- 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
Thou Shalt Know Thy Bits and Pieces
Bitmaps and vectors, photographs and graphicsthe most fundamental concepts in computer graphics are no place for fuzzy thinking or you can ruin a great layout. A bitmap image, like a TIFF, consists of rows of dots or pixels, having a fixed resolution, measured in pixels per inch (ppi) and output to dots per inch (dpi). By contrast, vectors, like a "true" EPS, or drawn objects, have no resolution. They're just a set of instructions and the quality is determined on output by the resolution of the printer. An EPS from Illustrator, Freehand, or CorelDRAW can be scaled to any percent in Quark, big or small, and it's fine. But scale a TIFF image in Quark to 200%a 300ppi resolution drops to half (150ppi)! As for the faux EPSif it looks like a photo, it's a bitmap, whether or not the label says EPSbuyer beware! And if it's a real EPS but has an imported bitmap within, the same rules apply.