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069 Making translucent objects

069 Making translucent objects - InDesign Tutorial

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069 Making translucent objects

Hi! I'm Mike Rankin, and welcome to InDesign FX. In this week's video, we'll see how to make translucent objects like these bubbles on the bar of soap using blending modes and effects. When it comes to making translucent objects, you just can't beat the Hard Light blending mode. It allows you to hide the fill color of an object, while still showing an effect applied to that object, like Bevel & Emboss. So let's see how to make these bubbles. I will go to the second page of my document where I have the bar of soap, but no bubbles. I'll press the L key on my keyboard to get my Ellipse tool and click in the document and I'm going to create circles 30 pixels in width and height. I'm going to press Shift+X on my keyboard to exchange the stroke and fill. So now the circle has no stroke but a fill of black. Up in the Control panel, I'll change the Tint from 100% to 50% and this is the key step for making translucent objects; that 50% black fill. The reason is, 50% black is a neutral color…

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