Identifying imported images

To identify some of the graphics that have already been imported into the document, you’ll use two different techniques involving the Links panel. Later in this lesson, you’ll also use the Links panel to edit and update imported graphics.

1. Center page 1 in the document window by choosing it from the Page Number box at the lower-left corner of the document window. Chose View > Fit Page In Window.

   Note

   The page order of this file is set up to show how the pages will fold. The pattern is the same as the trifold template in Lesson 3’s “Exploring on your own” section.

2. If the Links panel is not visible, choose Window > Links or click the Links panel icon () from the panel dock.

   

3. Using the Selection tool (), select the Songs of the Garden logo type on page 1. Notice that the graphic’s filename, Title.ai, becomes selected in the Links panel when you select the graphic in the layout.

   

   Now you’ll use the Links panel to locate another graphic in the layout.

4. In the Links panel, select Butterfly-on-flower.psd, and then click the Go To Link button (). The graphic becomes selected and centered on the screen. This is a quick way to find a graphic in a document.

   Tip

   You can also click the page number to the right of a filename in the Links panel to jump to that link and center it in the document window.

   These techniques for identifying and locating linked graphics are useful throughout this lesson and whenever you work with a large number of imported files.

Viewing information about linked files

The Links panel makes it easy to work with linked graphics and text files and to display additional information about linked files.

1. In the Links panel, select the graphic named milky-way-background.tif. If you cannot see the names of all the linked files without scrolling, drag the horizontal divider bar in the Links panel downward to enlarge the top half of the panel so that all the links are visible. The Link Info section at the bottom half of the panel displays detailed information about the selected link.

2. In the Links panel, click the Select Next Link In The List button () to view information about the following file in the Links panel list, RR-logo.ai. You can quickly examine all the links in the list this way. Currently, every link displays an alert icon () in the Status column. This icon indicates a linking problem, which you’ll address later. After you’ve examined the link information for various images, choose Edit > Deselect All, and then click the Show/Hide Link Information button () above Link Info to hide the Link Info section.

   Note

   In this document the page numbering follows the folding pattern, making the first spread pages 5, 6, and 1 because it’s the outside covers and the flap that folds in. The second spread is the inside, pages 2, 3, and 4. The Links panel shows this order.

   By default, files are sorted in the Links panel by page number, but with files used multiple times in a document listed at the top. You can sort the file list in different ways by clicking the column headings. Next, we’ll add more column headings to make additional information available at a glance.

3. A faster way to view important link information is to customize the information displayed in the Links panel columns. Open the menu in the Links panel and choose Panel Options (at the bottom of the menu). Under Show Column, click Color Space, Actual PPI, Effective PPI, and Transparency. Click OK. (The important information in your workflow may vary from this example.)

   Note

   Resolution of raster images is measured in pixels per inch (PPI).

4. Pull out the panel to the left to see the new columns. The Links panel now has additional columns showing information for the options you turned on. Drag the first column divider to the right to make the first column wide enough to see the filenames. This customized view is a fast way to see important information about linked graphics, such as whether something has been scaled up so much that it will look bad when printed (jagged edges, blurry, or pixelated).

   Tip

   Effective resolution combines the actual resolution of the image with the amount it’s been enlarged or reduced in size within InDesign. The standard minimum resolution for high-quality printing is 300 PPI for the effective resolution. Therefore, use caution when enlarging images so that the effective resolution does not fall below 300.

   

Showing files in Explorer (Windows) or Finder (macOS)

Although the Links panel gives you information about the attributes and location in the document of a specific linked graphic file, it does not let you make changes to the file or change the name of the file. One way you can access the original file of an imported graphic file is by using the Reveal In Explorer (Windows) or Reveal In Finder (macOS) option.

1. Select milky-way-background.tif. From the Links panel menu, choose Reveal In Explorer (Windows) or Reveal In Finder (macOS). The folder where the linked file is currently stored on your computer opens, and the file is selected. This feature is useful for locating files on your hard drive.

   

2. Close the window and return to InDesign.

Import, size, and crop

1. Navigate to page 5. Open the Layers panel by clicking the Layers panel icon () in the panel dock and click the Photos layer so that the imported images will be placed on that layer. Choose File > Place and navigate to the Lesson10 folder. Select the file Blue-Hydrangea.psd and click Open.

   Note

   If necessary, after you zoom in, navigate to the top of the page with a bit of the pasteboard visible.

2. Move the loaded raster graphics icon () into the pasteboard area just above the page and click once. This places the graphic independently of any existing frame. InDesign automatically creates a frame around the graphic and scales it to actual size (100%).

   

3. This photo is much too large at actual size, so you’ll need to resize it. In this case, it needs to be scaled down. One way to do this is to type a percentage or measurements in the Control panel and InDesign will scale the graphic to those numbers, in the direction of the selected reference point. Or, you can scale the graphic visually. Choose the Selection tool () and hold down Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (macOS). Drag the lower-right handle up and to the left. Watch the Control panel Size and Scale (or the numbers in the gray box next to the Selection tool) until the image is about 2 inches high. Holding down the Ctrl or Command key while dragging scales both the frame and the image within. Adding the Shift key keeps the image proportions so that the image is not distorted while it’s changing size.

   Note

   Many of the steps in this lesson refer to the Control panel. You can use the Properties panel if you prefer, but it is not part of the default [Advanced] workspace. To open it, Choose Window > Properties. To save screen space, dock it with the rest of panel dock, drag the tab to the bottom of the panel dock, and then click to open and close it as needed.

   

4. Drag the image down and to right until you see the Smart Guides appear that show the top of this frame aligned with the empty frame to the left.

5. Now we want to crop out most of the leaves. To do this, you change the size of the frame without changing the size of the graphic inside. Drag the lower-right corner handle in toward the flower so that most of the leaves are no longer visible. Then click the content grabber () and notice that the image bounding box (with the resize handles) is now much larger than the frame, indicating that part of image is being cropped by the frame. Drag the image up and to the left so that the flower is centered in the frame.

   

Place a graphic into an existing frame and use frame fitting options

The next way to use File > Place is to place a graphic into an existing frame.

1. Click the empty frame to the left of the Blue-Hydrangea.psd image. Choose File > Place, select Sunflower.jpg, and click Open. This time the image is imported into the frame. Once again, it’s at actual size (100%) and that’s too large since the intention is to show the whole flower.

2. Choose Object > Fitting > Fit Content To Frame, which seems like the right choice. But examine the result: the image is indeed within the frame, but the sunflower is distorted (stretched vertically). Confirm this by clicking the content grabber () in the center of the frame (so that you are viewing data about the image rather than the frame), and then look at the scale values in the Control panel or the Properties panel. The horizontal and vertical numbers are very different, showing the distortion.

   

   Tip

   All frame fitting options are also available as buttons on the Control panel:

   

   and the Properties panel:

   

3. To scale the image without distortion, choose Object > Fitting > Fit Content Proportionally. The image is not distorted, but now it’s too small. Choose Object > Fitting > Fill Frame Proportionally. This option sizes the image within the frame without distortion, and it crops part of the image if it’s a different shape than the frame (as in this case). However, this is still not what we want because the main part of the flower is now cropped out of the frame.

   

4. Choose Object > Fitting > Content-Aware Fit. This feature intelligently fits the best part from the image when you place it inside a frame by evaluating various parts of the image. The sunflower is now nearly centered in the frame automatically. You can nudge it over if you’d like.

   

5. Select the circular picture frame in the lower left and place the image Calla-Lilly.psd. This frame was set up to center the image at 100% size. The picture is centered within the frame, but the subject of the photo (the flower) is not centered in the original photo. Select either the circular frame or the image within and choose Object > Fitting > Content-Aware Fit. The flower now fits much better in the circle. Notice that InDesign scaled as well as moved the image.

   

Place a graphic into an existing frame by dropping from the desktop

1. Another way to import graphics is to drop them onto a page from your desktop. Switch to File Explorer (Windows) or the Finder (macOS), and open the Lesson10 folder, which contains the Starflower.jpg file.

   Resize and arrange your File Explorer window (Windows) or Finder window (macOS) and your InDesign window, as needed, so that you can simultaneously see the list of files in the Lesson10 folder and the InDesign document window. Make sure that the right side of page 5 in your document is visible.

2. Choose Edit > Deselect All. Drag the Starflower.jpg file over the empty frame to the right of the circular frame and release the mouse button.

   

3. This picture is smaller than the placeholder frame. Select the frame and choose Object > Fitting > Fit Frame To Content. Then move the picture to a pleasing position in the group as you wish. Choose Edit > Deselect All when you’re done.

Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Adobe Bridge is a separate application available to Creative Cloud users with an All Apps subscription. Adobe Bridge is an application that lets you browse your local and networked computers for graphics and then place them into an InDesign layout. Importing files is just one of many features the application provides. If you don’t have Bridge available, you can complete this section by dropping from the desktop again, but this time change your folder view to icons.

1. Navigate to page 1. Then choose File > Browse In Bridge to launch Adobe Bridge. Bridge automatically opens the folder in which the InDesign document is saved or in which a selected graphic is stored. If you don’t see this folder, click the Folder panel at the top of the left panel to navigate to the Lesson10 folder.

   

2. Adobe Bridge provides an easy way to locate and rename files. Because you see a preview, you can locate graphics visually without knowing the exact name. Click the graphic maple-leaf-.psd once, and then click the filename to select the filename box. Rename the file maple-leaf-yellow, and press Enter or Return to commit the change.

   

3. If necessary, make the Bridge window smaller by dragging the lower-right corner and position it so that you can see page 1 (the cover) of the InDesign document. Drag the maple-leaf-yellow.psd file into your InDesign document and onto an open area of the pasteboard above the page and near the dark blue square. Click the pasteboard to place the image at full size and return to InDesign.

   Tip

   To learn more about what you can do with Bridge, start at the Bridge page on the  Adobe website: https://helpx.adobe.com/support/bridge.html.

   

4. Use the Selection tool () to position the leaf graphic in the upper-left corner of the page, on top of the empty Blue-Dark frame. Press Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (macOS) and drag a corner of the frame to scale both the frame and its contents. Scale to a size just a bit larger than the empty Blue-Dark frame. Align the top and right edges of the graphics frame with the top and right edges of the Blue-Dark frame.

   A very useful feature of dragging photos from Bridge is that you can quickly change pictures in a frame while seeing the new image in Bridge and then the result in InDesign. This technique is very useful in projects where the layout repeats but you need to import different pictures. You’ll try this now.

   Tip

   You can also replace an image by dragging it from Explorer or the Finder and dropping it over another image. If this doesn’t work, check that the layer in which the graphic appears isn’t locked.

5. With the yellow maple leaf still selected, bring the Bridge window to the front again (if needed) and choose the file maple-leaf-red.psd. Drag and drop it right over the yellow maple leaf. InDesign retains the scaling, and now you’ve switched out the image with the new one, in position, in just a few seconds. Try it again with maple-leaf-orange.psd. Select the image with the content grabber and set the Reference Point to the center position () using the Control, Transform, or Properties panel. Then rotate the image within the frame a bit to the left, to about 20 degrees. Drag and drop the red leaf again. The image is switched while both the scaling and rotation are retained.

   

6. To see how the reference point affects the center of rotation, experiment with rotating the image again using different reference points, such as the upper left or lower right.

7. Choose File > Save to save your work.

Working with clipping paths from Photoshop in InDesign

1. Navigate to page 4 of the document by double-clicking page 4 in the Pages panel, and choose View > Fit Page In Window.

2. In the Layers panel, make sure that the Photos layer is selected so that the imported image is placed on that layer. You can lock the Background photos layer to be sure you don’t accidentally click into the blue square’s or background photo’s frame. Choose File > Place, and double-click the file Pears.psd in the Lesson10 folder.

   Tip

   If you accidentally click within the existing frame, choose Edit > Undo Place and try again.

3. Position the loaded raster graphics icon () outside the blue square in the center of page 4—to the left and slightly below the top edge (make sure you are not placing the pointer in the square itself)—and click to place an image of two pears. If you need to reposition the graphics frame to match the following image, do so now.

   

4. Choose Object > Clipping Path > Options. Move the Clipping Path dialog box, if necessary, so that you can see the pear image.

5. Choose Photoshop Path from the Type menu. If Preview is not selected, select it now. Choose “Two Pears” from the Path menu. The background is now hidden, or clipped out, by the path. Click OK.

6. Choose Object > Fitting > Fit Frame To Content.

   

   Tip

   You can press the V key to switch to the Selection tool.

7. Switch to the Selection tool () and double-click the pears image. Then click the lower-right corner handle. Press Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (macOS) and drag up and to the left to scale both the frame and its contents. Make the pears image about the size shown, and then drag it toward the bottom of the blue square, also as shown.

   

   Note

   Notice the double arrows that appear when you press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and click an object, indicating that a copy of the object will be made when you drag, leaving the original object in place.

8. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and drag up and to the right. This creates a copy of the image. Choose Object > Clipping Path > Options, and then choose the “Right Pear” path and click OK. Then, choose Object > Fitting > Fit Frame To Content. Switch back to the Selection tool (), click to select the frame, and use the same technique to scale this pear to about 80% of the original size (the Control and Properties panels show the scale amount as you scale the object). You can also type 80 in the X scale box in the Control or Properties panel and press Enter or Return to apply the same scale number to the Y dimension. Finally, move the pointer outside the bounding box until it changes to the rotate pointer (). Rotate the photo to the right about –28 degrees and move the image down and slightly inside the blue box as shown.

   

   Tip

   You can also type 22 into the Rotation Angle box in the Control panel or the Properties panel.

9. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and drag down and to the left to create another copy of the single pear. Choose Object > Clipping Path > Options, choose Photoshop Path, and this time choose the “Left Pear” path and click OK. Then choose Object > Fitting > Fit Frame To Content. Switch back to the Selection tool, click to select the frame, and move the pointer outside the bounding box until it changes to the rotate pointer (). Rotate the photo to the left about 22 degrees and move it down and a little to the right.

   

10. Notice how a clipping path allows an image to overlap multiple other objects. You can also move images in front of or behind other objects. Take a few moments to experiment.

11. Choose File > Save to save the file.

Working with transparent backgrounds from Photoshop in InDesign

1. Navigate to the leftmost page of this spread (page 2) by sliding page 4 to the right. Do this by holding down the spacebar. The hand icon () appears. Keep the spacebar pressed and drag until page 2 is centered in your window.

2. Select the Rectangle Frame tool () in the Tools panel and draw a frame in the lower area as shown, crossing over the border between page 2 and page 3 and also extending into the pasteboard below the document pages.

3. You can choose fitting options for a frame before you place a graphic. Choose Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options. From the Frame Fitting Options dialog box, choose Fit Content Proportionally and then click the top center reference point in the Align From area. Click OK.

   

4. Choose File > Place and double-click the Tulips.psd file in the Lesson10 folder. InDesign fits the image proportionally to the frame as specified. Choose Edit > Deselect All.

   Tip

   You can press the Esc key when you have content selected to switch to the Selection tool and select the frame instead. You can also toggle between selecting the content and selecting the frame by double-clicking with the Selection tool.

5. Now we want to scale the picture without scaling the frame. Switch to the Selection tool and click the photo over the circle of the content grabber () to select the contents of the frame, in this case the photo of the tulips. The handles of the bounding box of the photo (not the frame) will be active. You’ll see that this bounding box is a contrasting color to the frame bounding box. In the Control or Properties panel, set the reference point to the upper center () position, type 70 in the Scale box, and press Enter or Return. Notice that the photo scales downward from the top center, resulting in the image being larger but also farther down. Drag or use the arrow keys to nudge the position of the photo slightly as needed. Press Esc to select the graphic’s frame again, and use the Selection tool to make the frame wider if necessary. Most of the image will be cropped out, with just the tops of the flowers and leaves showing in the frame and even less of the image on the page.

   

   Notice how different the edges of the tulip image are compared to the edges of the pears image. The edges of the tulips blend softly into the background. This is the purpose of using transparency in Photoshop to remove a background rather than a vector path: to create a soft edge between the image and any background onto which it is placed.

Working with a Photoshop file with layers

Next, we’ll work with a layered Photoshop file and adjust the visibility of the individual layers. If you locked the Background photos layer in the previous exercise, go to the Layers panel and unlock it now.

1. In the Links panel, click the link for Cover-PinkFlower.psd, and click the Go To Link button () to select the file and center it in your document window. This file, which you relinked in a previous exercise, has four layers.

2. Choose Object > Object Layer Options to open the Object Layer Options dialog box. This dialog box allows you to show and hide layers.

3. Move the Object Layer Options dialog box so that you can see as much as possible of the selected image. Select the Preview option to view changes while keeping the dialog box open.

4. In the Object Layer Options dialog box, click the eye icon () to the left of the Cobblestones layer. This turns off the layer, leaving only the Pink Flower layer visible.

   

5. Click the eye icon () to the left of the Green Texture layer to turn the layer on. Turn that layer off and turn on the Blue Sky layer. Click OK.

6. Choose File > Save to save your work.

Creating an anchored graphics frame

An anchored graphics frame moves with the text to which it’s anchored if editing causes the text to reflow. In this exercise, you’ll anchor the CD title to a text frame on the center page.

1. In the Pages panel, double-click the second spread, and choose View > Fit Spread In Window. At the bottom of the pasteboard is the Songs of the Garden logo. You’ll insert this graphic into a paragraph on the page.

   Tip

   If the Anchored Object Control square is not visible when selecting the logo, choose View > Extras > Show Anchored Object Control.

2. Press and hold Z to temporarily access the Zoom tool, or select the Zoom tool () and click so that you can see the logo and the text frame above it.

3. Return to the Selection tool (), and click the logo. (Be careful to click outside the content grabber so that you select the frame and not the graphic within.) Notice the small solid-red square near the upper-right corner of the frame. You can drag this square into a text frame to anchor an object to text.

   Note

   Showing hidden characters is not a necessary step when placing anchored graphics; it is used here to help identify the structure of the text.

4. Choose Type > Show Hidden Characters to view the spaces and paragraph returns in the text. This helps you locate where you want to anchor the frame.

   

5. Select the Type tool () and click in front of the word “Addie” at the beginning of the second paragraph. Press Enter or Return, creating an empty paragraph.

6. Use the Selection tool and click the logo again. Hold down the Shift key and drag the red square near the upper right of the logo to the beginning of the empty second paragraph. Holding the Shift key creates an inline graphic that flows with the text (as opposed to floating outside the text frame). You’ll see a bold cursor indicating the point where the graphic will be inserted. Release the mouse button. After the graphic is anchored, the red square on the graphic’s frame changes to an anchor symbol. Now if the text in the paragraph above is edited, the graphic will stay between the first and third paragraphs and move up or down if text is added or deleted without you having to adjust its position.

   

   Tip

   When the leading for a paragraph is set to auto, inline graphics do not overlap with any text above or below their insertion point.

   Once a graphic is anchored, you can select it with the Type tool and apply text attributes that affect its position. Now you’ll create space between the graphic and the surrounding text with the Space Before option.

7. Select the Type tool () and then click to the right of the inline graphic to establish the insertion point in that paragraph.

   

   Tip

   When you hold down the Shift key and click the arrow button, InDesign changes the measurement in larger increments than when you do not hold down the Shift key. The amount varies with the measurement units you are using. When using inches, the amount is .25 in. versus .0625 in. without the Shift key; when you are using millimeters, the amount is 10 mm versus 1 mm.

8. Click the Paragraph Formatting Controls button () in the Control panel. Hold down the Shift key and click the up arrow button to the right of the Space Before icon () 4 times to change the value to 1 in. As you increase the value, the anchored graphics frame and the text below it shift downward.

9. To see how the anchored graphic flows when text is edited, click to the right of the period that ends the first paragraph, and then press Enter or Return twice. Notice how the graphic moves down each time you press the key. Press Backspace (Windows) or Delete (macOS) twice to remove the extra paragraph returns, and the graphic moves back up.

10. Choose File > Save to save your work.

Adding text wrap to an anchored graphics frame

You can customize how the paragraph text wraps around an anchored graphics frame. The text wrap settings offer many different options to flow text around a frame or the shape of the graphic within the frame.

1. Using the Selection tool (), select the graphics frame with the Songs of the Garden logo you placed in the previous exercise.

2. Press Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (macOS), and drag the upper-right handle of the frame up and to the right until you’ve scaled the graphic and its frame to cover roughly 20% of the second column. With the graphic still selected, drag it downward so that the top is below the first paragraph.

   

3. Choose Window > Text Wrap to access the Text Wrap panel. Position the panel so that you can see the changes as you apply settings. In the Text Wrap panel, select Wrap Around Object Shape () to flow the text around the graphic.

4. To increase space around the bounding box of the graphic, click the up arrow button in the Top Offset option () 3 times to change the value to 0.1875 in.

   

   Text can also wrap around a graphic’s shape rather than around the rectangular bounding box.

5. In the Text Wrap panel under Contour Options, choose Detect Edges from the Type menu. Detect Edges creates a vector path. The text wrap is determined by the shape of the objects in this graphic, in this case by the letters.

   

6. To view the document clearly, choose Edit > Deselect All, and choose Type > Hide Hidden Characters to hide the paragraph returns and spaces.

7. Using the Selection tool (), select the graphics frame with the Songs of the Garden logo again.

8. In the Text Wrap panel, experiment with the available options from the Wrap To menu. Keep Largest Area as your final choice. The text moves into the largest area to one side of the text wrap boundary.

   The path created when using the Detect Edges contour option is an editable path. For example, you can manually adjust the anchor points by dragging them to a new position. You can also add or delete points, and convert them from corner points to smooth points (and vice versa) with the Pen tool (). You can change the shape of curves by adjusting the anchor point handles with the Direct Selection tool ().

9. Select the Direct Selection tool (), and then click the graphic to view the anchor points used for the text wrap. Experiment with moving individual points and notice how that reflows the text.

   

   Tip

   When you hover over an anchor point with the Pen tool, the icon adds a minus sign to indicate that if you click that point, it will be deleted.

10. Examine this path in the 10_End.indd file, where many points along the bottom of the graphic were deleted to better control the text flow of the first line of the paragraph below the anchored graphic.

11. Close the Text Wrap panel.

12. Choose File > Save.

Importing an Illustrator file

InDesign takes full advantage of the smooth edges of vector graphics, such as those from Adobe Illustrator. When you use the High Quality Display setting, vector graphics and type appear with smooth edges at any size or magnification. In this section, you’ll place an Illustrator graphic into your InDesign document.

1. In the Layers panel, select the Graphics layer. Choose Edit > Deselect All to make sure nothing is selected in your document.

2. Choose View > Fit Spread In Window to see the entire spread.

3. Choose File > Place, and select the Illustrator file Garland.ai from the Lesson10 folder. Make sure that Show Import Options is not selected. Click Open.

   Note

   If an Illustrator file imports with a white background, delete it and import it again, but turn on Show Import Options and then turn on Transparent Background.

4. InDesign shows the loaded vector graphics icon (). Click in the upper-left corner of the spread to add the Illustrator file to the page. Use the Selection tool () to position it as shown here. Graphics created in Illustrator have transparent backgrounds by default.

   

5. Choose File > Save to save your work.

Importing an Illustrator file with layers

You can import native Illustrator files with layers into an InDesign layout and control the visibility of the layers and reposition the graphic.

1. Deselect all objects by clicking in the pasteboard of the document window. Click the empty frame to the left of the red box on the far left of the spread.

2. Choose File > Place. In the lower-left of the Place dialog box, select Show Import Options. Select the file Flower-Title.ai, and click Open. The Place PDF dialog box appears when Show Import Options is selected (because Illustrator files are written in PDF file format).

3. In the Place PDF dialog box, make sure that Show Preview is selected. In the General tab, choose Bounding Box (All Layers) from the Crop To menu and make sure that Transparent Background is selected.

4. Click the Layers tab to view the layers. This file has three layers: a background image of a flower (Layer 3), a layer of text in English (English Title), and a layer of text in Spanish (Spanish Title).

   

   Although you can designate now which layers you would like to display in the imported graphic, the small Preview area makes it difficult to see the results.

5. Click OK. You’ll select the layers to display while working in the layout.

6. Press Ctrl+= (Windows) or Command+= (macOS) a couple of times to zoom in and center the graphic on your screen.

7. In the Control or Properties panel, click the center reference point () and then click the content grabber. Click the downward open triangle () to the right of either the X or the Y scale percentage box and choose 75%. InDesign scales the graphic and centers it in the frame.

   

8. Press the Esc key to select the frame and drag or nudge with the arrow keys to position the frame so that the flower is visually centered over the red box.

9. With the graphic still selected, choose Object > Object Layer Options. Move the dialog box if necessary so that you can see the graphic in the document.

10. Select Preview, and then click the eye icon () next to the English Title layer to turn it off.

11. Click the empty box next to Spanish Title to turn on that layer. Click OK, and then choose Edit > Deselect All.

    

    Using layered Illustrator files allows you to repurpose illustrations without having to create separate files for each variation.

12. Choose File > Save.

Creating an InDesign library

Now you’ll create your own library and add text and a graphic to it. When you add a graphic to an InDesign library, the original graphic file is not copied into the library; instead, InDesign maintains a link to the original source file. Graphics stored in a library still require the original, high-resolution file for high-resolution display and printing.

1. Choose File > New > Library. (If the CC Libraries alert displays asking whether you want to try out CC libraries now, click No.) Type CD Projects as the library filename, navigate to the Lesson10 folder, and click Save.

2. Navigate to page 6 (the back cover of the CD insert). Using the Selection tool (), drag the Ricky Records logo to the library you just created. The logo is now saved in the library for use in other InDesign documents.

   

   Tip

   If you Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (macOS) an object into a library, the Item Information dialog box appears as soon as you drag the item into the library, and you can assign a name to the object as you add each item.

3. In the CD Projects library, double-click the Ricky Records logo. In the Item Information dialog box, type Ricky Records Logo in the Item Name field, and click OK.

   

4. Using the Selection tool, drag the address text frame to the CD Projects library.

5. In the CD Projects library, double-click the address text block. For Item Name, type Ricky Records Address, and click OK. Click the panel menu and choose Large Thumbnail View so that it’s easier to see the items.

   

   Now your library contains both text and graphics. As soon as you make changes to the library, InDesign saves the changes.

6. Close both libraries by clicking the close button at the top of the library panel group.

Congratulations! You have completed this lesson.