QuarkXpress

Course Overview:
Learn how to use Quark Xpress to create eye-catching brochures, catalogs, magazines and other printed materials.  Master many import graphic design and desktop publishing principles, including page layouts, typography, image manipulation, and color management.
What You Will Learn:

• Using the toolbox, palettes, views, guides, and navigation
• Document layout
• Working with text features
• Pictures
• Color management and libraries
• Effective page design
• Advanced design techniques
• Item placement and management
• Putting it all together

Outline

• From Concept to Mechanicals
• QuarkXpress and the QuarkXpress environments
• Tools, menus, palettes
• The tool palette
• Other tools
• The menu bars
• Other palettes
• Guides, margins, and rulers
• Viewing guides
• Setting guides
• Adjusting and removing guides
• Other guide options
• Understanding the rulers
• Creating a new QuarkXpress document
• Modifying the document setup
• Saving files
• Save options
• Revert to saved
• Other save options
• Navigating QuarkXpress
• Zooming in and out
• Other frequently used shortcuts

• Working with Objects
• Creating simple boxes
• Creating lines and shapes
• Modifying shapes and content types
• Editing simple elements
• Modifying with color
• Positioning elements
• Duplicating elements
• Moving items
• Stacking order
• Alignment
• Manipulating elements
• Modifying dialog boxes vs. the measurement palette
• Skew, scale, rotate, flip, and move elements
• Applying transformations to figures

** Design Project: Flyer Design

• Working with Graphics
• Creating basic objects in QuarkXpress (objects include: polygon, rectangle, circle, lines)
• Modifying graphics by using commands from the Elements menu
• Crop graphics by using various tools and procedures (tools include: resizing a frame, Cropping tool, Frame options)
• Colorizing and tinting imported graphics
• Appropriate graphic file format to use
• The freehand tools
• The Bezier tools
• Anchor points and segments
• Closed and open paths
• Working with curves
• Merging shapes
• Creating text on a path
• Text on circles
• Controlling the position of type on paths

• Working  with Colors and Frames
• Frames and background colors
• Using the colors palette
• Defining colors bends
• Frames
• Understanding when a color would be added to the Colors palette when importing a graphic
• Import colors from another QuarkXpress file y using the Colors palette or the Utilities menu
• Apply colors by using the Colors palette
• Features available in QuarkXpress used for color management

**Design Projects: Business Card Design

• Images
• Getting images onto the page
• Importing a picture
• Copy/cut and paste pictures
• Scaling imported pictures
• Modifying picture boxes
• Using the measurements palette to scale
• Cropping pictures
• Anchored pictures
• Picture usage
• Status column messages for images
• Locating a picture within a document
• Updating pictures

• Working with Text
• Selecting text
• Using cut/copy/delete and pasting text
• Navigating through text blocks
• Overflow icon
• Setting text inset value
• Importing text files
• Pasting text from the clipboard
• Linking text boxes
• Formatting text
• Character attributes dialog box
• Measurement palette
• Horizontal spacing
• Paragraph formats dialog box
• Rules and paragraph rules
• Setting tabs

**Design Project: Holiday Card Design

• Master Pages
• Creating elements on master pages
• Headers and footers
• Modifying master page items on document pages
• Reapplying master items

• Style Sheets
• Character styles
• Paragraph styles
• Creating a new paragraph style sheet
• Edit existing styles
• Using the style sheets palette to apply styles

**Design Project: Calendar Design