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070 Mocking up a film strip

070 Mocking up a film strip - InDesign Tutorial

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070 Mocking up a film strip

Hi! I'm Mike Rankin, and welcome to InDesign FX. In this week's effect, we'll see how to create a strip of film like this and place images into it. Remember film? That stuff people use to stick in cameras to take photographs and movies before digital took over? Well, this week's InDesign FX video is all about simulating old-fashioned film as a fun way to display a series of images. So let's see how it's done. In my document I'll press Command+Shift+P or Ctrl+Shift+P on the PC to create a new page and I'll press the F key on my keyboard to get my Rectangle Frame tool. I'll click in the document and I'll create a rectangle that's 270 pixels wide by 160 pixels tall. And this is going to be the basis for one single frame of film. In the Control panel I'll target the Fill and set it to this brown color. I'll switch to my Selection tool and confirm that in the Control panel I have the Reference Point set to the bottom-center. I'll copy this object and paste it in place by pressing…

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