: Help with placing Photoshop file into Indesign Hello all the smart designers out there, I have question regarding about importing photoshop file into Indesign layout. I have received this product

@Cooney243

InDesign is primarily a layout tool, so it has those framing tools built into the program.
help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e9f688c1003dbfac89-7ffca.html
This page explains the difference between the Selection tool and the Direct Selection tool. It is a little tricky to grab onto the right thing at first, but you'll soon understand how it works. Anything you place into InDesign will have the anchor points around it. If you don't care for cropping the image, just size it to match the content

This part in particular of that page I just linked goes into detail about how to differentiate the frame from the content:


Note: An imported graphic is always contained within a frame. It’s
possible to select the graphic and its frame, the graphic only, or its
frame only. The frame and bounding box of an imported graphic can be
different sizes. To see how InDesign indicates what’s selected, see
Modifying objects using graphics frames.



Bounding box selected (left) compared to rectangular path selected
(right) With rectangular objects, it can be difficult to tell the
difference between the object’s bounding box and the path of the
object itself. A bounding box always displays eight large hollow
anchor points. A rectangular path always displays four small anchor
points (which can be hollow or solid).


In short, those masks are what InDesign is all about!

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@Murphy569

This sounds like it's a clipping mask, not a layer mask.

In your Photoshop layer palette you have three tabs: layers, channels and paths. Click on the paths tab and see if there's a path in there, if you click on it the points from the clipping path will show up.

If there are clipping paths in Photoshop files InDesign will import that information and use it as the edge of the image.

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