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Video Tutorial: Delete Unused Colors in QuarkXPress 8

Many longtime users of QuarkXPress don’t know that since version 4 there’s been a feature that lets you delete all the colors that aren’t being used in the current Project. Here’s how to make use of it: Choose Edit> Colors From the Show popup menu, choose Colors Not Used Press Command-A (Windows: Ctrl-A) to select all the colors [...]

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Sample Colors with Your iPhone

Code Line’s Color Expert is an amazingly cool iPhone application that turns your iPhone into a color sampler and color scheme builder. You can take photos with the iPhone’s camera, match colors in the photos to Pantone PMS and Goe swatches, build custom Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split Complementary and Triadic color palettes, email your color schemes, [...]

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Easily See “Registration” Color

If you have trouble telling the difference between Black and Registration colors in QuarkXPress, you can change the Registration color to display as any color you’d like. It still prints on every plate; it just looks different on screen.  The quickest way to edit a color is to Control-click or right-click on the color in the [...]

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