From the course: InDesign: Typography
Join today to access over 24,000 courses taught by industry experts.
Text Wraps - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography
Text Wraps
- [Instructor] Text wraps allow us to create a visual connection between text and image. Let's look at some issues that arise from using text wraps. If I select my image and then come to my text wrap panel, this is part of my custom workspace, if you don't see it, you'll find it under the window menu. So currently, no text wrap. If I wrap around bounding box, then that's what I get, it wraps literally around the box or frame that the image is in. So, in this case, I need to wrap around object shape. Now, the first time you choose that, it may still look like it's wrapping around the box. That's because we need to change, or you may need to change the contour options. This particular image has been masked in Photoshop using a layer mask, which in design, refers to as an Alpha Channel. So for the contour options, I need to choose Alpha Channel. Now, in addition, I also need to add in some offset because currently, the text is going too close to the image, so I'll just increase that…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.