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Simple drop shadow question.

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August 1, 2022
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Hi guys!
I've been familiarizing myself with InDesign for work in the past few days.

My current assignment is to do a whitepaper for one of our projects, and I went with a design that involves drop shadows.

I have it looking exactly how we want, but there's one small issue:
The shadows bleed through other pages.

How can I avoid this?
To illustrate what I mean, I'll attach some screenshots.
Thanks in advance guys!

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Correct answer G5CD7

So, I kinda figured it out. I just tweaked the angle of the shadow to only go downwards (90 degrees), and that did it.
However I'd still like to know if there's a way to constrain the contents of one page so as to not have it bleed to the next page.
Any takers?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Layers and master pages 😉

Different master pages for left and right pages and layers.

So on the left page - put your graphics on one layer - then on a layer above - put white rectangle covering whole right page - to clip the spine.

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Inspiring

So your after a box with a drop shadow where one edge doesn't have a drop shadow.

Easiest way is to create your drop shaow box then paste it inside another box and crop accordingly.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Where exactly are you seeing this crossover? Just in the layout display, or is it showing up in a PDF export or print?

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G5CD7AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

So, I kinda figured it out. I just tweaked the angle of the shadow to only go downwards (90 degrees), and that did it.
However I'd still like to know if there's a way to constrain the contents of one page so as to not have it bleed to the next page.
Any takers?

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Inspiring

I don't immediately follow, but just remember you can group like-minded objects together and they all will throw the same shadow together, and not individually causing seams of shadows everywhere.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

You can also apply effects at two different levels: on the object in the frame, and on the frame itself. The frame will clip the effect. I've used this tweak to get two effects to combine exactly the right way without interfering with each other.

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