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Clipping Masks

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Jan 25, 2025 Jan 25, 2025

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Hello, 

 

I'm fairly new to indesign and am taking a class for it in college. however my teacher is wanting us to bring in two images and layer them on top of each other and apply effects to the top image in order to give the other image texture. The teacher is wanting us to apply a clipping mask so the top image (regardless of size) will only be applied to the bottom image. I tried to ask for guidance and his response was that if I could figure it out I would get extra credit. I have scoured google and the only way that I can find on how to do this would be to insert the first image (sizing it appropriatly) then make a shape the exact size of the first image and inset the second image into that. Is there any other way that I am missing?? Screenshot 2025-01-25 at 11.58.03 AM.png

I know that I could size the texture image to the same size as the first image, but I think the point is that if you have an image where you can't size it appropriatly you could just clip it down to the right size. I just want to make sure that I'm doing it correctly and that there isn't any other ways that I don't know about. Or if there are other ways, how to properly do them.

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Jan 25, 2025 Jan 25, 2025

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I think the easiest way would be to GROUP both objects?

 

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Jan 25, 2025 Jan 25, 2025

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Does your teacher also teach Illustrator and/or Photoshop? I'm thinking they are confusing the feature set between them.

 

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Jan 25, 2025 Jan 25, 2025

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Or teacher WAS talking about doing this in Illustrator? 

 

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Jan 26, 2025 Jan 26, 2025

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Yes--for possible import into InDesign afterwards.

 

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Jan 26, 2025 Jan 26, 2025

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Sounds more like Photoshop to me 🙃

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Jan 26, 2025 Jan 26, 2025

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Me too.

 

InDesign supports Photoshop's clipping masks but they are used for text wrap and transparency. Your teacher is detailing a Photoshop workflow:

 

2025-01-26_10-45-24 (1).gif

 

This is how to get a similar result in InDesign, but no clipping masks:

 

2025-01-26_10-47-10 (1).gif

 

~Barb

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Jan 26, 2025 Jan 26, 2025

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Don't sell Illustrator short! 😁

There are a couple of ways to do this--this is just a quick example:

2025-01-26_11-06-48.gif

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