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| QuarkXPress 8 : Pictures - Working with Photoshop files |
| When a native Photoshop picture is selected (you can use either the Item tool or the Picture Content tool to select), the controls in the three panes of the PSD Import palette let you manipulate the picture’s layers, channels, and paths. |
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| QuarkXPress 8 : Pictures - Cropping, positioning, and scaling |
| If you want to print only part of a picture, you have the option of cropping the graphic file using an image-editing program. But an easier option—and one that doesn’t actually delete anything from the original graphic file—is to crop imported pictures within QuarkXPress. |
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| Adobe InDesign CS5 : Working with Objects and Layers - Grouping and Combining Objects |
| Selecting and grouping objects makes it easier to work with multiple objects as if they were a single object. You can easily select, cut, copy, paste, move, recolor, and transform a grouped object. You can group all types of objects, yet still edit individual objects within the group as needed without having to ungroup them first by using the Direct Selection tool. |
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| CorelDRAW X5 : Navigation and Page Setup - Zooming and Panning Pages |
| There are at least two meanings in CorelDRAW for the term view, and the previous sections have covered only one of them: view quality, the level of detail with which you see your work. Zooming—increasing and decreasing the resolution of a page—and panning (sliding your view without zooming, similar to using the scroll bars on the edge of a document window) are the topics of the sections to follow. |
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| CorelDRAW X5 : Navigation and Page Setup - Setting View Mode |
| View modes are used to specify how your drawing appears onscreen. Modes offer feedback as to how a design will print or export, and lower-quality view modes can help you locate an object hidden by other objects. You switch between view modes by using the View menu and through keyboard shortcuts. |
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| CorelDraw 10 : Complex Shapes - Polygons and Stars |
| A polygon is a multisided closed figure. The simplest form of polygon is a triangle: a three-sided object. CorelDraw 10 enables you to create polygons with as many as 500 sides. A star is just a special instance of a polygon. Once you've a drawn polygon, you can easily change it into a star and vice versa. |
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| Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Modify the Contents of a State |
| Each state's contents can be modified at will without affecting other states. Often, modifications to states will simply involve either deleting components that you do not want in a state or hiding their layers and then either adding new components from the library or showing their layers. |
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| Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 : Creating States in the Main Application |
| The Pages/States panel in Catalyst allows you to create and manage view states. A new application will have a single state, but the panel allows you to create as many additional states as you want. States can either be created as duplicates of an existing state or as new blank states. |
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| Adobe Fireworks CS5 : Working with Vector Graphics - Working with Auto Shapes |
| Auto Shapes are art with JavaScript logic attached. They include additional diamond-shaped control points that let you alter visual properties, such as corner roundness, corner shape, or the number of points in a star. Most of these control points also have tooltips that describe how they affect the Auto Shape. |
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