How to make a picture into a watermark in Quark

[Petersburger]

Hello, I'm new here. Greetings from Virginia.

This is probably an embarrassingly easy subject for you professionals:

I put together a publication for our school district and I want to take a certain piece of clip art and sort of fade it into the background of a text story on a Quark page. Like a watermark. It's a cannon, and the story is about students visiting Yorktown.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[morea]

Hi Petersburger, which version of Quark are you using? And is it Mac or PC?

[Petersburger]

Wow, that's a quick response. It's 6.0 and the computer is a Dell, so I guess it's a PC.

[morea]

yup, it's a PC all right.

I haven't used Quark in several years, but we do have some members hear who know it inside and out.

I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that Quark did not have opacity settings until version 7, but like I said, I don't have the program here, so I can't flip through and jog my memory.

Check this out... maybe this will help? (At least until somebody else comes by.)
http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/pdf/bestpract_trans.pdf

PS, I am going to add "in Quark" to your thread title in hopes that it will help attract the right people to help you with this.

[morea]

Actually, we have a Quark section in the forum now, so I will move this thread there.

[Petersburger]

Thank you.

[PrintDriver]

You can reduce the opacity of the image in Photoshop. Save it as a .tif and place it into Quark 6. (you can create the clipping path in Photoshop too.)