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Okay, in this video,

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we're going to look at special effects in InDesign.

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There's not many of them in InDesign.

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It's more of a Photoshop job,

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but there's some basic stuff here in InDesign.

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The main one that I use is drop shadow,

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and it's really handy, for say, this logo.

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It's against a mottled background.

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We can turn drop shadow watch this turn it off.

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It's easy enough to read,

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but it's even easier to read with a drop shadow on it.

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We're going to show you how to do that.

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Let's go and do it.

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First thing we need to do is we're going to select on this logo here,

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not the center of it,

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just with the black arrow click anywhere,

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but your content grabber,

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and let's go up to "object".

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Let's go down to "Effects" here are our Effects.

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We're going to start with "Drop shadow",

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I going to move mine just over a little bit.

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I notice "Preview" was on by default for mine,

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you have to tune in yours on.

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You'll see there's a drop shadow on, off, on, off.

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When it comes with a drop shadow,

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the opacity is important,

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it's how dark it is.

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You can see I can lighten it up, darken up,

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75 percent is, I don't know why,

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always the best one.

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Distance is how far away it is, you can click up.

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You can see it's moving further and further away.

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Maybe 0.5, maybe even lower,

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or was it on by default, I can't remember something like that.

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Offset is exactly like distance except you can

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control the up and the down rather than this one does lift

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and write all X and Y at the same time so you can say

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actually I just want it to go out that way.

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I'm going to put that one back to what that one was,

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and the angle is which way the sun's hitting it and casting the shadow.

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You can see here the angular 135,

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it's coming down from this angle.

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You can say drag this little guy around,

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and it's now coming up from the bottom up this way,

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I find top lift or straight up and down is the key.

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I'm going to use 90 for strap down from my one.

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Size is how can it fuzzy the edges out,

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was if I make it really big,

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it's getting big and broad.

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It's a little bit hard to see, I guess I'm going to move it out,

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just click "Ok" and just drag it out here so you can see a bit more.

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You can see the size now is this big, broad option.

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To get back into it, I have a five closed it down,

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you got back to object,

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back to effects and click on "drop shadow" again,

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so that's the size.

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If I moved the size down, you'll see it gets sharper and sharper and sharper

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until it's more of a hue run the outside, it's up to you.

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We don't use "spread" and we don't use "noise."

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You apply around them and it looks a little lame.

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For me, I only have to use the drop shadow.

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There are other ones,

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I just don't find a purpose for them.

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Let's have a look at them, so I'm going to undrop shadow and take inner shadow.

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Puts like a shadow inside the logo.

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I don't really use it very much,

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I'm going to untick that,

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took on "Outer Glow."

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And it's got a halo effect on the outsides.

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One thing that you'll notice is that,

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I will turn this tick on and off,

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you'll see that these, I can't change it.

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It's because you can see I'm still selected blue here.

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I still got drop shadow selected,

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but I'm tuning this on and off.

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You can do that separately. Say click on the word "Outer Glow. "

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Then I can go to this and say actually I want to make

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my size bigger and gets bigger halo effect.

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"Inner Glow" you turn that one off, that one on,

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just glowing or on the outside of the life to see because it's a white logo.

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You can make it a little Bevel and Emboss.

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You can make it look 3D ish,

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not my favorite, but it's alright, you might love it.

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Satin, I didn't really know what that does is like Bevel and Emboss,

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but more like a pillow.

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Basic feather, directional feather,

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all of these, you can have a play around with them, don't use them.

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You might have loved them, but it's bit of experimentation.

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I only use drop shadow a lot,

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mainly because the exact same instance we've

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got here is that this white logo is against the background,

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and it's maybe just not as clear as we'd like it to be,

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so we want to cloud lifted off and push it.

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It's really good for white text against the background.

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If you want to go through there and do some more,

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excite you and turn it into a neon sign doing cool stuff,

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and that'll be the job Photoshop.

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What you do is you'd open up this Lego and Photoshop,

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and that is the tool to do more special effects.

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This just has the real basics here in InDesign,

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Photoshop would be the one for the more exciting ones.