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Shadows and special effects on drop caps - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
Shadows and special effects on drop caps
- [Instructor] The main task of a drop cap is to draw the eye to the beginning of a paragraph, right? But they can also be used as a kind of an illumination, like a graphic. Now you probably know how to make a drop cap already. You simply switch to the type tool, place your cursor inside the paragraph, make sure the control panel is set to paragraph mode and then change the drop cap setting over here. I'm going to set this to six lines. There's our drop cap. But, sometimes you want your drop cap to stand out even more. Like, give it some kind of a special effect. For example, what if we wanted to put a drop shadow behind the drop cap? Well, InDesign won't let you apply a transparency effect to one character inside of a frame. But you can get around that limitation by selecting that character with the type tool, going to the type menu and choosing create outlines. That converts it into an in-line or anchored object.…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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