From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign

Object layer options - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign

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Object layer options

- [Presenter] Okay, back from our review and it's good news. They pretty much like it. They would however like a shadow underneath the car. So I have to have a look at that in just a moment. And also there's another version of the logo where red is an accent color and they'd like to see that. So let's have a look at both of those things. What I'm going to do just temporarily is take you out to Photoshop where you can see this file. Now, this has the layer here, it also has a couple of adjustment layers on top of that and it has a layer called undercoat. Let's see if we can access those in InDesign. So I'm going to select the car here and right click and choose object layer options and then I can see the layers. I can see the adjustment layers here and I can also see undercoat. Now watch the windows just here in the car because when I turn these on the windows get darker because that's what that undercoat layer is doing. It's putting a very, very thin undercoat of black under there which is helping to continue the illusion of the windows. So that one is fine. Now let's pop out to Illustrator. The shadow we'll have to deal with separately but we'll go to illustrator, just here. And here is the file that the logo comes from. And if I turn on the visibility for all of these different layers, you can see that rather than each one being a separate file, they're all in one place. Now they've all got different names that give a clue to what they are. So this one at the bottom is a non-printing layer and that's just for the black that shows the reversed out things on top. But we've got names here. So names in red, names in red and white, name K which is for black, name reversed out which is for white. We've got badge red, badge black, badge reversed out, badge reversed outline which is this one just here. We've got full two color which is the full logo in two colors. So that's the badge and the name together. We've got full in black. If I turn that one off like so. And we've got full reversed out. So we have got a full two color here somewhere with the white on, if not just the white reversed out. Let's have a look then at changing one of these over just temporarily in Illustrator. Now I turn off these layers here because otherwise what will happen is it may well update inside of InDesign with everything turned on. So let's go back there then and what we'll do is we will click on here and then right-click, object layer options. Now this is how we can find out what's going on here. When it says when updating link keep layer visibility overrides, that means if we turn things on, inside the other file then they should be just fine. But let's go for the full black, just there and now it's turned on underneath this so I turn that one off and put on the preview. You can see how easy it is to swap these things over. I'm going to cancel out all that and then I'm going to make my way to page four. So Command + J + 4 return to go here and let's place another one down. I'm going to go ahead and Command + D or Control + D here. I'm going to go for the logos like so and I'm going to choose my layer. Now there's a lot in here so I'm going to turn off that full reversed out and I'm just going to go for the badge red, just here. Nice. Bring that in. I'm going to pop that down in the corner, just here like so. There we are and pop that there. And then if they pass that and they say, uumh no, I prefer it reversed out then we know I don't have to go and search the file. All I need to do is go here, object layer options, find the badge I'm actually working on, so this is the badge, I'm just going to turn that one off, turn the badge name reversed out. Oh, that's the name! And you can see that's not filling cause it doesn't have the same shape. Badge reversed out just there so we'll go ahead and do that; easy. There we are. So that's object layer options, as I said before, available for Photoshop files and Illustrator files but what we're going to do next is tackle that shadow.

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