- 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
Got a two-Color Job and four-Color Images?
You're doing a two-color newsletter or three-color brochure, and your client gave you full color images. You could go into Photoshop and do the mode conversion to grayscale, but why bother. You're just getting started. The pictures could change, all kinds of things could happen that would make that work unnecessary. Don't bother. Instead, do an on-the-fly color conversion. Got your picture box selected, with the Get Picture dialog open and your picture file selected? Then, for the Mac, Cmd-press and hold until you see the image in your box; for Windows, Ctrl-click the Open button. That full color image now looks just like a grayscale TIFF for your compand it even prints that way. But in fact, the file on your hard drive is still full color. That's the only thing you've got to remember if and when the picture makes it to final productiongo convert it!