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Adobe InDesign, 2nd Edition
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Adobe InDesign, 2nd Edition

by Stephen Laskevitch
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 42m
English
Rocky Nook
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Effects

InDesign offers many ways to nondestructively alter the appearance of objects. We can use Corner Options to alter the shape of corners on any object (that has corners), and we can use Effects to do things like create Drop Shadows or have an image fade out (Feather).

Effects Panel & Dialog Box

There are many effects available via the Effects panel (or the fx section of the Control panel). Some of the more frequently used are illustrated below.

Let’s start with the text frame over the image above. Although the text within it is fully opaque, the fill of the frame is only 85% opaque. In the Effects panel I highlighted Fill then adjusted ...

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