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Layers basics

Layers basics - InDesign Tutorial

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Layers basics

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Working with layers in Adobe InDesign is just as crucial as using layers in Photoshop and Illustrator. In this file, for instance, I have six layers and the reason why we use layers is to make it easier to separate elements and easily select them and work with them. So as you can see I have a lot of elements on top of each other For instance, we have these balls here, we have the text wrapped around the circle inside, we have then the circle with some additional text on it and already just having a few elements placed on top of each other makes it sometimes hard to select the element that you are planning to make changes to. So for instance, if I wanted to make changes to the spicy situation text I might end up accidentally selecting this text instead. So let me zoom a little bit closer here just so you can see what I mean. So yeah this circle has text inside it while this circle has text wrapped around it. So of course I can use a double click to make selections like that or again I…

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