Subtitles of the Movie

Now, we've talked about character and paragraph styles, now we're going to shift gears a little bit and talk about Object Styles. So these are formatting attributes that we apply to objects; nothing to do with text and they're created in exactly the same way as paragraph or character styles, you just apply them to different things. So let me select this here and we'll zoom in on it so that I can see it properly and I'm going to give it a stroke here. I'm going to, let's say we'll give it a three-point stroke like this. Notice it's green. Well, that's fine. That's obviously our default color at the moment and maybe make it four-point. There we go. Now, here with the stroke you've got some options. You can align the stroke to the inside. That means it's pushing the stroke in behind the frame or the opposite, which is pushing it to the outside of the frame of the image or Align stroke to center, which is the default. Now, we'll just choose the default style here. No problems with that but I do want to change the color of it so I'm going to come over and make it paper. Click away. Now, you can see it where it covers the black area but not where white is on white but we'll deal with that in just a minute. Now we're going to use this as a style. So I'm going to select this and Window, Styles, Object Styles is where we would go. I keep all my styles together so I've got the Panel here so I'll bring it up and there's two options here. There's a Graphic Frame or a Text Frame. This is going to be for a graphics frame because there's no text in it and like before, with this one selected, because we want to pick up these attributes, we're just going to come over and create a new style. Double-click in it and we'll just call it Image. We'll call it Food Image because Image is a little generic; Food Image like that. And then as you can see, there are an awful lot of attributes here that can be picked up for it. You know, we've got the Effects, which we haven't really got into plus a lot of things that we have talked about; stroke and corner effects, the fill and then some we haven't: anchored object options. This is really huge and as we go through the Advanced tutorial, you're going to see a lot of these other options. But I'll just click on OK. That way I can just come over here, apply the frame there. You can see it a little bit with the white and come down here and just apply it like that. Absolutely simple. Now if we want to edit it, we can just double click on this and then we can come in and edit it. We can change the Stroke and Corner options if we wanted to. We could add a different shape like this to it. We can come over and put a bevel. Notice how it gets beveled like that. Or a rounded corner like this, changing the inset if we wanted to like that. I'm going to leave that rounded corner. I kind of like it. And I'll show you something that we haven't got into yet but it's a nice little feature. We're going to add a drop shadow. So I'll click on Drop Shadow here like that and it adds this drop shadow to it and obviously if I come down and click here, we can edit it - running out of space here in this screen - but the only thing that I'm really going to do is just make it a little finer and change the offset down a little bit so it doesn't go out so far. Click on OK and then I'm going to zoom out to my Spread here. You can see that effect is in all these so I'll come in. I'm going to click, click, click, click and I've got one more here. I'll do it later. Click on Food Image here and then click on this one, Food Image and that Object Level Style has been applied to all these and, of course, just go in and change it. If we want to change the stroke color to that olive green like that, click on OK and there, it's been applied to them all. That's the beauty of Styles. It's the ability to change your entire document quickly. Now, as we talked in the previous movie about overrides and the Plus sign, for example, if I were to change this one back to Paper like that, we're going to get the Plus sign there and, of course, we can always just go here and clear the overrides just like we did for paragraph and character styles. They work exactly the same way. So that's an introduction to Styles and as I keep saying, in the Advanced tutorial we do get into the depth of some of the other features within it that we were able to apply to these. Again, every time it's making your work a lot, lot easier and a lot more efficient.