Let's now come over to the Layers Palette once again and generate ourselves a brand-new layer. Again, hold down the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, click to create a brand-new layer and we will call this one Next Images. We are basically going to place almost every other image apart from the background ones on this particular layer.
Now you may notice that the color here has reset itself to yellow and don't forget that's because last time when we generated a layer, we chose not to have yellow and skip to a custom color. Therefore, InDesign automatically goes back and chooses yellow as the next default. So it's up to you if you want to keep that.
What I am going to do is go ahead and choose something slightly dark and maybe this grass green color here. in fact, maybe ochre even darker than the original green we have on the left side. So the layer is named, we chose the new color, let's click OK. Again it will come in at the top and it's ready for us to create an element on.
Now what we are going to do is in the left hand column on this first page, we are going to generate a series of four image frames, one on top of the other, each one will contain a different images. So what we will do is zoom up a bit closer into the upper left-hand side here, scroll over if you need to see it and then go ahead and select the standard rectangle frame tool over here and make sure you draw a shape that goes across of the width of the column, but the aligning its top edge to that 30 millimeter guide, so it automatically aligns to the type.
Now making sure that the anchor point is again set to one of the upper options, let's double-check that the height of this is exactly 30 millimeters, say OK. You can see the height now changes, but the top stayed exactly where it was. Now go back to main selection tool for a second by hitting the V key and then use your new keyboard shortcut to pull up the Place dialog box once again.
Now we are going to back out of the Word Files. We can come straight over here and choose our Project Files from the Favorites list and go back into the Photoshop Files folder and we are going to located this file here called sculptures.psd. Go ahead and select it. We are not going to use any import options at all, so we don't need to hold down the Shift key this time. Let's go ahead and say Open and that image will be placed into this frame at 100% its original size.
Now we want to scale this down to fit this frame as quickly and easily as possible. Again, another huge thing when you are placing in hundreds of images to the document and you want to save time doing so. Well, in the Control Palette on the upper right-hand side you will see a series of images that allow you to change the shape of the image to fit the frame or the frame to fit the image and in this case to center anything that is larger than the frame itself.
What we are going to do, is click this last icon here. This is the new one which says, fill frame proportionately. That will scale the graphic down to immediately fit the full dimension of the frame and leave any extra image on the outside invisible. So we have the ability to move it around afterward so that one simple click can do that job for you.
However, there are also keyboard shortcuts for these. If we come up to the Objects menu and go down to Fitting, you can see the Fit Content to Frame, Fit Frame to Content, Center, Proportionally, this one right here, Fill Frame Proportionally. Alt+Shift+Ctrl+C or Option+Shift+Command+C on the Mac. You learn that one, you can turn around your production time much, much faster.
Now the reason we placed in this particular graphic, is it contains, in fact, eight different layers and each layer is an image that we want to use inside of this particular layer. So remember we have four images on the left, four on the right and I want each one of them to show an individual layer.
Well, this is another workflow procedure, instead of bringing in eight separate Photoshop documents; you can now actually tell InDesign CS2 to show you just one of the specified layer. So this makes it much easier to complete this type of layer. Now this new feature is actually under the Object menu, you will see a command for Object Layer Options. There is no keyboard shortcut. I think that's a crime, we should definitely have one given the amount of time we are going to call on it, especially during this workflow training.
So just deselect for that a second, come on up to the Edit menu and go straight back down to the Keyboard Shortcuts commands we looked at earlier on and that make sure that at the top here we are using still the workflow training set, this is the custom set shortcuts that we had built.
In the product area, we are going to come and select the Object menu, because we know that's where the command exists and then scroll down the list until we find Object Layer Options. If we select that, we can indeed confirm there is no keyboard shortcut. So down here where it says new shortcut, we can generate any one that we want to use, providing we are not taking it away from another one that might be more important.
So I am going to use Alt+Shift+L or Option+Shift+L on the Mac, you can see it's unassigned to anything else. Go ahead and assign that now to that particular function and say OK to save that within our keyboard shortcuts set.
Now we are not going to use that for just the second, because this first frame is already set to show us the very first layer. So this image is all correct. We want to generate a duplicate of this which is exactly 30 millimeters below this one, so it aligns up its top edge to the bottom edge of this and for that we will go up and use Step and Repeat.
Now this has slightly changed inside of InDesign CS2 as well. If we go down to Step and Repeat and specify we only want a repeat count of one, the horizontal offset is going to be 0 millimeters, we don't want it to move left or right, but the vertical offset will be exactly 30, don't forget because the frame is 30 millimeters high as well. If we now say OK, we can see that, that's placed perfectly below the original. If we now call up the new Object Layers Options command by using the new keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+L or Option+Shift+L on the Mac, we can see here a new dialog box that shows us each of the eight layers. If we scroll down to the bottom, you can see the World War I soldier is only one that's currently being viewed.
We could now go ahead and turn on the next one, say OK. InDesign now looks to the original Photoshop file and uses that layer instead; this is just a wonderful, wonderful feature. Now I mentioned that Step and Repeat has changed from the previous version. It has changed in the fact that if we want it to do another 30 millimeter offset, previously you would have to go back and select Step and Repeat again, because Duplicate was always set to a default offset about 12 points to the right and 12 points down, every time you did duplicate, it would do the same thing.
However, now duplicate will respect previous measurements that you specified in Step and Repeat and don't forget what we did here as well. We changed our keyboard shortcut to Ctrl+D or Command+D on the Mac to make it much easier to remember. So all we have to do now is press Ctrl+D and duplicate another one of these exactly 30 millimeters underneath.
Again, bring up the Layer Options, turn on the third image, say OK. Duplicate again, bring up the Layers Option, turn on the fourth image and says OK to complete the left-hand side of the spread. Now if we fit everything in the window, we can see the four images over on the left and we want an exact duplicate of the one on right-hand side. We are using the same shortcut that we did for copying this text frame over to the right. We can get the images over there as well.
Select the first one, hold down the Shift key and select the other three as well. What we can do is just collapse the paragraph styles over here and scroll across so we can see area it's got to go into. Click on any one of them holding down the Alt key or the Option key and drag another set of four so they snap perfectly
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