1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Moving on with other types of frames, including image frames. 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, we looked at using the type tool to draw our frame, now we're going to use 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 our rectangle or other frames which is right here to draw some 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 areas for some images. 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, this looks a lot like our standard rectangle, but it isn't, notice here we've 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 got this X going through the rectangle? 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's a frame. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Whereas here, which is a regular rectangle tool, 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it acts like a shape. 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Underneath the rectangle frame tool, you have a circular version or 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 a polygon version, all of those are great. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Remember frames are going to be used to sort-of contain the area of the image, 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's almost like, um, a picture frame. 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, let's just start with the rectangle frame and I am simply going to 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 draw out an area where I want my image to go; I just click and drag, there it is, 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 there's the frame, big ol' X in the middle. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now again, this is different than a rectangle. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm going to use this as a place holder for now, or place my image 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 if I'm ready to go. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Often, you can create a design where you lay it out without any of your information 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 yet, maybe you send it to a photographer, they fill in the images, vice versa. 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, so, let's go ahead and place a graphic; a couple ways to do this, its 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 going to go inside this frame, so if you've clicked off for some reason, 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you can click back on it, make sure you've got it selected with your selection tool, 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you can use the quick action down here called import file or file place. 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 These are the same--getcha to the same place. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, so file, place, you're going to navigate to where your image might be, 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've got some images ready to go in this Lorax folder and I'm just going to grab 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 one of them; this little Lorax, here we go, open. 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, important to note, images are always placed at 100% of their size, so if you're 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 working with photographs you need to make sure you're working in photoshop, 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 editing it correctly, sizing it to the correct size and resolution before 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 putting it into InDesign. 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, you can see this file actually is a little bit smaller than my frame but, 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that's okay, I can always adjust my frame using my selection tool, so I can 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 drag it in from the top to the bottom, or if you want to do that a little bit 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 quicker, so there's no space around it, you can use frame fitting down here. 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, there's some really good opportunities here. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you can fill your frame proportionally, now this is an interesting one where 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it does make it feel like it sized it, but again, if your image is low quality 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you might notice some degradation, so it basically filled it out 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 proportionally, so not skewing it, but you do loose some of your image. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We have fit content proportionally, so that will fit it towards the 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 top and bottom edge, but it's not actually skewed it. 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Then we have some fit content to frame, watch what happens, this is stretch it 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so, I don't really recommend that. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Same idea, uh, actually this fourth one is a really good one where this one makes 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 your frame go down to size of your actual image and then this autofit sometimes 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 can also be really useful, this is going to, um, 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 autofit your frame and your content together, so those can be good. 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But let's divide into what's happening in this actual image. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, we've got our frame, this is the bounding box, I can see all eight 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 of those editing boxes, I can move my frame in, notice I'm not moving the image 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm moving the frame because I've got the frame with that blue box, 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so all I'm doing is adjusting the frame, image is staying the same, 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the frame kind-of acts like a cropping mechanism in this case, so that's useful. 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I can, of course, make a skewed frame by using my direct selection tool. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I can also, think about how to work with the actual image. 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, so far, I've only been using the frame. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The image itself, if you hover over, in this middle zone, you get what's called 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 content grabber, click here, just once, now, we have a new colorful edge, 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this is like this orange kind-of golden color, right? 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You see that? 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, that is the image, not the frame, the moment you enter the content 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 grabber, you're working with the image. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If I move, notice I'm moving the image, you can see the orange bounding box, 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've just shifted this whole image over, which is getting it really misaligned 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to my frame, so be really careful, now look, my frame is in the same spot, 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but my image is way over. 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you want to size up or down, scaling, your actual image, not the frame, 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this is where you go, you need to be on the orange bounding box. 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, holding shift is important depending on your version that keeps it proportional 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so you aren't skewing your image and then come into the image and get it aligned 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with your frame in the way that you want it to be aligned. 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now again, let's do this one more time. 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm going to go ahead and just click off, click anywhere else. 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Normal, image, frame, blue, blue bounding box, the moment I enter the 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 content grabber right here in the middle, orange bounding box, that orange bounding 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 box is how I can scale up or down, I can move the image 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 let to right, excreta. 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you are attempting--now I've got things real crazy here--if you are attempting 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to move them both at the same time, if you just grab your actual frame, 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you should be able to carry them together. 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you want to scale them together at the same time--oops command-Z--shift and 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 command are what you need to do, so I'm going to back myself up. 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, notice I just got the blue bounding box, I'm going to hold down shift and 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 command, that tells InDesign 'resize the frame and resize the content', 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 shift and command, their both getting smaller in the same proportion. 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, so that is our basics of working with images. 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm going to delete this, now I'm going to draw a couple other frames, 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 let's do something more interesting, let's do a polygon. 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Remember if you hold shift you're going to keep things proportional. 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Polygon, I know it's a frame, it has the X. 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Let's try the import file. 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Import file, find your file, say open, now its placed it in their, now again, 96 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 its not quite right as far as the sizing goes, so do I need to edit 97 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the size of the frame? 98 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I can use the selection tool, editing the size of the frame, 99 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 making it fit a little bit better to my content, scaling it down, now I have a 100 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 frame that's constraining my image to this particular shape. 101 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, if I need to edit the image itself, click on the content grabber, now I see 102 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the orange frame and I know this is the image scaling it up or down, left or right. 103 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, other ways of working. 104 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You can always draw out your design first, knowing perhaps that you want a big image, 105 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 draw it out, maybe you want one smaller image, put it right here, and perhaps you 106 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 want some text, you could just draw some text right there and maybe fill it with 107 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 some dummy text right here so you can start to build your design. 108 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If you want to place more than one image at a time, we can do that. 109 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm going to go back here, I'm going do do file, place, and let's say I absolutely 110 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 know I want this one and the one beneath it, I'm going to hold the shift key, 111 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've grabbed two files and say open, now look what's happened to my cursor, 112 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it is preloaded with my two files, it has an icon that says number two, if you 113 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 use your arrow on your keyboard you can scroll through to get a preview of which 114 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 one you're starting with. 115 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I want to start with this one and I'm going to place it here, now its preloaded 116 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 my second one and I'm going to place it in this frame. 117 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, this one of course, was not quite the right size, so maybe I want to do 118 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 some frame fitting, I can fill the frame proportionally, here it looks like 119 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm not quite there either with the actual image size, I'm going to leave it for now 120 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 just to keep it simple, but that's a way where you can load multiple images 121 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 into your cursor and then place them on fly really quickly. 122 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, practice placing your images, also called importing, drawing out your 123 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 image frames and understanding how to edit them with the content grabber 124 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the bounding box.