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Drawing with objects

Drawing with objects - InDesign Tutorial

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Drawing with objects

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- It's fun to use InDesign animations to create lines that seem to draw themselves, and, as we've seen in another video, it's pretty easy to do that. But in reality, it takes another object to draw, or in this case, paint a line. I'd like to show you a technique that helps create this effect. Let me play this example in the preview panel for you. It's very simple. A paintbrush paints. To show you how this is setup, I actually have another paintbrush here that doesn't have any animations, and I'll turn this one off for now. This kind of effect requires three parts. I'll separate these objects, so that you can see them more clearly. First, we need the line that's being drawn, in this case, the blue paint. Secondly, we need the object that's doing the drawing, our paintbrush. And then we need an opaque object that's going to at first hide this line and then reveal it. Now in other videos we've talked about using techniques such as non-proportional scaling or moving objects in a straight…

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