If you do want to release the background image on a page, select the relevant page thumbnail in the Pages Palette. You can now place whatever elements you like over the background image and you won't be able to select, move or alter it, even though the layer that it's on isn't locked. Then double click on the page 1 thumbnail to return to the main layout. Place the background image and use the InDesign Transparency Palette to knock it back as described earlier. This means that the A-Master is applied to it, so a background image that appears on the A-Master will also appear on every page with an 'A' showing on the thumbnail.ĭouble click the A-Master thumbnail in the Pages Palette. The only page in the Pages Palette has an 'A' in the middle of the thumbnail. For example, below you can see the master page is called A-Master. In Quark, nothing that appears on the master pages is locked, so you need to be more careful not to move elements around by mistake.Īnything that appears on the master pages (you can have different master page designs applied to different document pages) will appear on every page which has that master page applied. This can be overridden at page level if required as is demonstrated further down. In InDesign, everything on the master pages is locked by default. The master pages within layout programs like Indesign and Quark XPress enable you to reproduce permanent features of a document layout (like page numbers and other repetitive design features) on every page of a document without having to recreate them for every single page. Using InDesign master pages to lock a background image As long as the bottom layer containing the background image is locked, it'll stay in position. This is the layer that will contain all the text, images and other elements of the layout. Next, create a new layer by clicking the Create New Layer button at the bottom of the InDesign Layers Palette. Once you've finished with the Indesign Transparency Palette, close it down and lock the layer containing the image by clicking on the little check box in the Indesign Layers Palette (just to the left of the layer name, and to the right of the little eye which toggles the layer visibility). Select the background image and give it an opacity of about 25% (or whatever you're happy with). In InDesign CS3 this is now called the Effects Palette. Place your background image and snap the outer edges of the bounding box to the bleed guides. I've given mine 5mm bleed so the background image bleeds off the edge of the page. Using InDesign layers to lock a background imageįirst create an Indesign document. One is to use locking Indesign layers, and the other is to use master pages. But how do you stop accidentally and annoyingly selecting it whenever you want to move or change another element on the page? There are two ways to lock a background image for this purpose. You can use InDesign transparency settings to fade a background image so you can work over the top of it. InDesign Transparency, Layers and Master Pages
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