Quarkxpress Level 2

Course suitable for:
This programme is for you if you are a novice, or a junior designer, who knows the basics of page layout techniques, but now want to use QuarkXPress more effectively and expand on your skills, especially with regard to typography issues. In this programme, you will build on your existing skills and will learn some of the more advanced features of QuarkXPress, as well as some techniques that will allow improvement of workflow.
Course objectives:
On completion of this programme you will be able to:
-Create graphic effects so that Bézier boxes and images appear as you want them
-Create type effects so that body text and display type enhance the design of a layout
-Lay out pages efficiently
-Control type colour so that the densities of text blocks are as you want them
-Apply colour management so that colours match as accurately as possible
-Manage long documents
Course content:
Creating graphic effects with Bézier paths
-Draw Bézier paths
-Reshape a picture box
-Combine Bézier shapes
-Silhouette pictures
Creating type effects
-Create drop caps
-Reverse type with a style sheet
-Create a type mask
-Flow type on a path
-Create a type shadow
Efficiently laying out pages
-Organise design elements in libraries
-Step and repeat items
-Adjust space between items
-Manipulate items within groups
-Layer items
Professionally typesetting documents
-Choose appropriate typefaces
-Choose appropriate leading
-Set justification options
-Hyphenate text
-Track type
-Kern type
Applying colour management
-Determine when to use colour management
-Set up colour management
-Change image profiles
-Choose printer device profiles
Managing long documents
-Change type formatting automatically
-Section a document
-Create a list
-Index documents
-Create a book
-Library
Review of Programme
Other Recommended Programmes
-Adobe Photoshop Levels 1 and 2
-Adobe Illustrator Levels 1 and 2