Learn a very useful design technique to make your InDesign compositions more engaging by creating an out of frame effect with image frames.

Out of frame effect in Indesign

In this episode of Design Tip of the Week, we will mainly use InDesign. However, we will also spend a little bit of time masking in Photoshop. It’s useful to see how the programs work together and compliment each other.

 

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About the author 

Martin Perhiniak

Martin Perhiniak is a Certified Adobe Design Master and Instructor. He was voted to be one of the top 10 Adobe instructors in the world by student feedback in 2015. In his online courses besides the technical knowledge you need, Martin will also teach you a lot about design principles, compositional techniques and plenty of best practices that he picked up and developed while working as a designer and retoucher on projects such as Pixar’s Cars and Toy Story, BBC’s Dr Who or Mattel’s Team Hot Wheels. He feels it his mission to share his insights of the design industry and its latest trends with beginners and creative professionals around the World.

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