WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:08.940 Okay, in this video, 00:00:08.940 --> 00:00:11.090 we're going to look at special effects in InDesign. 00:00:11.090 --> 00:00:12.810 There's not many of them in InDesign. 00:00:12.810 --> 00:00:14.340 It's more of a Photoshop job, 00:00:14.340 --> 00:00:16.710 but there's some basic stuff here in InDesign. 00:00:16.710 --> 00:00:18.810 The main one that I use is drop shadow, 00:00:18.810 --> 00:00:20.880 and it's really handy, for say, this logo. 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:23.460 It's against a mottled background. 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:26.340 We can turn drop shadow watch this turn it off. 00:00:26.340 --> 00:00:27.800 It's easy enough to read, 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.500 but it's even easier to read with a drop shadow on it. 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:31.775 We're going to show you how to do that. 00:00:31.775 --> 00:00:33.670 Let's go and do it. 00:00:33.670 --> 00:00:37.085 First thing we need to do is we're going to select on this logo here, 00:00:37.085 --> 00:00:38.315 not the center of it, 00:00:38.315 --> 00:00:39.770 just with the black arrow click anywhere, 00:00:39.770 --> 00:00:41.210 but your content grabber, 00:00:41.210 --> 00:00:43.220 and let's go up to "object". 00:00:43.220 --> 00:00:46.790 Let's go down to "Effects" here are our Effects. 00:00:46.790 --> 00:00:48.215 We're going to start with "Drop shadow", 00:00:48.215 --> 00:00:50.420 I going to move mine just over a little bit. 00:00:50.420 --> 00:00:52.820 I notice "Preview" was on by default for mine, 00:00:52.820 --> 00:00:54.470 you have to tune in yours on. 00:00:54.470 --> 00:00:58.935 You'll see there's a drop shadow on, off, on, off. 00:00:58.935 --> 00:01:00.420 When it comes with a drop shadow, 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:01.920 the opacity is important, 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:03.240 it's how dark it is. 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:05.410 You can see I can lighten it up, darken up, 00:01:05.410 --> 00:01:07.385 75 percent is, I don't know why, 00:01:07.385 --> 00:01:08.990 always the best one. 00:01:08.990 --> 00:01:12.125 Distance is how far away it is, you can click up. 00:01:12.125 --> 00:01:15.270 You can see it's moving further and further away. 00:01:15.370 --> 00:01:19.135 Maybe 0.5, maybe even lower, 00:01:19.135 --> 00:01:22.430 or was it on by default, I can't remember something like that. 00:01:22.430 --> 00:01:24.830 Offset is exactly like distance except you can 00:01:24.830 --> 00:01:27.110 control the up and the down rather than this one does lift 00:01:27.110 --> 00:01:29.420 and write all X and Y at the same time so you can say 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:31.890 actually I just want it to go out that way. 00:01:31.890 --> 00:01:34.745 I'm going to put that one back to what that one was, 00:01:34.745 --> 00:01:39.125 and the angle is which way the sun's hitting it and casting the shadow. 00:01:39.125 --> 00:01:41.120 You can see here the angular 135, 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.535 it's coming down from this angle. 00:01:42.535 --> 00:01:44.860 You can say drag this little guy around, 00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:47.690 and it's now coming up from the bottom up this way, 00:01:47.690 --> 00:01:51.310 I find top lift or straight up and down is the key. 00:01:51.310 --> 00:01:54.585 I'm going to use 90 for strap down from my one. 00:01:54.585 --> 00:01:56.805 Size is how can it fuzzy the edges out, 00:01:56.805 --> 00:01:58.635 was if I make it really big, 00:01:58.635 --> 00:02:00.395 it's getting big and broad. 00:02:00.395 --> 00:02:02.825 It's a little bit hard to see, I guess I'm going to move it out, 00:02:02.825 --> 00:02:06.425 just click "Ok" and just drag it out here so you can see a bit more. 00:02:06.425 --> 00:02:10.545 You can see the size now is this big, broad option. 00:02:10.545 --> 00:02:13.610 To get back into it, I have a five closed it down, 00:02:13.610 --> 00:02:14.825 you got back to object, 00:02:14.825 --> 00:02:18.640 back to effects and click on "drop shadow" again, 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:19.880 so that's the size. 00:02:19.880 --> 00:02:23.030 If I moved the size down, you'll see it gets sharper and sharper and sharper 00:02:23.030 --> 00:02:27.010 until it's more of a hue run the outside, it's up to you. 00:02:27.010 --> 00:02:29.625 We don't use "spread" and we don't use "noise." 00:02:29.625 --> 00:02:32.100 You apply around them and it looks a little lame. 00:02:32.100 --> 00:02:34.830 For me, I only have to use the drop shadow. 00:02:34.830 --> 00:02:36.210 There are other ones, 00:02:36.210 --> 00:02:38.375 I just don't find a purpose for them. 00:02:38.375 --> 00:02:42.810 Let's have a look at them, so I'm going to undrop shadow and take inner shadow. 00:02:42.810 --> 00:02:46.170 Puts like a shadow inside the logo. 00:02:46.170 --> 00:02:48.390 I don't really use it very much, 00:02:48.390 --> 00:02:49.755 I'm going to untick that, 00:02:49.755 --> 00:02:51.360 took on "Outer Glow." 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.660 And it's got a halo effect on the outsides. 00:02:54.660 --> 00:02:56.430 One thing that you'll notice is that, 00:02:56.430 --> 00:02:58.155 I will turn this tick on and off, 00:02:58.155 --> 00:03:00.165 you'll see that these, I can't change it. 00:03:00.165 --> 00:03:03.050 It's because you can see I'm still selected blue here. 00:03:03.050 --> 00:03:04.669 I still got drop shadow selected, 00:03:04.669 --> 00:03:06.290 but I'm tuning this on and off. 00:03:06.290 --> 00:03:08.975 You can do that separately. Say click on the word "Outer Glow. " 00:03:08.975 --> 00:03:11.180 Then I can go to this and say actually I want to make 00:03:11.180 --> 00:03:15.765 my size bigger and gets bigger halo effect. 00:03:15.765 --> 00:03:18.940 "Inner Glow" you turn that one off, that one on, 00:03:18.940 --> 00:03:22.675 just glowing or on the outside of the life to see because it's a white logo. 00:03:22.675 --> 00:03:25.285 You can make it a little Bevel and Emboss. 00:03:25.285 --> 00:03:27.775 You can make it look 3D ish, 00:03:27.775 --> 00:03:31.030 not my favorite, but it's alright, you might love it. 00:03:31.030 --> 00:03:34.510 Satin, I didn't really know what that does is like Bevel and Emboss, 00:03:34.510 --> 00:03:36.220 but more like a pillow. 00:03:36.220 --> 00:03:39.675 Basic feather, directional feather, 00:03:39.675 --> 00:03:43.005 all of these, you can have a play around with them, don't use them. 00:03:43.005 --> 00:03:46.180 You might have loved them, but it's bit of experimentation. 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:47.950 I only use drop shadow a lot, 00:03:47.950 --> 00:03:50.530 mainly because the exact same instance we've 00:03:50.530 --> 00:03:53.330 got here is that this white logo is against the background, 00:03:53.330 --> 00:03:56.430 and it's maybe just not as clear as we'd like it to be, 00:03:56.430 --> 00:03:58.470 so we want to cloud lifted off and push it. 00:03:58.470 --> 00:04:01.480 It's really good for white text against the background. 00:04:01.480 --> 00:04:03.530 If you want to go through there and do some more, 00:04:03.530 --> 00:04:06.540 excite you and turn it into a neon sign doing cool stuff, 00:04:06.540 --> 00:04:08.645 and that'll be the job Photoshop. 00:04:08.645 --> 00:04:11.030 What you do is you'd open up this Lego and Photoshop, 00:04:11.030 --> 00:04:14.640 and that is the tool to do more special effects. 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:17.110 This just has the real basics here in InDesign, 00:04:17.110 --> 00:04:20.760 Photoshop would be the one for the more exciting ones.