 How
To Screen Back Images in QuarkXPress
Using
ALAP ShadowCaster for burn effectsby Greg Hatem
Special
to Digital Media Designer
http://www.alap.com
[Editor's
note: This week we have our third tutorial from the good folks at
A Lowly Apprentice
Productions (ALAP). ALAP is a software developer that makes
plugins for both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. —Dave]
 This
demonstrates a feature of ShadowCaster that enables you to screen
back a portion of an image within QuarkXPress.
The result of
these steps will produce the following image.
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Making
a simple mask
The first
step to screening back an area of an image, is to create a
mask of the area we wish to screen back. In this example,
we will draw a simple rectangular text box around our text
as illustrated.
In this
example, the background color of the text box was set to white
so that we can accurately draw our mask.
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Fill
mask item with a color
In order
to create a shadow of this item, we need to fill the background
of the text box with a color. Any color can be used except
White.
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Create
a mask shadow
Select
the mask item created in Step #2 if not already selected.
In the Create Tab, enter these attributes and click Create.
Resolution
should be set to the resolution of the background image. Blur
Radius can be increased or decreased depending on the
amount of feathering into the background you desire. Offset
should be set to Zero, since we created the mask item exactly
where the image is to be screened. Shading specifies
the percentage to shade the background image by.
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Greg
Hatem is the product manager at A Lowly Apprentice Productions.
He is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and has a
degree in print technology. Greg can be reached at Greg@alap.com.
For more information about ALAP, visit http://www.alap.com.
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