How can I layer photos in InDesign?

[elle457]

Hi There,

I'm fairly new to InDesign and wanted to know how I can add multiple pictures onto one "main" picture. To be more specific, I want to be able to see how different pieces of artwork will look on the walls of photos of interior settings. And not all photos are necessarily in flat or single perspective. Any insight would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Elle

[Barb Binder]

Are you publishing to a fixed-layout ePub or Publish Online? If so, you can add all the images, one over the other on an InDesign page and create a multi-stage object. Once created, you can add buttons that will cycle through the images.

Add interactive buttons in InDesign

[elle457]

It's for packages I want to prepare for client presentations. So they would be sent via email and/or printed. Ultimately I want to show them how different artwork options would look in their space.

[amaarora]

Hi,

Something like this? https://indd.adobe.com/view/0f65bd98-18c2-4629-ad1d-73cdf3f9c04c

-Aman

[Barb Binder]

Well, if you are giving them a print document, clearly they can't flip through the images using a mute-state object (MSO) as you can see demo'd in Aman's link. For print, you might consider setting up multiple pages, each with different artwork. If you want them to be able to see it online and have the interactivity that Aman showed, create the MSO with buttons and they can flip through the choices. You can email a link to see the file on Publish Online, which would be very easy.

[elle457]

Well I'm not concerned with the multi function of having them be able to "flip" through options as I don't want it to be interactive. But rather just print the options; 1 room per page, per piece of art. Can anyone help me or lead me in the right direction of where I can learn how to do this?

[Barb Binder]

In that case, just design the first page with the room and add first piece of art.

• Select all, copy, go to page two, paste in place.
• Select the artwork and use the links panel to relink to a new image.
• Repeat for each page until you have all of the artwork shown.

[hammer0909]

You can still use Multi-state objects for print purposes actually. Even though the interactivity won't be relevant, you can still use them to toggle through the various images to see them and then just choose the one that you want to use prior to exporting.