Awhile back I made some modifications to an existing logo for a customer . One of the changes involved having an outer glow around the text. The problem was the fill opacity was brought down to about 50 percent or so. Both the object and stroke layers were left at 100 percent. The immediate effect wasn't exactly what I was after as you could see the multiplied glow behind the transparent text (image 1).
I wanted to only have the glow show on the exterior of the text and not the interior. In both photoshop and illustrator you can easily work around this (now that I think about this the making the logo in illustrator first and placing it into indesign would have been the more "professional" way of doing things, but this job was quick and dirty as the title states). I'll explain both workarounds in a tutorial later on down the road. The way I created the finished image in indesign was by making two versions of the logo. For the first object I "paste into" (Alt+Ctrl+V on pc, Cmd+Option+V on mac) the background image and applied the desired outer glow effect to it. The second object had both a white fill and stroke applied to it, whereas the fill opacity (not the object opacity) was brought down to about 50 percent (image 2).
For the final step I arranged this second object above the first one (Ctrl +Shift+] on pc, Cmd+Option+] on mac), and then aligned the two both horizontally and vertically. As you can see the outer stroke now only appears on the exterior of the text (image 3).
