Table of Contents

1 WORKFLOWS AND FILE FORMATS

Workflows

Interoperability

Established file formats

Native file formats

2 ENRICHING ILLUSTRATOR ARTWORK WITH PHOTOSHOP CONTENT

Placing and managing Photoshop artwork in Illustrator

Linking a Photoshop document in Illustrator

Embedding a Photoshop document in Illustrator

Using Photoshop paths in Illustrator

Photoshop cloud documents in Illustrator

Packaging the project 

3 USING LAYERED PHOTOSHOP FILES IN INDESIGN

Managing Photoshop layer visibility in InDesign

Creating diff erent versions using adjustment layers

Using layer transparency to your advantage

Photoshop layer comps

Using Photoshop layer comps in InDesign

Embedding placed documents into InDesign

Packaging the project

4 USING PHOTOSHOP PATHS, ALPHA CHANNELS,AND GRAYSCALE IMAGES IN INDESIGN

Photoshop paths

Using clipping paths in InDesign

Using a Photoshop alpha channel

Using multiple Photoshop paths

Recoloring Photoshop grayscale images in InDesign

 5 USING ILLUSTRATOR ARTWORK IN INDESIGN

Using Illustrator layers in InDesign

Using Illustrator artboards in InDesign

Should you use layer overrides or artboards?

Pasting Illustrator artwork into InDesign

 6 USING ILLUSTRATOR ARTWORK IN PHOTOSHOP

Combining Illustrator and Photoshop

Embedding Illustrator artwork in Photoshop

Linking Illustrator artwork in Photoshop

Pasting Illustrator artwork into Photoshop

 7 NESTING DOCUMENTS

What is document nesting?

Nesting InDesign documents

Nesting Illustrator documents

Nesting Photoshop documents

 8 WORKING WITH CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES

What are Creative Cloud Libraries?

Creating your first library

Creative Cloud Library workflows

Backing up library items

 9 INTEGRATION THROUGH COLLABORATION

Collaborating using Creative Cloud Libraries

Sharing a library publicly

Sharing a library privately

Summing up

Personal versus team libraries

Collaborating using cloud documents

Sharing cloud documents

About the Author

Bart Van de Wiele started his career in 2002 as a graphic designer with a strong focus on print production and image retouching. His career quickly evolved into a life as an Adobe trainer, a consultant, and an author for InDesign Secrets and CreativePro Magazine. As a worldwide public speaker, he can often be found as a presenter at conferences like CreativePro Week and Adobe MAX covering a variety of design subjects and Adobe technologies. He is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor with a growing library of creative courses. In 2015, Bart joined Adobe as a Principal Solutions Consultant, specializing in Adobe design workflows and solutions. In 2022 he moved into a manager role at Adobe, currently supporting his own team of Solutions Consultants.