© 2011 Delmar, Cengage Learning Chapter 6 Placing and Linking Graphics.

© 2011 Delmar, Cengage Learning

Chapter 6

Placing and Linking Graphics

Chapter Objectives

• Place multiple graphics• Use the Links panel• Explore image resolution issues• Place vector graphics• Interface InDesign with Photoshop• Use libraries

© 2011 Delmar Cengage Learning

Place Multiple Graphics

• Use the Place command on the File menu to place single or multiple graphics into a layout.



• Use [Ctrl] + click to select as many graphic files as you want to place, and then click Place.

• The place gun icon appears, featuring a thumbnail of the “current” loaded image and a number indicating how many graphics are loaded.




Thumbnail of “current” loaded image

Number indicates the number of images loaded in the place gun



The Frame Fitting commands you will use most often are:

•Fill Frame Proportionally

•Fit Content Proportionally


• Fill Frame Proportionally scales the graphic so that it fills the entire frame without distorting the graphic.



• Fit Content Proportionally scales a graphic so that the entire graphic is visible when placed into any size frame.


You can set up default fitting settings for all graphics in the Frame Fitting Options dialog box.




• Adobe Bridge is a free-standing content management application designed to help you manage files you will use in CS5.

• Adobe Mini Bridge, new to CS5, allows you to use the organizational power of Adobe Bridge without leaving InDesign, via the Mini Bridge panel.



Thumbnail previews

Mini Bridge panel

Folder directory

Use the Links Panel

• Understanding preview files – Low resolution versions of graphics– Act as a proxy for actual content– Stores a link to content


Use the Links Panel

• Using the Links panel– The Links panel is command center for

managing links to placed graphics.• Lists all text and graphic files• Lists location page number• Gives options for sorting list


Use the Links Panel

• To view information about a link, click the Links panel options button, then click Panel Options.

• Check the boxes of the categories that you'd like to display.

• Click Show Column or Show in Link Info check box.


Use the Links Panel


Use the Links Panel

• When you place graphics or text, InDesign remembers the path on your computer.

• The Links panel alerts you to status of placed file.• Missing icon appears when established link no longer

points to file• Modified icon appears when file is modified after being

placed in InDesign


Use the Links Panel

• Updating missing and modified files– To update modified files in Links panel, click the file

name then click Update Link button.– Missing files need to be relinked.

• Click file name in Links panel

• Click Update Link button

• Once re-established, status changes to OK


Use the Links Panel

• To expand the Links panel and show the Link Info section, click the Show/Hide Link Information button.



Missing icon

Modified icon

No status icon indicates link OK

Show/Hide Link Information button

Use the Links Panel

Use the Links Panel


Link Info section

Selected file

Show/Hide Link Information button

The Link Info section of the Links panel provides a lot of useful information about the linked graphic.

Use the Links Panel

QUICKTIP

InDesign lets you choose whether or not text is linked. If you want all your placed text to be linked to the original document, click Edit/Preferences/File Handling in the Links section, make sure the Create Links When Placing Text and Spreadsheet Files check box is checked.


Explore Image Resolution Issues

• Photographic images are created on computers using a rectangular grid of colored squares called pixels.

• Graphics created from pixels are called bitmap graphics.



• The number of pixels in a given inch is referred to as resolution.

• Effective resolution refers to the resolution of a placed image based on its size in the layout.


• Enlarging an image in InDesign creates problems with effective resolution.

• The greater the enlargement, the lower the effective resolution of the image.



• Images should be created at the correct output size for optimum resolution.

• Images can be resized if necessary in Photoshop, but there is still a loss of quality.



• When Photoshop creates new pixels in the process of interpolation, it bases the color of the new pixels on the color information of the original pictures.

• You can reduce the size of graphics without worry.



Place Vector Graphics

• Graphics created in drawing programs, such as Adobe Illustrator, are called vector graphics.

• They consist of anchor points and line segments called paths.

• Best choice for typographical illustrations.




Vector graphic placed in InDesign


• When placing vector graphics in InDesign you can resize them without losing image quality.

• When vector graphics are placed from Illustrator, only the vector is placed, not the entire document.



Choosing the default display performance:– When a graphic file is placed in InDesign, a low-

resolution preview file appears.– Quality displayed is determined in the Display

Performance section of the Preferences dialog box.– Choose between Fast, Typical, or High Quality

Display views.



• Three Performance Display Settings


High Quality Typical Fast


There are two ways to put Illustrator graphics into an InDesign document:

– Place it using the Place command if you don’t need to edit it.

– Copy and paste it so that it becomes a fully-editable InDesign object.


Interface InDesign with Photoshop

• You can remove a white background from placed graphics using the Detect Edges function in the Clipping Path dialog box.



• The Threshold setting determines pixel values that will be made transparent.

• Tolerance setting determines how smooth the edge of the image will be once pixels are transparent.



Threshold

Tolerance


• A silhouette is a selection made in Photoshop.

• Alpha channels are silhouettes saved with names.




Black areas can be made transparent in InDesign

White represents selected areas of image


• Loading clipping paths in InDesign:– Paths are another type of selection you can

create in Photoshop.– Created with Pen tool, one or more paths can

be saved in file.



• Save or export a path with Photoshop file.

• Saved files don’t automatically load in InDesign but can be loaded using a clipping path.

• Exported clipping paths are loaded automatically.



Placing a graphic with a feathered edge against a colored background in InDesign

– A soft edge around a graphic is a feathered edge.

– They are created in Photoshop.– Standard design is to place a feathered edge

against white background.



• When placing a feathered edge against colored background, save against a transparent background in Photoshop.– Make selection with feathered edge– Copy selection to new layer– Make original layer visible



The Layers panel in Photoshop


Checkerboard represents transparent areas

Background layer is not visible

Graphic against a transparent background


Use Libraries

• Libraries are InDesign files.• Look like panels

• Saved with .indl extension

• Also called Object libraries

• Libraries are used to store graphics.• Drag items from page into library.• Drag library items from library to page.


Use Libraries

• Libraries can store text, vectors, bitmaps, and InDesign objects, such as frames.

• Commands for adding items to library on Library panel menu:– Add Items on Page– Add Items on Page as Separate Objects



Show LibrarySubset button

Library ItemInformation button

New LibraryItem button

Delete LibraryItem button

Use Libraries

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