In this lesson we're going to begin to discuss graphics in Indesign if you'd like to follow along go
under the file menu to open and in the sample files folder.
Scroll down to 1 2 0 1.
Mastering the Art of placing graphics and just click Open placing graphics into an Indesign layout is
simple.
All you have to do is go into your file menu the place you're going to have to locate the links folder
that's been supplied for this training.
In order to place images and all you have to do is just click on any one of the images and you can see
that you're getting a beautiful preview.
So you know exactly what that image looks like.
And then I could just click open.
But what if I want to place more than one image.
Let me click on that first image again and then hold down my command key on a Mac control key on a PC
and click on the next image.
I can place multiple images in that way but I don't have a preview of either of those images.
Once you select more than one image to place there is no preview.
That's a big problem especially with names of images like this.
Let me hit cancel and we're going to talk about a better way to place images.
If you go to your window menu to something called mini bridge it's going to open the mini bridge panel
mini bridge is kind of like a back door into the bridge application that comes with Creative Suite.
It allows you to place images very easily.
All you have to do is click on the image you want to place and just drag it into a frame and let go
and it's placing that image.
I'm going to undo that command Comanche or Control-C What if I wanted to place multiple images while
on a Mac.
All I have to do is hold down my command key and click on other images on a PC.
I hold down my control key and click on the other images.
I'm going to select 9 images in all.
Now all I have to do is click on any one of those selected images and drag it into my layout and you
can see that my layout is getting highlighted in black towards the outside of the window.
Now I'm just going to let go and it's going to load all nine of those images into something called a
loaded brush.
I can go through the images in my loaded brush just to see what I have here by hitting my right arrow
key to go forward through the images or my left arrow to go back.
You can also see that in the upper left hand corner near the brush there's a 9 in parentheses.
That means that there is 9 images in all to place to place the images.
All I have to do is click on the empty frames but right away I'm noticing another problem.
These images are gigantic and I'm only seeing a very small piece of these images within the frame.
Let me get rid of my images.
The way to do that is go to my selection tool and just click and drag across the 9 graphic frames to
select all of the frames.
Then in the control panel you can see this little icon that kind of looks like a sideways e with an
arrow pointing down.
That is select content.
If I click on that it's selecting the content within the frames instead of the frames themselves.
So if I now hit delete only to delete all the images I placed into those frames and I'm back to empty
frames.
How can I have my images fit my frames better as soon as I place them.
Well I'm going to click and drag across all nine of those graphic frames again go under my object menu
to something called thety in the sub menu go to frame fitting options and this allows me to set up something
called fitting options for empty frames.
By default there is no video so it says None.
Let me click down on the pop up and choose fill frame proportionately.
That means the image is going to fill the frame and anything that doesn't fit will be cropped off.
That doesn't mean that I can't move the image around or resize it afterwards if I want to crop in a
different way.
This is just to give me a good head start the next section it says a line from by default like all layout
programs.
The image will be placed from the upper left hand corner aligning the upper left hand corner of the
picture to the upper left hand corner of the frame.
Wouldn't it be better if we placed the center of the image over the center of the frame.
Why don't we try that instead.
In the A line from proxy.
Click on that center point in the crop of Mount area.
Make sure to fill the fields with zeros.
That way you're sure to have as much of your picture showing as possible and when you're done just click
OK.
Now we're ready to place the pictures again.
They should all be still selected in the mini bridge.
So just click on any one of the selected pictures and drag them into your layout.
And now they're all going to load into that loaded brush.
And when you click in each one of the frames you're going to see how much better the images fit in the
frames.
Now this is not meant as a final cropping.
You can make any of the images bigger or move them around in your frame like I'm going to move this
one over a little bit.
And possibly I want to see a little bit more of my golfer.
That looks pretty good.
The fitting options are really meant as just a starting point but it makes it much easier to crop your
images in the next lesson.
We're going to continue discussing graphics.