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Jay Nelson - who has written 568 posts on Planet Quark.

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7, and the QuarkXPress 7 training at Lynda.com. In addition, Jay writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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Happy New Year!

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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Wasn’t that year 2008 something? I’m hoping for an “understatement of the year” award, so if you know of any, please enter this post for me. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2009%2F01%2F01%2Fhappy-new-year%2F'; addthis_title = 'Happy+New+Year%21'; addthis_pub = '';

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Live, Embossed Text in QuarkXPress

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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Back in September, I showed how to create “Mystery Shadows” — a shadow without an object seeming to cast it — in QuarkXPress 7 and above. A similar technique can be used to simulate embossing with live text. Here’s how: Type your text and color it white. Set the opacity of the text to 0%. Apply a drop shadow to [...]

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Video Tutorial: The Glyphs Palette

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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I ran across a brief video at the Creative Mac blog that focuses on some of the features in the Glyphs palette. The video is an excerpt from the Talented Pixies tutorials, presented by Mike Strange. You can watch it here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F12%2F30%2Fvideo-tutorial-the-glyphs-palette%2F'; addthis_title = 'Video+Tutorial%3A+The+Glyphs+Palette'; addthis_pub [...]

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