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183 Borrowing preset art paths from Illustrator and Photoshop for fresh frame looks in InDesign - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
183 Borrowing preset art paths from Illustrator and Photoshop for fresh frame looks in InDesign
- This is a pretty dynamic layout already, I'd say, but what if we wanted to make it dynamic-er. What if we wanted to use a shape other than the rectangles that are used to hold these images, like say for this guy. It's easy to do in InDesign if you know what you're doing with the pen tool, but you know, there are lots of other vector paths hiding in Illustrator and Photoshop that we can use for the same purpose. First let me show you how to do it in InDesign. I'm gonna switch to normal editing mode and drag out a simple shape like a star, which I've already set up with the polygon tool. Let's move over here to the pasteboard. I just want to go over the basics. So you have some sort of a vector path and then you want to bring a picture into here. Now, I can place it from the File menu but if I want to actually experiment with an image I've already placed, I'll need to select it with the direct selection tool, copy it, then select the target shape and choose Paste into. Paste itself…
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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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