- 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
Turn a Boring Image into a Graphic
Make lackluster images experimental and fun using Quark's Contrast dialog. Select your picture, which can be any of the file types named previously. Press Cmd-Shift-C or Ctrl-Shift-C to open Picture Contrast Specifications. Try out any of nine buttons along the left edge. The Posterize button reduces all the tonal and saturation values (color or grayscale) to just six gray/color levels. The Posterizer lets you set 10 levels that you can adjust in the graphing area. Click the Inversion Button to flip the graph of input and outputsimilar in theory to Negative, but different results. For a totally wacky, psychedelic look, draw an up-and-down mountainous graph with the Pencil tool. Use Apply, then reset the image with the Normal Contrast tool, six down from the top. Again, you'll get better quality with comparable techniques in Photoshop.
NOTE
See also "Negative and Positive Together" (this chapter).