Quark Training

This 2-day QuarkXpress Training Course provides a comprehensive coverage of the Quark page layout application. Quark is used worldwide to design and layout magazines, brochures and books. This instructor led Quark Course will provide you with all you need to know to combine text, pictures and other graphic elements, all of which together compose a page or series of pages.

Quark Training Feedback

"Just a quick note to say how great the Quark training was – the trainer knew the package well and was able to cover all the areas that Manana and I specifically wanted to do. We are now able to create the documents in a more efficient manner and also in the correct way. I have found in the past that users of a particular software are much better tutors and this was demonstrated over the past couple of days."
Jo Ellis - Design Assistant - Bristow Helicopters Ltd

"I achieved a good solid grounding with techniques to use in the office."
Phil - University of Chichester 

Quark Training Course Objectives

On completion of this Quark course the delegate will be able to use QuarkXpress to:

• Design, layout and edit documents from single-page flyers and newsletters to multi-page magazines to books
• Add and edit text and images
• Create and add colour to the document
• Use style sheets to simplify text styling
• Output high resolution documents ready for print

Quark Course Prerequisites

• All delegates must be confident with Windows or Mac environments, including creating, moving and deleting files and folders.
• Silicon Beach Training recommends that all delegates familiarise themselves with the Quark interface before attending.

Book this Quark course one to one for £895 + vat

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Quark Training Course Content

This QuarkXpress course will cover the following aspects of QuarkXpress through a series of demonstrations and project tasks:

Overview of QuarkXPress

• QuarkXPress 8 tools
• The QuarkXPress 8 interface
• Documents and Projects
• Single and multiple layouts
• Creating text and picture boxes
• Importing text and pictures

Document Basics

• Working in Projects and Layouts
• Document navigation
• Layout Properties...
• Creating a new Project
• Saving options

Text and Graphics Features

• Framing text and picture boxes
• Rotating graphics
• Cropping images
• Wrapping text around items
• Different types of runarounds
• Grouping and multiple selections
• Finding and changing text
• Linking and unlinking text boxes
• Image editing
• An introduction to transparency

Editing & Formatting Text

• Character and Paragraph options in the Measurements palette
• Character options in the style menu
• Paragraph options in the style menu
• Text options in the Modify dialogue
• Baseline grids

Defining Master Pages

• Using the Pages Layout palette
• Adding elements to a Master

Text Box Linking & Flowing Documents

• Page numbering
• Creating sections for variable numbering
• Linking text boxes
• Creating "from" and "to" fields

Typography

• Kerning and Tracking
• Leading
• Hyphenation and Justification sets
• Typography pitfalls
• OpenType fonts and ligatures
• Glyphs
• Font Fallback

Style Sheets

• Creating a Paragraph style
• Creating a Character style
• Applying styles
• Editing styles
• Changing default styles
• Import/Export/Save styles

Using Master Pages

• Creating and editing Master Pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Creating headers and footers
• Using a combination of Master Pages
• Toggling between Master and Page View

Colour Swatches & Gradients

• Adding a CMYK swatch
• Pitfalls with QuarkXPress's default colours
• Working with spot colours
• Changing default colours
• Creating colour tints
• Creating colour gradients

Preparing Pictures for Print

• Image size, resolution and cropping
• RGB or CMYK colour mode?
• Sharpening for print
• Saving options: TIFF, EPS, PDF and JPEG

Picture Boxes

• Drawing picture boxes
• Runaround options for images
• Embedded paths and Alpha Channels
• Reshaping picture boxes
• Preparing images for print
• Placing images
• Changing image properties

Graphic Effects

• Modifying image attributes
• Working with opacity
• Creating blends with transparency
• Applying drop shadows
• Customizing drop shadows
• QuarkVista
• Importing and working with PSD files
• Loading and saving presets

Layout Features

• Synchronisation of content
• Split views of projects
• Aligning objects
• Duplicate functions
• Step and Repeat

Composition Zones

• Creating a Composition Zone
• Sharing a Composition Zone
• Editing a composition layout
• Using collaboration setup

Tables

• Creating tables
• Creating tables from existing tabbed data
• Reverting data to tabulated data
• Table and cell format options
• Importing excel tables
• Colouring cells and strokes

Job Jacket Overview

• Job Jackets explained
• Benefits of Job Jackets

Quark 8 interactivity and Flash capability Overview

Outputting

• Collecting files for output
• QuarkXPress print settings & Dialogue Boxes
• Creating a PDF for proof and for print

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