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How do you partners? In this video,

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we're going to look at layers and InDesign where we split our contents.

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We've got ticks on the top and we got our images underneath

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and we can lock one of the layers so that when we try and drag on it,

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we can't move it around.

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It doesn't get in our way.

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But know that when you're working with layers in InDesign,

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you're one of the few.

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When I'm working with InDesign,

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99 percent of my job is do not use layers.

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It can be useful if there's things you need to separate out and lock.

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Most of the time though they're not that

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complicated documents and often you just ignore the Layers panel.

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But we've got a good use to use layers in

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this case is this background I want it stuck to the background where I don't move it,

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it doesn't get in the way.

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You might have a watermark in the background.

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It might be a map that you're drawing over and you just don't want it to move,

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you can put it on its own layer and lock it.

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Let's go and do that now.

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It's the first thing we need to do is find the layers,

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there in our Window and there's an option here that says Layers just next to Pages here.

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You're given layer one by default,

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we're going to rename ours by double-clicking the word "Layer 1".

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I'm going to call mine main copy.

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We'll leave the color just fine,

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we'll actually leave all the defaults and I'll click "Okay".

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Great, so we've done nothing really except renamed our layer.

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Let's make a new layer.

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You've this little tuned up page here,

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create new layer, this is going to be called my background.

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What I'd like to do is,

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I want to move this gradient and this image onto that layer.

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I stop selecting it,

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makes less noise and I can turn on and off if I need to.

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To do that, what we can do,

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see over here, this my main copy,

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this is what everything's on at the moment.

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If I hit this little area here you see on this particular page,

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all of these things here, there's a logo,

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I can turn the eyeball on and off,

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and there is the graphic,

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there is the text, and there is that gradient.

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What I can do is,

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I want this gradient, him.

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So I'm going to click, hold,

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and drag him to the background layer.

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Now, if you drag a bit high, can you see,

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you get that little Ghost-busters go away caution can't go in symbol.

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You want it just bit below and then it will go into the right layer.

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If I toil down background, there it is.

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The other thing I want was,

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you'll notice as well that if I toil both of these up now,

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that the background is on top of the main copy.

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So I can't see anything past this gradient.

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What I'm going to do is click, hold, and drag gradient.

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You see the little line that appears underneath main copy.

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Let's have a look in main copy as well and just see I want you my friend,

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which is who is you?

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Your tabletop.jpeg.

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Grab this and drag it on top of background or just below it and it goes inside.

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Now what we can do is I can double-check there

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on the right layer by turning the eyeball on

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and off for that whole layer, there it is there.

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They all disappear because of that white, the stuff on top.

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What I want to do is I want to lock this and this empty box here,

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you meant to just know that that's the locking icon.

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You just click in the box next to the word and now what happens is,

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can you see, I can't move it with it off.

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I can move them around and then get my way.

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But what I want to do is click on this,

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lock it, and it just means these can stay in the background.

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It might be a watermark, it might be some map you're drawing over the top of.

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You can lock on its own layer,

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but know that a lot of people don't use layers in InDesign, but we're pros.

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There's going to be times when you need it.

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I'll show you one of the times that I use it quite a bit is during my notes.

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Here are some of the notes that I write for another course of mine.

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This is an after effects course I do.

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If you are into motion graphics,

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go check out that course.

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They'll be a link on the screen here.

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But what you'll see here in my Layers panel,

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I have a tutor's notes and a student's notes and what

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I do is can you see if I turn the tutors on and off?

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Can you see it adds a level of ticks across the top.

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It adjusts here and what I do is I add teacher notes to this layer to say things like,

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"Now would be a good time for the teacher to explain this concept or something",

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because I build classes for lots of other teachers and they have to go through.

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So I have a bit where I can turn it off, hit "Make PDF",

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and that goes out to the students for the class and then I have

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a teacher version that I turned on and I just write notes in here for the teacher only.

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They print, I make a second PDF for them with their notes on it.

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All using the same InDesign file,

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but I can make two separate PDFs very quickly by just turning that off,

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export PDF, turning it back on,

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export PDF for the tutor.

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The other reason I show you here is that even if you don't use it,

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there are people that are,

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and they'll be templates that you'll download that

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do end if you don't know how layers work,

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that can be very confusing.

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Because you think you're selecting them and they're all in different layers,

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that can be a little bit of a pain.

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One of the big pains is sometimes people will have them non printing.

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So what they'll do is they'll go into,

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let's say our document here.

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Let's go to our Layers and let's say that I'm going to

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double-click the word main copy and people can do this,

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the print Layer, you can turn that off.

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If I hit "Print now", nothing,

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none of this text is going to actually print.

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I've spent days trying to work out why my InDesign file

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exported to PDF without a whole layer of stuff and it's because somebody turned that off.

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That's just a little heads up in case you get stuck with that exact same problem,

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layers can be turned on to not print.

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Let's click "Okay", and move on to the next video.