- Did You Know You Can Import a PDF?
- Got a Two-Color Job and Four-Color Images?
- Drag and Drop Pictures from Your Desktop (Windows only)
- Fit to Box and Box It Up
- Cropping—Up Close and Personal
- Get the Picture Centered
- Eyeball It
- Need the Picture Bigger, but Not the Box?
- Thou Shalt Know Thy Bits and Pieces
- Ultimate System for Avoiding Bad Resolution
- Fuzzy Type in Your Photoshop Image?
- Graphics as Fun-House Mirrors
- Accessing Image Editing Commands (Mac only)
- Negative and Positive Together
- Faux Duotones #1
- Faux Duotones #2
- Turn a Boring Image into a Graphic
- Skew a Graphic or Image Within a Box
- Making a Clipping Path
- Short Tips for Clipping Paths
- Full-Resolution Preview for Images
- Full-Resolution Preview on the Fly
- Lower than Low—Keep That File Size Down
- Quark, Servant of Mine, Alert Me to Picture Changes
- Update That Picture and Retain Cropping and Sizing
Fuzzy Type in Your Photoshop Image?
If you want to add text to your image in Photoshop, but it's going to be straight typeno Gaussian blurs or other filter effectsadd that type in Quark! Then you'll know the type will output properly, be vector-based Postscript, and not have fuzzy, anti-aliased edges. The fact is, there are numerous ways to go wrong with type in Photoshop. Best bet is to save the file as EPS, but you must never, never open that image back up in Photoshop. The text layer rasterizes and becomes a bitmap at the resolution of your image. Instead, if there are changes, go back to your master .psd file, make the change, and save a new EPS to replace the first. But other reasons to do it in Quark? You can move the type around independently of the image, and when there are text changes, there are no trips back to Photoshop.