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• • February 22, 2010 at 7:07 am #54954
    dr.Bob

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    Is there a way to create the border effects in the image below directly in InDesign, or do I have to create it in Photoshop?

    

  • February 22, 2010 at 1:27 pm #54958
    Theunis De Jong

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    You can create a monochrome (pure black & white) mask in Photoshop and place that in InDesign on top of the photo. Then make the black pixels white and the white pixels transparent — these are just color fills, in InDesign. But these work exclusively with monochrome bitmaps.

    It means you have to create the complete mask per photo to size in Photoshop; and, unless you make a lot of different masks, you would need to re-use each one a couple of times in your ID doc.

    All in all, use Photoshop. (Or perhaps Illustrator instead, as you can convert a rectangle to scratchy drawn white lines with that.)

  • February 22, 2010 at 2:05 pm #54962
    dr.Bob

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    Perhaps this is a somewhat stupid question, but how do I 'make the black pixels white and the white pixels transparent in InDesign'? Isn't that something I should do in Photoshop?

  • February 22, 2010 at 2:45 pm #54963
    Theunis De Jong

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    Well, no, in this case you can't. The image needs to be a monochrome image in Photoshop – a bitmap. In that mode, you cannot have other colors than black and white (and certainly not transparent).

    these are just color fills, in InDesign

    and I meant precisely that. If you select a monochrome bitmap in InDesign with the white arrow, you can change the 'foreground' (black) and 'background' (white) colors by changing the Fill and Stroke swatches of that image. It's been a while since I last used this, but it might even be ID automatically sets “white” to transparent on placing a monochrome image, so you only have to set the black parts to use a white (Paper) swatch.

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