QuarkXPress Course for beginners
One day beginners Quark XPress course will introduce you the basics of desktop publishing with Quark XPress, creating simple documents like flyers, small adverts, leaflets, etc.
Quark XPress courses are available in Birmingham and Midlands areas and around the UK.
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Beginners QuarkXPress Course summary
Quark course duration: 1 day
Level: beginners Quark course
Software: Quark Xpress 4, 5,
Quark Xpress 6, QuarkXpress 7, QuarkXpress 8
on PC or Mac.
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up
to 4 trainees
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 - version 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
Introduction to QuarkXPress - tools, techniques and introduction to the basics of page layout and design with Quark XPress.
Creating a new Quark Xpress document
Starting a new document:
Setting document size and page 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 other properties for shapes
Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines
Colours
Colours palette - adding new colours
Choosing RGB, CMYK or Pantone Spot colours
Choosing colour for type, fills and borders
Creating tints and gradients
Importing colours from other documents
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
Adding a border around an image
Text & Typography
Creating a text box
Modifying text box properties
Typing text, importing text or using Jabber
Setting type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation
Basic typography settings: leading, tracking and kerning
Paragraph formatting - indents, paragraph spacing
Checking Spelling
Changing the number of columns of text
Flowing type from one text box to another
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
Spacing and aligning items on the page
Create multiple identical objects with equal spacing using Step & Repeat
Grouping objects together
Locking objects to prevent accidental moving
Page Management
Adding new pages, organising pages, deleting pages
Basic overview of how a master page works and adding content to the master page
Create A Simple Document
Create a small simple document such as a single page newsletter, with text and images. This could be a simple document of your own - e.g. a poster, leaflet, postcard, magazine advert, simple newsletter or other small document.
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 can be arranged 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
Quark XPress Training Courses