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087 Creating looks without fill

087 Creating looks without fill - InDesign Tutorial

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087 Creating looks without fill

I'm Mike Rankin, and welcome to InDesign effects. In this week's video, we'll see how to create some interesting looks just by giving the text a stroke but no fill, and then applying some transparency effects, like Outer Glow, Inner Glow, and Inner Shadow. And we can get results like these. So let's see how they're done. I'll go to the next page of my document and select the text I've set up here. If I go to the Swatches panel, target the text, I can see that there's no fill and a paper stroke. And up in the Control panel I see it's set to three points. Now let's apply some effects. I'll slide it over to make room for the dialogue box. Back in the swatches, I'll make sure I target formatting effects container. And then I can open the Effects panel and double click on the text. For this one I'll choose Outer Glow, I'll set it to screen, an opacity of 100 percent and a size of 20 pixels. I also want a spread of 20 percent to make it more visible. Here it is, kind of a nice glowing light…

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