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083 Building a puzzle

083 Building a puzzle - InDesign Tutorial

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083 Building a puzzle

Hi, I'm Mike Rankin, and welcome to InDesign FX. In this week's effect, we'll see how to break an image into several pieces that fit together like a puzzle. For this, we'll use a handy script that comes with InDesign called Make Grid. It does all the hard work of dividing up the image into as many frames as we want. Then once we have the grid of images, we can rearrange them and apply effects. Let's see how it works. So here we have the goal what we're looking for, this picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, and it's been broken into several different frames, each of which is independent, I can move them around, I can rotate them and so forth. So let's do this. We'll go to the next page where I have that same placed photo, but in a single frame, I'll slide it over here and I'll choose Window > Utilities > Scripts and in my Scripts Panel, inside the Application folder there is a Samples folder and then inside the JavaScript folder, I'm looking for the script called MakeGrid, there it is…

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