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Create Your Own iPhoto Page Layouts

When making a book in Apple’s iPhoto, you’re not limited to the page designs provided by iPhoto. You can use any program to create a page, including QuarkXPress. Here’s how: Create a page in QuarkXPress the same size as the other pages in the iPhoto book you’re making. Fill it with photos, backgrounds, and other art. Export [...]

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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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BigPicture 4 for QuarkXPress 8

Badia Software’s BigPicture is one of my favorite XTensions, and now it’s available for QuarkXPress 8 as well as earlier versions. It really is “The Best Picture Manager“, as I referred it in this story from last year. You can learn more about it at Badia’s website and in this article in X-Ray Magazine. If you spend much [...]

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