Want to learn QuarkXpress or Photoshop?
Do you harbour a desire to try designing some of your own artwork, but don’t know where to begin understanding the processes involved?
With almost 30 years in the business of graphic design we not only pride ourselves on producing fabulous artwork for different situations but we also enjoy passing some of our vast knowledge onto those wishing to learn the basics through our Beginner’s training packages.
We specialise in providing individual one-to-one tuition either at your chosen location or at our own premises.
Whatever your needs for simple, jargon-free familiarisation of these types of software, give us a call and we will be happy to discuss your requirements.
This basic training course includes:-
- Understanding the Quark workspace
- Creating a new project
- Controlling objects with the measurements palette
- Controlling text
- Setting up documents
- Using the modify settings
- Importing text
- Applying colour to boxes and text
- Creating new process and spot colours
- Creating and using master pages
- Creating headers and footers
- Automatic page numbering
- Creating a document using master pages and style sheets
- Editing style sheets
- Importing and resizing graphics
- Runarounds and clipping paths
- Using layers
- Printing pages
- Preflighting a document
- Creating and exporting pdfs
- PLUS LOTS MORE!!
This basic training course includes:-
- The Photoshop workspace
- Creating a new document
- Creating and saving custom workspaces
- Colour modes: RGB versus CMYK
- Cropping an image
- Using brushes
- Using levels
- Using curves
- Brightness/contrast
- Using shadow/highlight
- Using hue/saturation
- Creating layers
- Retouching an image
- PLUS LOTS MORE!!
We can also offer Beginners training courses on the following software: Aperture and Adobe Lightroom – both useful editing tools for Photographers.
