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Retaining special effects in images

Retaining special effects in images

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Retaining special effects in images

When you're exporting individual images from InDesign to use in your fixed-layout EPUB, sometimes it just isn't good enough to export all the images to HTML or to select an image and export it to JPEG, because a lot of times the designers will use special effects in InDesign that involve two or more objects. Like, look at this picture of the saguaro cactus. It has a caption down here, but the caption--let's zoom in a bit--is on a text frame that's filled with a color that's partially transparent. If I look at the Effects panel, you can see that the Fill of this frame is 75%, and it is filled with black. So if we just exported the picture, we're not going to get that special effect. And we could put the caption here in white. We could do that with CSS, but it wouldn't show up as nicely, because it's not against a darker background. That's why the designer did that in the first place. Now if you're doing special effects in Photoshop like here, I've opened up one of the images and I've…

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