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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. Now every document starts with one layer called layer one. You can see that by opening your layers panel over here in the dock. There's layer one and all of our objects are currently on that layer. So let's start organizing this document by creating a couple more layers. First I'll open the layers panel menu and choose new layer. And we can give this a name like images. I'll click OK. Now another way to make a layer is to hold down the option or the alt key and 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'll call text. Okay, so now we have three layers. So how do we get objects onto those layers. Actually, let's jump to the fourth page of this document by pressing command or control j and then typing…

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