Quark has published a 38-page booklet that explains how to work with Adobe Creative Suite 3 programs in conjunction with QuarkXPress 7. As well as covering the usual suspects (importing Photoshop and Illustrator files), it also deals with exporting web pages from QuarkXPress 7 to Dreamweaver, and shows you how to incorporate Flash SWF files into your QuarkXPress 7 media projects. The book is a concise and honest guide to what you can and can’t do, and it provides some interesting workarounds too. For example, did you know you can bring Illustrator vector paths into QuarkXPress and continue editing them directly in your layout? This guide will tell you how (on page 13).
www.lovequarkxpress7.com/Downloads/QuarkXPress7plusCS_book_web-en-GB.pdf
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The latest edition of DTM provides a whole bunch of QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign tips as usual, including: previewing colour QXP layouts in greyscale, how to ensure copy and paste work properly between Illustrator and InDesign, copying pages between ID documents, a clever use for Fitting options in ID Object Styles, and changing all picture box background colours in a QXP layout to None with a single command. DTM’s Software Closet this month contains DragNCopy and Today XTensions for QuarkXPress, two fonts (Diavolo in five weights, and the shockingly useful Unicode Symbols) and eight general purpose Mac-oriented utilities.
www.design-tools.com
And don’t forget the weekly DT podcast…
www.design-tools.com/podcast
Although we received our copy of this April-dated publication a little late, it was worth waiting for. It’s a full-colour, 208-page, A5 guide to stock picture libraries that serve UK and Europe. While it’s not an index of the pictures, it’s a brilliant handbook of some 200 libraries, complete with all their contact details and a few sample images. Best of all, every library is given one page each, putting everyone on a level pegging: the mighty giant Corbis gets one page, the tiny Flowerphotos gets one page. The book is also likely to introduce you to libraries you may not have heard of before, and we were pleased to see contact details for the stock image handling departments at various important museums around Britain. Stock Index UK|Europe 2007 is available free of charge.
www.stockindexonline.com
This issue features a mixed bag of articles, making a nice change from the usual CreativeProse fixation with digital cameras. There’s a worthwhile (if unnecessarily long-winded) piece listing five ways of speeding up Adobe Creative Suite, a feature investigating the pros and cons of UV inks for your next press job, a story on recycling legacy computer kit (although the links and laws quoted are US-specific), and an entertaining little article on sloppy typography.
www.creativepro.com/storyarchive/newsletter/645.html
This weeks’ e-zine from creativepro.com includes a worthwhile article on understanding harmonious colour, and a tutorial on using Adobe Illustrator rather than Photoshop for creating graphics that mix spot colour with transparency effects. There’s also a pretty good all-you-need-to-know piece on working with type in Photoshop.
www.creativepro.com/storyarchive/newsletter/643.html
The latest issue of CreativePro.com’s weekly e-zine includes an article on type problems (e.g. how best to mix smart quotes and inch/feet symbols in the same story), an article on how to unearth white papers and video tutorials from Quark’s impenetrable web site, a tutorial on layering colour in Photoshop, tips on printing on coloured paper, and some advice on using Photoshop CS3’s panorama feature.
www.creativepro.com/storyarchive/newsletter/642.html
The June issue of Adobe’s monthly e-zine includes a tip on using Photoshop CS3 Extended’s Vanishing Point feature with the program’s new 3D support in order to rotate images of flat-surfaced objects in space. There’s also a curious article that predicts the death of colour wheels in design work, and a knowingly promotional but useful run-down of the cross-program integration within Creative Suite 3.
http://adobeinsider.mmihost.co.uk/June07/default2.htm
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