Chapter 10. Fine-Tuning Images

Let me be perfectly clear here: While QuarkXPress provides an astonishing array of controls over your page’s text, the program is particularly poor at editing any images you may have imported. Nonetheless, XPress does contain a few image-editing features that you should know about, if only to keep yourself out of trouble.

In Chapter 9, Pictures, I discussed several graphic file formats, how to bring them into your QuarkXPress documents, and how to perform basic manipulations with them, such as rotating, skewing, and scaling. In this chapter, I look at how you can use QuarkXPress in place of other image-editing software to modify the imported image itself. Bear in mind that I’m not talking here about image editing ...

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