The best place to grow as a creative:
Martin Perhiniak
Founder and Lead Instructor
Award-winning Graphic Designer, Illustrator and an Adobe Certified Instructor, voted one of the Top 10 Adobe Instructors in the World.
Before founding Yes I'm a Designer, Martin worked as a designer for Pixar, BBC, Mattel and Accenture, and taught teams at Transport for London, Google, Ben & Jerry's and Oxford University Press.
Martin regularly speaks at industry events; most recently Adobe MAX, the ultimate creative conference.
Creative Courses
with over 300 hours of video training, quizzes and real life creative exercises for all levels of users
certified training
official training provider and partner for Adobe
300,000+ students
taught online, at seminars
and in classrooms
20+ million views
and over 600 free tutorials
on our YouTube channel
We have 54,228 student reviews with an average rating of 4.56/5 on Udemy.
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Become a creative Professional in a year
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Our most popular Courses
Photoshop fast-track
Master Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign with our revolutionary workflow-based learning experience!
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Graphic Design Theory
Learn the language of design and make engaging, clear and effective compositions!
365 Days of creativity
Nurture your creativity, improve your software skills and develop your own design style!
Some of the companies using our online courses:
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The main positive for me are Martin‘s clear understanding and the many useful side remarks.
Arthur Fritzsche
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Excellent course. Extremely well presented and easy to follow along with. Being my first experience with InDesign I wouldn't say that I have mastered all the topics covered, but it is a very good base and starting point. Thank you.
Sabina
Which Membership is right for you?
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12-weeks-long guided learning program for beginner students or hobbyist designers with fun projects and a supportive community of like-minded students. | ||||
Get a downloadable digital certificate for each course you complete signed by our certified instructors. | ||||
Test your knowledge by taking quizzes and practice everything you learn with structured exercises and useful training materials. | ||||
Be inspired by joining a thriving community of creative spirits. Share your work to get valuable feedback from fellow students. | ||||
Learn industry-standard design applications like Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro or Cinema 4D. | N/A | |||
Master Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign with our revolutionary workflow-based learning experience! | N/A | |||
Master visual communication with the most comprehensive online training series of 12 courses | N/A | |||
Access to project-based courses such as the Character Design course or the 365 Days of Creativity series. These help more experienced students improve their portfolios and create stunning designs. | N/A | N/A | ||
Choose from various Career Paths like (Graphic Design, Illustration, UX & Web Design, Logo etc.) and get monthly feedback and guidance on your work from our instructors. | N/A | N/A | ||
Webinars: Live reviews of designs submitted by students. Get feedback personally from your mentors. | N/A | N/A | ||
Get a personal assessment of your skills and portfolio. This annual review can provide you invaluable insight and guidance on: - How to improve your hireability in the creative industry? - Which sectors, niches are best suited for you? - How to make your work look more professional? | N/A | N/A | ||
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Magdalena Palahanova| Bulgaria
Being part of the Pro Membership has become a very important chapter in my creative journey for several reasons. This is my first creative community and it has given me the opportunity to share and receive opinions, experiences and insights.
One of the biggest advantages is having a seasoned instructor who shares his thoughts and experience of the industry, oversees my projects and provides constructive feedback helping me improve my skills. Last, but not least, I have also learned a lot from the feedback provided to the other members. I love to analyse their work and compare my conclusions to Martin’s and for me this is a very enjoyable way of learning.
I think the courses on the platform are some of the best available at the moment as they offer great in-depth knowledge of the Creative Cloud programs and graphic design theory, yet they are easy to understand and follow thanks to the fun examples and projects which go along with them.
Ephraim Shapiro| Israel
This is my first online learning experience with interactive elements. Over the past five years I have attended two different offline design courses, and despite the fact that I was physically more present on lessons, in terms of quantity and intensity I got much more from Yes I'm a Designer. I received more constructive feedback on my work, and produced more designs that I can use in my portfolio.
Nicole Heinrich| Germany
Becoming a Pro Member meant that I got a 360° creative safe seat in the design world and it provided me the freedom to find my specific niche from the plethora of different subject areas, such as packaging design and illustration. The Live Webinars and the Community has given me the important feedback and sense of security I need to improve my technical or theoretical skils in order to step out of my comfort zone and create good work. For me personally, this is a very important factor in online learning. Being able to have Martin as a highly ambitious and certified teacher is fantastic. As a mother of two, I am learning at my own pace to realize my dreams a little further each day, while working from home.
Graham Goater| England
Watching Yes I'm a Designer on YouTube helped me to become a graphic designer, but it was only when I joined as a Pro Member that I really saw BIG results. The practice briefs gave me motivation to put what I learnt into practice. The feedback given by Martin and fellow students also helped me improve so much quicker than what I would have done if I was on my own. I'm now picking up regular work and setting up my new graphic design business in the new year. Thanks Martin and the rest of the YES team!
Dániel Földes | Hungary
The courses on Yes I'm a Designer helped a lot to prepare for the Adobe Certified Professional exam. There were 13 theoretical questions about the icons, interface, few definitions, followed by 17 practical tasks for example: select the red area of a flower or change the copyright status of an image or edit the typo as they wished, flip a logo on a document horizontal, etc.
Overall I found it fairly easy to pass on my first attempt and I am already preparing for the Illustrator and InDesign Professional exams.
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More experienced?
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When I started these courses 5 months ago, I had no experience in graphics but thanks to Martin’s lessons and his advice, I've really learnt a lot. Each course is well organised and clearly explained and this has definitely given me confidence of developing the skills I needed. Besides, I love the fact that he dedicates his time to review our works and gives a lot of precious insights. I'm really happy to be part of this group.
Nunzia Terminiello
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I actually took Martin's InDesign Masterclass course several years ago when I started working in communications, and I came out of it with the ability to be extremely efficient with one of my recurring tasks (monthly PDF newsletter). When the opportunity for professional development came up at work this year, I decided to go back to Martin's courses after having tried to up-skill other Adobe software using our company's Pluralsight subscription and not being too happy with the results. I was so glad to find out that Yes I'm a Designer now offers Premiere Pro and After Effects courses along with Illustrator and Photoshop, which made the monthly subscription a better sell for me at work (when I took InDesign, I only signed up for that course instead of going with the subscription, since there were much fewer courses back in the day). I just finished the Illustrator Masterclass and am working my way through Photoshop, and I can recommend the Masterclasses even for people who already use the software regularly but were initially self taught, so perhaps didn't know all the tips and tricks that can end up saving a ton of time on a project and make the tasks more fun. Obviously, if you're a beginner (like I was with InDesign back in the day), these courses are also perfect.
Layla
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I have been using I am a designer course for nearly a month and so far I can say that It is one of the best decision I have taken in the last months. After long thinking how to better my skills in photoshop and InDesign as well as Illustrator, and visiting a lot of online academy, I enrolled in this course, Yes Im a designer and very happy with my choice. The explanations are very clear and up to any level. Lots of example are provide as well as the quiz to rapidly assess yourself. Also, I love the idea of the assignment and getting a real feedback. I do believe that this last point will help me to take the right design decisions.