Chapter 8
Working with Effects
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Chapter Objectives
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Colorize a grayscale image
Work with opacity and feathering
Work with blending modes
Apply transparency to placed graphics
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Colorize a Grayscale Image
• A grayscale image is only one color, usually
black.
• A grayscale image placed in InDesign can have
other colors applied to it.
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Colorize a Grayscale Image
• Colorizing grayscale images in InDesign
– You can apply one swatch color to the
highlights (light areas) and another to the
shadows (dark areas)
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Colorize a Grayscale Image
• Colorizing grayscale images in InDesign
– To colorize light areas, select graphics frame
with Selection Tool and apply one swatch
color
– To colorize dark areas select graphic with
Direct Selection Tool and click swatch in
Swatches panel
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Colorize a Grayscale Image
Colorize light areas
Colorize dark areas
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Colorize a Grayscale Image
Frame contains
yellow fill
Light-colored grass
becomes transparent
to show the yellow fill
Part of
pasteboard
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Work with Opacity and
Feathering
• Opacity comes from opaque: meaning neither
transparent nor translucent– can’t be seen
through.
– InDesign objects have 100% opacity by
default
– The more you decrease opacity, the more
see-through they become
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Work with Opacity and
Feathering
• If you manipulate opacity of graphic in Illustrator
or Photoshop, InDesign will recognize and
preserve the opacity setting.
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Work with Opacity and
Feathering
• Applying a feathered edge
– Basic Feather command, found on Object
menu or Effects panel, allows you to apply
feathered edge to selected objects
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Work with Opacity and
Feathering
• Feathering is a form of transparency as edge
becomes increasingly transparent.
• If you place graphic with feathered edge, graphic
too will be feathered.
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Work with Opacity and
Feathering
100%
50%
25%
Examples of opacity
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Work with Opacity and
Feathering
0" feather
.25" feather
.75" feather
Examples of feathering
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Work with Blending Modes
• Blending modes allow you to create different
transparency and color effects where two or
more objects overlap.
• Blending modes work by comparing the colors in
the overlapping graphics and running the colors
through an algorithm to produce the effect.
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Work with Blending Modes
• Blending modes are found in the Transparency
panel
– Multiply is a blending mode, that when
applied to an object, makes the object
transparent yet retain color
• White areas become transparent
• Black areas remain black
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Work with Blending Modes
Multiply effect
occurs at areas of
overlap
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Apply Transparency to Placed
Graphics
• Applying transparency to placed graphics
– Manipulate opacity in placed graphics from
other applications like Photoshop or Illustrator
– Manipulate opacity of .pdf, .indd, .eps, and .tiff
files placed in InDesign
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Apply Transparency to Placed
Graphics
• Multiply blending mode makes all white areas
become transparent.
• When black color is multiplied with any other
color, result is black.
• When white is multiplied with any color, white
becomes transparent.
• Screen blending mode works as inverse of
Multiply.
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Apply Transparency to Placed
Graphics
Example of
applying
transparency to an
object behind text
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Apply Transparency to Placed
Graphics
White
background
becomes
transparent
Removing white background with Multiply mode
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Apply Transparency to Placed
Graphics
Multiply mode – white
areas become
transparent
Screen mode –
black areas
become
transparent
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