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Transparency issues across applications

Transparency issues across applications

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Transparency issues across applications

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- [Narrator] Not all of the Adobe applications treat blending modes the same. I will tell you that Photoshop is kind of the odd one out. Let me show you what I mean. I'll start here on the left. This is an Illustrator file. That shadow was created in Illustrator and set to multiply. And that multiply blend mode is honored by InDesign. Here in the middle, I have an image that was silhouetted in Photoshop and that shadow was created when I placed this in InDesign, so it's an InDesign drop shadow set to multiply. And of course, that works in InDesign. But over here, we've got a problem. The shadow is opaque. It knocks out the background instead of multiplying it. So what this tells you is that InDesign does not honor Photoshop blending modes. I'm using multiply as an example, but it's true of all Photoshop blending modes. But because this is a cast shadow painted on a separate layer, we can actually fix this in InDesign.…

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