QuarkXPress Course for beginners
Beginners Quark XPress course in Birmingham and Midlands and around the UK - introduction to basic desktop publishing and designing simple documents.
This 1 day Quark XPress course will teach you the basics of desktop publishing with Quark XPress. During the Quark training you will normally work through some of your own documents and designs, creating simple documents like flyers, small adverts, leaflets, etc.
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Beginners QuarkXPress Course summary
Quark Course duration: 1 day
Level: beginners Quark course
Software: Quark Xpress 4, Quark Xpress 5,
Quark Xpress 6, QuarkXpress 7 on PC or Mac.
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up
to 4
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.
Locations:
1) At client's site in Birmingham, Midlands and around the UK (PC or Mac - any version).
2) For one or two trainees, here in South Birmingham (PC - versions 5 or 7).
Quark
Course - Requirements
You should have good computer skills. Some knowledge of other design
software will be useful, particularly Photoshop for
image resizing and colour correction.
Beginners Quark XPress Course Outline - 1 day
Creating a new Quark Xpress document
Starting a new document:
Setting document size and margins and other options
Saving a document and organising files
Modifying page properties
Quark Xpress work area
Moving around the document
Zoom tool and shortcut keys for zooming in and out
Using guidelines to help control layout
Tools
Content & Item tools
Picture boxes and text boxes
Line and shape tools
Text linking tools
Shapes and lines
Creating shapes and lines
Setting fill colour and other properties for shapes
Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines
Colours
Colours palette - adding new colours
Pantone “spot” colours and CMYK colours
Choosing colour for type, fills and borders
Creating tints and gradients
Importing colour lists from other documents
Automatically loading a predefined set of colours with every new document
Working with Images
Create a picture box - set size and position
Import a picture (file type, size, quality considerations)
Positioning an image within the picture box
Scaling, cropping and rotating images
Putting a border around an image
Text & Typography
Creating Text Boxes
Editing text box properties
Adding text, importing text or using Jabber
Setting type properties: size, font, style, alignment
Changing the number of columns of text
Flowing type from one text box to another
Hyphenation, leading, tracking and kerning
Paragraph formatting - indents, paragraph spacing
Checking Spelling
Flowing type around images and other objects
Shapes and Selected Objects
Shape Modifying – changing from one shape to another
Converting between picture boxes and text boxes
Using the Measurements Palette for accurate measurements and calculations
Duplicating selected objects
Grouping objects together & manipulating them as a group
Spacing and aligning items on the page
Locking objects to prevent accidental moving
Adding a drop shadow to an image or other objects – QX7
Page Management
Adding, removing and organising pages
Editing a master page
Various
Keyboard shortcuts: for scaling pictures and text, duplicating, selecting, turning palettes on & off.
Create a Document
Create a simple document such as a flyer, small advert, poster, or a simple newsletter.
Also see the 2 day beginners and intermediate Quark Xpress course
This beginners Quark course is available on-site in Birmingham and Midlands
areas and with trainers around the UK..
Quark XPress 5 courses and QuarkXPress 7 courses are also available for one or two people at our premises in South
Birmingham.
One to one and small group Quark Xpress training