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016 Creating Metallic Strokes

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016 Creating Metallic Strokes

You can stroke objects with something that looks like it's made out of metal in two ways. For simple things like straight lines, you can use a gradient stroke; for more complex objects you can use the Bevel and Emboss effect to be bending metal like a blacksmith in no time. Here I have a set of objects filled with metallic gradients that I borrowed from Illustrator. I just filled objects in Illustrator with these gradients, copied and pasted them into my InDesign layout. And if I go to my Swatches panel, I can see now I have all these cool metallic gradients to work with, blue steel, brass, bronze, copper, gold and so on, really cool. Let's put them to use. So I'd like to put this pirate in jail for some crime she's committed. So I'm going to create some jail bars using the metallic gradient for a stroke. I'll select my Line tool and click and drag from the top to the bottom of my document, holding the Shift key to constrain it and make a perfectly straight bar. In the Control panel…

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