Introduction to QuarkXPress

Course Code: QXP01  |

£179.00

  • 1 Day Course, 10am – 4pm
  • Completion Certificate
  • Post Course Support
  • On Demand Videos

Overview

This Introduction to QuarkXPress provides a comprehensive introduction to this powerful software-based publishing tool.QuarkXPress enables users to produce layouts for flyers, posters, booklets and advertising.The course will introduce you to page layout concepts and at the end of the day you will feel confident managing spreads and pages, adding graphical and text elements and formatting to achieve the results you want.You’ll also learn about the different aspects that you need to consider when preparing to print or publish as well as exporting your work to a variety of formats.The course is ideal for QuarkXPress beginners or those self-taught users who would like to formalise and reinforce their knowledge.

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Contents

  • Overview of QuarkXPress
  • Introduction to projects and layouts
  • Creating, saving and naming a project
  • Single and multiple layouts
  • Setting page sizes and margins
  • Defining columns and gutters
  • Page numbering
  • Using guides
  • Adding content
  • Working with colour
  • Drawing items
  • Copy, cut, paste, select all
  • Duplicating, grouping and ungrouping, locking and unlocking items
  • Adding text elements
  • Creating text boxes and adding text
  • Changing fonts and font sizes
  • Overflowing text, linking and unlinking text boxes and controlling text flow
  • Importing, resizing and cropping images
  • Creating and resizing picture boxes
  • Special effects, transparency and drop shadows
  • Introduction to Master Pages
  • Printing and publishing
  • Export to other formats (pdf etc)

Outcomes

Completing this beginners’ QuarkXPress course will enable you to do the following and more:

  • Produce professional documents and layouts for print and web
  • Understand professional design considerations
  • Create spreads from scratch
  • Create single and multi-page QuarkXPress documents
  • Edit existing documents
  • Design professional page layouts
  • Format text
  • Prepare documents for commercial print
  • Set up and define colours
  • Export QuarkXPress files to PDF and other formats

Requirements

This course is ideal for beginners. No existing knowledge of the software is required; just basic PC or Mac skills. If you already have a fairly good understanding of QuarkXPress, why not attend one of Platform’s other QuarkXPress courses? We offer an advanced QuarkXPress course as well as one-to-one training.

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Maximum 6 students

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Contact

If you have any questions about our beginner’s level QuarkXPress course please send us a message using our contact page and we will reply to you as soon as possible – or call us on 0203 3974567.
 
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