Design X

 Hello there everyone,

As you all know, we at the Rotaract Club of University of Peradeniya, always try our very best to bring out the hidden skills of our beloved members through various projects. This is one of the reasons why we are blessed with such loyal and hard-working members. The project Design X was one such attempt of our Directors.

"DesignX" was an online webinar series which was conducted as three separate sessions with the main target of developing the digital designing software skills of the participants. At a time where everybody is spending most of their time roaming on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, why not give them a chance to learn something new or sharpen their skills? That’s how our always-busy PR Team came up with this fantastic idea.

The project was not carried out alone. We partnered up with the Media Society of University of Peradeniya, Perabeats for this great project. Nowadays, everybody is very eager to learn Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro. Therefore, the project was carried out to introduce the concepts of these 3 in an understandable manner.

It was held on zoom platform with more than 300 overall participants and indeed it was a very informative and interactive series where many of the participants solved their problems regarding these softwares at the Q&A sessions.

The first session was on Adobe Lightroom and it was conducted by Saranga Abeykoon, the President of Perabeats Media Society and Sham Sanjaya, the Junior Coordinator of Perabeats Life. In this session, an introduction to Adobe Lightroom was given and the basics of Lightroom, Color grading techniques and an introduction to mobile Lightroom app was nicely presented.

The second session was about Adobe Photoshop which targeted Graphic Designing. It was conducted by Ravindu Madhawa, the Head of Designing of Perabeats and Uvin Thavisha, the Senior Coordinator of Perabeats. In this session an introduction to Adobe Photoshop was given introducing basic tools. Then a creative flyer designing was taught step by step in an understandable manner to anyone.

The third and the final session was on Adobe Premiere Pro and was conducted by Swarnaka Deepashan, the Vice President of Perabeats and Kusal Mahela, the Head of Videography of Perabeats. During this session, an introduction to the software with essential tools and a basic editing process of a video was given in a mind-blowing way.

We would like to thank our PR Team, The Organizing Committee of the Design X project and everybody at Perabeats for helping us with this project.