![]() If you link files, you can still embed them after the fact. ![]() Illustrator has an option to link or not in the Place dialog box. InDesign only lets you embed files after they are in the document. The main difference is you can choose whether to link or embed the files as you choose them. However, there is a big difference if you choose to link or embed the files. You see the same preview with a number indicating how many files are in the queue. You load up your cursor and then click or drag on your document. There’s not much difference from InDesign when you place Photoshop files into Illustrator. And for their needs, there’s nothing wrong with using Illustrator as their hub with placed images. They create short-copy projects, such as wine labels and CD covers, with lots of vector and pixel graphics. I know many companies that use Illustrator, not InDesign, as a page layout program. Use this for items such as direct mail coupons that need to be inserted into many documents. Then when you modify the original InDesign file, the placed graphic updates. InDesign treats these files as PDF documents. It may seem like the snake swallowing its own tail, but you can place InDesign files into other InDesign files. The Place cursors for InDesign (top left) and Illustrator (bottom right). This makes it even easier to switch from one application to another. Power Tip: If you switch to another document, or even another application, your loaded cursor will still be active when you switch back to InDesign. Switch to any tool in the toolbox to delete loaded cursor completely. Use the Escape key to delete items in the queue. Once you have the loaded cursor use the left/right arrow keys to cycle through the items in the queue. ![]() With this technique you can add as many Photoshop and Illustrator files as you need. You’ll see the loaded cursor icon increase the number of files it has loaded. You can select File > Place again and navigate to a new folder. But you don’t have to place those files right away. For instance, if you choose three files from one folder and click OK, you move back to the InDesign page with a loaded cursor. Power Tip: You can load up your cursor with as many files as you want. But you don’t have to add each file one at a time. You then choose the files you want to place, click OK, and add them to your documents. The most basic way to import files into InDesign is with the File > Place command. InDesign likes them the best and you have no problems going back to modify them-especially if you haven’t flattened the layers. Use native Photoshop or Illustrator files. Here are some tricks that can make this process more seamless so the applications work as one. They import images from Photoshop and Illustrator onto their InDesign pages. Most people use InDesign as the “hub” for their projects. In future articles, I’ll cover moving vectors between the apps, coordinating colors, working with the interface, layers & text, and exporting and printing. In this first article on using InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop together, I’ll cover how to use each program as your main layout tool. ![]() You open it by launching each application separately then, you use them as a single application. I call it “InDe-Illu-Shop.” But you don’t open it with a single click. Well, actually there is such an application. ![]() Many of my students ask why Adobe doesn’t just combine InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator into one super-application that can do everything-layout, images, paths, etc. ![]()
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