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Building things that blink

Building things that blink - InDesign Tutorial

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Building things that blink

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If you think about it, all kinds of things blink or flash, whether it's a neon sign, or beautiful blinking eyes. This kind of effect is ideal for InDesign's animations. They're easy to set up using Appear and Disappear presets with a few tweaks, depending on exactly what you want. Here's an example of a simple flashing sign. I'll show it to you in the Preview panel. We're ON AIR, folks. Let me show you how this was set up. Now you might think that you somehow try to make the letters themselves flash, but that's not it at all in this case. Our sign is made up of two pieces. We actually have an off state here, and then design itself, underneath. We're gonna make this off state do the flashing. I'll press command or control Z, to put that back into position, and you see that we have the preset Disappear set on our off state. We set it to disappear because we want it to be there at first, and then we want it to disappear so that the ON AIR sign underneath shows. I started with the…

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