- 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
Faux Duotones #1
This spectacular and unusual effect is not a duotone. Think of duotones as images in which two inks, usually black and a spot color, are mixed together in some proportion. In a classic duotone, the image is a grayscale of that mixed color, going from white down to black, so it looks pretty realistic. By contrast, the faux duotone is like a grayscale image with a veil of flat color dropped on top. In essence, all the white in the image is replaced by the second color. This is easier to do in Quark than in Photoshop! First, set up your spot color in Edit> Colors (Shift-F12). Then import a grayscale TIFF image into a selected picture box. Now for the surprise finishin the Colors palette, change the box background color to the spot color. Presto, your image is utterly transformed. For a softer look, use a tint of the background color.