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091 Making a bottle cap

091 Making a bottle cap - InDesign Tutorial

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091 Making a bottle cap

Hi, I'm Mike Rankin, and welcome to InDesign Effects. In this week's effect, we'll see how to create something that looks a lot like a bottle cap, onto which you can put whatever designs you like. The key is to start with a polygon, and then use a beveled corner effect to create the shape of the bottle cap. Then apply effects to give it some highlights and shadows. So I'll go to my next page of my document. And we'll create our bottle cap. We just have some text down here that we're going to apply on top of it. But first, I want to take my Polygon tool, click in the document. And I'm going to create a polygon that's 300 pixels wide, 300 pixels tall with 24 sides, and a star inside of 10%. I'll click OK. I'll give it a little fill. Black with a 5% tint, just very light, because I want this to seem like it's painted white. Next, I'll apply those corner effects. I'll choose a beveled corner of seven pixels. And now let's apply some effects. I'll move it over so I can see the dialog box…

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