Tip of the Week: Making Callout Arrows Easier to See

You’ve turned a line into an arrow using InDesign’s Strokes panel. But perhaps you can’t see the arrow clearly over a dark background, so you want to add a small white outline. Unfortunately, you can’t add two stroke colors to one object in InDesign. So cheat a little and add an Outer Glow effect instead! This creates the appearance of a dual stroke. You’ll probably want to set the blending mode to Normal and Opacity to 100%. To remove the fuzzy edge on the glow, change the Spread value to 100%.