- 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
CroppingUp Close and Personal
Don't go changing copy that the editor or client gave you. But "hands off" doesn't apply to pictures. Artistic license is a must! Leaving space around the subject psychologically distances the viewer from the subject. Lay photography, rampant in not-for-profit and government work, is the worstgrass, ceiling fans, the car next door, you name it. Instead, crop in on images so they seem to explode at the edges, heightening the drama. If a subject is in three-quarter view, crop the back tightly and leave more space in the direction the subject's facing. Crop off the top inch or two of someone's headit's not a lobotomy. Just drag the picture box handle in on the imageno keys. Then, with the Content tool, drag inside the box to position the image dynamically. Polish it with the arrow keys to nudge it a bit more, with the Content tool in hand.