QuarkXPress How-To: Time for a Paint Job
Color can make or break your design. If that rustic red tint instead comes out as a pallid pink, you’re in trouble. On the flip side, savvy designers can stretch their budgets with tricks like simulating spot color in CMYK jobs. This excerpt from “QuarkXPress 6 Killer Tips” leads you through the color maze and shows you how to set up colors, apply and modify them, blend them, and manage them.

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Excerpted from pages 181-192, “QuarkXPress 6 Killer Tips” (ISBN 0-7357-1303-0) by Eda Warren. Copyright © 2004. Used with the permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders.
This article was last modified on January 10, 2022
This article was first published on April 26, 2005
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