Real World QuarkXPress is the world's best-selling reference on QuarkXPress. At many design firms and schools it’s considered required reading. With its friendly, easy-to-read style, you’ll learn QuarkXPress from the bottom up as a beginner. If you’ve had some experience with QuarkXPress, this book will help you sharpen your skills with all the new features of version 7. And if you’re an advanced user, all the tips, tricks, and techniques will turn you into a raging, inexorable QuarkXPress demon.

In this book, you'll learn how to:

• Speed up just about every task with the new Measurements palette
• Apply sophisticated drop shadows to text, images, boxes, and more
• Experiment with transparency and image e  ects
• Create expert tables with imported Microsoft Excel data and rich formatting
• Collaborate with others using the Shared Content and Composition Zones
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• Prevent sticky output problems with color setups, output styles, and Job Jackets
• Automate your projects with new QuarkXPress scripts and third-party XTensions
• For the latest updates, visit the Real World QuarkXPress site: www.peachpit.com/Quark7

"This is the book. Period. I’ve learned something from every new edition of Real World QuarkXPress since 1990.”
—Jay Nelson, Editorial Director, PlanetQuark.com and Design Tools Monthly...

Anyone who relies on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges knows that when a new version arrives, especially one as chockfull of enhancements as Photoshop CS3, there's no time to fool around. You need to get up to speed on it, and you need to do so now. This book will get you there. In this copiously illustrated book, best-selling author David Blatner offers shows you how to sharpen your Photoshop production techniques and provides clear explanations of the concepts that drive them. Readers will learn about managing color, correcting colors, capturing images, getting great scans, and more. They'll also find complete coverage of Photoshop CS3's new features: a streamlined interface, nondestructive Smart Filters, a new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools, improved Curves, automatic layer alignment and blending, and more. Throughout, the emphasis in this book is on efficiency: the timesaving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow readers to solve their everyday production challenges creatively with Photoshop CS3....