To change txt color

Select the text box > click "T" to activate text > Double click fill button to
change color
of text > Slect color from fill color window or from swatches.
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Rasterizing TEXT:
- Select text
- Type Menu > Create Outlines
- Using Direct Slection Tool > Select Edges of the /cornors which u want to move
- Click and drag the edges to the point where u like
- OK
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PLACING IMAGE WIHTIN THE TEXT: (TO MASK IMAGE INSIDE TEXT or any shape)
- IF TEXT THE FIRST RASYERIZE TEXT
- Type Menu > Create Outlines
- Using Direct Slection Tool > Select Edges of the /cornors which u want to move
- Click and drag the edges to the point where u like (OPTIONAL)
- Now File menu > PLACE > from window explorer > click image u want to place >
OK
- DONE
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Adobe Illustrator; Adobe Indesign ; COREL draw are vector based softwares
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OVERVIEW PRINT OPTION: (Way to avoid seeing the box around the text)
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- View Menu > Check "Overview Print"
This will hide the box around the text.
!!! Also if u have placed some text outside the page the it will become dim (less
visible).

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SELECTING JUST IMAGE:
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Use Direct Selection Tool to just select image and move.
Press SHIFT to maintina aspect ratio of image.

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Placing image :
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File Menu > Place >
This will give u Loadd cursor (x=cursor carrying an image)

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ARRANGING THINGS:
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Select the Object > Arrange or Slect options

OR

U can clikc and drag layers in layer window also.

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CHANGING COLOR SCHEME FROM RGB TO CMYK:
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EDIT MENU > cONVERT TO PROFILE > UNDER DESTINAION SPACE
, Leave the RGB profile as it is but change CMYK profile to "JAPAN COLOR 2001
Coated"
this is CMYK color settings that is used by most of the high quality overseas
offset
printers.
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RELEASING COMPOUND PATH: (BREAKING APRT THE TEX CONVERTED TO OUTLINE):
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Object Menu > Path > Release Compound Path

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Aligning OBJECT WITH RESPECT TO PAGE:
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- Select object which u want to align acc to page
- Windows > Align And Layout > Align
- Align To : Align To Page
- Otherwise to make alignments wrt other object set ALign To:Align to Selection

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Smooth Tool: TO right of Pen tool:
TO smooth the shar curves
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TIP: TO extend Y's lower part place rectnagle just at place where uper two arms
emerge out.
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EFFECTS:
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Window Menu > Effects

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BLUR EFFECT:
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Adobe Indesign does not have Blur effect as such but other option to create the
same effcet is
Object Menu > Effect > Gradient Feather > Set it to radial
U can increase the size of the shape to give a light effect in one cornor
and place the object in that cornor.

Better Another Option : Use Basic Feather rather than gadient feather
Object Menu > Effect > Basic Feather
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LIGHT SOURCE:
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For Craeting light source

- Make circle with white color or color f the light u want to show
- Windows > Effects > Outer glow > Adjust values to create a bigger glow
- Also apply BAsic Feather to blur the main circular shape.

- ok

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SUBTRACTING fRONT OBJECT FROM BACK OBJECT:
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- draw and select the two objects
- From Pathfinder Window > "Subtract the formost object from the backmost object"

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COntect COllector tool:
Content Placer tool:
Frame Tool:
Free Transform tool:

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Creating CLIP MASK OF AN IMAGE INSIDE a shape:
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Select shape
File Menu > Place > Image
Click and drag to place a shape inside
When the circle appears u can use that circle to move the image inside the shape.
With yellow colored transform box u can change the size of the image placed inside.

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TIP!!! IF OTHER TEXT IS NOT visible on the magazine:
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- Write text
- Place shape on text
- decrease its opacity
- Apply Basic Feather

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