Online Desktop Publishing (DTP) Training in South Africa

This course is for people who comprise text, graphics and want the ability to be expanded to create presentations, books, pamphlets, and other interactive elements on different types of devices: computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and mobile phones.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level graphic designers, marketing professionals, and publishing specialists who wish to use Adobe InDesign to create professional-quality books, brochures, posters, and marketing materials.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the Adobe InDesign interface efficiently.
• Set up projects with the correct dimensions and layouts.
• Work with text, images, and graphics to create compelling designs.
• Utilize styles, templates, and color palettes for consistency and efficiency.
• Prepare files for professional printing or digital publishing.

What you will learn during the training:

• principles of creating computer graphics and desktop publishing
• ways of defining and working with color
• differences between vector and bitmap graphics
• ways to customize color photos and graphics
• principles of retouching and creating photomontages
• create your own illustrations and graphics
• entrusted to adapt to the needs of graphic material composition and printing
• how the logo and logos
• create interesting charts and tables
• create business cards and letterhead
• creating labels, diplomas, invitations
• preparation of leaflets, banners print preparation and billboards
• how to format text
• creating style sheets and formatting styles
• use of additional colors
• principles of preparing to print publication
• digital printing, offset printing, solvent

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level users who wish to learn the essential tools and techniques of image editing using GIMP.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate GIMP's interface and toolbox efficiently.
• Edit and manipulate images with various tools like cropping, scaling, and painting.
• Work with layers, selections, and transparency to create complex compositions.
• Enhance photographs and prepare images for the web.
• Customize GIMP with plugins and scripting for enhanced functionality.

This course gives explains how to use InDesign to create documents with well-design, professional look, including Paragraph and character styles, layout features, and customized text and graphics. Gradually advanced InDesign techniques would be covered to enhance the look and functionality of your documents.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at Graphic Designers or Desktop Publishers who wish to use Scribus to create high-quality page layouts and graphic designs for printed and digital documents.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of Scribus.
• Create professional-quality document layout and design.
• Generate different file formats for publishing (PDF, PNG, JPG, and EPS).

Activities carried out are carried graphics (lecturer) with extensive experience. A practical approach to these issues, humorous way transfer of knowledge, interesting workshops, guarantee that the training will bring a really great satisfaction.

A list of sample projects

• showcase
• imposition business cards
• letterhead
• sticker printing on CD / DVD
• double-sided leaflet
• pricing compilation triple
• calendar