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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: Automatic Color Management in QuarkXPress 7 and 8

Everyone wants to see, on their own display, how their project is going to look when printed. In QuarkXPress 7 and 8, it’s possible to do just that. The trick is to use Quark’s Job Jackets feature, and to place into the Job Jacket a profile for the device(s) that will be outputting the document. An [...]

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Video Tutorial: Synchronized Items

One of the most outrageous and unique new features introduced in QuarkXPress 7 (and continued in QuarkXPress 8) is Shared Content. Imagine being able to have multiple copies of an item, on separate pages, or even in separate Layouts within a Project, and when you change one, all the others change as well. But this “synchronization” [...]

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Video Tutorial: Using Photoshop Files in QuarkXPress

Because our friends over at Lynda.com were gracious enough to share a selection of chapters from my “QuarkXPress 7 New Features“ video training, I hand-picked several that I thought would be most appealing to new users of QuarkXPress 7 and QuarkXPress 8. This is the fifth in the series, and it shows how to manipulate the layers, channels [...]

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