- 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
Making a Clipping Path
Quark clipping paths (Cmd-Option-T or Ctrl-Alt-T) drop out a light or white background around your subjecteven without a clip path from Photoshop. (For Photoshop paths saved with TIFF, EPS, or JPEG images, select Embedded Path in Type popup or with TIFF, also Alpha Channel.) Otherwise, select Non-White Areas. Decreasing Outset and increasing Threshold do the lion's share of dropping background pixels. Decrease Outset by small amounts using a negative number to remove pixels at the path edge. Tolerance affects the number of background gray levels that drop out overall. If you have too many points, increase Noise and Smoothness in small amounts. Click OK, then you can manually fine-tune the clipping path, just like a runaround. Press Option-Shift-F4 or Ctrl-Shift-F10 (Item> Edit> Clipping Path) to see the clipping path right on the page. Drag the path (pointing finger with "\" cursor) or a point (with a "n" cursor). Click on a point and adjust its handles or change the type of point from the Measurements palette.