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012 Exploring Directional Feather Settings

012 Exploring Directional Feather Settings - InDesign Tutorial

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012 Exploring Directional Feather Settings

Basic feather gives you the ability to fade an object into the background but it works the same in all directions. What if you want to fade just one edge of an object or all the edges in a particular direction? Well you can with the Directional Feather effect. Let's see how it works. Here I have a simple document with one placed photo of some flowers and one text frame containing the words Directional Feather. I'm actually going to split the window into two by choosing Window > Arrange > New Window, and I'm going to do this so I can see the effect better. I'll drag the divider over to the left so I have one large window and one small window and in the small window I'll click on the placed photo of the flowers. This way when I apply the Directional Feather effect I won't see these frame edges highlighted and I can see the effect better. I'll choose Effects, double-click on the Object, and in the Effects dialog box I'll choose Directional Feather. I'll Feather from the bottom. I hold…

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