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Setting Picture Preferences. Most tasks with QuarkXPress 8 have accompanying preference settings. This is how you define your preferred method of interaction with the features, tools and application. In most cases preferences are exactly that; the preferred method and you may override the preference with a local setting. In other cases preferences can only be overridden by returning to the Preferences Dialog Box and changing the settings. In this movie I will show you how to set the preferences of pictures. We'll skip around a bit because the preferences that we need are scattered throughout this dialog box. We will cover other preferences that are relevant to each section of this video tutorial. The first thing to keep in mind about preferences is that when you set preferences without an open project, you are defining the behavior for all new projects that you create. You are not changing the settings for current projects that you may open after you have changed these settings. To change the preferences of an existing project, open the project, then define the settings. Let's get started by launching the Preferences Dialog Box. On a Mac, go to the QuarkXPress Menu and choose Preferences. If you're on a Windows PC, go to the Edit Menu and choose Preferences. The Preferences Dialog Box is divided into logical sections; application, project, print layout, web layout and interactive layout. We'll focus on print layout for the purpose of this video tutorial. We'll start here at Full Res Preview. As you're laying out your project and adding pictures, QuarkXPress 8 adds these pictures and provides you a preview. The preview is low resolution. This speeds scrolling and enables for quick redraw of pages. Sometimes, especially when zoomed in to draw clipping paths and the like, you need full resolution so that you can be more accurate. In this case you would enable Full Resolution Previews in the Item Menu. When you do this, QuarkXPress 8 creates a preview and stores it in a cache. Using this setting, you can define the destination. You can also define the maximum size of the cache. Here you can define for what pictures a full-res preview is available or you can disable the feature. In the PSD import pane, you have similar options but this is the cache file for when you're using the PSD Import Palette. With Picture Effects, it's the same idea but this time it is for storing the presets that you define and save. Framing, here in the general pane of the Default Print Layout section is not a picture attribute but rather a box attribute. But because pictures go in boxes, we'll cover it here. This radio button determines if your picture frame falls within a defined size of the box or outside the box. By way of example, if you have a two-inch box and you put a four-point frame on it, with outside framing the box would then become two inches and eight points wide. If you put a four-point frame on a two-inch box with inside framing, the box size does not change. Taking the time to set your preferences you can take a lot of the guesswork out of what attributes are assigned to items, where to find files and more. Regardless of how you use them, they will always turn out to be a time saver.