2021

PICTURES
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 ).
Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures
The Usage feature (Utilities menu) lets you keep track of all your imported pictures.
To use this feature, choose Utilities > Usage, then click Pictures to display the
Pictures pane.
The Show button displays the selected picture in the layout.
The Update button lets you relink to another image or update the missing and
modified pictures. To update modified pictures without a confirmation alert,
Option+click/Alt+click the Update button.
Specifying background colors for pictures
To increase your design options with pictures, you can modify box color, picture
color, and picture background color. See “Coloring and shading pictures“ for more
information.
For gray pixels, the picture color and picture background color are mixed. •
If you specify different opacities for the picture color or picture background •
color, the colors will interact with each other and the box color.
Grayscale and 1-bit images only: When you open a project from a previous version of 
QuarkXPress, the box color is mapped to the picture background color so the
picture looks the same.
Maintaining picture attributes
When you import a picture into a picture box — whether or not the picture box
already contains a picture — you can retain all picture attributes. For example, if an
empty picture box in a template specifies that the picture should be scaled 50% and
rotated 90 degrees, you can import a new picture and those attributes are
automatically applied.
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