Photoshop to InDesign
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- groundst
How do I convert a PSD to InDesign and keep the functionality of a .psd file. i.e. font and style change.
- groundst0
Come on! Brilliant designers, where are you?
- groundst0
respect for NT is slowly depleting...
- _salisae_0
your question is a bit vague but i'll try and answer
save the psd as a tif .. make sure that your original image scan is 300dpi and that your photoshop file is in CMYK
then you will have to recreate the type in indesign
- mayo0
I don't think you really can. You might be able to place in layers, but I don't know how functional it will be. You shouldn't be doing your text in PS anyway.
- groundst0
I'm trying to fix something a previous designer has done.
I guess I'll start from scratch.
- mayo0
what are you trying to fix?
- groundst0
The designer I replace had designed a series of postcards in Photoshop. The client now wants to alter the text or design in InDesign. Therefore, I have to send source files for InDesign that we never had...
O_o
- mayo0
Ahhh. Did he leave the layers files? If so, then it should be fairly easy to take care of that.
- groundst0
He left one PSD. It includes all of the layers however when I export it to tiff and then place it into my InDesign document there are no layers. It's all one image. Flat...
- mayo0
make sure you just take off any text (and preferrably any vector art) in the psd, make a flattened copy to place as your bg in Indesign and then place the text and vector art. You may want to place the current flattened file there temporarily so that you can line up the text exaclty. Just make sure you ultimately take the text out of PS.
- Prev0
just turn on or off the layers of the psd file that you need > and place or import into InDesign.
In the CS 2 you can even turn the layers of your psd on and off inside InDesign.
- Prev0
Just so you are clear. I meant to say place the PSD file itself into the InDesign document.
- groundst0
That helps quite a bit for me but, I'm afraid the client wont have CS 2.
- mayo0
oooh, too bad. they'll have to pay you to make their changes.
:D
- groundst0
too bad I'm on salary...
:C
- mayo0
yeah, but the client comes back. I always feel a sense of dread when a client asks us for the files. I get scared that we'll never hear from them again.