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075 Enhancing design with skewed text

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075 Enhancing design with skewed text

Hi, I'm Mike Rankin, and welcome to InDesign FX. In this week's effect we're going to see how to use Type on Path options to skew text to enhance a design. You can create a very strong design by choosing photos with distinct lines that direct a viewer's gaze. You can take this idea one step further by also skewing type so it follows those same lines. And a great way to do this is with InDesign's options for Type on Path. So here I have a photo of some very Tall Trees, and the photo is taken from a low level looking upward to really enhance the feeling of the trees' height. You get these lines of perspective going up, and you can see that the type has been skewed to also follow those same lines of perspective. So let's see how to do this. I'll go to the next in my document where I have the same photo but no text. I'm going to press the W key on my keyboard just so I can see my margins, and I'll take a Frame Tool, click and drag out a giant frame all the way to the margins. Now I'll…

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