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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

You're reading from   Designing the Adobe InDesign Way Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074438
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Gardiner Andy Gardiner
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings 2. Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables 4. Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools 5. Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents 6. Chapter 6: Taking Images Further 7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages 8. Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients 9. Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles 10. Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents 11. Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms 12. Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries 13. Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Taking Images Further

In this chapter, we’ll look at some more advanced techniques when it comes to working with images in InDesign. You will learn how to wrap text automatically around the subject of an image rather than the rectangular frame, as well as create an alpha channel in Photoshop and then wrap text around it within InDesign. We also will create a simple layered PSD file within Photoshop, and then look at how to hide and show those layers while working within InDesign.

Later in this chapter, you will use metadata, which has been added to the image in either Photoshop or Bridge, to automatically generate captions for the image in InDesign. And finally, we will look at anchoring an image’s position to a specific place within the text, ensuring it moves as the text moves.

The recipes we will cover in this chapter are as follows:

  • Wrapping text around objects in an image
  • Hiding and showing image layers in InDesign
  • Using metadata for captions...
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