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Links and Image Texture

If I want to send something to the back, it is going through and shift Command left Bracket is going to take it and send it all the way to the back of all my objects. If I want to send things backwards and I use my command left bracket that will send it backward one item at a time. So that's stepping backwards. Send it back is all the way. Bring the front is all the way forward and backward or one step at a time. But I don't want to send something to the back and then another thing to the back in the third thing to the back to get to the fourth thing to get the fifth thing so I could bring the 2nd 1 of the front and the 3rd 1 of the fourth in the second. Yeah, you get it right already. You can picture that in your mind. What I'm gonna do here is I'm going to use what I call the drill down. And this is basically a way that we can select through our objects because I have my text container here. It's filled with text. I can't click in between the type and get the object behind it. I can ...

either move it out of the way or I just simply hold down my command key. And what I have here is what's called the click through. So when I use my commands, click. It will allow me to click through multiple objects, and every place that I click it will then select the next object down below. I'm gonna tuck this in Ray in the middle here. So I've got lots of objects and put this one really big under here. So I've got tons of objects here. It's really hard to see. Yeah, that's the point. You're gonna have lots of things in your document If I click on the 1st 1 here, hold down the command key commands Click command, click command, click command click. You will see that I can go and actually select those items as I go through The beauty of this and this is one of the newer features here is previously when you clicked on that object, if you want to do anything with it, you had to make sure that you literally clicked on just the very edge or one of the pull handles here because if you click anyplace else, you select your first object again. But now they've revised this. So once you select that object, you can click anywhere and move it around without having to worry about clicking on the objects in the foreground. Now, once I am happy and I do that and I have done, I will simply click off and then, like, click on it again. I have now selected that object so it's very much like going into isolation mode. So a command click command click commands click. I get to the object right there. And once I get to that object there it ISS. As long as I don't click off this object, I can change the size. I can change the rotation. I can change the attributes. I can change anything that I want to on this and a state selected Click off it, and then I click on the front. Most object again, and there I have it. So that's the click through Now under the object menu, you can see that this is kind of the more difficult or slow way to go through, and you can use your ability to go through and say, OK, click through this. Click through this. Just use the command click to go through. There's a long shortcut. There's a really short short cut. Those with long shortcuts. Question for you. Yes, in photo shop, you're able to when you have things stacked like this, I believe you can control. Click, and it shows you all the items and then you can select it. I have that same feature. No. When you control, click on here. You're gonna get your contextual menu based on your object in your cursor. Okay? It's not a shop. I call that the drill through the drill yet. So if you name all your layers, you can actually see all the names of your layer. When you control click on those things and actually shows you call it with the cross section drawing through your photo shop file. Not yet in in design. Know Cummings in? Yes, thank you. Absolutely. So that's how you can go through when you can get multiple objects that are stacked on top of each other, be able to isolate them, work on them without having to move things, Some things. The front bring things in the back and so on. Okay, well, that's basically color object styles, Phil. Strokes, Radiance. Double in, boss. Drop shadow. Inner outer glow. Opacity. But also, you need to know nothing. Nothing at all. Okay, so with that, we are going to jump over to images. All right, Leo bringing images into in design. Well, Limoges here, we need a new set of panels, and I think we'll go in and we're gonna call bar links panel links right there. Okay. Now, as I've said previously in design, we don't actually create or edit any images. Photos illustration in in design itself there. Made, adjusted, created, worked on in other applications. And we bring them into in design in design. Will import, made a photo shop files layered Photoshopped files transparent Photoshopped files, gifts J pegs, P and G's bit map files, illustrator files, CPS files, pdf files. You name it, It'll bring it in. Okay, so pretty much. If you can place it in your in design file, it'll take it the way what images in here is We go into the file menu and we choose place. I always want to place the files in here. You never, ever, ever want to copy and paste from a Photoshopped file and paste it into in design or copy from an illustrator file and paste it into in design. And here's the reason why whenever I'm placing something in here in design on Lee takes the preview of the file and stores it in design, I am not loading this entire file and in design, so going to file place. And if you see here, I have this abstract oil painting in his 3.5 megabytes. If I had imported 30 40 50 images into in design for a catalog and I had all these files that were 10 megabytes, I could have a 17 gigabyte file that's just horribly slow and then crashes after so many pages are certain software out there that does that presentation software. But I'll show you to do great presentations when we important image in here we're not importing. The image were simply importing a placeholder which weaken scale and size and place. So when I opened this and I placed my file, I placed my file. I just see the preview of this file here when I place any file in my links panel. This is what's keeping track of the actual files on my hard drive. This is just a preview here and the whole data and all the file is stored there on my hard drive. That way in design can display it very quickly. I could move through it quickly, and when it comes time to print or save or export, it will go back to my hard drive. And it will load all that data in to provide me with the best quality output that I have. If I open something up in photo shop and I simply go in and I grab something here from photo shop because it's like, Oh, well, I can go ahead and do this, grab the front into my car. It's like, You know what? I've seen somebody do this. They copy a picture from here and they go into in design and they pace it in there. They're like, Yeah, that's great. Look at that. See the pictures in there? You know the picture is not in there. The preview is in there. There is no link that comes in with a length panel So if I send this off to the printer that printers like we haven't do some color adjustment on the image, it's like, Well, it's right there and in design, it's like, No, the preview is there and in design. So here's the difference between placing an image with all the content and just grabbing it and copying and pasting. What would you like? A picture of $100 bill or $100 bill? They both look exactly the same, right? One has content and value. The other one has nothing. This is an in design here, but it has no content associated with it. It's just the preview. This is the picture of the $100 bill. Okay, if I give you $100 bill a real one, it has value behind it. And that's the established link. I have the preview here. The established link is here. Now I have the file, so don't ever just copy from another application and paste it right into in design. You always want to place the file, but using file place. What about dragging and dropping from, like bridge or light room or something like that? We're gonna talk about that. Yeah, and that's actually you are not actually dragging for another application, because the way light room works is it's just giving you previews. And the real file actually exists different. Yeah. And my other question is, is that if you were toe with that photo, rename it or move it on your hard drive and it's a referenced file, it doesn't track. It doesn't know you're one step ahead. We're going to show you because I'm gonna break it so we can fix it so that when you break it, you know how to fix it and you'll break it. So file place I can navigate and I can import anything. E p S J pegs videos. Here, you name it all the stuff. Here's an illustrator file, and when I go into place my file I will always get a loaded cursors showing me a preview of what the file is going to be. And here's the thing. If I simply just click, it's going to place that file at 100% of actual size. This is a really big file, and now when I zoom way out, I mean, this is like monstrously huge, and I have to zoom out that I have to scale everything back in. So my recommendation is to not go in and simply click on that file because I have no idea what size is going to come in at. I want to control that size. So when I have my loaded cursor here, I'm going to simply click and drag. When I click and drag in the lower right hand corner, I get a tool hint that tells me the percentage of actual size. But I can click and drag, and I can place my file, which, when I place a file, it's drawing the container as I plays the file, because I have to have an image inside a container just like I have text. You'll notice that I'm placing this file and I don't have any other way that I can draw this file other than drawing it so that it's incomplete proportion with my actual file. Okay. And as I click and drag no matter what I try, I can't get this out of proportion. I let go and there is my placed file. Great. So now I have my image. I drew the container while I was placing my image. And I actually have two different elements going on here. And when I place that file, sure enough, the link has been established in my links panel. It's right there. Every place files gonna have an established link, and we're going to work with those and manage them inside the links panel momentarily. So my images air inside here. Two different elements. I have my image and I have my container. When you have pictures on the wall there, you generally have your frame, and then your picture goes inside it. Correct? Absolutely two different elements. So how we work with this is going in and being able Teoh work with our image and our container as two separate elements, but we may want to work with them as one continuous element. Now I have turned off this feature, which I find to be exceptionally annoying, and it's this little content grabber for those of you that had sl ours years ago. Remember, little focus ring when you look through the viewfinder right there in design. Added this and so this is a creative cloud feature could've been CS six, but people are like, Oh, I like using this little content grabber. Well, the content grabber wasn't answered Teoh a solution or question that nobody needed to ask. So people are like, Oh, but I like the content grabber because then I can just hover my cursor over there and I can move my content. Yeah, separately, from my container. It's like walking away and your pants staying there. Okay, Kind of nice to have them stay together. Sure. So people like I like that content grabber. What I found what I'm working with in design, and I'm trying to move a picture around the place where I grab just so happens to be right where that content grabber is. It's in the center there. I don't like it. And if you don't like it, go in your view menu, going your extras and turn off your content grabber. It's off. You may like it. That's fine. Just don't tell me about it. So when I take my selection tool, I can click on my container. I've got my container and by image, if I resize my container, I am cropping my image. My image is staying the same size as I imported it as so. I can very easily crop my image so I can see anything that I want to with that image. Yes. I could make my container larger. I can put a border around my container. If I so choose, I can crop it. However, I'd like not a problem container object to separate things. If I would like to go, we in and I want Teoh. Do something. I have my container here. I can move it around, Do whatever I want. I want to access my image inside there to resize it or position it differently. Or rotated. I'm gonna double click. Okay, If I have the content grabber active, I can move it all around. But I can't do any of this other stuff. We can move it around by double clicking with my selection tool. I can access the content inside the container. I now see a bounding box around my actual image and I can see where it's cropped off. If I would like to scale this, I'm gonna hold down my shift key because I want to scale it proportionately. I don't hold down my shift key. I will scale it so that It's disproportionately scaled, not smart. So I have a content selected shift key allows me to move this around. I could move it all around. I can also hover over the outside corners here, and I can rotate my content independent of my container, which is quite nice. I may have something with a horizon line, or I want to have some dramatic effect right here. I don't want to rotate my container. I want to rotate the content and I can with the content selected. You can see I've got all my information up here in the control bar relating to what I have selected. If it's rotated, I can do that. I can flip it inside there as well. I click off, I click back on my container. There is my container. DoubleClick. I have my content DoubleClick again, back to my container content container. You see all that works? I would like to size them both together if I scaled just my container content stays the same container and content or separate. I would like to scale these together, so I'm gonna hold down my shift key because I do want to constrain them, and I'm gonna introduce my command key as well. So shift will constrain command will allow me to scale both both the content and the container together at once. Awesome. Now I've got this file from somebody and I really don't know how big this images. I double click on it. It's much larger here, but I'd like to see all the content. I want to see that entire frame right there, and I can't because it's cropped my my container. So if I double click on the content and I click on that content and I hold for a split second patients here, folks, it's like 1/2 a second. People get really impatient there like see, I click on it. Nothing happens by clicking Holder what I did. It's like OK, hold half a second Deep breaths. There you go. Click on it. It shows everything. I've noticed an issue on the PC that when you do this, it doesn't preview. You have to click and then you have to move your mouse ever so slightly in order to get the preview. Don't ask me why, but it always happens on the PC. So now I see my ghosting around there that actually shows me what the actual image looks like without me having Teoh opened up the container and see all of the content. If I want to go ahead and set my frame so that is going to match the size of my content Right now my frame is smaller, my container smaller than my content. I could do in a couple different ways. If I want to make sure that my frame is going to match the height of my image, I can go down to the bottom. Centrepoint, remember how we did that with our text container of a double click on the center point that will do the height If I double click on the right hand side center point that will do the width. And if I want to make the container fit exactly to my content go to the lower right hand corner and it will fit my content right there so my container will match vice versa If my container is much larger And I would like to snap my container to my image double click in the lower right hand corner and will snap my image for my container right to my image. Got a question, Jim? You ready for a question? I sure am not entirely on topic, but some folks have been chatting about it in the chat rooms, so we'd like to know about Mavericks. Are you? Do you use Mavericks? Do you Are you want Mountain Lion at home? I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, Okay? And I don't see any difference. I just bought a new laptop last week of doing this stuff. And other than just a few finder interface issues, I don't see any difference whatsoever. Got us here on Mount Light at home. Correct. Great. Thank you. So I got okay. So every time these images get placed in here, we're dealing with just the preview. So I've got a Photoshopped file here. I've got an illustrator file another illustrator file their This is actually a pdf. And when I zoom in here, I look at this painting and it's like, you know, I mean, it's interesting painting, but you know what? Seriously isn't gonna print like that, right? The reactions in the studio audience are great. They're like, Oh, my gosh. So I go over to this illustration here, It's like, OK, you know that doesn't look very good. I know that was done, an illustrator and it's like a looking Mr Captain Bacon. It's like, Yeah, he's crispy, all right? And it's like, Is this actually going to print this way? So people are like, I need to go back and I need to check the file to make sure that this is good. What's happening here is in design, has a default setting that is going to preview everything at 72 pixels per inch low resolution, despite the quality of the image. And this is to save memory when we're scrolling through our document. Because, remember, we haven't We haven't loaded the picture and in design, it's just the preview of it. Under the View menu, we have display performance. We have fast, typical and high quality. Typical display is low resolution. Fast display is superfast, takes up no memory to display, nothing to display. That's fast display. High quality display will go. We in and will render the files. So when we click on them, we will be able to see just how nice everything looks. So no more crispy bacon. But you see, as we scroll there, do you see how it's kind of crispy and then we let go. It renders it well. This is going to happen because it's going to take up the memory and so you can see on the lower portion of my screen. It's all crispy, crunchy until I let it render, and then it looks a whole lot better. So that's setting to display performance, that they can actually see everything nice and happy to setting it on. High quality display also slows down my navigation through in design, so I generally set my display performance to be typical display. If I would like to confirm the quality of a singular image here, instead of slowing down everything that I'm doing, I can click on my image. Zoom into this so we can see. And I would like to see if Mr Crispy Bacon here really is crispy or is he's nice and smooth with this object selected, I'm going to right click on just this object and under my contextual menu, I have my display performance, which allows me to rendered this and just this one Onley in any display Mel that I would like so if I used choose high quality display. It will then render that so I can actually see. This tells me what's going on now If I do not have my link to the file, say, have copied this from Illustrator a photo shop and put it in here. And this is what it looks like and there is no established link. This is what's going to print just like that, plain and simple. The links have to be established here so that it has the information back on the hard drive right there. So if I place any image, I have to have it in the same place in the hard drive. One word of advice. When you begin building a file here, it's always good to get all of your assets in one location, which is exactly what I did when I started this file. I got all my assets in one location there. Here. Here's all my content. Here's all my images when I do this for every single project I work on, and the reason why is because if you have your images and your content scattered, all of your hard drive stored in the cloud or on flash drives or other removable media. What happens is I can always go under file place. I can navigate to my account. I could go to my flash drive and I can go and I can pull a file in and I can place that file in there the second I log off or pull out my flash drive. These images don't disappear in my file, but the link to them is then broken. And when I open up, the file in design warns me saying, Hey, you know, you've got a picture in here. Something's happened to this picture. Either I can't find it or, you know, something's modified. Something was changed since this file was last opened. And then you're like, Oh, you know, I've got to do something with it. I'm going to save this file right now, and I'm going to break these links. I'm going to remove the files or change the name here, and then I'm gonna open the file back up. So I'm gonna close out of this file and I'm not gonna save those particular files. And back on my hard drive here, I had imported my image with the orange chairs and there is my orange chairs and I thought, you know, I don't think I'm using that. I'm gonna throw it away in the trash and I'm going to go in and I'm going to open up my in design file And when you go under recent and there's my images and calls it up and a dialog box comes up blah, blah, blah, you know, image is missing, you know, of course. Do you pay attention to it? No. Because the only button that you click is okay, Well, it's telling you something important that people think that because the image appears and in design that everything's fine. No, the picture of the $100 bill in $100 bill. So it says it contains a link that is missing you confined resource, the link in the links panel. So I open it up and there's my file right there so I can look at this and in my links panel, I'd get the stop sign. And also, when I view all of my frame edges here, I get a very pronounced little question mark right here. We'll All my other files have this link, and the link is not broken because Hey, you know it knows where it ISS, but this one is like, Where's the file? What you do with a vial? I can't find it. In order for this to work correctly, I need to establish that link, the file, or else when I print it, it's gonna look that bad because that's always got to go one just a picture. So I need to re establish that link in some way. So I'm actually going to take it out of the trash can here or put in my flash drive again, whatever it may be. And wherever that is, let's see, That was an alphabetical order, wasn't it? So I'm gonna type in O for orange. There it is. Bring it back to my hard drive, Do that. Go back to me in design document. And it doesn't know where it is because I navigated to my folder to place it, and it's now in a different location. I need to tell it that everything is good. So I'm gonna click on my link right here, and I can go into my links panel and double click on my stop sign, and it tells me when I hover over this. It says it's missing. Double click The link or I can go here is well, and it says, Well, what more information if you're the little bits and pieces, do this place that Okay, so in a double click on here and it says, Where is it? Point me to it. So I must say, Oh, you know, I moved it someplace great. Open, wonderful link is established. It now understands where the whole thing is ready to go, Ready to rock and roll. You cannot have any missing or modified links if you want everything to reproduce and render with the same quality that these files were built as gotta have those links established. Now another thing may happen here. I could go in and I've worked on my in design file. I close the in design file on right before I'm ready to go home. I just Oh, you know what? I forgot that the client wanted me to go in and they wanted me to go in and change some of the attributes here changed the orange chairs. So I'm gonna go in and they wanted everything blue. So I changed everything to blue in photo shop and I save and I closed the file and I go home Next day I come back to in design and I open up in design and open up my in design filed under file open recent. There it is. I open it up and again Dialog box blab, blab, blab, blab Now and it's like, Okay, you know, what do I dio? Well, this particular one will tell me how many missing links things that they can't find Her things have been renamed, but this one knows where the link is, but it sees that it's been modified so I can click update the links and it will establish the links again and upload everything. But in this case, I want to show you. If we don't do this, what's going to happen? If I do this, it'll do it automatically. But I want to show you what I don't update the links. So when I come in here, I get the warning sign. The warning signs says, Hey, I know where the file is, but I don't have the most recent data for this file. Okay, Don't have your new address. Okay? I know where you are, But I know where you live, so I can double click on my little warning sign here. Or here is, well, either one, and it will automatically update it because it already knows where it is on the update it, and just like that brings in the same size, placement rotation, Everything fantastic. So now I have the most current version of that, which is great. Everything's good. So he's gonna happen all the time. You want to make sure that all of your links are properly established so that you know exactly what's going on with your file. You never like to go home and find out your house has been moved three blocks over. It's always good to find things where you left them in design is exactly the same. Okay, your images will not disappear from your in design file, regardless of whether or not the link has been missing or modified. They will always stay there. It will affect how they print absolutely, and the quality of them