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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.

Bob

Peter Spier

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Bob Levine wrote:
That is not even remotely possible.

Bob

Depends on what he means by edited and saved as an InDesign file...

If you Place (File > Place...) a layered .psd file you cannot edit the pixels, but you can show or hide inidvidual layers (Right click on it and choose Object Layer Options...). You can then save your document as a .indd file with a linked image.

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Just wondering if it's possible to bring the Photoshop file into InDesign so that all the layers are visible under the layers panel in addition to visually being visible in the Placed file.

It doesn't need to be edited again in InDesign but all of the separate layers need to be made visible under the layers panel on the right side similar to how they show in Photoshop.

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