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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles
- [Voiceover] A task that just about every graphic designer or publication designer has to do in their life is to create callouts, that is, next to the captions, describing parts of an image you drag out a line. Pretty simple, right? You just use the good old Line tool and you drag it out. The end. But that's not the end, of course, because we don't want just plain old lines, we want really nice-looking callout lines. Sometimes these callout lines can get lost in a very busy illustration. Sometimes we might need to do a whole bunch of them and then change them all the same way, like make them all thicker or something. And I'm going to show you in this video, some tips that will help you with all of those tasks. First, the number one thing I'd like you to take away from this tip is to please make an Object Style out of your callout lines. Just like you can make paragraph and character styles for text, you can make Object Styles for lines. Not a lot of people think about that. They…
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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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