Diploma in Desktop Publishing (DTP)

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A Diploma in Desktop Publishing (DTP) provides expertise in designing and formatting print and digital publications. The course covers software like Adobe InDesign, CorelDRAW, Photoshop, and Illustrator, focusing on graphic design, typography, page layout, and image editing. It is ideal for aspiring graphic designers, publishers, and print media professionals. This diploma enhances career opportunities in advertising, publishing, and media industries.

Module-1

  • Introduction to Corel Draw
  • Features of Corel Draw
  • Corel Draw Interface
  • Tool Box
  • Moving from Adobe Illustrator to Corel Draw
  • Common Tasks
  • Content types
  • Change content locations
  • Acquire applications, plug-ins and content
  • Find clipart and other images with the connect content inspector
  • Use and manage images with the connect content inspector
  • Lines, outlines and brushstrokes
  • Lines
  • Parallel drawings
  • Calligraphies and preset lines
  • Livesketch
  • Format lines and outlines
  • Add arrowheads to lines and curves
  • Copy , convert, remove and replace outlines
  • Brushstroke
  • Brushstrokes and styles input
  • Spray objects along a line
  • Connector and callout lines
  • Dimension lines
  • Pressure – sensitive pens and devices
  • Rectangle and squares
  • Ellipses , circle , arcs and pie shapes
  • Polygons and stars
  • Spirals
  • Grids
  • Predefined shapes
  • Use shape recognition
  • Curve objects
  • Select and move nodes
  • Align and distribute nodes
  • Manipulate segments
  • Join curves
  • Copy and cut segments
  • Add, remove and join nodes
  • Node types
  • Transform nodes
  • Break the path of curve objects
  • Mirror changes in curve objects
  • Skew and stretch objects
  • Smudge and smear objects
  • Roughen objects
  • Smooth objectsattract orpush away nodes to shape
  • Apply distortion effects
  • Add twirl effects
  • Shape objects by using envelopes
  • Crop and erase objects
  • Split objects
  • Trim objects
  • Fillet , scallop and chamfer corners
  • Weld and intersect objects
  • Powerclip objects
  • Options for nodes, handles and previews

Drawings

  • Create symmetry
  • Edit symmetry
  • Fuse curves in symmetry groups
  • Remove symmetry and break symmetry links
  • Objects
  • Select objects
  • Transform objects
  • Copy , duplicate and delete objects
  • Create objects from enclosed areas
  • Create a boundary around objects
  • Feather objects edges
  • Use object coordinates to draw and modify objects
  • Copy object properties, transformations and effects
  • Clone objects
  • Position objects
  • Align and distribute objects
  • Apply object hinting
  • Snap objects
  • Dynamic guides
  • Alignment guides
  • Change the order of objects
  • Size and scale objects
  • Modify objects with the properties inspector
  • Group objects
  • Combine objects
  • Lock objects
  • Find and replace objects
  • Insert QR codes
  • Edit QR codes
  • Validate QR codes
  • Create layers
  • View layers ,pages and objects
  • Change layer properties
  • Find , move and copy layers and objects
  • Create , edit and delete symols
  • Use symbols in drawings
  • Symbol collections and libraries
  • Reference symbols

Color, Fills and Transparencies

  • Color models
  • Color depth
  • Choose colors
  • Find and replace colors
  • Document palette
  • Create and edit color palettes
  • Organize and show color palettes
  • Show or hide color palettes
  • Uniform fills
  • Fountain fills
  • Vector and bitmap pattern fills
  • Two color pattern fills
  • Texture fills
  • Postscript fills
  • Mesh fills
  • Apply fills to areas
  • Work with fills
  • Uniform transparency
  • Fountain transparency
  • Pattern transparency
  • Texture transparency
  • Copy , freeze and remove transparencies
  • Merge modes
  • Find and view fills and transparencies
  • Manage fills and transparencies
  • Save fills and transparencies
  • About color management
  • Get starts with color management
  • Install, load and embed color profiles
  • Assign color profiles
  • Convert colors to other color profiles
  • Color conversion- setting
  • Soft proofing
  • Color management presets
  • Manage color when opening documents
  • Manage colors when importing and pasting files
  • Manage colors for print
  • Use a safe cmyk workflow
  • Manage colors for online viewing

Special Effects

  • Vector and bitmap effects
  • Bitmap effects
  • Vector effects
  • Apply bitmap effects
  • 3d
  • Art strokes, Blur
  • Camera , Color transform
  • Contour, Creative, Custom
  • Distort, Noise
  • Sharpen, Texture

Lenses

  • Apply lenses
  • Edit lenses

Mosaics

  • Vector mosaics (pointillzer effect)
  • Bitmap mosaics (Photo cocktail effect)

Add 3D effects

  • Contour objects
  • Apply perspective
  • Create extrusions
  • Create bevel effects
  • Add drop shadows and inner shadows
  • Add block shadows
  • Blend objects
  • Impact effects

Text

  • Add and manipulate text
  • Import and paste text
  • Artistic text, Paragraph text
  • Add columns to text frames
  • Combine and link paragraph text frames
  • Align text to the baseline grid
  • Select text
  • Find, edit, and convert text
  • Shift, rotate, mirror, and flip text
  • Move text, Wrap text, Fit text to a path
  • Special characters, symbols, and glyphs
  • Embed graphics
  • Legacy text

Adobe

  • Choose typefaces and fonts
  • Format characters
  • Change text color
  • Kern a range of characters
  • Change text case and capitalization
  • OpenType features
  • Variable fonts
  • Adjust character and word spacing
  • Adjust line and paragraph spacing
  • Create bulleted and numbered lists
  • Drop caps
  • Change character position and angle
  • Align text
  • Add tabs and indents
  • Text styles
  • Hyphenate text
  • Formatting codes
  • Nonprinting characters

Work with text in different languages

  • Format Asian text
  • Line-breaking rules for Asian text
  • OpenType support for Asian text
  • Format multilingual text
  • Display text correctly in any language

Manage fonts

  • Change the default font
  • Substitute fonts
  • View fonts
  • Filter fonts
  • Search for fonts
  • Acquire more fonts
  • Choose fonts
  • Corel Font Manager

  • Quick Correct
  • Spell Check and Grammatik
  • Thesaurus
  • Work with languages
  • Customize the writing tools
  • Checking styles
  • Word lists
  • Check statistics
  • Reference: Writing tools

Templates and styles

  • Templates
  • Use templates
  • Find templates
  • Manage templates
  • Create templates
  • Edit templates

Styles and style sets

  • Create styles and style sets
  • Apply styles and style sets
  • Edit styles and style sets
  • Manage and apply default object properties
  • Export and import style sheets
  • Find objects that use a specific style or style set
  • Break the link between objects and styles or style sets

Color styles

  • Create and apply color styles
  • Edit color styles
  • View color styles
  • Export and import color styles
  • Break the link between a color style and an object

Pages and layout

  • Pages and layout tools
  • Page layout
  • Page background
  • Add, duplicate, rename, and delete pages
  • Insert page numbers
  • Rulers
  • Document grid and pixel grid
  • Baseline grid
  • Set up guidelines
  • Modify guidelines
  • Drawing scale
  • Add tables
  • Select, move, and navigate table components
  • Insert and delete table rows and columns
  • Resize table cells, rows, and columns
  • Format tables and cells
  • Text in tables
  • Convert tables to text
  • Merge and split tables and cells
  • Manipulate tables as objects
  • Add images, graphics, and backgrounds to tables
  • Import tables

Bitmaps

  • Work with bitmaps
  • Convert vector graphics to bitmaps
  • Place bitmaps, Crop bitmaps
  • Bitmap dimensions and resolution, Straighten bitmaps
  • Correct perspective distortions
  • Remove artifacts and noise from JPEG images
  • Remove dust and scratch marks from bitmaps
  • Change and mask colors in bitmaps, Image Adjustment Lab
  • Adjust color and tone, Tone Curve filter
  • Transform color and tone, Bitmap color modes
  • Change the color mode of bitmaps
  • Change bitmaps to black-and-white
  • Change bitmaps to duotones

Trace

  • Trace bitmaps
  • PowerTRACE controls
  • Preview traced results
  • Fine-tune traced results
  • Adjust colors in traced results
  • Default tracing options
  • Tips for tracing bitmaps

RAW camera files

  • Use RAW camera files
  • Import RAW camera files in CorelDRAW
  • Adjust the color and tone of RAW camera files
  • Sharpen RAW camera files and reduce noise
  • Preview RAW camera files and obtain image information

Printing

  • Print basics
  • Print your work
  • Lay out print jobs
  • Preview print jobs
  • Print styles
  • Fine-tune print job
  • Print colors accurately
  • Print to a PostScript printer
  • Print merge
  • Preflight summaries

Prepare files for print service providers

  • Prepare for a print service provider
  • Imposition layouts
  • Printers’ marks
  • Maintain OPI links
  • Color separations
  • Color trapping and overprinting
  • In-RIP trapping settings
  • Print to film
  • Work with a print service provider

Web graphics

  • Create objects for the web
  • Create pixel-perfect graphics for the web
  • Export bitmaps for the web
  • Export and upload bitmaps to WordPress
  • Save and apply web presets
  • Export objects with transparent colors and backgrounds
  • Web-compatible text
  • Rollovers
  • Bookmarks and hyperlinks
  • Add hotspots and alternate text to objects

File formats

  • Import and export files
  • Import files
  • Export files
  • Export to PDF
  • Export to PDF
  • PDF hyperlinks, bookmarks, and thumbnails
  • Reduce PDF file size
  • Text and fonts in PDF files
  • Encode PDF files
  • View options for EPS files
  • PDF color management options
  • PDF security options
  • Optimize PDF files
  • PDF preflight summaries
  • Prepare PDF files for a print provider

The Illustrator Environment

  • Touring the interface
  • Scaling the interface
  • The Toolbox
  • Panels
  • The Properties panel
  • Panning and zooming
  • Using the Navigator

 Selection

  • The Selection tool
  • The Direct Selection tool
  • Drawing Tools
  • Basic Drawing Tools
  • Drawing Exercise, Coloring
  • Drawing assistance tools
  • Draw Inside, Pen Tool
  • Pen Tool exercise
  • Pen Tool alternatives
  • Curvature Tool
  • Distort and Transform tools
  • Symmetrical drawing
  • Concentric drawing techniques
  • Manual tracing exercise

Color

  • Color models in Illustrator
  • The Swatches panel
  • Global swatches
  • Spot colors
  • Using tints
  • Color groups
  • The Color Guide panel

Strokes

  • Stroke attributes
  • Creating dashed lines
  • Creating dotted lines
  • Creating arrowheads
  • Variable width strokes

More on Selections

  • The Lasso tool
  • The Magic Wand
  • Saving selections

Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking

  • Aligning objects
  • Aligning points
  • Distributing objects
  • Using key objects
  • Changing the stacking order
  • Using the draw modes

Groups

  • Working with groups
  • The Group Selection tool
  • Using Isolation Mode

Layers

  • Using layers
  • Targeting objects using layers

Transforms

  • Using the specific Transform tools
  • Using the Free Transform tool
  • Using Transform Again
  • The Transform Each command
  • Transforms as an effect

Drawing by Construction

  • Compound Paths and Shapes
  • The Pathfinder panel
  • The Shape Builder
  • Clipping masks

Drawing Tools

  • The Pen tool
  • The Curvature Pen tool
  • The Shaper tool
  • The Pencil tool
  • Drawing with the Eraser tool
  • Improving paths

Using Guides and Grids

  • Creating and removing guides
  • Making guides from objects

Gradients

  • Linear gradients
  • Radial gradients
  • Freeform gradients
  • Gradients on strokes

Patterns

  • Creating a pattern
  • Pattern strokes
  • Transforming patterns

Symbols

  • Static symbols
  • Dynamic symbols

Blends, Blending, and Transparency

  • Using blends
  • Replacing a blend spine
  • Using blending modes
  • Using opacity masks

Appearances

  • The power of appearances
  • The Appearance panel
  • Illustrator effects
  • Photoshop effects
  • Editing or removing effects
  • Graphic styles
  • The Eyedropper tool

Brushes

  • Calligraphic Brushes
  • Scatter Brushes
  • Art Brushes
  • Bristle Brushes
  • Pattern Brushes
  • Image Brushes

Type

  • Character formatting
  • Paragraph formatting
  • Using Text styles
  • Fonts
  • Variable and SVG Fonts (New in CC 2018)
  • Touch Type
  • Type on a Path
  • Type and Shapes
  • Warp Text

3D Type

  • Create Outlines from Text
  • Image within Text
  • Text Wrap
  • Type Exercise

Image

  • Working with Images
  • Preparing simple images for tracing
  • Preparing complex images for tracing
  • Image Trace
  • Improving and Coloring traced images

 Pixels to Vectors

  • Using Image Trace
  • Using Photoshop with Image Trace

Modifying Artwork

  • Recolor artwork
  • The Puppet Warp tool

Artboards

  • Working with artboards
  • Arranging artboards

Export & Integration

  • Packaging Illustrator files
  • Export as other file types
  • Asset Export
  • Legacy Save for Web
  • PDF files and Illustrator
  • Saving work for Print
  • Saving work for Web
  • Export for Screens
  • Integration with Bridge

Efficiency in Illustrator

  • Creating your own workspaces
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Custom views
  • Custom toolboxes

New Features in Adobe Illustrator 2020

  • Simplify Path
  • Delete Anchor Point Tool update
  • Faster Effects
  • Recolor Freeform Gradients
  • Auto Spell Check
  • Background Save

EXPLORING THE INTERFACE

  • Start Screen, Application Bar & Workspace Menu
  • Panels, Application Frame & Tab View
  • Using the Control Panel
  • Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus
  • Exploring Workspaces

CREATING A DOCUMENT

  • New documents
  • Guides & measurement
  • Adding text frames
  • Typing & editing text
  • Choose a better workshop for editing
  • Applying basic text formatting
  • Importing graphics
  • Saving & reverting documents
  • MANAGING PAGES
  • Inserting , deleting & moving pages
  • Creating & applying master pages
  • Overriding master pages items
  • Changing page size & margins
  • Setting bleed & slug guides
  • Adding page numbering

TEXT

  • Importing text
  • Threading text frames
  • Setting text frames attributes
  • Inserting special character
  • Using story editor
  • Checking spelling
  • Using find/change
  • Putting text on path

GRAPHICS

  • Options when placing images
  • Using link panels
  • Editing graphics in original app
  • Cropping & fitting graphics

COLOR & TRANSPERANCY

  • Stroking & filling frames & paths
  • Transparency, drop shadows & effects
  • Creating color swatches
  • Creating & applying gradient swatches

FRAMES & PATHS

  • Drawing path & frames shapes
  • Adjusting corner options
  • Creating text outlines

MANAGING OBJECTS

  • Resizing & rotating objects
  • Duplicating objects & making grids
  • Moving objects above or below objects each other
  • Creating & controlling layers
  • Aligning & distribute
  • Understanding text wrap
  • Using anchored objects

TEXT FORMATTING

  • Applying advanced character formatting
  • Using find font
  • Applying formatting to a paragraph
  • Using drop caps
  • Adding lines above or below
  • Setting tabs & tab stops
  • Snapping & splitting paragraph
  • Adding automatic bullets & numbers
  • Using find /change for text formatting
  • Highlighting paragraph with boxes

STYLES

  • Creating & applying paragraph styles
  • Using character styles
  • Editing, clearing & redefining styles
  • Using object styles

TABLES

  • Creating tables
  • Adjusting rows & columns
  • Formatting a table
  • Formatting a cells

INTRACTIVE DOCUMENTS

  • Adding hyperlinks
  • Creating an interactive PDF

PACKAGE, PRINT AND EXPORTING

  • Packaging for output & archive
  • Using the print dialog
  • Exporting a PDF

Key Features of Courses

Enjoy a free demo session in both classroom and online with a live instructor. This helps you understand our instructors and the atmosphere of our institute. To attend a demo session, call us or fill out the inquiry form or email us at info@lakshayainstitute.com.
We offer an easy and hassle-free installment process for course fees. No extra charges or interest fees—discuss your installments during registration and pursue your dreams.
We focus on quality training with limited batch sizes to ensure personal attention, better results, enhanced learning, and greater focus on concepts.
Our instructors are passionate and highly experienced, providing a high-quality learning experience with a focus on student achievement and outcomes.
We offer the opportunity to retake classes at no cost for up to a year, giving you the flexibility to enhance your understanding and knowledge.
In addition to regular classes, we provide special classes to further reinforce concepts and provide a deeper understanding of the software, languages, and tools.
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