That would make experimenting and doing rough comps much easier.īut speaking of smart objects, there is much more cool stuff you can do with them: For example, if you are printing in b/w, you can convert a layered RGB image with a “Black & White” adjustment layer into a smart object, then convert the enclosing photoshop document to grayscale mode and then go back whenever you want and change the b&w conversion settings without having to export it to a grayscale image again and update the link in InDesign. I wish InDesign had real Camera Raw support instead of just using the embedded low-res thumbnail from RAW files when placing them (which in case of Nikon have a black border to make things worse) but a regular “developed” version based on the camera raw settings in the XMP. Then double-click on the layer thumbnail in Photoshop and Camera Raw opens! But you still get all the benefits of Camera Raw: If you want to change your Camera Raw settings, just Option/Alt-double-click on the image in InDesign. Now you can save your file as a regular Photoshop PSD file and import it into InDesign! Okay, so we didn’t really import the Raw file into InDesign - we imported a PSD file.
If you Shift-click, the Raw file is embedded into a Photoshop file as a smart object layer. Instead, press the Shift key and the button changes to Open Object. If you click that, you’ll open the image in Photoshop. You’ll notice that in the lower right corner, there is a button labeled Open Image. Here’s what you do: When you open a Raw file in Camera Raw (either via Bridge or directly inside Photoshop), you can make any global edits you want. It’s a simple trick but has wonderful applications because Camera Raw incredibly flexible and lets you make radical changes to your image with no image degradation. I walked into Mike McHugh’s images session at The InDesign Conference today for 2 minutes and saw him present something I didn’t think was possible: Using the flexibility of a Camera Raw file inside an InDesign document. Even if it’s a workaround - a kludge, a hack, or whatever you want to call it.
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I love it when I learn how to do something that can’t be done.