Use Layer Comps in image work

How-to
By published

InDesign can help you increase productivity if you allow it to muscle in on Photoshop’s remit a little. Kasper Lahti from Accept & Proceed shows you how it’s done.

Using InDesign's Edit Original feature to quickly open an image for editing and then have it updated automatically is a great timesaver.

But instead of going back and forth between Photoshop and InDesign to make an image align and interact with your layout, you can prepare your PSD file with Layer Comps so that it's easily separated once it's in the latter program. This makes it faster and more creative to work with. In this tutorial we'll explain how to separate the layers of a Photoshop image in InDesign, in order to make it easier to lay out next to text and graphics.

Latest Videos From Creative BloqCreative Bloq

Thank you for reading 5 articles this month* Join now for unlimited access

Enjoy your first month for just £1 / $1 / €1

*Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription

Join now for unlimited access

Try first month for just £1 / $1 / €1

Creative Bloq Staff
Creative Bloq Staff
All things Creative Bloq

The Creative Bloq team is made up of a group of art and design enthusiasts, and has changed and evolved since Creative Bloq began back in 2012. The current website team consists of eight full-time members of staff: Editor Georgia Coggan, Deputy Editor Rosie Hilder, Ecommerce Editor Beren Neale, Senior News Editor Daniel Piper, Editor, Digital Art and 3D Ian Dean, Tech Reviews Editor Erlingur Einarsson, Ecommerce Writer Beth Nicholls and Staff Writer Natalie Fear, as well as a roster of freelancers from around the world. The ImagineFX magazine team also pitch in, ensuring that content from leading digital art publication ImagineFX is represented on Creative Bloq.