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- QuarkXPress Tips & More: General
This tutorial has valuable information on how to opperate QuarkXpress without being dumped with all of its quirkiness. It also has some good advice on Color palettes and changing the profile on color palettes and on pictures. It has a good overview of importing and trapping pictures as well as manipulating them. It goes into detail with all the variations and special effects that you can do in QuarkXpress. It tells you how to make 3D effects and multiple bends. It is a pretty lengthy tutorial Posted on 5/30/2004 - Setting up the color palette
This page is one of many that gives tips and tricks on how to navigate QuarkXpress. This particular one focuses on the color palette and how to set it up. The author describes how to make copies of the colors so not to lose them, and how to arrange the palette and put it to its best use. Posted on 5/30/2004 - CDman DIsc Manufacturing Excellence In Service Above All
This site starts off by describing what different types of methods to get a picture into Quark. It give pointers on what to do and what not to do. Then it tells about how the web isn't the best place to import a graphic because its resolution is only 72. Then it describes that you will have to pick a shape to make a picture box, then place the object from the file you want. Posted on 5/30/2004 - Quark Xpress Training Tutorials: Palettes
Openeye Training does a good job explaining the basics of Quark Xpress. Discriptions are very clear and understandable. They show examples of how to use the tool, colour, document layout, style sheets, trap and measuring palettes. Posted on 5/30/2004 - Quark Express 4 tutorial
This is a very basic, yet very accurate tutorial explaining all the tools in Quark. There is about a paragrah or more for each tool, telling you each tools function within the program and how it can be performed. I think a beginner like myself could use this information to clearing understand what Quark is capable of and then, you can use the information in a real way. Posted on 5/30/2004 - quark xpress tips
This site takes you through the basics of Quark Xpress. It explains what to do from the opening screen to libraries, to saving and disk space, to memory capacity. You should create templates of the documents and text formatting that you commonly use and then keep a library of those templates. You should save your work often, especially before and after complex changes. Make a habit of hitting command-S. Posted on 5/30/2004 - Quark Documents (sketchpad)
This site gave the basics on QuarkXpress. It mentioned several things in particular about Quark:: 1. Quark has a tool palette with tools for creating page objects and for modifying their shape, position and content. 2. Colors can be defined using any of the established color models - RGB, CMYK, HSB and LAB. Swatches from standard spot color systems are also supplied. Each document contains is its own user-defined color palette. Colors can be created from scratch or copied from other documents and the supplied color swatches. Stroke (outline) and fill properties are applied to objects just like in illustration programs so the concepts learned in these applications apply here as well. 3. In this section of Mike's Sketchpad it also gave tutorials for porting files between graphics applications, and also showed how to set up a cross-platform network to port files between Mac and Windows systems. >> These were just a few of the helpful hints that the site talked about. Posted on 5/30/2004 - Quark Xpress Training
This site gives a detailed description and lesson on the layout (creating a new document) and the items and contents. When creating a new document, you must decide upon the paramaters (Page Size, Columns, Margins). One of the most important things to remember in Quark Xpress is the differnces between the Item and Content tools and when to use each one. Use the Item wool when dealing with items and the Content tool when dealing with content (text or what is inside the boxes) Posted on 5/30/2004 - defining colors
This is a single page site with large, helpful illustrations. Often times you will want a different color than the basic ones Quark provides. To define a new color, select edit color under the Edit menu then select New Color for Document. you can then select your new color from a Color Library or type in the CMYK percentages to get your desired color. Edit the name of the new color and click save. It is then added to your color palatte. Posted on 5/30/2004 - Quark XPress Tips: color
This is and intensive site that might be aimed more toward those who are pretty familiar with computer graphic/illustrating programs and its language. Trapping in Quark Xpress and its different elements are explained thoroughly. They explain how to edit or create your own color. You can select from the PANTONE color library or create a new color using CMYK percentages. There are also six different tips about color palettes and shortcuts, blending and banding. Posted on 5/30/2004 - Quark Xpress Basics
Quark uses many of the standard color models, such as, RGB, CMYK, HSB, and LAB. You can also use swatches, as in Photoshop and Illustrator, from "standard spot color systems" which are also supplied (PANTONE®, TOYO, DIC, TRUMATCH and FOCOLTONE). Every document contains is its own "user-defined color palette". You can also create your own colors or copy them from other documents. "Stroke (outline) and fill properties are applied to objects just like in illustration programs so the concepts learned in these applications apply here as well." Posted on 5/30/2004 - QuarkXpress Tutorials
This site has a series of tutorials ranging from clipping paths to stroking text. There is one tutorial that briefly covers the operations the color pallette has to offer. This site isn't too good but gives you a gereral idea about what quark has to offer. Posted on 5/30/2004 - QuarkXPress Essentials
This site has a complete list of tutorials on quarkxpress, all downloadable. They consist of: Constructing Documents, Working with Colors, Working with Text, Typography, Combining Type and Graphics, Modifying Pictures, Working with Page Elements, and Preparing for High-Resolution Printing. Good site! Posted on 5/30/2004 - Adobe InDesign Challenges QuarkXPress For The Heavyweight Publishing Championship
Colors are specified and saved on a palette. Quark’s two step process of editing the list of colors is very functional. There are icons to represent CMYK, spot, and even RGB colors to help prevent making projects that have dozens of spot colors or incompatible mixtures of CMYK and RGB colors. When Quark introduced Cool Blends, Chuck Vosburgh thought there was just no way any page layout program would ever be able to top that. InDesign is also a competitive program that is helpful with a lot of the same functions of Quark. Posted on 5/30/2004
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