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Turning image layers on and off

Turning image layers on and off - InDesign Tutorial

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Turning image layers on and off

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In this Roux article document from my exercise folder, I have an image that has a transparent background. You can see right past this guy to the gray background. That gray comes from a frame behind it, over here. I also know that it's transparent because I can see the transparency in Photoshop. Let's go ahead and open this image in Photoshop. First, I'll select it, and you'll notice I can't click on it anymore because I've selected the frame behind it. So I'm going to hold on the Command key on the Mac or the Control key on Windows, and click. That lets me select that object even though the one behind it was selected. Now I'll hold the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on Windows and double-click on the image. That invokes Edit Original, and it opens that PSD file right up in the original application, which is of course Photoshop. There you go, you can see the characteristic checkerboard in the background that indicates it's transparent, and I can see if I look down here in the…

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