InDesign Special Effects
If you're looking for special effects to add to your page layouts, Adobe InDesign CS5.5 makes it possible to dress up your designs without taking a side trip to Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. While it may be tempting to dive in and load up every page with special touches, they offer greater impact when they punctuate your designs rather than overpower them. Used judiciously, they add spice -- and give you opportunities to make your documents engage readers on entirely new levels.
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Transparency Effects
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If you're familiar with the ways that objects and colors interact through degrees of opacity in Adobe Photoshop and, more recently, in Adobe Illustrator, you'll feel at home using Adobe InDesign's Effects panel to specify transparency options and blending modes for effects ranging from shadows and glows to bevels and embossing. Apply these options to objects, text and graphics, whether they're grouped or stand alone. You can edit, disable and remove these effects at any time without altering the objects to which they're applied.
Live Corner Effects
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Embellish your Adobe InDesign paths with Corner options to add decorative shapes to boxes and borders. You can use these effects to add special frames to text, photographs and artwork. Set all four corners of a rectangular path with different options for effect size, radius and stroke weight. Along with the corner designs that ship with Adobe InDesign, you can add effects created by third parties to increase your graphic options.
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Animation Effects
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Export your Adobe InDesign layouts as Adobe Flash SWF files, complete with motion effects. You can place a graphic onto an InDesign page, draw the path you want it to follow, establish the timing for your events and preview your work, all without leaving your layout. From buttons that trigger your animations to effects that begin the moment a page loads, Adobe InDesign's Animation panel holds the keys to crafting Flash-based designs for a wide variety of purposes.
Interactive Effects
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When you create PDF files in Adobe InDesign, you can craft media-rich user-interface elements right in your layout. To save time, Adobe InDesign includes a wide range of sample buttons you can use or edit. Your buttons can incorporate rollovers and other event types to produce interactive triggers that play sounds or video, navigate through your PDF document or onto the Web, play Flash SWF files and even link PDF files together.
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