When placing an image onto indesign the image does not become part of an indesign document. When we add the image it is a low resolution preview of the image. When printing the image will come out clear and crisp. When we place images in indesign we establish a link between the indesign file and the image file. Indesign labels our images as links.
Why does InDesign work in this way?
- to keep it running fast
We should size an image in Photoshop but we can do it in indesign.
The links bar allows us to see what scale we have made our photoshop files. eg. mine is 36% of the original image. This would mean when printing it will be pixeled.
our setting is to edit with preview. We want to change this to photoshop. In order to do this we go to the finder folder and link to the birds file with the tiff. files in. We can now change this image to photoshop default by clicking on the info for a tiff file and changing the default to photoshop.
When opening the file in photoshop go to Image- Image Size- Percent and change it to the percentage which the image is scaled. Save the image and the indesign file should update.
Using psd. files it allows us to have transparency. Tiff. files give us a rectangular image made of pixels.
Double clicking the background layer on a psd. allows us to change the transparency. It wi;; turn it into a layer rather than a background.
to get text to go around an image.
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