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Transparency, drop shadows, and effects - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Transparency, drop shadows, and effects
- [Instructor] What's the number one coolest, most amazing feature in InDesign? Well, XML, of course. No, no, no, I'm just kidding, it's transparency. So, let's look at how you can apply transparency effects to any object in InDesign. Now, I'd like to apply an interesting transparency effect to this graphic down here. So I'm going to select it, and then zoom in to 200% by pressing Command + 2 on the Mac, or Control + 2 on Windows. Now we need to open the central headquarters for all transparency effects, and that's called the effects panel, it's over here in the dock, or you can find it in the window menu. This panel lets you apply a transparency effect to any object on your page, whether it's a graphic frame, a text frame, a line, or whatever. Now the first thing we're going to do is change the opacity. That's how transparent this object should be. Right now it's set to 100%, so that's zero transparency, you can't see…
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