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089 Creating highlights at top and bottom

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089 Creating highlights at top and bottom

Hi, I'm Mike Rankin and welcome to InDesign FX. In this week's effect, we'll see how to achieve a unique kind of bevelled highlight that you can't get with any single object in InDesign. But by combining two objects we can get this look here where I have sharp highlights at both the top and the bottom of text. Let's see how it's done. I'll go to the second page of my document where I have just a single copy of this text, and it's been beveled so I have the highlight at the top here. In fact, let's go over to the Effects panel and take a look at what's going on. So I have Bevel and Emboss turned on, Smooth and a direction of Up. And the lighting angle is 90 degrees so the highlights are at the top, and the shadows would be at the bottom. Except I set the opacity of the shadows to zero to completely hide them. I don't want any shadows at all here, just highlights. So, in order to get a second highlight at the bottom, I'm going to copy this text, paste it in place. So I have two copies…

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