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How to import a PSD file into Indesign WITH layers so it can be edited/saved as an InDesign file?

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March 26, 2013
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How to import a Photoshop file into Indesign CS6 so that it's layers show in InDesign and it can then be edited/saved as an InDesign file?

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Correct answer Erinb.Kelly

UPDATE: I found an answer to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh71QTBN1D0

Basically you can create a dynamic link between photoshop and indesign. Place your layered photoshop document on the indesign document, and if you want to make changes to the placed PSD file, you can alt (or option) > double click on the psd file on Indesign, and that will bring up Photoshop. Make desired change, and save and the psd file will automatically update in indesign (yay! Anything is possible!)

Erinb.KellyCorrect answer

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UPDATE: I found an answer to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh71QTBN1D0

Basically you can create a dynamic link between photoshop and indesign. Place your layered photoshop document on the indesign document, and if you want to make changes to the placed PSD file, you can alt (or option) > double click on the psd file on Indesign, and that will bring up Photoshop. Make desired change, and save and the psd file will automatically update in indesign (yay! Anything is possible!)

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tabrez1215

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It should be...as psd layers support in illustrator. Otherwise Adobe should do something and work on it.

Willi Adelberger

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tabrez1215 schrieb:

It should be...as psd layers support in illustrator. Otherwise Adobe should do something and work on it.

No, it should not be, as InDesign is a layout application and has a complete different target to work with. Layers in Photoshop are different than InDesign layer or Illustrator Layers. Opening a PSD file in Illustrator can keep the layers alive, but not under all circumstances, in many cases you have to choose between single layers or the correct appearance, both is often impossible.

InDesign allows you to use Photoshop's Layer Composition and you can place the same file several times with different Layer Composition settings.

In InDesign (and Illustrator) a layer can contain different types of content, in Photoshop not (except Smart Objects, but these are united as one single layer there).

In InDesign you can have Objects with different color spaces even on the same layer, in Photoshop not.

I think there is no need to have this in InDesign as it would cause more problem than advantages.

BobLevine

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That is not even remotely possible.

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beexsting82

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Honestly Bob, that's the way I need to be spoken to in these types of situations. Respect.

Matteo Grander

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I disagree, as answers like this don't contribute at all to people finding a solution that works for them.

Additionally, language isn't an exact science and massive misunderstandings can arise from either bad writing by the person asking, or bad reading comprehension on the part of the person asking. (both of which I've come across countless times.)

For example, I have comic panels as photoshop layers, which I want to adjust to an additional alternative layout.

I would argue that answers such as "that's not what InDesign is for" are bogus in such a case, as this is clearly a matter of layout.

And insisting panels be redrawn for an alternative layout is nonsensical.

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