Working With Frames / Text Wrap pt. 2
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OK, let's move this one to the side here and then we'll select the other object I have in here, which is the cappuccino cup. And I'll select it. Now, you'll notice that there's no background, there's not a white fill here. This one's got a Clipping Path on it and we're going to take advantage of that by choosing Wrap Around Object Shape. There we select it like that, we wrap around it and as we move it across - I'm in the Direct Select Mode there - clicked away and clicked back again, like that everything wraps around it. And you've got some options you can choose, the same as the Clipping Path, Bounding Box, Detect Edges. That's good if you've got something, let's say, that has a white background. It'll detect that the edges are just all white and wrap around it and here we've got some other advanced things when you bringing Alpha Channels or Photoshop Paths in for it, so we're going to skip over these and just choose the Clipping Path, like this, to wrap around it. Now, one thing that you can do with this one is change the Offset. You'll notice that only the top one is available, the other three are dimmed out, so you can click this and offset it more. So it's offsetting it all around, even though these ones are dimmed out, they're effectively changing with this one and you can't set them individually. If I double-click like that you can see the Path and let me zoom in on it like this. There you can see the Path, that it's wrapping around and it changes as I set it. Click away, I'll move this back up here like this and let's see, if I push it up there. Now if I want to change it and this would be a good example where I really just don't want three letters like this, I can come in, double-click on the Direct Select Tool and I'm just going to do this really, really fast, you can come in and edit this Path so that none of the text actually wraps around it like that and there you can see it on the page. I just want to do one more thing here. Let me move up to this first page. It's a better example for it. Here, for example, if I wanted to put in a caption, I'll just move it up a little bit like this and if I wanted to type a caption and we'll just type Steak Fajitas. I'll just make it a little bold italic or something so that it's separated a little bit from the rest of the text, change the color to red. Now, if I wanted this as a caption below this, I can pop it in here but it just disappears. You can't see it and that's, the reason being is this is forcing the text to wrap around and it's nowhere to go so it's giving me my little, red Plus sign there letting me know that there's text there but it hasn't been placed. So what I can do here is right click on it, Text Frame options and this is something we skipped over earlier, Ignore Text Wrap. Click on OK and then we can push this one down here and then select our frame. We probably want to change it here and this time I'm going to unlock it so that the bottom offset is just a little bit more to affect that. So you can always tell text frames to ignore text wrap and that's particularly useful when you've got a caption on a photograph like this.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe InDesign CS5: Beginner |
| Author: | Brian White |
| SKU: | 34154 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-47-X |
| Release Date: | 2010-08-17 |
| Duration: | 9.5 hrs / 121 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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