Hiding and showing image layers in InDesign
When you work with professional image editing tools such as Photoshop, you work with layers. This has several benefits, with the main one being that it allows you to edit and adjust items independently of each other.
Only certain file types support layers, though, and if you save your files in formats such as JPG or PNG, they will be flattened. This means that all the layers will be merged into a single layer and you will lose all the benefits of working with multi-layered files.
By saving your files in the native Photoshop PSD format, not only are all the layers retained but you can access them from within InDesign, allowing you to hide and show layers without the need to return to Photoshop every time.
In this recipe, we are going look at how to enable and disable layers in InDesign, both as you import the file initially, and also later on while working within the document.
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