WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.830 --> 00:00:09.360 How do you partners? In this video, 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:12.750 we're going to look at layers and InDesign where we split our contents. 00:00:12.750 --> 00:00:15.405 We've got ticks on the top and we got our images underneath 00:00:15.405 --> 00:00:18.330 and we can lock one of the layers so that when we try and drag on it, 00:00:18.330 --> 00:00:19.530 we can't move it around. 00:00:19.530 --> 00:00:20.860 It doesn't get in our way. 00:00:20.860 --> 00:00:24.050 But know that when you're working with layers in InDesign, 00:00:24.050 --> 00:00:25.220 you're one of the few. 00:00:25.220 --> 00:00:27.305 When I'm working with InDesign, 00:00:27.305 --> 00:00:30.485 99 percent of my job is do not use layers. 00:00:30.485 --> 00:00:35.060 It can be useful if there's things you need to separate out and lock. 00:00:35.060 --> 00:00:36.830 Most of the time though they're not that 00:00:36.830 --> 00:00:40.720 complicated documents and often you just ignore the Layers panel. 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:42.770 But we've got a good use to use layers in 00:00:42.770 --> 00:00:46.520 this case is this background I want it stuck to the background where I don't move it, 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:47.560 it doesn't get in the way. 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:49.430 You might have a watermark in the background. 00:00:49.430 --> 00:00:52.850 It might be a map that you're drawing over and you just don't want it to move, 00:00:52.850 --> 00:00:54.995 you can put it on its own layer and lock it. 00:00:54.995 --> 00:00:56.920 Let's go and do that now. 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.140 It's the first thing we need to do is find the layers, 00:01:00.140 --> 00:01:04.790 there in our Window and there's an option here that says Layers just next to Pages here. 00:01:04.790 --> 00:01:06.695 You're given layer one by default, 00:01:06.695 --> 00:01:09.640 we're going to rename ours by double-clicking the word "Layer 1". 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:13.185 I'm going to call mine main copy. 00:01:13.185 --> 00:01:15.045 We'll leave the color just fine, 00:01:15.045 --> 00:01:17.420 we'll actually leave all the defaults and I'll click "Okay". 00:01:17.420 --> 00:01:20.840 Great, so we've done nothing really except renamed our layer. 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:22.280 Let's make a new layer. 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.440 You've this little tuned up page here, 00:01:24.440 --> 00:01:28.420 create new layer, this is going to be called my background. 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:31.020 What I'd like to do is, 00:01:31.020 --> 00:01:36.070 I want to move this gradient and this image onto that layer. 00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:37.785 I stop selecting it, 00:01:37.785 --> 00:01:41.195 makes less noise and I can turn on and off if I need to. 00:01:41.195 --> 00:01:43.280 To do that, what we can do, 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:44.810 see over here, this my main copy, 00:01:44.810 --> 00:01:46.290 this is what everything's on at the moment. 00:01:46.290 --> 00:01:49.715 If I hit this little area here you see on this particular page, 00:01:49.715 --> 00:01:51.530 all of these things here, there's a logo, 00:01:51.530 --> 00:01:53.690 I can turn the eyeball on and off, 00:01:53.690 --> 00:01:56.495 and there is the graphic, 00:01:56.495 --> 00:01:58.955 there is the text, and there is that gradient. 00:01:58.955 --> 00:02:00.530 What I can do is, 00:02:00.530 --> 00:02:02.445 I want this gradient, him. 00:02:02.445 --> 00:02:03.600 So I'm going to click, hold, 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:05.220 and drag him to the background layer. 00:02:05.220 --> 00:02:07.280 Now, if you drag a bit high, can you see, 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.545 you get that little Ghost-busters go away caution can't go in symbol. 00:02:12.545 --> 00:02:15.710 You want it just bit below and then it will go into the right layer. 00:02:15.710 --> 00:02:17.780 If I toil down background, there it is. 00:02:17.780 --> 00:02:20.120 The other thing I want was, 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.150 you'll notice as well that if I toil both of these up now, 00:02:23.150 --> 00:02:26.360 that the background is on top of the main copy. 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:28.955 So I can't see anything past this gradient. 00:02:28.955 --> 00:02:31.400 What I'm going to do is click, hold, and drag gradient. 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.400 You see the little line that appears underneath main copy. 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.900 Let's have a look in main copy as well and just see I want you my friend, 00:02:38.900 --> 00:02:40.910 which is who is you? 00:02:40.910 --> 00:02:42.720 Your tabletop.jpeg. 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.705 Grab this and drag it on top of background or just below it and it goes inside. 00:02:48.705 --> 00:02:52.530 Now what we can do is I can double-check there 00:02:52.530 --> 00:02:54.240 on the right layer by turning the eyeball on 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:56.565 and off for that whole layer, there it is there. 00:02:56.565 --> 00:02:59.535 They all disappear because of that white, the stuff on top. 00:02:59.535 --> 00:03:04.430 What I want to do is I want to lock this and this empty box here, 00:03:04.430 --> 00:03:07.000 you meant to just know that that's the locking icon. 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.910 You just click in the box next to the word and now what happens is, 00:03:10.910 --> 00:03:13.250 can you see, I can't move it with it off. 00:03:13.250 --> 00:03:15.890 I can move them around and then get my way. 00:03:15.890 --> 00:03:18.185 But what I want to do is click on this, 00:03:18.185 --> 00:03:21.030 lock it, and it just means these can stay in the background. 00:03:21.030 --> 00:03:24.855 It might be a watermark, it might be some map you're drawing over the top of. 00:03:24.855 --> 00:03:26.570 You can lock on its own layer, 00:03:26.570 --> 00:03:31.265 but know that a lot of people don't use layers in InDesign, but we're pros. 00:03:31.265 --> 00:03:32.700 There's going to be times when you need it. 00:03:32.700 --> 00:03:36.830 I'll show you one of the times that I use it quite a bit is during my notes. 00:03:36.830 --> 00:03:39.370 Here are some of the notes that I write for another course of mine. 00:03:39.370 --> 00:03:41.650 This is an after effects course I do. 00:03:41.650 --> 00:03:42.920 If you are into motion graphics, 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:44.240 go check out that course. 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.495 They'll be a link on the screen here. 00:03:46.495 --> 00:03:48.680 But what you'll see here in my Layers panel, 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.840 I have a tutor's notes and a student's notes and what 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.225 I do is can you see if I turn the tutors on and off? 00:03:53.225 --> 00:03:56.750 Can you see it adds a level of ticks across the top. 00:03:56.750 --> 00:04:01.940 It adjusts here and what I do is I add teacher notes to this layer to say things like, 00:04:01.940 --> 00:04:06.980 "Now would be a good time for the teacher to explain this concept or something", 00:04:06.980 --> 00:04:10.670 because I build classes for lots of other teachers and they have to go through. 00:04:10.670 --> 00:04:13.805 So I have a bit where I can turn it off, hit "Make PDF", 00:04:13.805 --> 00:04:17.090 and that goes out to the students for the class and then I have 00:04:17.090 --> 00:04:21.130 a teacher version that I turned on and I just write notes in here for the teacher only. 00:04:21.130 --> 00:04:25.560 They print, I make a second PDF for them with their notes on it. 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:27.200 All using the same InDesign file, 00:04:27.200 --> 00:04:33.925 but I can make two separate PDFs very quickly by just turning that off, 00:04:33.925 --> 00:04:35.620 export PDF, turning it back on, 00:04:35.620 --> 00:04:37.560 export PDF for the tutor. 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.370 The other reason I show you here is that even if you don't use it, 00:04:40.370 --> 00:04:41.405 there are people that are, 00:04:41.405 --> 00:04:43.370 and they'll be templates that you'll download that 00:04:43.370 --> 00:04:45.560 do end if you don't know how layers work, 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:46.880 that can be very confusing. 00:04:46.880 --> 00:04:50.330 Because you think you're selecting them and they're all in different layers, 00:04:50.330 --> 00:04:51.780 that can be a little bit of a pain. 00:04:51.780 --> 00:04:55.430 One of the big pains is sometimes people will have them non printing. 00:04:55.430 --> 00:04:57.080 So what they'll do is they'll go into, 00:04:57.080 --> 00:04:58.475 let's say our document here. 00:04:58.475 --> 00:05:01.370 Let's go to our Layers and let's say that I'm going to 00:05:01.370 --> 00:05:04.490 double-click the word main copy and people can do this, 00:05:04.490 --> 00:05:05.905 the print Layer, you can turn that off. 00:05:05.905 --> 00:05:08.270 If I hit "Print now", nothing, 00:05:08.270 --> 00:05:10.925 none of this text is going to actually print. 00:05:10.925 --> 00:05:15.665 I've spent days trying to work out why my InDesign file 00:05:15.665 --> 00:05:20.990 exported to PDF without a whole layer of stuff and it's because somebody turned that off. 00:05:20.990 --> 00:05:24.740 That's just a little heads up in case you get stuck with that exact same problem, 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:26.645 layers can be turned on to not print. 00:05:26.645 --> 00:05:30.450 Let's click "Okay", and move on to the next video.