From the course: InDesign Secrets
190 Make an image sandwich: Putting an image in front and in back of text for a magazine cover - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
190 Make an image sandwich: Putting an image in front and in back of text for a magazine cover
- I've always loved this effect. You know, where you have sharp vector text seemingly intertwined inside a bit-mapped image. I remember in the early nineties trying to figure out how magazines like Sports Illustrated do this and finding out that it took a million dollar machine. So that's why I'm so happy that today I can do it in a few clicks between InDesign and Photoshop. Let me show you how it's done. The basic technique has to do with creating an image sandwich. Let's look at the Layers panel and I can see that I have an image with a text frame on top of it, and then another image on top of it. It's actually the same image. If I select that top photograph by clicking on this little box inside the Layers panel, and then hit the Delete key on my keyboard, it deletes that graphics frame, and now you can see that I've got the text frame sitting on top of the image. Now let's go ahead and look at that image in Photoshop. You can see that I have two layers in the Layers panel in Photoshop. Both layers are very similar, but the bottom one contains the entire image along with the background, and the top image contains just the photographer, with a transparent background. By selecting that photographer and cloning him onto a new layer, I can create this image sandwich effect. Let's go back to InDesign. In InDesign, after I've placed a graphic and then put the text frame on top of it, I select the graphic frame in the background, copy it from the Edit menu, and then go back to the Edit menu and choose Paste in Place. That's a quick way to make a duplicate exactly on top of the original. Now all I need to do is make that background go away, and I can do that by going to the Object menu and choosing Object Layer Options. I love Layer Options because it lets me turn on and off layers, hide them and show them, without having to go back to Photoshop. In fact, this also works with Illustrator files or even InDesign files that I've placed inside other InDesign files. But here we have a Photoshop file and we can see that we've got two layers, the same two layers that we saw in Photoshop. So, if I turn off Layer Zero, by clicking on that little eyeball icon, and then clicking OK, the effect is complete. I've removed the background from the topmost image. Once you've created your effect like this, you don't want it to accidentally get moved - like that. That would be bad. Let me undo that - Cmd Z or Ctrl Z on Windows. That's why I like to select those objects inside the Layers panel or on the page. I'll just do this by Shift-clicking on each of these boxes, and then going to the Object menu, and grouping them together. As a group, they'll stay together, no matter where you drag it. As you can see, it doesn't take much to build this really compelling effect. And sometimes you just have to think outside the box a little bit.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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