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Creating and controlling layers

Creating and controlling layers - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating and controlling layers

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- [Instructor] In a complicated layout it's always a good idea to create at least a couple of layers and then use them to organize your objects. Every document starts with one layer called layer one, and you can see that by opening up your layers panel over here in the dock, there's layer one. And all of our objects are currently on that layer. Let's start organizing this document by creating a couple more layers. First, I'll open the layers panel menu in the upper right corner and choose new layer. We'll give it a name like images, and then click okay. Another way to make a new layer is to hold down the Option or Alt key and then click the new layer button at the bottom of the panel. That forces InDesign to open the new layer dialog box, and this one I'm going to call text and then click okay. Alright, we've got three layers so how do we get objects onto those layers? To show you that, I'm going to jump to the fourth page…

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