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Creating a print finish

Creating a print finish

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Creating a print finish

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- [Instructor] You can treat this movie as a piece of bonus content if you like. It's just that I'd like to keep this as near to the actual real job of doing this as possible. Although of course there is a lot more to be done on this layout, really. There's a lot of alignment that needs to change with the text so that it isn't quite as raggy on the edges here. A little bit is nice, too much is not so nice. But what we're going to do is we are going to add a special print finish layer. Now, a special print finish is something like a varnish that you might see applied to parts of an actual design. I'm sure that you will have seen pages or covers where parts of the cover are shiny or matte or just look different to the rest, and that's a special print finish. What we're going to do is, first of all, we are going to mix with nothing selected, a brand new color. So we're going to go ahead and create a new color swatch. Use a…

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