Is there a way in Adobe Photoshop (I’m using CS4) to copy the current view of a document, including many different layers, to another application, such as InDesign, without having to flatten the image?
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Is there a way in Adobe Photoshop (I’m using CS4) to copy the current view of a document, including many different layers, to another application, such as InDesign, without having to flatten the image?
In my experience, pasting external graphical content into an InDesign file is not a great idea.
Much better is to “place” (CTRL+D) an external graphic file (Just a saved PSD would do fine) into InDesign. That way, any time the PSD file is updated in the future, InDesign will realise this and notify you via the “links” pallete (SHIFT+CTRL+D). My version will not automatically update the view, but if you are on CS4 Adobe should have that by now! (I am still on CS!).
Using the above, once you have “placed” your PSD the first time, you can change it as often as you like in Photoshop and its trivial to update the InDesign document.