DTP– DESKTOP PUBLISHING

DTP stands for Desktop Publishing. It is a six months computer-based diploma or course.  Desktop Publishing Courses or Graphic Design Classes, covers entire desktop publishing process and specific areas such as fonts or creating a greeting card, brochure, pamphlets, visiting card, wedding cards, and everything used in print media. Lessons allow you to skim the surface or dig as deep as you want to go, all at your own pace. The Desktop Publishing (DTP) course syllabus covers basic to advanced level course contents which is used by most of Desktop Publishing (DTP)

Generally, this program imparts specialization in the following fields:-

PHOTOSHOP

1. About Photoshop

2. Navigating Photoshop

3. Menus and panels

4. Opening new files

5. Opening existing files

1. Exploring the Toolbox

2. The New CS4 Applications Bar & the Options Bar

3. Exploring Panels & Menus

4. Creating & Viewing a New Document

5. Customizing the Interface

6. Setting Preferences

1. Zooming & Panning an Image

2. Working with Multiple Images, Rulers, Guides & Grids

3. Undoing Steps with History

4. Adjusting Color with the New Adjustments Panel

5. The New Masks Panel & Vibrance Color Correction Command

6. The New Note Tool & the Save for Web & Devices Interface

7. The New Auto-Blend & Auto-Align Layers Commands

8. The New 3D Commands

1. Understanding Pixels & Resolution

2. The Image Size Command

3. Interpolation Options

4. Resizing for Print & Web

5. Cropping & Straightening an Image

6. Adjusting Canvas Size & Canvas Rotation

1. Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee Tool

2. Using the Magic Wand & Free Transform Tool

3. Selecting with the Regular & Polygonal Lasso Tools

4. Combining Selections

5. Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool

6. Using the Quick Selection Tool & Refine Edge

7. Modifying Selections

1. Understanding the Background Layer

2. Creating, Selecting, Linking & Deleting Layers

3. Locking & Merging Layers

4. Copying Layers, Using Perspective & Layer Styles

5. Filling & Grouping Layers

6. Introduction to Blending Modes

7. Blending Modes, Opacity & Fill

8. Creating & Modifying Text

1. Using the Brush Tool

2. Working with Colors & Swatches

3. Creating & Using Gradients

4. Creating & Working with Brushes

5. Using the Pencil & Eraser Tools

6. Painting with Selections

1. The Red Eye Tool

2. The Clone Stamp Tool

3. The Patch Tool & the Healing Brush Tool

4. The Spot Healing Brush Tool

5. The Color Replacement Tool

6. The Toning & Focus Tools

7. Painting with History

1. Color Spaces & Color Modes

2. The Variations Command

3. The Auto Commands

4. Adjusting Levels

5. Adjust Curves, Non-Destructively, with Adjustment Layers

1. Quick Mask Options

2. Painting a Selection

3. Saving & Removing a Selection from the Background

1. Understanding Paths & the Pen Tool

2. Creating Straight & Curved Paths

3. Creating Combo Paths

4. Creating a Clipping Path

1. Getting Started with Photoshop Filters

2. Smart Filters

3. Creating Text Effects

4. Applying Gradients to Text

1. Saving with Different File Formats

2. Saving for Web & Devices

3. Printing Options

4. Credits

CORELDRAW

  1. ·         Drawing lines
  2. ·         Calligraphic, pressure-sensitive and preset lines
  3. ·         Formatting lines and outlines
  4. ·         Arrowheads
  5. ·         Copying, converting, and removing outlines
  6. ·         Multiple line segments
  7. ·         Brushstrokes
  8. ·         Spraying objects
  9. ·         Connector and callout lines
  10. ·         Dimension lines
  11. ·         Drawing shapes
  12. ·         Rectangles and squares
  13. ·         Ellipses, circles, arcs, and pie shapes
  14. ·         Polygons and stars
  15. ·         Spirals and grids
  16. ·         Predefined shapes
  17. ·         Shape recognition
  18. ·         Shaping objects
  19. ·         Selecting and moving nodes
  20. ·         Manipulating segments
  21. ·         Adding, removing, joining, and aligning nodes<l/i>
  22. ·         Transforming nodes
  23. ·         Breaking the path
  24. ·         Mirroring changes
  25. ·         Skewing and stretching objects
  26. ·         Smudging and smearing objects
  27. ·         Roughening objects
  28. ·         Distortion effects
  29. ·         Twirl effects
  30. ·         Envelopes
  31. ·         Cropping, splitting, and erasing objects
  32. ·         Trimming objects
  33. ·         Filleting, scalloping, and chamfering corners
  34. ·         Welding and intersecting objects
  35. ·         PowerClip objects
  1. ·         Layers
  2. ·         Creating layers
  3. ·         Layer properties
  4. ·         Moving and copying layers and objects
  5. ·         Symbols
  6. ·         Creating, editing, and deleting symbols
  7. ·         Symbols in drawings
  8. ·         Managing collections and libraries
  9. ·         Linking and embedding objects
  10. ·         Inserting
  11. ·         Editing
  12. ·         Managing projects
  13. ·         Project database
  14. ·         Assigning and copying object data
  15. ·         Viewing an object data
  1. ·         Color
  2. ·         Color models
  3. ·         Color depth
  4. ·         Document palette
  5. ·         Color palettes
  6. ·         Creating and editing
  7. ·         Organizing and displaying
  8. ·         Palette libraries
  9. ·         Properties
  10. ·         Filling objects
  11. ·         Uniform, fountain fills, pattern and texture fills
  12. ·         PostScript texture fills
  13. ·         Mesh fills
  14. ·         Fills to areas
  15. ·         Color management
  16. ·         Installing, loading, and embedding color profiles
  17. ·         Assigning color profiles
  18. ·         Converting colors to other color profiles
  19. ·         Choosing color-conversion settings
  20. ·         Soft proofing
  21. ·         Color management presets and policies
  22. ·         Safe CMYK workflow
  1. ·         Changing the transparency of objects
  2. ·         Transparencies
  3. ·         Merge modes
  4. ·         Using lenses with objects
  5. ·         Applying lenses
  6. ·         Editing lenses
  7. ·         Adding 3D effects to objects
  8. ·         Contouring objects
  9. ·         Applying perspective to objects
  10. ·         Extrusions, bevel effects and drop shadows
  11. ·         Blending objects
  1. ·         Adding and manipulating text
  2. ·         Importing and pasting text
  3. ·         Artistic text
  4. ·         Paragraph text
  5. ·         Columns to text frames
  6. ·         Paragraph text frames
  7. ·         Baseline grid
  8. ·         Selecting text
  9. ·         Finding, editing, and converting text
  10. ·         Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text
  11. ·         Moving text
  12. ·         Wrapping text
  13. ·         Fitting text to a path
  14. ·         Embedding graphics and adding special characters
  15. ·         Working with legacy text
  16. ·         Formatting text
  17. ·         Typefaces and fonts
  18. ·         Formatting characters
  19. ·         Text color
  20. ·         Kerning a range of characters
  21. ·         Text case
  22. ·         OpenType features
  23. ·         Character and word spacing
  24. ·         Line and paragraph spacing
  25. ·         Adding bullets
  26. ·         Drop caps
  27. ·         Character position and angle
  28. ·         Aligning text
  29. ·         Tabs and indents
  30. ·         Text styles
  31. ·         Hyphenating text
  32. ·         Formatting codes
  33. ·         Displaying nonprinting characters
  34. ·         Managing fonts
  35. ·         Substituting fonts
  36. ·         Previewing and identifying fonts
  37. ·         Bitstream Font Navigator
  38. ·         Writing tools
  39. ·         QuickCorrect
  40. ·         Spelling checker and Grammatik
  41. ·         Thesaurus
  42. ·         Languages
  43. ·         Checking styles
  44. ·         Rule classes
  45. ·         Word lists
  46. ·         Checking statistics
  1. ·         Working with templates
  2. ·         Searching
  3. ·         Using templates
  4. ·         Creating
  5. ·         Editing
  6. ·         Styles and style sets
  7. ·         Creating, Applying and Editing style sets
  8. ·         Object properties
  9. ·         Exporting and importing
  10. ·         Assigning keyboard shortcuts
  11. ·         Finding objects
  12. ·         Breaking the link
  13. ·         Color styles
  1. ·         Working with pages and layout tools
  2. ·         Specifying the page layout
  3. ·         Page background
  4. ·         Adding, duplicating, renaming, and deleting pages
  5. ·         Inserting page numbers
  6. ·         Rulers, grid and guidelines
  7. ·         Scale
  8. ·         Tables
  9. ·         Adding tables to drawings
  10. ·         Selecting, moving, and navigating table components
  11. ·         Inserting and deleting table rows and columns
  12. ·         Resizing table cells, rows, and columns
  13. ·         Formatting tables and cells
  14. ·         Text in tables
  15. ·         Converting tables to text
  16. ·         Merging and splitting tables and cells
  17. ·         Manipulating tables
  18. ·         Adding images, graphics, and backgrounds to tables
  19. ·         Importing tables
  1. ·         Working with bitmaps
  2. ·         Converting vector graphics to bitmaps
  3. ·         Importing bitmaps
  4. ·         Cropping bitmaps
  5. ·         Dimensions and resolution of bitmaps
  6. ·         Straightening bitmaps
  7. ·         Digimarc watermarks to identify bitmaps
  8. ·         Removing dust and scratch marks from bitmaps
  9. ·         Special effects
  10. ·         Color and tone
  11. ·         Tone Curve filter
  12. ·         Bitmap color modes
  1. ·         Object creation
  2. ·         Exporting bitmaps
  3. ·         Saving and applying Web presets
  4. ·         Exporting objects with transparent colors and backgrounds
  5. ·         Creating rollovers
  6. ·         Bookmarks and hyperlinks
  7. ·         Hotspots and alternate text
  8. ·         Exporting to HTML
  9. ·         Setting preferences
  10. ·         Creating Web-compatible text
  11. ·         Previewing and verifying files
  12. ·         Exporting to HTML
  13. ·         File formats
  14. ·         Importing files
  15. ·         Exporting files
  16. ·         Exporting to PDF
  17. ·         Office productivity applications
  18. ·         Supported file formats
  19. ·         CorelDraw Customization

PAGEMAKER

1.Introduction To DTP
2.Adobe PageMaker 7.0
3.Create Publication
4.Menu Bar
5.Toolbox
6.Explanations Of Toolbox
7.The Pasteboard
8.Bullets And Numbering
9.Printing
10.Adobe Photoshop
11.Setting Up Document
12.Page Size And Orientation
13.Resolution
14.Color Mode
15.Background Contents
16.Opening An Image From Disk
17.Toolbox
18.Details Of Photoshop Tools
19.Detailed Layout Of The Photoshop Tools
20.Edit Image With Adobe Photoshop
21.Correcting Scanned Image
22.Repair A Damaged Image
23.Remove An Object
24.Cropping And Resizing
25.Altering Images
26.Working With Layers
27.CorelDraw
28.The CorelDraw Window
29.Tool Overview
30.Flyouts
31.Page Navigation With The Page Selector
32.The Property Bar
33.Color Palettes
34. Keyboard shortcuts

Scope : Graphics Designing, Printing Press, Newspaper, Ad Agencies etc.