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105 Creating a blue ribbon

105 Creating a blue ribbon - InDesign Tutorial

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105 Creating a blue ribbon

Hi, I'm Mike Rankin and welcome to InDesign FX. In this movie, we'll see how to create a great looking blue ribbon that you can use whenever you want to say something is award winning or top notch and so on. And when we're done creating the effect, we'll see how a new preference in the 2014 release of InDesign CC, can give us different results when scaling effects. Let's move to the second page of this document, and we'll begin by creating a circle. So I'll tap the L key on my keyboard to get my ellipse tool, and I'll click in the document, and create a circle that's 100 pixels in diameter. I'll click OK, and in the swatches panel, I'll fill the circle with 10% black, and make sure it has no stroke. Next, I'm going to add guides that intersect right at the center of the circle, and to do that precisely, I'll use a script that comes with InDesign. I'll show the scripts panel by choosing Window, Utilities, Scripts, and in the scripts panel, you'll see a folder called application. Open…

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