Posts Tagged with ‘transparency’

When it comes to applying transparency to live text, Quark gives you finer control than InDesign. But there ways of working around this limitation. You just have to think outside the box, er, frame. Whatever. Read the post.

Q: When does a drop shadow not appear to be a drop shadow? A: When it isn’t applied to the frame.

Learn how to build a cool custom license plate with InDesign FX and pick up some key tips to use with all FX as you go.

You view your PDF on screen and — gasp! — tiny white lines! Disaster or not?

Here’s a trick with genuine appeal.

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.

What do you do if you have dozens of images in InDesign and your printer says they’re all a bit too low-resolution? Branislav Milic has a trick!

InDesign can use any extra channel of an image as a transparency mask, if you know where to look!