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020 Putting images on a stroke - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
020 Putting images on a stroke
Anne-Marie Concepcion: I think everybody who uses InDesign knows how to make a stroke. I made this one with the Pen tool just by dragging up and down and making pretty little curve and of course you can also just go to the Line tool and actually any frame that you create is surrounded with the stroke. Now the thing is that you may know how to put text on a stroke, but you may not realize that you can also put images on a stroke. So to put text on a stroke, like let's say we want the text to follow this path right here, you would go to the Type tool and choose Type on a Path and click an insertion point and then you could add text. You could also take a stroke and you can make it a little bit more graphic by going to the Strokes panel and choosing a different type of stroke. So you could choose one of these guys and let's actually make this larger so we can see it better. You can change the Gap Color, the Start and the End Color, but you can't really put a graphic along the stroke. We…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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