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103 Bobbling a photograph

103 Bobbling a photograph - InDesign Tutorial

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103 Bobbling a photograph

Hi. I'm Mike Rankin and welcome to InDesign Effects. In this week's video, we'll see how to make a fun and pretty silly effect that looks like a bobble head doll using InDesign's animation tools. Here, let's preview this dog and cat. So you can see our dog and cat rock their heads slowly back and forth in unison and hopefully bring a smile to your face with their silliness. So I'll close the swift preview panel, go to the next page of my document and we'll see how to build this. Now to get this animation to work, you need to start with a photo that's been setup in Photoshop with layers, with one layer showing just the person or animal's body and another layer that shows the head that you want to bobble. So I'll press control or Cmd+D to place. I'll go inside the exercise files folder to Links, and I'll choose dog and cat. I'll hold down shift while I click on open, and that opens the image import options dialogue box because I want to show the visibility of some layers here and hide…

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