- [Deke] In this movie, I'll show you
how to share an asset with either InDesign or Photoshop.
So here I am in InDesign and you can see
I've already placed one instance of the blocks
and I can tell that they're linked to the Cloud
because we have this cute little Cloud icon
in the top left corner.
Now assuming we want to place a few more items,
I'll go up to the Window menu and choose CC Libraries
in order to bring up the same named panel
and I'll switch to the design elements library
so that I can see our elements
and I'll go ahead and drag down
till I can see the word design
and I'll go ahead and drag it and drop it
out into the document, at which point,
that loads my cursor, just as if I had chosen
the place command from the File menu.
So I'll just go ahead and click in order to place said file.
It's a little big, so I'll go up here
to the scaling values, notice that they're linked together.
I'll change one of the values to 66% and that
goes ahead and scales the letters quite nicely.
I could even move them into the proper locations
which is going to be somewhere around here
in order to match the document in Illustrator.
Alright, but I'm going to move these guys up
by dragging them or pressing the Shift key.
Now, I'll grab the logo and I'll drag and drop
a copy of it, again that goes ahead and loads my cursor
at which point I'll click to place the logo
and then I'll scale this piece of artwork to 20%
and press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac
to accept that change.
Somehow I switched to the hand tool,
and so I'll undo that change, click off the art,
and then click on it again, and drag it
into a different position like so.
Once I'm done, I could click off the artwork
and then I'll go ahead and click on this normal icon
at the bottom of the toolbox and switch it to preview
or you could just press the W key.
At which point we can see the artwork
without any interface folder all.
So the great thing about this is,
if I were to make any changes to any of these three items
inside Illustrator and save the changes to the onset
then the various instances would update automatically
here inside InDesign.
So essentially it works the same way it does in Illustrator.
Now the relationship between Illustrator and Photoshop
is a little more nuanced and my way of thinking
it's more useful to creative professionals.
Let me show you what that looks like.
Imagine if you will, here I am back in Illustrator,
now what I want to do is switch to the layers panel
and turn on this image layer right here
and I should say that this image comes to us
from the Dreamstime image library
about which you can learn more and get some
great deals at dreamstime.com/deke.php.
With that in mind, you can see I've already
adjusted the colors and that's because
that was a raw image file and so I was able
to cool it down in camera.
In any rate, what I want to do is create a kind
of interaction between this image layer
and the background.
So I'm going to target the layer by clicking
on this circular meatball right there
and then I'll click at the word Opacity
up here in the control panel and I'll change
the blend mode to overlay to produce this effect here.
But now let's say, I want the original image
to be linked to the Cloud, just in case
I decide I want to make some modifications to it.
Well, one way to work is to go to the libraries panel
and take the actual image itself and then
drag it and drop it into the libraries panel
at which point you'll end up with this new item
called artwork one, but notice if you decide
you want to make a modification to it
and you double click on it, instead of that image
helpfully opening inside Photoshop,
it just opens inside Illustrator.
And so far if you click on it,
we're still looking at a linked image.
It's linked to an image file on disk.
On my disk that is to say this time around.
So notice that even though we're seeing a number,
that is part of the original file name.
So that's pretty silly.
You have a link to an image file on disk
that is then linked inside Illustrator to the Cloud.
That's just not going to do you very much good.
So here's the better way to work.
Let's just go ahead and get rid of the selected image
in Illustrator and I'll select that artwork one image,
here inside the libraries panel and I'll click on
the little trash icon to get rid of it.
Now, go ahead and switch over to Photoshop
where I already have the image file open.
Notice that it's a flat JPEG, that's worth noting,
and now I'll go up to the Window menu and choose
the Libraries command to bring up the libraries panel.
I need to switch to my design elements library.
Then I'll grab my move tool, which you can get
by pressing the V key so it's very much like
the black arrow tool in Illustrator
and I'll drag and drop the image into the libraries panel
at which point it gets called background
because this is the background image.
I'm going to change the name of this image,
let's say, to metal photo and press the Enter key
or the Return key on a Mac.
Alright now you can close this image.
We don't need it anymore.
Then switch back over to Illustrator,
at which point you can see that we have a new asset
called metal photo, go ahead and right click on it
and choose place link, and that will place
a copy of that image right there
in the middle of the document,
and because the layer is set to the overlay mode,
the image is set to that mode as well.
Alright, now let's say I want to recolor this image
in some way, shape or form, then I'll go ahead
and double click on the thumbnail for the asset
here inside the libraries panel
and that's going to automatically open that asset
inside Photoshop because after all,
that's where I created it.
Alright, I'll go ahead and zoom in a little bit.
I want you to notice the name of this file.
It's now metal photo.psd so even though it started off
as a flat JPEG file, it is now a native PSD document
meaning that it can accommodate layers.
So if I switch over to the layers panel,
and double click on the background
in order to bring up the new layer dialog box,
I could call this guy, photo if I want,
and then I'll drop down to the effects icon
at the bottom of the panel and I'll choose color overlay.
And I decided for the sake of demonstration
to go with a bright shade of green,
and you could see that the hue value's 120 degrees
both the saturation and brightness values are 100%.
I change the blend mode once again to overlay
and I set the opacity value to 50%.
Alright, I'll go ahead and click OK to accept that change.
And then all you have to do is either close the image
and click the yes or save button
or the other alternative is to go up to the File menu
and choose the Save command and that will just
go ahead and save your changes
and now if you switch over to Illustrator
you can see that the artwork has updated automatically.
Alright, I don't want the image to be selected, however,
so I just press Control + Shift + A
or Command + Shift + A on a Mac to deselect.
And that's how you share an asset with either
InDesign or Photoshop, either on a local machine
as I have done here, or with a remote coworker
across the internet using the libraries panel.