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059 Achieving a rough-hewn look

059 Achieving a rough-hewn look - InDesign Tutorial

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059 Achieving a rough-hewn look

Hi I'm Mike Rankin and welcome to this week's InDesign effect. Sometimes you pour a lot of painstaking effort into making your effects precise and detailed, other times you might want to achieve a cool look as quick as possible, not just to save time but also to capture a feeling of spontaneity and energy. Like for example, this effect, where we have a motorcycle image that looks like it was hastily hacked out of a magazine or some other document, so let's see how to do this. I'll go to the next page of my document where I just have a copy of the background and the motorcycle photo, and I'm going to press the P key on my keyboard to get my Pen tool and I'm going to quickly start out drawing out the shape of the cut piece of the paper that I want this motorcycle to seem like it's sitting on. I'm just going to click several times and just almost as if I were using a pair of scissors just quickly hacking the shape of this out, really working as fast as I can. There we go. Now I'm going…

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