Urgent Help Needed! Change the Opacity (Shade) of Picture, QX 5.0???

[aries2]

Hello,
Can someone please help me out? I am in the middle of a big project and can't figure out how to change the opacity (shade) of a picture in Quark5. I have pictures in .tiff format, that I want to reduce the opacity of in Quark, so I could put words over them. The opacity (shade) box in the colors pallett is grayed out? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help!!!!

 

[billdetty]

Unfortunately, adjusting the shade of a picture only works on grayscale or bitmap tiffs. I assume that's because in Quark's little feverish minds they think of this operation as adjusting a specific color applied to an image, and you can only apply a color to a grayscale or bitmap. Can't swear one way or the other, though.

You could approach this by adjusting the contrast (under the Style menu) but I find it a lot easier, more controllable, and more flexible to do this in Photoshop instead. IMO, Quark's contrast controls are more trouble than their worth.



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Bill Detty

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