First, I have no doubt that nobody will be reading this site this weekend; not with the big announcement from Adobe next week about Creative Suite 3.
But I was working today and realized I haven’t shared one of my neatest tricks for working with Photoshop layers in InDesign documents.
As most of you know you can go to the Object Layer Options to turn on or off Photoshop layers for images placed into InDesign. But effects, things like drop shadows, inner glows, and color overlays, can be turned on and off in Photoshop’s Layer palette, but they can’t be turned on or off using the Object Layer Options in InDesign.
Or can they???
The trick is to create a Layer Comp in Photoshop that exists with the effect on, and another Layer Comp that exists with the effect off. Then, you choose those Layer Comps to turn the effects on or off.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on March 22, 2007
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