Transparent Gif Overlay in Parent Page

You can package the file, ao all assets are gathered in a common folder and subfolder. Later you can move or archive the whole folder without getting problems.

Thank you Willi. You can read my response to Mike's post to better understand what I'm doing. Would you still recommend linked instead of embedded? I'm going to Google around to try to better understand why this is a better practice (it intuitively seems to be better to have them directly available in some directory rather than embedded I suppose in most cases).

The original I have of that grid overlay is the GIF image. The more I read from the comments and think about it, I may attempt to recreate this in AI...it is a pretty low quality.

Thank you for your input!

Hi Robert,

I'm creating a page a day and copying/pasting images from a website (see my reply to @Mike Witherell  above). I don't need the images for anything else, and copy/paste just intuitively seemed like an obvious workflow. Saving the image first then placing wouldn't be much extra work. Does placing images link them in some way that would require me to keep all of the images (3 per day over at least 50 days)? I think I'd want to embed them so that I end up with a single file that has all the images vs. a file that relies on a directory of images (but I'm sure there are ways to do this). Any comment or advice? I appreciate your input.

Hi James,

Thanks for your input. In the end it helped clarify what Mike advised and was very helpful.

So I'm very intrested in why PSD vs. GIF or PNG. GIF and PNG are obsolete (or becoming obsolete)? My source image is a GIF, so I'd either want to redo it (probably in Illustrator) or import it into Photoshop and then save it out as a PSD—would there be an advantage still to doing that?

Thank you. It took me a couple of attempts and re-reading to understand that I needed to create a new layer above the default layer, then place the image in the new layer and lock it. Once I figured that out, it started working perfectly. Should have read all the comments first as @James Gifford—NitroPress made this abundently clear, but no matter. Appreciate all the help!

@Robert at ID-Tasker  asks "why paste into" and you and others recommend Place vs. Paste. 1) because I don't know any better, ha ha; 2) because what I'm trying to do is to create one page per day to record solar observations. The requirement is to record 3 images from a website each day and place them on a page along with my own measurements. So the intuitive workflow would be to create a new page, then visit the website and copy/paste the images onto the page. Each page would look something like this:

In the end I'll add several pages of introductory information, and my lab setup, and some reference information, create a simple cover, and publish everything to a PDF for my assignment, and to a hard-cover format of some sort for my own records. I may even try home-binding this as I've been interested in attempting a book binding project on my own.

That grid overlaying the image of the Sun is what I was trying to get into the parent page (thank you, that seems to work really well).

Thanks everyone for all your help, and I would welcome any additional advice on how to procede with this project.

So copy/paste just saves me a couple of steps. So does that make sense to do in this case, or would you still recommend Place not Paste ? Any other advice would be appreciated as well.