- 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
Skew a Graphic or Image Within a Box
Give an image a more emotional and intense look by skewing itchanging it from a rectangle into a parallelogram. You can make the effect more subtle by skewing just the image, not the box. Select your picture box, then in the Measurements palette, way over in the far lower-right corner, enter a number of degrees for Picture Skew. If you've got other tricks you want to do in the Modify dialog, you can also do your picture skew in the Picture tab (Cmd-M or Ctrl-M). It doesn't take much to make a statement10 to 15 degrees goes far, unless you want a really exaggerated effect. The last step is optional. You can leave the edges of the image as a parallelogram, or size down the box from the sides so that the overall shape of the picture still looks rectangular.