Skills Development

1. Skills Development
.PNG File Type
Hayley McCarthy
GCE AS Media Studies
City College Norwich
For the bottom third of the contents page, I used a scene of Norwich which I took. The sky
was edited out using the Quick Selection Tool, leaving a transparent background. In order to
transfer this image from Photoshop to InDesign and retain the transparency, I used a .PNG
file type.
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2. File > Save > More Options > Format > PNG
1.
2. I chose the smallest compression to retain image
quality whilst keeping the file size low.
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3. 3. Opening the
InDesign
document, I
used File >
Place to transfer
the image.
4. I selected the file from my documents,
the .PNG extension is visible here.
5.
The final result,
with the
background
elements clearly
visible beneath
the image.
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