Live, Embossed Text in QuarkXPress
Back in September, I showed how to create “Mystery Shadows” — a shadow without an object seeming to cast it — in QuarkXPress 7 and above.
A similar technique can be used to simulate embossing with live text. Here’s how:
- Type your text and color it white.
- Set the opacity of the text to 0%.
- Apply a drop shadow to the text.
- In the Drop Shadows tab of the Measurements palette, uncheck the Inherit Opacity option.
- In the Drop Shadows tab of the Measurements palette, check Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow.
The text is still live, so you can change the text, or the font, or the size, or anything else you want to do to text.
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.