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Well, catching up on all the work I missed while sick. Most importantly are some drafts of a brochure. I used Photoshop to do some mock ups of some designs that I was asked to produce, as I can work a lot faster in there than in InDesign.

After I had a few mockups I wanted to ensure that I could put them into place in InDesign. One of the effects was a chiseled steel look on some text,with a brushed aluminium background. I know, not my favourite, but none the less. Seeing how InDesign won’t be able to render it, I knew I had to put the background in as a *.tif. The text however, should be made in InDesign natively, as to aid in certain changes that will be made to it’s wording further on down the line.

Well, I set up the background image exactly as it should be, set up the text, and the went to add the text effects. Bezel and emboss worked fine, however, as soon as I added the color burn to the object, it failed miserably. Seems Indesign doesn’t like color burn, as all other transparency effects worked appropriately with the bezel. Alas, I am stuck until I figure out another way to get the effect. I don’t want to throw the text in as an image, as scaling will be miserable.

The settings below are the exact same in InDesign as in Photoshop.