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005 Making Shiny Effects

005 Making Shiny Effects - InDesign Tutorial

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005 Making Shiny Effects

In print, on the web, and on TV, shiny graphics are everywhere today. They give a feeling of high-tech polish to a design and they are also really easy to create. Let's see how to use InDesign to create some shiny effects. So when we want to stimulate shine, we need to create an area that seems to reflect light. The easiest way to do this is to just use a paper filled object to create a highlight. So here I just have a simple text frame them with the word Shine in it and I want to make it seem a little reflective. So I'll press the F key on my keyboard to get my Rectangle Frame tool and I'll click-and-drag over the top of it about halfway. In my Swatches panel I'll fill this new rectangle with Paper and in my Effects panel, I'll reduce the opacity. I'll drag it down to say 25% or so, and deselect. And there you have it, instant shine, as simple as it can be. A variation on this is to use an ellipse instead of a rectangle. So I'll delete the rectangle, I'll press the L key on my…

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