- 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
Graphics as Fun-House Mirrors
This is one of those weird effectssizing a box and its picture together non-proportionally. You're more likely to use this one with an EPS graphic, not a TIFF. Photographic images, being snapshots of the "real world," usually require fidelity. But graphics are pure metaphor and rarely attempt to be realisticand when they try to be, they usually fail miserably. The beauty of graphics is their boldness, their ability to make a point with impact by emphasizing the main thing. That makes them good subjects for non-proportional scaling, besides having no resolution issues to deal with. Go ahead, Cmd-drag or Ctrl-drag a handle of an imported true EPS. As you drag wide, the graphic, well, puts on weight. Drag it narrow, the graphic quickly loses it. Someone please Cmd-drag my hipsin!