I'm putting together a brochure in Quark 6, and while I have some blocks in a certain colour on there, I want some sections for that colour to be 50% and the background colour to show through. I can't figure out how to set that in Quark! and so far the help files aren't very helpful. I can go to photoshop and figure out the colour there, but what it I want it over a picture or to screen out a photo itself? Thanks in advance!! angie

Tricky! It's been so long since I played around with it - and Quark 6 isn't even in Australia yet... hmmm ok - try importing two cropped images as grey scale TIFF or RIFF format. then select the "Picture" icon in your 'Colours' palette - select the colour you want - select the shade percentage pop-up and choose the percentage you're after. start playing with "Background Colour" and "Picture Colour" in the 'Colours' palette - and the various percental shades that each provide to alter the image. You see - I don't think you can actually create translucent blocks of colour or image in Quark - thus your thinking pattern must start to become sneaky - ie - importing two or more images of one image sliced up in Photoshop, and altering both their Picture Colour and Background Colour in order to give the illusion of a colour block covering part of an image and thus making it look semi-transparent. I know I'm being extremely sketchy here. yet... I do suspect that the image(s) you import must start out being greyscale / black & white line art - in either TIFF, RIFF, or Bitmap format in order to start fiddling around with their colours. EPSs won't cut the mustard - nor will CMYK images. Apologies I couldn't be of more assistance. Best advice: Play! cheers Ang clockwork

I tried the opacity slider in the colours menu, but it doesn't screen to the background, it just screens out to white.. not exactly what I was looking for! I have found a way around it for my current project, but it just seems like something that should work... ah well. Thanks anyways!

Ang, Nah - there's no way you can create translucent effects in Quark - as you can in Photoshop. I played around with it and researched. My first response is your best shot: using greyscale TIFFs, giving them colour, altering their shading percentages, and positioning them next to each other to create the illusion of a block of colour overlapping an image. The only transparency that exists in Quark is the creation of a Text Box with a Fill of "None" and an Item Runaround of None - thus enabling one to type over an image - but of course - this is full transparency and no shades between full opacity and full transparency. Use the "Background Colour" and "Picture Colour" in the 'Colours' palette to alter your greyscale TIFFs - and then change their Shade percentages as described above. cheers cw

all you can do is make a new color that reflects 100% of the bkgnd color and 50% of the foreground color. Your foreground box should be filled with 100% of this new color.