This course enables students to understand various printing technologies and tools

including Photoshop, Page Maker and Corel Draw.

Introduction to Desktop Publishing (DTP), Salient features, applications and

advantages.

Photoshop: History & Introduction, the file menu, the tools, Drawing lines & shapes.

Inserting picture and shapes, filling colors, text effects, working with layers,

filters, Creating design patterns, Photoshop presentations -static & dynamic

presentation, WEB & WEB GALLERY using internet explorer in photo shop. Creating

animations using image ready, creating animations & presentations . Tips and tricks in

Photoshop.

Corel draw –An overview, menus and tools, Drawing –lines, shapes .inserting-pictures,

objects, tables, templates, Adding special effects, Exporting drawings, outlining &

filling objects, inserting symbols & Clip arts, Working in Corel draw presentation

–adjusting the position, resizing, positioning, merging, color shades & shadows

.working with advanced effects, special interactive effects. Creating- business cards,

pamphlets, banners, news papers, books. Shortcut keys in Corel draw.

Page maker- An introduction, basics menus & tools, Guides & rulers. Drawing tools.

Fills & outlines, Working with- text, paragraphs, tabs & indents, graphics, tables.

Importing & exporting, story editing & printing. Tips & Shortcut keys , Creating book

works-introduction-building booklets, completing the book.

Types of Printing an Introduction-Letterpress printing-lithography-offset printingdifferent

printing process-machines for letterpress, offset, gravure, flexography and screen printing- printing materials, planning a printing, design factors, color

application-film assembly and plate making-binding & finishing, Image editing, color

correction, color management, poly master, methods of color proofing ,Different types

of font, text file formats, vector & raster graphics, graphics file formats. Page setting,

character & paragraph formatting, indentation, alignments, hyphenation, single &

double sided documentation.

1. How to make smooth curved lines in Photoshop?

2. Extract an object from a given picture?

3. Create a new picture. Make it 300 pixels high and 400 pixels wide. The resolution

should be 72 pixels/inch.

4. How to create your very own animated beating heart in Photoshop?

5. How to make falling objects that will work as seamless backgrounds and have

objects falling at different paces in Photoshop?.

6. How to insert a picture in the existing image background?

7. Create a 3D text in Corel Draw

8. Create an advertisement for a Textile company in Corel

9. Design a business card for a company embed photo in it.

10. Design a banner for a marriage function

11. Open Pagemaker and create a new magazine layout(working on multiple pages)

which includes the following setup options:

page size - magazine narrow

orientation tall

4 page spread

numbering - Lower Roman

margins 1.25 inches- top, and .75 inches - all other sides.

12. Save the document as class example.

13. On the first page of your magazine spread, select the Text tool from the Pagemaker

toolbox and draw a text box. In the text box, on nine individual lines type the word

"text attribute."

Use each of these nine lines to illustrate each of the nine text attributes that you can

use from the text palette. You might find Figure 6 on page 92 of the optional

Pagemaker book useful. On line ten, type the word "The" with a capital "T." Set the

font size for the capital "T" at 24 point. Set the font size for the "he" at 12. Use

kerning on your text palette to pull the "h" underneath the capital "T"

14. Use to capture Pagemaker's floating control palette and paste it into

the second page of your magazine layout. Select the crop tool from the Pagemaker

toolbox and crop the pasted image to include only the control palette.

1. Adobe Photoshop BPB Publication.

2. Corel Draw X7 The Official Guide by Gary David Bouton.

3. Learning Adobe Page Maker by Greg Bowden.