I want to have an oval shaped picture hugged by a ring so that the ring goes around the back of the picture and over the front of it.
To do this entirely in ID you'd need to draw the ring as a shape or path with the part behind the image missing and palce it in front of the image. Illustrator's patfinder tools are a little more sophiticated and might make it easier to isolate the part that goes behind, but you'd still need to to essentially the same thing.
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