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Moving assets between layers - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
Moving assets between layers
- [Instructor] And I wonder how many eagle-eyed people spotted my deliberate mistake? Probably looking now and thinking, what mistake? Everything there is good. Well, it sort of is. And technically, we could live with the mistake but the purpose of this movie is to show you how to move assets between layers. Because I dropped this onto the background's layer and this is the layer for other images. So how do you move it? Well, of course, it needs to be selected to start off with. Although you could do that here, this is called the proxy region, this area just here. And if I twirl open the background so you can see the content, you can see that this actual file is selected there. And I can drag its proxy up and onto the images layer. I actually dragged it onto the text layer just there but you can drag it onto the images layer and that moves it onto that layer. It's much easier than copying it going to this particular…
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Document setup2m 39s
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Create guides2m
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Master pages1m 54s
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Layers2m 12s
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Typography6m 21s
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Place images3m 41s
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Moving assets between layers1m 18s
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Place an Illustrator file1m 41s
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Add a character style3m 40s
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Reposition an image3m 2s
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Formatting text4m 19s
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Threading text1m 21s
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Columns and span3m 42s
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Challenge: Center heading1m 52s
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Solution: Center heading1m 11s
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Add inset spacing2m 42s
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Grid drawing and gaps3m 7s
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Challenge: Grid drawing53s
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Challenge: Thread text1m 44s
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Importing data3m 55s
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Styling a table3m 55s
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Object layer options5m 16s
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Gradient feather4m 2s
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