Quark and Adobe Creative Suite Design Introduction Masterclass

This 5-day Masterclass course helps you learn about the tools and features available in QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Adobe Illustrator CC. We will help you understand how these well-known programs take desktop publishing and design to a new level. Together, we will create and deliver eye-catching printed documents in QuarkXPress. We will paint, retouch, and enhance images in Photoshop. Finally, we will use Illustrator to create logos, advertisements, and other graphics for the web and for print.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the QuarkXPress, Photoshop, and Illustrator environments
• Create single and multi-page layouts
• Insert tables to hold text and graphics
• Improve the readability of your layouts
• Prepare for hand-off to a service provider
• Rework layouts for eBook and ePub formats
• Select parts of an image in several ways
• Enhance images by using Adjustment Layers and Smart Sharpen
• Understand tools used for painting and retouching images
• Fill areas with colour and gradients
• Blend images to create simple compositions
• Produce simple logos and adverts
• Resize images for the web and for print
• Add, adjust and style both text and layers
• Output artwork for the web
• Draw and understand Bézier curves, the root of drawing in Illustrator
• Measure objects and place them with precision
• Trace and colour your hand-drawn artwork with Live Trace, Live Paint and Live Colour
• Export illustrations for web and for print