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90 Minutes on Social Media Marketing

CreativeTechs.com has posted a 90-minute video about why designers should be using today’s online social media tools to attract work. It was originally presented to the Seattle Graphic Artists Guild. Watch it here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2009%2F06%2F26%2F90-minutes-on-social-media-marketing%2F'; addthis_title = '90+Minutes+on+Social+Media+Marketing'; addthis_pub = '';

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Video Tutorials from Quark

Quark has posted several enlightening video tutorials at http://8.quark.com/learn_more.html, including: How to draw custom shapes with the newly redesigned Bézier pen toolset How to create picture popouts (how to crop your subject on certain sides of a box while letting the subject extend past the box on other sides) Design and output Flash directly from QuarkXPress 8 addthis_url [...]

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Video Tutorial: Backward Compatibility

QuarkXPress could always save documents down one version: 7 to 6, for example. In this very brief video, I show where to go to export your document for earlier versions of QuarkXPress. I also mention a secondary use for this export function: breaking Layouts away from a Project. This video was made possible by our friends [...]

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Video Tutorial: Print Dialog Box Enhancements in QuarkXPress 7 and 8

The Print dialog box in QuarkXPress 7 and 8 looks quite different from previous versions. If you’ve ever wondered what all those options do in the Print dialog box, follow along with me as I lead you through each and every one of them — throwing in a few tips along the way. You may be [...]

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