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

 

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