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 second in the series, and it focuses on the new abilities in QuarkXPress 7 and 8 to control alpha channels (masks) in native Photoshop and TIFF images, and Quark’s ability to automatically generate a new mask from the transparent areas of an imported picture.
The first part focuses on applying existing and new masks to the picture, including instantly switching from one mask to another.
The second part focuses on artistic and realistic ways to nondestructively adjust a mask. This lets you soften or sharpen the edge of an object in a picture, to make it look more natural when the picture is reduced or enlarged on your page.
Sound interesting? See exactly how to do it in this 12-minute video:
PLAY Video: Manipulate Alpha Channels & Masks in TIFF or PSD Images
See my previous post, “Video Tutorial: Multiple Windows“
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19. February 2009 at 11:10 pm
In the Video Tutorial: Manipulate Alpha Channels & Masks in TIFF or PSD Images, all I get is the video for “Multiple Windows.” Am I doing something wrong?
20. February 2009 at 9:09 am
@Dave: Sorry for the confusion and thank you for pointing this out. We have updated the link and it is now viewable here, PLAY Video: Manipulate Alpha Channels & Masks in TIFF or PSD Images