Posts Tagged with ‘Effects’

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 [...]

Eye candy punchouts, stickers, rips, and burns.

The Gravity feature fundamentally broke in CS3. Fortunately, it’s finally fixed again. But what on earth is it and how do you use it?