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This article is from May 7, 2007, and is no longer current.

Get Your Photoshop On — Inside InDesign!

This article is excerpted from the April/May 2007 issue of “InDesign Magazine,” #17.
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InDesign CS3’s Effects panel has all of CS2’s transparency features, plus a whole lot more. You can apply transparency effects to a stroke, a fill, text, or the entire object. You can even mix it up so that a single object’s stroke, fill, and/or text have different opacity settings and blend modes applied for each attribute. This fine-tuned control is not just for transparency: Adobe added nine more object effects to InDesign CS3.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to screen back a photo for readability, make a live text mask, and composite with a gradient feather. If you like what you see, be sure to go to the last page of the PDF for a special discount on an InDesign Magazine subscription.
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Anne-Marie “Her Geekness” Concepción is the co-founder (with David Blatner) and CEO of Creative Publishing Network, which produces InDesignSecrets, InDesign Magazine, and other resources for creative professionals. Through her cross-media design studio, Seneca Design & Training, Anne-Marie develops ebooks and trains and consults with companies who want to master the tools and workflows of digital publishing. She has authored over 20 courses on lynda.com on these topics and others. Keep up with Anne-Marie by subscribing to her ezine, HerGeekness Gazette, and contact her by email at [email protected] or on Twitter @amarie
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