Okay, in this video,
we're going to look at special effects in InDesign.
There's not many of them in InDesign.
It's more of a Photoshop job,
but there's some basic stuff here in InDesign.
The main one that I use is drop shadow,
and it's really handy, for say, this logo.
It's against a mottled background.
We can turn drop shadow watch this turn it off.
It's easy enough to read,
but it's even easier to read with a drop shadow on it.
We're going to show you how to do that.
Let's go and do it.
First thing we need to do is we're going to select on this logo here,
not the center of it,
just with the black arrow click anywhere,
but your content grabber,
and let's go up to "object".
Let's go down to "Effects" here are our Effects.
We're going to start with "Drop shadow",
I going to move mine just over a little bit.
I notice "Preview" was on by default for mine,
you have to tune in yours on.
You'll see there's a drop shadow on, off, on, off.
When it comes with a drop shadow,
the opacity is important,
it's how dark it is.
You can see I can lighten it up, darken up,
75 percent is, I don't know why,
always the best one.
Distance is how far away it is, you can click up.
You can see it's moving further and further away.
Maybe 0.5, maybe even lower,
or was it on by default, I can't remember something like that.
Offset is exactly like distance except you can
control the up and the down rather than this one does lift
and write all X and Y at the same time so you can say
actually I just want it to go out that way.
I'm going to put that one back to what that one was,
and the angle is which way the sun's hitting it and casting the shadow.
You can see here the angular 135,
it's coming down from this angle.
You can say drag this little guy around,
and it's now coming up from the bottom up this way,
I find top lift or straight up and down is the key.
I'm going to use 90 for strap down from my one.
Size is how can it fuzzy the edges out,
was if I make it really big,
it's getting big and broad.
It's a little bit hard to see, I guess I'm going to move it out,
just click "Ok" and just drag it out here so you can see a bit more.
You can see the size now is this big, broad option.
To get back into it, I have a five closed it down,
you got back to object,
back to effects and click on "drop shadow" again,
so that's the size.
If I moved the size down, you'll see it gets sharper and sharper and sharper
until it's more of a hue run the outside, it's up to you.
We don't use "spread" and we don't use "noise."
You apply around them and it looks a little lame.
For me, I only have to use the drop shadow.
There are other ones,
I just don't find a purpose for them.
Let's have a look at them, so I'm going to undrop shadow and take inner shadow.
Puts like a shadow inside the logo.
I don't really use it very much,
I'm going to untick that,
took on "Outer Glow."
And it's got a halo effect on the outsides.
One thing that you'll notice is that,
I will turn this tick on and off,
you'll see that these, I can't change it.
It's because you can see I'm still selected blue here.
I still got drop shadow selected,
but I'm tuning this on and off.
You can do that separately. Say click on the word "Outer Glow. "
Then I can go to this and say actually I want to make
my size bigger and gets bigger halo effect.
"Inner Glow" you turn that one off, that one on,
just glowing or on the outside of the life to see because it's a white logo.
You can make it a little Bevel and Emboss.
You can make it look 3D ish,
not my favorite, but it's alright, you might love it.
Satin, I didn't really know what that does is like Bevel and Emboss,
but more like a pillow.
Basic feather, directional feather,
all of these, you can have a play around with them, don't use them.
You might have loved them, but it's bit of experimentation.
I only use drop shadow a lot,
mainly because the exact same instance we've
got here is that this white logo is against the background,
and it's maybe just not as clear as we'd like it to be,
so we want to cloud lifted off and push it.
It's really good for white text against the background.
If you want to go through there and do some more,
excite you and turn it into a neon sign doing cool stuff,
and that'll be the job Photoshop.
What you do is you'd open up this Lego and Photoshop,
and that is the tool to do more special effects.
This just has the real basics here in InDesign,
Photoshop would be the one for the more exciting ones.