The FX Files
An investigation of the 9Â kinds of graphic effects you can apply to objects in your InDesign layouts
InDesign offers a wide variety of transparency effects— from shadows and glows to bevels and feathers—that can add vitality to both text and images. You can tweak and mix and match effects to achieve an almost unlimited number of looks. Even better, because all of InDesign’s transparency effects are live, you can make modifications to change the strength or character of an effect (or remove it altogether) at any time.
In this article, we’ll look at each of InDesign’s nine transparency effects in turn, and see some examples of what you can do with them.
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