Stacking Effects in Illustrator
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This article appeared in Issue 34 of CreativePro Magazine.In many cases, Illustrator’s crazy alerts can be clicked away unread—ignored forever or accepted as a learning inspiration. We’re going to do the latter.
So, you’re an InDesign user. You are working on your design and happily applying effect after effect from the program’s menus. Then Illustrator interrupts you with the dialog box you see in Figure 1… and you’re out of the flow. Well, thank you very much, Illustrator.
First of all: What is an instance of an effect? That sounds pretty technical!
Figure 1. This alert from Illustrator pops up when you make a selection from the Effects menu that you have already applied.
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