Comments on: Making a Text Highlighter

By: Olwen Bruce

Olwen Bruce — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:39:29 +0000

hi leigh, I need a designer in the states – happy fishing !

By: Francis Frese

Francis Frese — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:06:17 +0000

David,
Many thanks. You taught me two things–one that answered my question and one that taught me that I could “invent” my own colors in the swatches panel.

(In case you can’t tell, I’m just past being a raw beginner in things Adobe.)

Thanks again.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:18:49 +0000

@Francis: You must first define more colors in the Swatches panel.

By: Francis Frese

Francis Frese — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:59:32 +0000

David,
Thanks. Works great, except for available color selection.

You wrote, “…you can give the text a thick, yellow (or any color) underline.”

I’m using ID CS4. Using your technique, I am presented with eight pre-determined colors in the Underline Options panel/window.

How can I select other colors for this underline trick?

Thanks.

By: Rich Jones

Rich Jones — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:19:10 +0000

Thanks for the tip Dave I think your blog is fantastic I am a magazine layout designer just starting out and these blogs help a lot so cheers!

By: Leigh Marklew

Leigh Marklew — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:13:09 +0000

Hey Joe (and Jochen) – where you going with that solid highlighter effect in your hand?? Sorry… just been reading the posts, super helpful. here’s an obvious tip for making your highlighter ‘lines’ semi-opaque. Set up your highlight using the underline as described, select and copy the text, then make the text the same colour as the highlight/underline. Now you can select the frame and make it whatever opacity you desire. Once thats done just paste in place the text you copied and remove the underline from that. Voila – text with semi-opaque highlight!

Leigh in Leeds, UK

By: Bo Lane

Bo Lane — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:10:18 +0000

Hey. Thanks for posting this. After much work on trying to figure out this simple task, I turned to Google and found this tutorial. Thank you so much for your time in putting this online. It’s been a huge help to me and my magazine.

Thanks
Bo Lane

By: Brian Birch

Brian Birch — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:46:42 +0000

I am no techy, and have not learned to highlight, yet. But this ragged edge bit, seems to me, could be over come by adding yellow type to the ends of the right side, as necessary, to cause the yellow desired highlighting to match the effect you desire. This sounds reasonable to me. Let me know if it works.

By: Jochen Uebel

Jochen Uebel — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:32:45 +0000

@ Joe
No. Opacity is an attribut of whole Frames, whole Boarders, whole Text – but not of specific Text attributes or Characters.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:29:05 +0000

is it possible to change the opacity of the underline (so that if the text block is over an image you can still see some of the image through it?)