- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Importing and sizing graphics
- Editing placed pictures
- Working with dropped backgrounds
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Using subject-aware text wrap
- Filling type with a graphic
- Using an InDesign library to manage objects
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Editing placed pictures
The quickest way to make a change to an imported graphic while you’re working in InDesign is to use the Edit Original feature. This opens the graphic in the corresponding image program (usually Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop). You can make the desired changes, save the file, and it will be automatically updated in InDesign.
If the Links panel is not already open, choose Window > Links or click the Links panel icon (
) in the panel dock.Select Blue-Hydrangea.psd and click the page number following the name to center it in your window.
At the bottom right of the Links panel, click the Edit Original button (
). This opens the image in an application that can view or edit it. This image was saved in Photoshop, so if Photoshop is installed on your computer, InDesign starts Photoshop and opens the selected file.In Photoshop, make a change to the image, such as applying a filter or making a dramatic change with an adjustment layer. Save the file and return to InDesign, and the image is automatically updated in InDesign. In the example you see in the 11_End.indd file, a filter was applied to blur the background.