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Working with tint boxes

Working with tint boxes - InDesign Tutorial

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Working with tint boxes

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- [Instructor] When you have more than one story on a page or spread, consider putting the supporting articles in tint boxes to differentiate them. Here I have two such info boxes, one on each page. Let's recreate them. I'll move now to the next spread where they are in a raw form. So I'll select this frame and the styles here are already applied. I'm going to apply a tint to the text frame. This tint is based upon color of the department head is a shade of that color and I want to bevel the corner so I'll come to the object menu and to my corner options and for the top right, making sure that the chain is broken here so that I am setting the corners independently. I'll choose bevel. I also want to inset the text. I'll come to the text frame options. Now I've chosen a non-standard corner option. My inset is going to be the same on all four sides and that's going to be four points. I would like my text to reverse…

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