When you need to get paths from Photoshop to InDesign, use Illustrator as the intermediary step.In this first tutorial in my series on Photoshop layer effects, I cover everything you need to know to add layer effects and layer styles in Photoshop CC 2020! We'll start by learning the difference between a layer effect and a layer style, and how to use Photoshop's layer style presets to add instant one-click effects to your images. It's a real InDesign frame and you an use all of InDesign's features on it. I could go to the Effects panel, click in the Effects pop-up menu, and give this an inner shadow. Here in the place dialog box, I can simply select an image I want, click open, and you'll see it fills that shape with that image. For example, I'll press V to go back to the selection tool and then I'll go to the file menu and choose place. Now that I have the path, I can do stuff with it. If I press the A key on my keyboard to switch to the direct selection tool, you can actually see if you squint all these little vector points on the path. So, here in InDesign, all I need to do is paste cmd + v or ctrl + v on Windows. Now, as you probably know, you can copy and paste vectors from Illustrator into InDesign. So, I'll just press cmd + c or ctrl + c on Windows and here I can switch back to InDesign. Now that I have a shape with a color, I can copy that to the clipboard. So, I'll come up here and I'll just fill it with some color. It's just clear, no fill, no stroke and that's a problem for InDesign because InDesign cannot deal with it unless there's a fill or a stroke color. Note that the fill color does not come along with it. Illustrator asks me how I want to paste it and I'll choose compound shape, and then I'll click OK. I'll press cmd + v or ctrl + v on Windows. So, I'll switch to Illustrator which I just happen to have open here. So, what can I do? Well, it turns out that I can paste from Photoshop into Illustrator. Now, this shape is on the clipboard and I wish that I could just paste it into InDesign, but I can't because I'll get an error. Now all I need to do is copy it to my clipboard which I can do in the Edit menu of course. That's the black arrow tool here and you'll see it automatically get selected. To select it again in Photoshop, all I need to do is click on the selection tool. Right now, it's currently selected, but let's say I switch to a different tool and you'll notice that now it's deselected. So, I want to copy that object, that path. pdf and then I could place it as a graphic on my InDesign page, but in this case, I want the paths because I'm going to be doing something with them in InDesign. So, now that I have my cool vector shape here on Photoshop, how do I get it into InDesign? Obviously, I could just save this as a. I should point out that when you're using the custom shape tool, up here in the Options bar, you want to make sure that this pop-up menu is set to either Shape or Path. So, all I need to do is click one of them like this butterfly and then click and drag out here. And now I can see all of the shapes that Photoshop knows about. And Photoshop asks me if I want to replace those current shapes and I can say yes. I'm going to go crazy and just click all. Isn't that cool? Did you know that Photoshop has all these shapes built into it? In fact, there's even more, and you can find those by clicking on the gear icon and then choosing one of these libraries down here. Now, I need to choose a shape, and I can find that in the Shape pop-up menu up here in the Options bar. I'll just click and hold for a moment and then from this little fly-out menu choose Custom Shape tool. To do that, I'm going to switch to the custom shape tool which you can find underneath the rectangle tool. And now, here in Photoshop, let's draw a path or vector shape. Photoshop also has vector drawing tools and sometimes you might want to get paths from Photoshop into InDesign, and for that, you will be using copy and paste. You can technically do it, but it probably cause problems down the line like colors changing, but note that I said don't copy pixels from Photoshop. You've probably heard me say that you shouldn't copy and paste pixels from Photoshop into InDesign.
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