From the course: InDesign Secrets
180 One-sided custom strokes for image borders - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
180 One-sided custom strokes for image borders
- InDesign comes with a bunch of interesting stroke styles you can use. For example, I'll select this graphic and I'll go up to the Control Panel, and we can see there's all kinds of stroke styles I could have applied, a Triple, and a Thin-Thin, and a Dotted, and so on. But if you don't see just the one you want, you shouldn't be discouraged, because you can make your own stroke styles in InDesign. To do that, go to the Stroke panel, and then open the Stroke panel menu, and choose Stroke Styles. There's a number of them in here that you could start from, or you can just create a new one, I'll do that. I'm gonna click the New button, and I'm going to create a new Stripe. You can see you could choose either Stripe, a Dot, or a Dash. In this case, I'm gonna choose Stripe. I'm gonna show you two different stroke styles that I like and then I'm going to set you free to create your own. I call the stroke styles that I'm going to show you one-sided strokes, because they only show up on one side of the path. For example, I'm gonna come over here, and inside this dialog box, I'm gonna grab this little triangle, and instead of dragging it up or down, I'm gonna drag it out to the left. That makes it disappear, it's gone. Now I'm gonna change the name, and I'm gonna call this Outside Stroke. I'll click OK, and let's make another one that's inside. I'm gonna select that, click New, and this time I'm going to drag not the arrow, but the entire black bar up here in the middle. I'm simply going to drag it down to the bottom. I'll call this one Inside Stroke. Now, click OK, and OK, and let's try applying them to this image. I'll select the graphic frame, come up to the Control Panel, and I'll choose Inside Stroke. Let's go ahead and make this much thicker so we can see it better, maybe a 10 point stroke. You can see that I now have a stroke on the inside, it's actually overlapping the image. I kind of like that effect, but let's try changing its color to white, or Paper, and I'm gonna change this to a Rounded corner instead. That looks really interesting. Let's move this over to the left, and then I'm going to make a duplicate of it by holding down Option and Shift, or Alt Shift, and then drag over to the right. On this one I'm going to switch from the Inside Stroke to the Outside Stroke. I can't see the stroke right now because it's set to Paper, so I better change that. Let's set it back to Black. It's a similar, but very different look. Let's go ahead and make one more change. I'll select that frame, and then inside the Stroke Panel I'm gonna change the Gap Color from None to Paper. That's almost like adding a mat between the frame and the image. We could change this a little bit, maybe making it yellow and setting the tint down to about 50%. That looks nice. So go play with these custom stroke styles a bit, let your imagination go wild. Remember, playing with these tools is the best way to learn them.
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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