Quark training - 2 days - £425 + vat - dates
Quark training uk
QuarkXpress is the industry-standard page layout application. It is used worldwide to design and layout the majority of magazines, brochures and books you will see today.
Xpress gathers together text, pictures and other graphic elements, all of which together compose a page or series of pages. QuarkXpress can be used to produce anything from a baggage label to a multiple-volume encyclopaedia.
Quark Training Course Objectives
On completion of this Quark training 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 Training Course Content
This QuarkXpress training coure will cover the following aspects of QuarkXpress through a series of demonstrations and project tasks:
Overview of QuarkXPress
- The standard workspace
- Files, Projects and Layouts
- Palettes and Preferences
Document Basics
- Working in Projects and Layouts
- Document navigation
- Layout Properties...
- Creating a new Project
- Saving options
Text / Image Boxes
- Creating boxes
- Inserting text
- Importing text
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
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
Outputting
- Collecting files for output
- QuarkXPress print settings & Dialogue Boxes
- Creating a PDF for proof and 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.
- Trial can be downloaded from http://euro.quark.com/en/service/desktop/downloads/details.jsp?idx=413
Book this Quark course one to one for £895 + vat
What our client's think of our Quark Training
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
Quark Training Recommended Reading
QuarkXpress 7 for Windows & Macintosh - Elaine Weinmann & Peter Lourekas – buy from amazon
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