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More Accurate Color Capture and Correction

If you rely on digital photography, you’ll appreciate X-Rite’s new ColorChecker Passport: a set of passport-sized, travel-friendly notebooks containing every possible color target (or swatch) imaginable. Included in the set is a White Balance Target which lets you correctly set the white balance on your camera, a neutral gray target, a Creative Enhancement Target set (four [...]

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Free Webinars: Pantone’s Rules of Symmetry

Want to learn more about using color in your designs? Check out these webinars: ———————— Emphasize beauty through the use of color for Spring/Summer 2011 Come join us as we explore the rules of “Symmetry”: a Timely point of focus, understanding proportion and balance leading to beautiful expressions. Wednesday March 17th 10:00AM, 12:00PM or 3:00PM (EST) Register for a session [...]

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Use “Photoshop PDF” to Keep Text & Vectors

If you import a native Photoshop document (PSD) into QuarkXPress, the type and shape (vector) layers in the Photoshop document will be rasterized when you print or export it to PDF. To maintain the crisp edges of the type and vectors contained in the Photoshop document, save it in Photoshop PDF format and then import that [...]

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Where QuarkXPress Looks for Pictures

When you import a picture into a QuarkXPress picture box, QuarkXPress remembers the picture’s location on your hard drive. If you then move the picture, QuarkXPress loses track of it. However, one location QuarkXPress never forgets is the folder containing the active QuarkXPress document or project. Essentially, QuarkXPress looks at the original location of the picture, [...]

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