2024
it wasn't that much useful like others
By مهند ا ا
•May 18, 2023
good