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057 Text wrapping

057 Text wrapping - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

057 Text wrapping

You may know already how to create a text wrap, but did you know that you can edit that wrap? Yes, it's a technique discovered only by a few intrepid designers. We are looking at a two-page spread in InDesign CS6, though this technique is really not specific to CS6. It can be done in basically any version of InDesign as far as I know. I'm going to switch back to normal editing mode so you can see all the frames and what's happening here. This is a nice looking spread I think, but we want to add a little bit more interest and so what I'd like to do is to wrap this text against the student's legs here. Now this will only work if the picture has any kind of mask over here, and if I select this picture and go and right-click and choose Edit Original, and I had it open already, it didn't open that fast, and you can see that there definitely is masks already. Here is the Layers panel. So somebody has already gone to the trouble of selecting the white area or whatever was around the young…

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