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In this lesson we're going to begin to discuss graphics in Indesign if you'd like to follow along go

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under the file menu to open and in the sample files folder.

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Scroll down to 1 2 0 1.

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Mastering the Art of placing graphics and just click Open placing graphics into an Indesign layout is

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simple.

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All you have to do is go into your file menu the place you're going to have to locate the links folder

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that's been supplied for this training.

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In order to place images and all you have to do is just click on any one of the images and you can see

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that you're getting a beautiful preview.

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So you know exactly what that image looks like.

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And then I could just click open.

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But what if I want to place more than one image.

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Let me click on that first image again and then hold down my command key on a Mac control key on a PC

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and click on the next image.

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I can place multiple images in that way but I don't have a preview of either of those images.

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Once you select more than one image to place there is no preview.

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That's a big problem especially with names of images like this.

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Let me hit cancel and we're going to talk about a better way to place images.

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If you go to your window menu to something called mini bridge it's going to open the mini bridge panel

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mini bridge is kind of like a back door into the bridge application that comes with Creative Suite.

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It allows you to place images very easily.

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All you have to do is click on the image you want to place and just drag it into a frame and let go

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and it's placing that image.

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I'm going to undo that command Comanche or Control-C What if I wanted to place multiple images while

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on a Mac.

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All I have to do is hold down my command key and click on other images on a PC.

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I hold down my control key and click on the other images.

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I'm going to select 9 images in all.

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Now all I have to do is click on any one of those selected images and drag it into my layout and you

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can see that my layout is getting highlighted in black towards the outside of the window.

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Now I'm just going to let go and it's going to load all nine of those images into something called a

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loaded brush.

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I can go through the images in my loaded brush just to see what I have here by hitting my right arrow

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key to go forward through the images or my left arrow to go back.

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You can also see that in the upper left hand corner near the brush there's a 9 in parentheses.

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That means that there is 9 images in all to place to place the images.

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All I have to do is click on the empty frames but right away I'm noticing another problem.

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These images are gigantic and I'm only seeing a very small piece of these images within the frame.

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Let me get rid of my images.

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The way to do that is go to my selection tool and just click and drag across the 9 graphic frames to

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select all of the frames.

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Then in the control panel you can see this little icon that kind of looks like a sideways e with an

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arrow pointing down.

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That is select content.

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If I click on that it's selecting the content within the frames instead of the frames themselves.

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So if I now hit delete only to delete all the images I placed into those frames and I'm back to empty

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frames.

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How can I have my images fit my frames better as soon as I place them.

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Well I'm going to click and drag across all nine of those graphic frames again go under my object menu

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to something called thety in the sub menu go to frame fitting options and this allows me to set up something

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called fitting options for empty frames.

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By default there is no video so it says None.

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Let me click down on the pop up and choose fill frame proportionately.

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That means the image is going to fill the frame and anything that doesn't fit will be cropped off.

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That doesn't mean that I can't move the image around or resize it afterwards if I want to crop in a

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different way.

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This is just to give me a good head start the next section it says a line from by default like all layout

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programs.

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The image will be placed from the upper left hand corner aligning the upper left hand corner of the

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picture to the upper left hand corner of the frame.

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Wouldn't it be better if we placed the center of the image over the center of the frame.

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Why don't we try that instead.

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In the A line from proxy.

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Click on that center point in the crop of Mount area.

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Make sure to fill the fields with zeros.

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That way you're sure to have as much of your picture showing as possible and when you're done just click

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OK.

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Now we're ready to place the pictures again.

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They should all be still selected in the mini bridge.

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So just click on any one of the selected pictures and drag them into your layout.

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And now they're all going to load into that loaded brush.

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And when you click in each one of the frames you're going to see how much better the images fit in the

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frames.

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Now this is not meant as a final cropping.

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You can make any of the images bigger or move them around in your frame like I'm going to move this

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one over a little bit.

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And possibly I want to see a little bit more of my golfer.

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That looks pretty good.

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The fitting options are really meant as just a starting point but it makes it much easier to crop your

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images in the next lesson.

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We're going to continue discussing graphics.