InDesign Induction

InDesign refers to images as links, and in the links palette it tells you all the images that are in the document. It says the page number the images are on, and if you hover over the image name a little window pops up saying where the original image came from. 

Even though the images look low-res on the document, when it sends to print it finds the location of the original file and swaps it for the high-res version. It does this so that the document doesn't slow down.

The opposite of a link file is an embedded file, and you have the choice to do either in Illustrator. 

If a file is missing, then a red hexagon will appear at the top of the image in the document to tell you that it is, and a link will appear when the image has a link for it.

We have to resize pictures in photoshop, you can't do it in indesign. However, if you do not know the exact size yet, you can resize it in indesign, check the scale in the links palette, and edit in to that scale in photoshop. Once you have done it on photoshop, once you have saved it, it will update itself on indesign so you don't have to redo the layout. To edit the image in Photoshop, you can do that from indesign. You can either choose the option above, or hold down alt and double click.

Once on Photoshop I changed the scale of it so that it matched the one on InDesign.

Then I edited the image on Photoshop so that I could see how it changed immediately on InDesign. I saved it and closed it, and when I went back onto InDesign it changed.

When working with a tiff file, we are working with a rectangular image which is made up of pixels, but if we use a psd file then it can have transparency, for example if you are preparing a cut out. 

I went onto Photoshop, opened a tiff file and changed the image so that part of it was transparent and saved it as a psd file.

I then went back into InDesign, placed the file, and when I moved it around, the transparency shows through anything else on the document.

To add a guide that will be on multiple pages, you click the a master slide on the pages palette, and go on layout - create guides, then when you select some they appear on all of the pages.

By pressing 'W', you can see how the document will look when it is printed.

You can change what the W shows by changing the options on the toolbar. The bleed option is useful to see if the photos reach the edge, and the presentation view is helpful if you are showing a client the work. 

To get text to wrap around an image you go on Window - Text Wrap and a little window pops up. Selecting both the image and text you can change the options so that the image does not obscure the text.The four options underneath are there to create an offset so that the text doesn't run completely next to the image.

To get text to wrap around a transparent part of an image, instead of treating like a rectangular image, you click the third text wrap option, then the Contour Option button becomes available, which you then choose Alpha Channel.

To make a shape into the text, you go on the frame tool and choose a shape, or use the pen tool, place it where ever you want and click the third text wrap option.

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