Chapter 8
Exploring Effects and
Advanced Techniques
Chapter Objectives
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Use the Pathfinder panel
Create new stroke styles
Incorporate gridify behavior
Work with nested styles
Apply Live Corner effects
Work with effects and object styles
Work with multiple page sizes
Design with multiple documents
Use the Pathfinder Panel
The Pathfinder
panel allows you
to create new
complex shapes
by overlapping
simple objects.
Use the Pathfinder Panel
The Pathfinder panel offers five pathfinder
commands:
– Add
– Subtract
– Intersect
– Exclude Overlap
– Minus Back
Use the Pathfinder Panel
The Add Pathfinder combines two or more
overlapping objects into one object.
Use the Pathfinder Panel
The Subtract Pathfinder causes the frontmost object to “punch a hole” in the
backmost object.
Use the Pathfinder Panel
The Intersect Pathfinder removes
everything but that which overlaps.
Use the Pathfinder Panel
The Exclude Overlap Pathfinder creates a
hole where two or more objects overlap.
Use the Pathfinder Panel
The Minus Back Pathfinder punches a hole
in the front object using the shape in the
back.
Create New Stroke Styles
In the New Stroke Style
dialog box you can
create or customize
three types of strokes:
– Dash
– Dotted
– Stripe
Incorporate Gridify Behavior
• You can position frames into a grid pattern
in just one move using InDesign gridify
behaviors.
• Use any of the frame creation tools, such as
Rectangle, Polygon, or Type.
Incorporate Gridify Behavior
• Click a frame tool
• Start dragging
• While you are dragging, press one of the
arrow keys as many times as you want to
create copies of the frame in the direction
of arrow.
Incorporate Gridify Behavior
Press and hold [Alt]
(Win) or [option] (Mac)
key while dragging an
object, release the key,
and press arrows to
duplicate objects.
Incorporate Gridify Behavior
You can place multiple
images in the grid
dragging the place gun
across it, while
pressing the arrow
keys.
Work with Nested Styles
• Nested styles are paragraph styles that
contain two or more character styles.
• Without nested styles, you would need to
apply character styles one at a time.
Work with Nested Styles
Three styles
nested
Work with Nested Styles
In the
Paragraph
Style
Options dialog
box, you
load the
character styles
you want to
nest in the
Nested Styles
section of
the dialog box.
You will need to
identify where a
nested style
ends, such as
at periods or
colons. If you
have no such
characters, use
the End Nested
Style Character
command
Apply Live Corner Effects
To alleviate the boxy
look of frame-based
layouts, apply one of
the five available Live
Corner Effects.
Apply Live Corner Effects
• Select a frame.
• Click the yellow square
that appears to activate
Live Corner Effects.
• Click and drag one of the
four yellow diamonds to
apply Live Corner Effects
to all corners.
Apply Live Corner Effects
• Round Corners is the
default corner effect
applied.
• Press [Shift] and drag
diamond to affect only
one corner.
Apply Live Corner Effects
• To change to a different
effect, press and hold
[Alt](Win) or [option]
(Mac), then click one of
the diamonds.
• To modify a single corner
effect, shift-drag the
yellow diamond.
Shiftdrag to
modify a
single
corner
Apply Live Corner Effects
Three different styles of Live Corner Effects applied
Work with Effects and Object Styles
• You can assign nondestructive effects to
objects in your layout
in the Effects dialog
box.
• Non-destructive
means they are not
permanent.
Work with Effects and Object Styles
• Effects include:
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Glows
Shadows
Bevels
Embosses
Feathers
Three
effects
applied
Work with Effects and Object Styles
• You can copy effects
from one object to
another by selecting
an object that has the
effect applied to it,
and then dragging the
fx icon to the other
object.
Work with Effects and Object Styles
• You can save all the
formatting you have done
to an object as an object
style.
• Select the formatted
object, click the Object
Style panel options button,
then click New Object Style
to name and save the style
in the Object Style Options
dialog box.
Working with Multiple Page Sizes
You can create
multiple page sizes and
multiple size master
pages in one
document.
Working with Multiple Page Sizes
An example of three
different page sizes in one
document output to PDF.
Designing with Multiple Documents
Add objects to a stack of captured items by:
• Clicking objects.
• Dragging a region to capture all content within that
region
• Capturing already selected content using selection
tools.
InDesign remembers the sequence of capture so that the
content is dropped in the same sequence later.
Designing with Multiple Documents
• Drop content by clicking the Drop Tool where you
want the content.
• Drag while dropping to proportionately scale
object with respect to its original object.
• Ribbon displays captured content and allows
users to browse between captured items and
determine the sequence of dropping.
Designing with Multiple Documents
Content
Collector
tool
Content
Placer tool
Three place options
(mouse over for
description)