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058 Using multiple effects to create plastic type

058 Using multiple effects to create plastic type - InDesign Tutorial

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058 Using multiple effects to create plastic type

Hi! I am Mike Rankin and welcome to this week's InDesign effect. The coolest InDesign effects are often those that combine multiple effects in some interesting way. And the coolest effects always seem to always include the use of Bevel and Emboss. So let's combine those ideas and see what we can create when we apply multiple instances of Bevel and Emboss. So here I have some text that I made look like it was molded out of plastic, now like you could break it off at this little mold here and assemble a model made out of these letters. And the way I did this was to apply three different instances of Bevel and Emboss to the text. So let's go to the next page and start building this. First of all we'll select the frame, it's going to be the background, I'll press Shift+X on my keyboard to exchange the Stroke and Fill. And in the Control panel I'll change the Fill from black to this purple color. I also want to give it a Corner Radius, so I'll go the Control panel Corner Controls; I'll…

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