From the course: InDesign FX

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

055 Simulating leather with bevel and emboss

055 Simulating leather with bevel and emboss - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign FX

Start my 1-month free trial

055 Simulating leather with bevel and emboss

Hi! I'm Mike Rankin and welcome to this week's InDesign effect. I often say that bevel and emboss is the king of InDesign effects in my opinion. There is just so many different things you can do with the shadows and highlights it creates. One example is to use it to simulate real embossing on a surface where you might expect it, like a leather book cover, and if you are careful to match the real shadows and highlights, your effect will blend right in and no one will be able to tell the difference between what's leather and what's InDesign. So here we have our book cover and it's a real photograph of a book cover, but these objects, the text frame and the frame underneath are InDesign objects. And if I go to the Layers panel, I turn off the background and you can see them there, or I can turn off the text and you can see the original photo. So let's see how we made these. I'll go to the next page of the document where I just have the photo of the book cover and we'll start making this.…

Contents