Comments on: Fun Text Style Effects from The InDesign Conference

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:01:24 +0000

Thanks for the information, I cant wait to read more of your posts.

By: stacy

stacy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:49:06 +0000

you can just drag the fx icon in the effects palette to your text block and it will apply the effects you did… if someone downloads your indd file.

pretty fun…. as everyone has said… when used tastefully.

By: ken govaert

ken govaert — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:21:04 +0000

Hi there,
Having used some of the new transparency fx in layout we encountered the first problems. The pdf is fine but the digital dummy we printed had text with very jaggy edges. Specially when placed over an object with fx’s apllied on it. (not on the text)
It reminded me of CS1 which couldn’t place text over a gradient object at first. The solution back then was to put all text on an extra Top Layer. Anyone else saw these things?

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:15:24 +0000

Mohd,
If you’re talking about ID CS3, new training books will become available by August ‘07. Mr Blatner may recommend a few.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:55:17 +0000

Ah guys, very harsh on Mr. Blatner there. He said they are just for fun and where they lack elegance they inspire imagination. And as it is said, it is a chunk of Photoshop engine into InDesign, so, I can’t see any problems with any RIP, it’s the same as if you did it in Photoshop, but without switching Apps. Yes, everything that has changed to InDesign does have a drop shadow on it, cos it’s easy to do in InDesign, without creating photoshop files. Yes, it is horrid thing to do, but I remember the same with other programs, new tools means wanting to use the new tools, because it hadn’t been seen before, people do get carried away and it did become and eye-sore after a while, but it was cool at first.

As for these effects, it’s cool to see how they are created, how you use them and how you implement them is up to you. I’m sure Mr. Blatner will never use the one’s he’s put up there in his actual work, but he did say it was FUN. It’s nice to see.

By: mohd

mohd — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:56:13 +0000

how i can learn indesgin good

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:32:19 +0000

David, I agree that they’re pretty outlandish and I’ve never said I was a designer! But the idea that they’d have to be redone in Photoshop is completely untrue. They print great.

In fact, you could sort of say that they were done with Photoshop because Adobe basically built a chunk of the Photoshop engine into InDesign. But remember that it’s all editable without having to switch applications–that saves time and frustration.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:55:09 +0000

I agree that they’re not exactly elegant, but what makes you think they won’t print?

I remember hearing the same nonsense when ID 2.0 was released.

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:17:38 +0000

Wow. I hope nobody actually uses those efffects. They are horrible.

Most places won’t use them because the retouching houses will have to rebuild them in Photoshop anyhow, driving the cost up.

By: Jem

Jem — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:59:30 +0000

I wonder how Rampage is going to handle these transparencies when I rip them for output. I usually have to crank up the transparency flatener 1200 and wait. Anyone in prepress have problems yet?