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065 Creating photo corners

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065 Creating photo corners

Hi! I'm Mike Rankin and welcome to InDesign FX. In this week's effect we'll create the look of an old-fashioned album by adding these corners to our placed photos. I'll go to the next page of my document and here I have just a plain photo of some trees, and I'd like to make it look like a photograph in one of those old-fashioned albums. So the first thing I'm going to do is add a stroke to create a white border around the photo. So I'll go up to the Control panel and in the Stroke Settings I'll apply 10 point stroke, I'll change the tint from 100% down to about 15% black, I'll go to the Stroke panel and align to the inside of the frame, and now I'll go back up to the Control panel and I'm going to add a Drop Shadow. I want to set the Distance to 0 so the shadow sits right behind the frame. I'll click OK and now we can start making those photo corners. I'll zoom in a little bit, I'll take my Rectangle Frame tool, click in the document, and I'll make both the Width and the Height 30…

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