2018

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PICTURES
266 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
scale a picture proportionally so that it completely fills the picture component,
choose Scale Picture to Fill Box from the context menu or Style menu.
Cropping pictures
If you only want a portion of your image to display, you can manually crop it by
adjusting the size of the box.
Rotating and skewing pictures
Rotating a picture sets it at a different angle within the box, while skewing a picture
applies a slanted look to it.
To rotate a picture, select the Picture Content tool and move the mouse over one
of the picture’s corner handles. A Rotation pointer displays according to the
selected corner. Drag the pointer to rotate the picture. You can also enter rotate
values for a picture in the Picture Angle field of the Measurements palette (Home
tab).
To skew a picture, enter a value in the Picture Skew field of theMeasurements
palette (Home tab).
To rotate a picture, move the mouse over one of the picture’s corner handles. A
Rotation pointer displays according to the selected corner. Drag the pointer to
rotate the picture. You can also enter rotate values for a picture in the Picture Angle
field of the Measurements palette (Home/Classic tab).
To skew a picture, enter a value in the Picture Skew field of the Measurements
palette (Home/Classic tab).
Coloring and shading pictures
You can apply color and shade values to the shadows and middle tones of black-
and-white and grayscale pictures using the Colors palette (Window > Colors),
(Style > Picture), the Measurements palette, or the Style menu. You can also apply
color to the picture background and the box background.
To apply color to a black-and-white or grayscale picture, select the Picture Color
icon and click a color name.
To apply color to the background of a black-and-white or grayscale picture, select
the Picture Background Color icon and click a color name.
Flipping pictures
You can flip the contents of a picture box from left to right and from top to bottom
using the Style menu (Style > Flip Horizontal or Style > Flip Vertical) or the
Home tab of the Measurements palette (click the flip horizontal icon or the flip
vertical icon ).