Chapter Eleven. Image Tuning

While QuarkXPress has always provided an astonishing array of controls over your page’s text, version 7 shines just as brightly in its image adjustment and modification controls.

In Chapter 10, Pictures, I discussed several graphic file formats, how to bring them into your QuarkXPress layouts, 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. You can’t actually change the content of imported graphics in QuarkXPress. You can, however, change a remarkable range of overall appearance attributes ...

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