Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow

by Bart Van de Wiele

Overview

Learn effective ways to collaborate across Adobe's design apps

Even if you're already comfortable with Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, Adobe Creative Cloud now offers powerful opportunities for improving efficiency and collaboration that few design and marketing professionals are using. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow Classroom in a Book uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:

• Improve both team and individual efficiency in a range of projects spanning print, web, video, UX, and online marketing
• Establish powerful workflows that leverage the remarkable capabilities of Adobe's native file formats
• Improve content collaboration via Adobe cloud documents and Creative Cloud Libraries
• Draw on concise, focused insights for managing tradeoffs
• Optimize workflows and collaboration strategies in your own organization
• Experience all the added value built into today's Adobe Creative Cloud
• Take full advantage of Adobe's unparalleled integration and cloud resources
• Leverage tips and tricks from Adobe Solutions Consultant Manager Bart Van de Wiele

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:

• Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
• Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step

What you need to use this book: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign software.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780137908462
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	11/19/2022
Series:	Classroom in a Book Series
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Getting Started 1

About Classroom in a Book 2

About the author 2

Prerequisites 2

Default interface settings 3

Online content 5

Additional resources 6

Adobe Authorized Training Centers 7

1 Workflows and File Formats 8

Workflows 10

Interoperability 11

Established file formats 15

Native file formats 22

Review questions 31

Review answers 31

2 Enriching Illustrator Artwork with Photoshop Content 32

Placing and managing Photoshop artwork in Illustrator 34

Linking a Photoshop document in Illustrator 36

Embedding a Photoshop document in Illustrator 41

Using Photoshop paths in Illustrator 47

Photoshop cloud documents in Illustrator 53

Packaging the project 58

Review questions 60

Review answers 61

3 Using Layered Photoshop Files in InDesign 62

Managing Photoshop layer visibility in InDesign 64

Creating different versions using adjustment layers 65

Using layer transparency to your advantage 74

Photoshop layer comps 75

Using Photoshop layer comps in InDesign 76

Embedding placed documents into InDesign 82

Packaging the project 84

Review questions 86

Review answers 87

4 Using Photoshop Paths, Alpha Channels, and Grayscale Images in InDesign 88

Photoshop paths 90

Using clipping paths in InDesign 91

Using a Photoshop alpha channel 95

Using multiple Photoshop paths 99

Recoloring Photoshop grayscale images in InDesign 105

Review questions 114

Review answers 115

5 Using Illustrator Artwork in InDesign 116

Using Illustrator layers in InDesign 118

Using Illustrator artboards in InDesign 126

Should you use layer overrides or artboards? 133

Pasting Illustrator artwork into InDesign 135

Review questions 154

Review answers 155

6 Using Illustrator Artwork in Photoshop 156

Combining Illustrator and Photoshop 158

Embedding Illustrator artwork in Photoshop 158

Linking illustrator artwork in Photoshop 169

Pasting Illustrator artwork into Photoshop 181

Review questions 191

Review answers 191

7 Nesting Documents 192

What is document nesting? 194

Nesting InDesign documents 197

Nesting Illustrator documents 209

Nesting Photoshop documents 214

Review questions 223

Review answers 223

8 Working with Creative Cloud Libraries 224

What are Creative Cloud Libraries? 226

Creating your first library 232

Creative Cloud Library workflows 237

Backing up library items 261

Review questions 263

Review answers 263

9 Integration Through Collaboration 264

Collaborating using Creative Cloud Libraries 266

Sharing a library publicly 267

Sharing a library privately 278

Summing up 291

Personal versus team libraries 292

Collaborating using cloud documents 295

Sharing cloud documents 297

Review questions 304

Review answers 305

Index 306