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InDesign Secrets Video: Ghosting Images Behind Text

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When you’re laying out a page, sometimes you have to put text frames on top of images. And if you’re working with a very detailed or multi-colored image, it can be really hard to make the text readable, especially if increasing the point size is not an option. Fortunately, there’s an easy fix: ghosting an area of the image, and Anne-Marie Concepcion shows you how to do this in latest episode of InDesign Secrets on lynda.com.

InDesign Secrets Video: Ghosting Images Behind Text

In the video, Anne-Marie shows the trick for using InDesign’s transparency features ghost the fill color of a frame while keeping the text inside it fully visible. It’s an easy thing to do once you know where to look, and essential bit of knowledge for anyone laying out pages with InDesign.

Check it out now: Ghosting Images Behind Text

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French.
  • Stasha Novak says:

    Thank you so much. You are magician…

  • Stephanie says:

    All the links go to an article about the preflight panel…

  • Mike Rankin says:

    Thanks for the heads up Stephanie. Links are fixed now (the 1st one goes to the main course page, the rest go to the ghosting video).

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