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032 Scaling effects

032 Scaling effects - InDesign Tutorial

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032 Scaling effects

Here's the scenario. You've created a super-cool logo design by applying all kinds of InDesign effects to an object. Feathers, glows, bevels, and shadows, you name it. Everyone loves to design and now they want a huge version for a poster, as well as a mini version for a letterhead. You need to know how to make those effects scale properly and how to deal with effects that InDesign won't scale no matter what you do. Whether or not effects scale in InDesign is controlled by a preference in the general preferences. So if we open InDesign > Preferences > General, and go down to Object Editing, When Scaling, we have two choices: Apply to Content and Adjust Scaling Percentage. Apply to Content will not scale effects, so they'll stay the same size that they were originally no matter how large or small you scale the object. Adjust Scaling Percentage does the opposite. If you scale an object to which effects have been applied, those effects will scale right along with the object. So let's try…

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