InDepth: Photoshop Effects
outlines and Paste Inside. Just use this neat trick, Turn on the Knockout Group checkbox at the
possible only in InDesign CS3, and your text becomes bottom of the Effects panel so the transparent text
a mask while remaining completely editable. “knocks a hole” in the fill color (Figure 4d). Bam!
Create a text frame, add text (text color is The live text appears to be filled with whatever’s
irrelevant), and place the frame in front of some sort behind the text frame (Figure 4e), acting like a
of colored background element. In Figure 4a, we’ve window to the background. (Maybe a better name
placed it in front of another text frame filled with a for the command would be “Knockout Attribute.”)
radial gradient and some text (the “ID” text frame). Since this is a live effect, you can easily
Select that top text frame with the Selection edit the color of the frames in back or the
tool, open the Swatches panel, and apply a frame text itself to create a different look, applying Figure 5: You can now fade from color to grayscale in InDesign.
fill color (we used Paper in our example) that it to the original or to duplicates.
contrasts with the background object (Figure 4b). of the same image, one color and one grayscale
With the top frame still selected, open the Composite with a Gradient Feather (Figure 5), or one color image with a grayscale version
Effects panel. Select the Text attribute and change The main cherry image on our magazine cover is as a layer, placed twice, using Object > Object Layer
the Opacity to 0%. Since only the Text attribute full color but gradually desaturates to grayscale in Options to hide the unwanted layer for each.
was selected, the text frame’s fill remains solid its upper right quadrant. All you need to accomplish
but the text disappears from view (Figure 4c). this effect completely in InDesign are two versions — Main article continues on page 19.
Figure 4a Figure 4b Figure 4c Figure 4d Figure 4e
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