Introduction to QUARKXPRESS 4 or 6
Short course
In Canterbury
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
Canterbury
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Duration
1 Day
To provide a understanding of the fundamentals of QuarkXpress 4 or 6. With a varied mixture of both hands on experience and tutor demonstrations - this workshop will be an informal and enjoyable introduction to these applications.
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About this course
Good Mac or PC skills. No previous Xpress or desktop skills necessary. Bring a pen and note pad.
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Course programme
- Setting up QuarkXpress
- Allocating additional memory to the application to allow Xpress to work at its optimum on large projects
- Preferences - how to customise Xpress preferences
- Creating a new document
- Setting up custom columns and gutters
- Facing pages verses single pages
- View options and shortcuts
- Using guides
- Scroll bars and use of rulers
- Tool box overview
- Item and content tools
- Rotating tool and palette options
- Viewing the page - keyboard shortcuts
- Text
- Creating a text box - customising the shape
- Imputing text and setting text in a shape/on a curve
- Selecting
- Cutting text, copying text and pasting
- Importing text files from word processing applications
- Typography
- Selecting fonts and font sizes
- Scaling text
- Kerning/ Leading text
- Baseline shift
- Text alignment
- How to centre/range left or right and justify text
- Creating items
- Drawing rectangle, circle and polygon items
- Positioning and moving items
- Resizing items
- Rotating objects
- The line tools
- When to use which line tool
- Increasing and decreasing the line thickness
- Applying different styles to the line
- Adding arrow heads to lines
- Text linking tool
- Learn how to link and flow text
- Understand how to unlink text
- Applying colour
- How to add a border to a text or picture box
- Setting up custom pantone colours
- Using the item-modify for colour
- Using the graduation option
- Pictures
- Importing photos or graphics from other applications
- Resizing and scaling images
- Picture file formats
- Question and answer session on the day’s contents
Two days 10.30-5pm
++ Courses held in Canterbury at fully equipped Graphic Design Training Studio. Due to the specialist nature of these courses, a maximum of 2 delegates can be trained at one time.
Additional information
Introduction to QUARKXPRESS 4 or 6