Designing with Custom Frames
Fresh Approaches to InDesign’s Factory Defaults
InDesign comes with three frame tools: the rectangle, the ellipse, and the polygon. And for the basic purpose of housing content, these tools suffice most of the time. But if you’ve come to think of these as your only options, it’s time to break out of that mental frame! With a few quick modifications, you can make unique shapes to hold photos, colors, patterns, and text—and, importantly, to do so in ways that reinforce the design’s meaning.
While you can create similar results with clipping masks in Photoshop or Illustrator, you might find that using the frame tools within InDesign offers some advantages in efficiency and control. In this article, I’ll walk you through some techniques and show potential applications for inspiration.
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Great ideas. Thanks for the reminders of things many of us know we can do but “forget” about in the daily grind.
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