Desktop Publishing & Graphic Design
Presented below is a selection our most popular desktop publishing and graphic design courses. All courses can be tailored for each individual client depending on requirements. For more information and a course outline please call our sales team on 0118 988 0222 or email info@headlinetraining.co.uk.
Training can be provided on customer sites or at our Head Office in Reading, Berkshire, England.
Levels: Introduction - Advanced
QuarkXPress is a leading desktop publishing product that focuses on general page layout. It is used extensively within the printing and publishing industry as well as within marketing departments to create Newsletters, books and magazines, leaflets. This course is tailored for client requirements and can run from 1 to 2 days.
Editorial Page Makeup
Aimed at page make-up within an editorial department for sub-editors and page-designers. At the end of this 2 day introductory course sub editors and page designers will understand the areas of QuarkXPress applicable to their job role in order to produce newspaper and magazine pages electronically.
Ad Setting
Aimed at designers and production personnel who wish to utilise QuarkXPress for design and ad-setting. This course has been specifically designed to enable ad creators to pick up the tips and tricks required to use QuarkXPress as a productive ad setting tool.
Upgrade Training
This one day course concentrates on the new tools available within QuarkXPress as well providing an overview of the existing functionality. This course is tailored for client requirements concentrating on the functionality relevant to job roles.
Levels: Introduction - Advanced
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing product used for page layout. The Introduction course is suited for both new users to desktop publishing and existing QuarkXPress users who are migrating to InDesign. The Introduction course enables beginners to understand the basic concepts of page layout, text formatting and graphic placement. At the end of this course delegates will be able to create, store, recall, edit and print simple page designs. At a more advanced level the course is designed to build on existing techniques using the many advanced typographic and drawing features available in order to produce documents efficiently, confidently and accurately.
Levels: All
Adobe InCopy is professional writing and editing workflow program that integrates with Adobe InDesign to enable enhanced collaboration between design and editorial teams. The course can be tailored to your own workflow covering the features you wish to use. At the end of the course users will be able to create, edit and route articles confidently and efficiently.
Levels: Introduction - Advanced
The Introduction course is designed for new users of Publisher who need to learn the fundamentals in order to create design-intensive documents such as flyers, newsletters etc.
QPS - QuarkDispatch - Levels: Introduction
QuarkDispatch is the Editorial Management tool used in conjunction with QuarkXPress for editorial page make-up and is aimed and sub editors and page designers who use QPS within their organisation. The software enables sub editors and page designers to track pages and articles from early conception stages right through to final output.
Levels: Introduction
QPS CopyDesk is the text editing and copy-fitting component of the QuarkXPress Publishing System. This course is aimed at both journalists and sub editors using QPS within their organisations. At the end of this course delegates will be confident in creating and editing articles within QPS CopyDesk and understand how the different components of the Quark Publishing System fit together.
This course is designed to meet the growing need for personnel competent in CAD using AutoCAD for three dimensional draughting. The course covers a wide range of industrial and commercial applications and would benefit engineers, designers, architects and all draughts persons.
