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Working with Transparency
About transparency
In InDesign, you can add transparency to your artwork in a variety of ways. You can
vary the degree of transparency of an object or a group of objects from 100% opacity
(completely "solid") to 0% opacity (completely transparent). When you decrease
an object's opacity, the underlying artwork becomes visible through the surface of
the object.
Using options in the Transparency palette, you can also create special effects, such as
knocking out or blending colors with other objects.
Transparency features, including drop shadows and blend modes, can be applied to any
object created in InDesign, as well as to objects placed from Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
It's possible to add transparency to your artwork without realizing it—for example, by
adding drop shadows and feathering to objects, or by placing files with transparency that
originated in other applications, such as Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. Be aware of when
you're using transparency, because you need to set some extra options when printing and
saving transparent artwork. (See
page 294 and "Setting up your transparent document for successful output" on page
Using grouped objects with the Transparency palette
By default, the Transparency palette acts on single objects, but you can also use it to create
unique transparency effects at the group level.
If you simply select objects and change the opacity setting, the selected objects' opacity
will change relative to that of the others. Any overlapping areas will show an
accumulated opacity.
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