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183 Borrowing preset art paths from Illustrator and Photoshop for fresh frame looks in InDesign

183 Borrowing preset art paths from Illustrator and Photoshop for fresh frame looks in InDesign - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

183 Borrowing preset art paths from Illustrator and Photoshop for fresh frame looks in InDesign

- This is a pretty dynamic layout already, I'd say, but what if we wanted to make it dynamic-er. What if we wanted to use a shape other than the rectangles that are used to hold these images, like say for this guy. It's easy to do in InDesign if you know what you're doing with the pen tool, but you know, there are lots of other vector paths hiding in Illustrator and Photoshop that we can use for the same purpose. First let me show you how to do it in InDesign. I'm gonna switch to normal editing mode and drag out a simple shape like a star, which I've already set up with the polygon tool. Let's move over here to the pasteboard. I just want to go over the basics. So you have some sort of a vector path and then you want to bring a picture into here. Now, I can place it from the File menu but if I want to actually experiment with an image I've already placed, I'll need to select it with the direct selection tool, copy it, then select the target shape and choose Paste into. Paste itself…

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