- 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
Eyeball It
When it comes to sizing images and graphics on the page, numbers are great for the second, third, and fourth ones in a set. But for the first one, you want to see it the right size, not guess at a number. When you type a percent, and that's actually one percent typed two times (X% and Y% in the Measurements palette), you're guessingone number after another until "it's good enough." Instead, drag the picture by any handle, pressing all three keys"lean on the keyboard"Cmd-Option-Shift or Ctrl-Alt-Shift. Special perkthe box and image are both sized together. The handle opposite the one you drag stays fixed. To size a picture to the width of a column, when the picture is snapped to the left column guide, drag from a handle on the right side. Keep a picture centered in your layoutdrag from the top or bottom center handle.