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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency

090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency - InDesign Tutorial

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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency

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Sometimes when you're prepping a file in Photoshop, you're not sure how it will actually appear on the page in InDesign. So take a little extra time to think it through, give yourself some options. For example in this document, I have one layer, but I've created a few extra channels. For example Alpha one, Body Silhouette and Floating Head. These are all alpha channels. That's just a fancy way of saying an extra channel saved with a document, besides the RGB or CMYK channels that are in the file already. What's great though is because I have those extra channels saved in the document, I can access them in InDesign. I'll switch back to InDesign, select my image and open my Links panel. In my Links panel, I'm going to click the re-link button and I'm going to choose the image that I've been working with. In order to access those channels, I need to turn on the show imports option check box. Except, honestly, I never turn that check box on. The reason is, is if you turn it on, if you…

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