6. Fills, Strokes, and Effects

In This Chapter

Applying Fills

Applying Stroke Effects

Creating Custom Stroke Styles

Adding Arrows

Corner Options

Opacity and Blend Mode Effects

Working with Effects

Shadow Effects

Glow Effects

Bevel and Emboss Effects

Satin Effect

Feather Effects

Setting the Global Light

Using the Pathfinder Commands

Using the Eyedropper

Setting Object Defaults

Here’s where you get a chance to express your creativity. Styling refers to applying fills, strokes, gradients, and effects to frames, lines, and text. If you’re bored with plain black text on a white background, InDesign lets you change the text and background colors to almost anything you can imagine.

Most other graphics programs let you style objects and text with fills, ...

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