Posts Tagged with ‘Effects’

Get way more “Awesome” out of InDesign’s Bevel effect with these tips and tricks.

Keith wastes way too much time playing with the handy MakeGrid script that’s included with InDesign CS3 and later.

Officially text frame attributes can control the fill and stroke of the frame, but they can’t control the color the text inside them… or can they?

Have you ever tried to apply an effect to selected text and realized that you couldn’t? It is time to find a way around this limitation.

With scaling preferences, you can choose custom-tailored effects or one-size-fits-all.

As we’ve learned from the new user forums, there’s more than one way to make a placed picture look like an old Polaroid. Here’s a nifty one, and you can apply an object style to “develop” it faster.

You can create some cool effects in InDesign by applying effects and hiding the object itself. Learn how in this short videocast!

If you need to visually compare documents, don’t print them out and hold them up to the window. Just remember: vive la différence.

Unlike Photoshop and Illustrator, InDesign doesn’t have pattern swatches that you can use to fill an area with a repeating pattern. But it’s easy enough to make your own pattern swatches from scratch, and apply them via step and repeat.
Start with a rectangle. It doesn’t have to be a perfect square, but make its dimensions [...]

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