Training CDs for Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker, Marzware, Extensis and Quark XPress from CornerMark

Call, submit request or e-mail us for current rates and program availability. Listed below are many of the applications that we train our clients in. CDs and prices can be ordered here. Also listed are curriculum information for QuarkXpress, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

CornerMark has helped several companies with on site training and we strongly recommend training CD's as an alternative or compliment to personal training. If your location is remote or you are unable to locate classes in your area the Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, QuarkXPress training CD's will get you on the right track with in depth, technical and interactive learning for beginners to experts. Remember, if you are unsatisfied you may return them for a full refund. Below, we have included several testimonials from satisfied customers who are using them to train their staff for your review.

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Why Choose CornerMark for Your Training Needs?

1) Customized Curriculum Focus on areas you need to strengthen by creating your own curriculum.

2) Supply Questions We provide answers. Before we begin have a list of problems and questions for us to review and tackle.

3) On-site Training Employees can stay at work in an environment and machines that they are most familiar with. No parking problems.

4) Live Orders Training on live jobs gets the work out and provides hands on for real world experience. No down time.

5) Support After your training, additional questions can be answered same day.

6) Training CDs We have sought out the best resource for this. A demo CD will be available for your staff to evaluate. As a joint venture, the advice and cooperation of Adobe Systems, Inc and Quark Inc. were incorporated to meet the advanced level of understanding the interactive CD's deliver.

7) Color Management Desktop publishing applications can take a document only so far. Output and scanner calibration are essential for quality images. By using Color Blind, Color Compass (from Quark) and other high end software, we can create profiles for your scanner and aim images for a specific output device. Profiles can be used again and again for the same quality results.

QuarkXPress Curriculum

Preferences  Customize new documents with your settings Rulers/Guides, Magnification, Colors, Tools, Background Fills, Trapping, H&Js

Tools and how they're used Customized tool pallets, get to all tools without using the mouse Object, Hand/I-beam, Rotation, Magnification

Text Boxes Copy paste from other programs/importing text/layering Text box Specifications

Picture Boxes Importing tif and eps files

Runaround Specifications Wrapping text around an object or box

Character formatting Using measurement pallet/character attributes for text Highlighting text, Shadowing, Subscripting, Rules

Spell Checker Setting up an auxiliary dictionary and find/change to replace

Paragraph Formatting Indenting, space before paragraph space after paragraph Leading, tracking, justification and kerning

Tabs Position, Fill Character

Style Sheets Setting up, importing, customizing hot keys

Linking/Unlinking Create documents with articles running to multi-pages.

Document Master Pages When to customize your masters or create templates, creating multiple master pages, document layout

Library Creation and Use How to create a library with frequently used images and text and how to use it effectively and efficiently .

Step and Repeat Make your layouts ready for output Image and text multiple use

Picture Usage & Font Usage Minimize missing picture errors and display fonts to collect

Hot Keys & Shortcuts Learn to be more productive, use your mouse less, extensive shortcuts that QuarkXPress offers

Other Areas Xtentions Calibration, ColorCompass^TM XTension CompassSwap^TM 1.0, Cool Blends, Extensis Filters, Jabberwocky, JPEG Import, Kern/Track Editor, Kudo® XT 1.0.3, MacWrite® Filter, MacWrite®Pro Import, MacWrite®Pro Import, MMU 3.2, MS-Word filter (PPC), MS-Word^TM Filter, MS-Works^TM 2.0 Filter, Notes, Pasteboard XTerminator, Stars & Stripes, Thing-a-ma-bob^TM, WordPerfect^TM Filter, WriteNow® 3.0 Import, WriteNow^TM Filter, XPress Tags Filter, Super Step & Repeat

Adobe Illustrator Curriculum

General Preferences - Arrange measurements, tool behavior, cursor increments, constrain angles

General Tool Development - Drawing tools, selection tools, text tools, choosing the correct arrow tool Creating and modifying points and paths

Color Palette Fills and Strokes - Creating new colors, Pantone colors, blending gradients and patterns

Text Formatting - Manipulating characters, kern, scale, shear, fitting to paths, convert to curves.

Grouping and Layering - Group objects for control of image, layers to create correct look , commands, and tools Colors, ink pen, and path pattern filters

Filters - Colors, distort, object, create, pathfinder, selection filters, stylize, transformation

Paths - Working with grouped objects and compound paths

Tracing Images - Using guides and templates to recreate vector files from raster files

Rasterizing Commands and Filters - Raster settings and export options

Trap and Color Separation - Define overprint for printing condition and postscript options for output

Object Manipulation - Rasterize, transform, knife. join, average

Web Graphics and Animation - How to create smooth graphics and animation with Illustrator and Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop 4.0 Curriculum

Preferences - Printing preferences, monitor, gamma, more

Tools - Drawing, selection, text, dodge/burn, air brush, pencil, brush, eraser

Selection - Selecting, editing, feathering, expanding, contracting, masks, lasso, creating and modifying points and paths

Color Palette - Reproducing color, making color and tonal Adjustments, blending gradients

Text Formatting - Button graphics for www, stretch , reshape, modify, coloring

Layers - Creating new layers, viewing layers, arranging, flattening

Using the Actions Palette - Creating and recording actions, playing actions, changing the order of commands in an action, adding commands to an action, recording actions, changing action options, duplicating actions and commands, saving, loading, and replacing sets of actions

Web Graphics - Gif89 export feature, minimize color, maximize speed, web safe color, transparency

Special Effects - Using Adobe Gallery Effects, drop shadow, merging multiple images, lighting effects

Other - Parser, goodies, plug-ins, brushes & patterns, calibration, drop shadow, postscript dot patterns, gamma, separation sources, CMYK colors, lab colors, Acquire/Export, removing/replacing background, creating duotones, tritones, and quadtones, removing scratches and dust marks, sharpening and softening edges, monitor calibration, color correction - curves, levels, variations, desaturating, changing colors

Interactive Learning System on CD with Photoshop, Illustrator,
PageMaker, Marzware, Extensis and QuarkXPress

This Interactive Learning System is used by thousands of printers, designers, service bureaus and advertising agencies worldwide. Our training focuses on the essentials of image, illustration and layout production by explaining the concepts and the actual steps required to create quality printed documents.

The system included on the CD's, has been developed to provide desktop publishers with knowledge and problem solving capabilities. These skills will help to reduce the cost of creating final film for printing. With the CD's are tutorials, multimedia movies, and non-computer based lessons to assist in visualizing and implementing the concepts learned. Our objective is to assist in the learning process and to provide tools that allow users to increase productivity and profitability.

Here is an endorsement letter from Richard Brock of Saturn Graphics

Knowledge Is Power

Lack of information, on how to properly create a PostScript file causes an immense amount of waste in our industry, larger pre-press departments have the budgets to hire experienced well-schooled operators but smaller shops usually have to learn from their experience, hearsay and extra fees from output service bureaus.

To make matters worse, many small shop owners don't personally know all the ins and outs of electronic publishing programs such as QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. So, when an employee leaves, the information his shop has accumulated at great expense many times, walks out the door along the no longer employed technician.

Take a look at this short list of critical issues;
1. Crossover images (images that span more than one page)
2. How to trap white
3. How to get EPS colors in Illustrator to separate properly in QuarkXPress
4. Machine font styling vs. built-in font styling
5. How to properly rotate an image
6. Resizing trapped images
7. When to use EPS and TIF images.
8. How to properly convert from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop

On how many of the above issues could you provide the correct answer or explanation?

Digital Media, Inc. has created a series of CDs called Desktop InteractiveLearning Publishing Series that addresses these problems, and they've done a great job. I first saw the CDs at Print '97 and purchase the Photoshop and Quark CDs for myself. All of the titles are prepared with the printing professional in mind. They're not just an automated Instruction manual. Rather, they're specific answers to specific issues that relate to getting the image from the computer screen to the printed page the way you want it to on the first try. Most of the knowledge presented, you won't find in the standard instruction manual.

Each CD is divided into two sections: 1) Concepts and 2) Tutorials. Once You learn the problems and solutions in the Concepts Section, the Tutorial section uses voice over narration and animation to illustrate the correct way to use the program to effect the solution. The Tutorial can be either in the form of a movie that you sit back and watch, or interactive, in which you're prompted to select the correct menu items. Each Tutorial (and there are usually three or more on each CD) has a quiz at the end to verify that you really got the message. All of the titles have been prepared with the assistance of the software manufacturers as well as power users and service bureaus.

1.Scanning & Color Correction in Adobe Photoshop (Mac and PC)
2.Print Preparation in QuarkXPress (Mac only)
3.Print Preparation In Adobe PageMaker (Mac and PC)
4.Print Preparation and Trapping Adobe Illustrator (Mac only)

You can expect Pre-Flighting CDs within a month, centering on both Markzware and Extensis software

If you feel you're lacking in any of tile programs mentioned, I suggest you contact CornerMark Graphic Services and find out how the CDs can help you smooth out the wrinkles in your digital Imaging department regarding present employees, new employees and management training. If there are specific problem areas, ask them if the CDs addresses those issues.

We now have the following CD titles available for purchase:

Print Preparation & Trapping in Adobe® Illustrator $99.95
Print Preparation in Adobe® PageMaker® $79.95
Print Preparation in QuarkXPress $79.95
Scanning & Color Correction in Adobe® Photoshop® $99.95
Pre-flighting with Markzware® and Extensis® $99.95

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Here a few testimonials:

Good-looking, elegant, easy to use
"A well-developed product that's easy to use and navigate. One of the most elegant user interfaces I've ever seen. It's not only good-looking but functional." Gary McDougall American Color Phoenix, AZ

Clearest presentation
"An extremely clear presentation - clearer than anything else I've seen. After watching just a part, I had answers for all my customers."
Steve Fisher Creative Printing, Inc. Woodland, CA

The best learning aid for prepress
"It's the best learning aid I've ever had for prepress."
Mark Brennan Brennan Printing Co. East Syracuse, NY

Novice-no-more
"These products will make a novice an expert." Dave Vasu Head of Prepress Department, Imprint Color Graphics Lisle, IL

To the point
"They're easy to use and get right to the point - exactly what you need to get somebody started with QuarkXPress." Jim Graf Technigrafic Solution

A great training tool to send to clients
"I've gone through the Quark training disc thoroughly, and I'm putting together a list of customers to give it out to. It's very well put together, and a great training tool."
Ron Sandy Crown Color Corp. Fox Lake, IL

It's our pleasure
"Thank you for the opportunity to review your Illustrator CD. It is a very well put together multimedia project and you should see a great response from it."
Randy Palermo Beard Publishing Santa Ana, CA

Package covers all aspects
"I really like your package! It covers almost every aspect of the application."
Don Nguyen West America Graphics Foothill Ranch, CA

A real solution to a real problem
"I've been a supporter of the small graphic arts shop for years and feel your product provides a real solution to a real problem. The large companies in this industry (Agfa, Kodak, etc.) have ignored the needs of the smaller digital prepress outfits in regards to sharing technology at an affordable rate. The result of this is lots of overworked and frustrated business owners whose daily lives are one long game of catch-up and solving problems that never should have happened in the first place. You should be proud of your product.

"I appreciate the preflight CD offer, as I have the Extensis product on my system and use it on prospective customer files prior to my demonstrating the imagesetters I sell. Just as I learned a lot from your other CDs, I'm anxious to know more about the proper way to utilize the preflight tool."
Dick Brock Westminster, CA

The best training for Quark and Illustrator
"You'll be getting calls from some people I've referred, because you have the best products for training in Quark and Illustrator. It's a life-saver. When I've been against the wall and didn't know where to go, it's been like and answer man for me."
Juan Urzua GTS Graphics Commerce, CA

Master the basics in a week and a half
"Diana had no background in either computers or graphic design; actually her background is in retail clothing. I let her learn at her own pace from your discs on Illustrator, Quark and PageMaker. In a week and a half she mastered the basics exclusively from Digital Media's products, and is now second-in-command of the graphics department. Clients also love the discs."
Ave Bernard Owner, Panorama Press Van Nuys, CA

The best presentation of trapping
"I've been real happy with the Illustrator tutorial. It's the best presentation of trapping I've come across; even better than bringing someone into the shop to train them. I've found it helps my customers avoid AH charges and author-instigated trapping problems. "The 'do's and don'ts' on your Quark product are on the safe side, and I like that. This disc will be very beneficial for people in production and in prepress."
David Withers, Moody Color Graphic Service, Inc. Roanoke, VA