- 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
Get the Picture Centered
Centering an image or graphic in a box seems simple, but it's quite difficult to dothat is, without the Center Picture command (Style menu) and the shortcut Cmd-Shift-M or Ctrl-Shift-M. Very useful if you want to have a flat or blended color surrounding your image. I prefer a bar of color at the top, or top and bottom, but not on the sides. For a bar at the top and bottom, do the Fit Box To Picture command (Style menu). Then use the Measurements palette to extend the box down two times the height of one bar. After the H value, type, "+p9*2" (or +.125"*2). Then press Return or Enter. Finish with Center Picture and color the box background. For a bar above, drop the *2 and just add the height of the color bar to H. Then change the Y+ field to that same number, "p9" (or .125").