Quark XPress Beginners and Intermediate - 2 day course

Quark XPress Beginners and Intermediate - 2 day course

Two day beginners and intermediate Quark Xpress training course which will introduce you to the basics of desktop publishing and design with Quark XPress, and then show you how to work accurately and efficiently as you create more advanced document designs using master pages and style sheets.

On-site Quark Xpress training can be arranged at your office or home in Birmingham and other Midlands areas and around the UK

You just need to have good computer skills. Some knowledge of other design software will be useful, particularly Photoshop for image resizing and colour correction.

Day 1 - Quark XPress Course - Beginners Introduction

Introduction to QuarkXPress - tools, techniques and introduction to the basics of page layout and design with Quark XPress.

Creating a new Quark Xpress 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
Using the Zoom tool and associated shortcut keys
Using guidelines to help control layout

Tools

Content & Item tools
Picture boxes and text boxes
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.

Day 2 - Quark Xpress Course - Intermediate

Intermediate Quark Xpress training, looking at time saving features like style sheets and master pages, and how to build and work correctly with multi-page documents.

This is a typical course outline; it may be modified to suit your requirements.

During the QuarkXpress training you will normally work through some of your own documents and designs, and the exact areas covered will usually relate to the type of documents you want to produce.

Pages and Master Pages

Working with multi-page documents
Creating a spread of 2 or more pages

Creating Master Pages
Applying a master page to document pages
Editing and duplicating master pages
Automatic page numbering

Type & Typography

Controlling paragraph breaks and column breaks
Paragraph formatting - drop caps, baseline shift, paragraph rules, keep options, etc.

Tabs - creating hanging indents and tabbed lists

Inserting Glyphs and special characters e.g. • © ™ etc.
Inline graphics (graphics inside the type )

Using Find & Replace to replace repeated text elements in a document
Showing hidden characters (markers for paragraphs, tabs, spaces, etc.) within the text

Style Sheets

Using Style Sheets to format type
Character and Paragraph Style Sheets
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing styles from other documents

Tables

Creating and working with simple tables

Formatting cell colours and cell stroke properties
Resizing cells, merging cells, adding or removing rows or columns
Importing table data from spreadsheet documents or creating a table from existing text

Formatting text, setting cell inset spacing
Adding images to table cells

Images

Using clipping paths or alpha channels in an image, to create areas of transparency

Adding a drop shadow to an image or other objects

Opacity settings

Layers

Using layers to separate and lock various design elements

Output

Collecting together all files and fonts needed for printing
Creating PDF files for electronic distribution

Various

Modifying default tool properties
Automatically loading a predefined set of colours with every new document
Font & Picture usage – check which images and fonts are used

Create a multi-page document

Create a multi-page document of your own design or based on your own examples

2 day course from around £1000.

Please 'request information' for pricing specific to your requirements.