- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Importing and sizing graphics
- Editing placed pictures
- Working with dropped backgrounds
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Using an InDesign library to manage objects
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Editing placed pictures
The quickest way to make a change to an imported graphic while you’re working in InDesign is to use the Edit Original feature. This opens the graphic in the corresponding image program (usually Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop). You can make the desired changes, save the file, and it will be automatically updated in InDesign.
NOTE
The Edit Original button may open an image in an application other than Photoshop or the application in which it was created. When you install software, some installer utilities change your operating system’s settings that associate file types with applications. The Edit Original command uses these settings for associating files with applications. To change these settings, see the documentation for your operating system.
Using the Selection tool (
), select the Blue-Hydrangea.psd image you imported onto page 2.If the Links panel is not already open, choose Window > Links. The image filename appears selected in the Links panel. Click the page number following the name to center it in your window.
In the Links panel, click the Edit Original button (
). This opens the image in an application that can view or edit it. This image was saved from Photoshop, so if Photoshop is installed on your computer, InDesign starts Photoshop and opens the selected file.
In Photoshop, make a change to the image such as applying a filter or making a dramatic change with an Adjustment Layer. Save the file, and it is automatically updated in InDesign. In the example you see in the 10_End.indd file, a filter was applied to blur the background more than it was originally.
RELINKING MULITPLE FILES AT THE SAME TIME
In many workflows, the situation arises where the linked files for a project are moved to a new location. When you open that InDesign project, all of the links are broken and the missing icon (
) shows in the Links panel for many images. InDesign can handle that situation in two ways.
One, when you relink one image, InDesign looks for all other missing images in the new folder to which you just relinked that one image. Be sure to click the Search For Missing Links In This Folder option at the bottom of the relink window. It is turned on by default.
Two, select the missing images in the Links panel and use the Relink To Folder option from the panel flyout menu. Navigate to the folder where the links are now, select its name, and click Choose.
