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With these three grouped items, compare individual item opacity to group opacity. At left, each item is
50% opaque — the items in front compose against the items behind them. At right, each item’s opacity is
100% while the group’s opacity is 50% — the entire group composes against the background. The items in
the group, however, could have individual opacities in addition to the group opacity.
Creating blends with transparency
You can blend a color with None rather than just with white. Simply choose any
color with 0% opacity for the first or second color in a gradient in the Gradients
palette, or on Windows, you can use the Box tab of the Mmeasurements palette.
Color management
QuarkXPress addresses the issue of producing predictable color with ICC-based
color management tools that require little input from users. For color experts,
however, QuarkXPress provides control over every aspect of color management.
In addition to streamlining the implementation of color management,
QuarkXPress offers true soft proofing through previews that simulate output on
various devices.
Source setups and output setups
The color management implementation in QuarkXPress allows color experts to
create and fine-tune “packages” of color management settings called source
setups and output setups. The source setups individually specify profiles and
rendering intents for solid colors and images in RGB, CMYK, LAB, and grayscale
color spaces; specify source color spaces for named colors; and indicate
underlying color spaces for inks. The output setups specify output profiles and
color models, and configure proofing options for simulating different types of
output on screen.
The color management experience for users
You have many options for how you work: You can work with proven default
settings, implement source setups and output setups from a color expert, or
work within a legacy color management environment.