Object styles are very powerful and very similar to paragraph styles. Apply styles quickly and consistently throughout your InDesign documents.
Author: jeff witchel
Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
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I’ve been using In Design CS4 for a few month now and am still learning, but when do you ever stop learning? What a stunning program. Thanks for a great tutorial.
Good tutorial. Thanks
Thanks for the tip!
Just like paragraph styles… but, I never use the fx options in InDesign… I leave that up to PhotShop.
And you never stop learning. I’ve been teaching layout for 8 years and I still continue to learn.
Very informative tutorial wish I had seen this before design the football guide.
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Hi there!
The video for this tutorial seems no longer to be working. Would you be able to get it up and running again please as I’d loved to learn more about InDesign object layers?
Thanks in advance!