Professor Vaughn: Moving on with other, types of frames, including image frames.
So, we looked at using the type tool to draw our frame, now we're going to use
our rectangle or other frames which is right here to draw some
areas for some images.
So, this looks a lot like our standard rectangle, but it isn't, notice here we've
got this X going through the rectangle?
That's a frame.
Whereas here, which is a regular rectangle tool,
it acts like a shape.
Underneath the rectangle frame tool, you have a circular version or
a polygon version, all of those are great.
Remember frames are going to be used to sort-of contain the area of the image,
it's almost like, um, a picture frame.
So, let's just start with the rectangle frame and I am simply going to
draw out an area where I want my image to go; I just click and drag, there it is,
there's the frame, big X in the middle.
Now again, this is different than a rectangle.
I'm going to use this as a place holder for now, or place my image
if I'm ready to go.
Often, you can create a design where you lay it out without any of your information
yet, maybe you send it to a photographer, they fill in the images, vice versa.
Okay, so, let's go ahead and place a graphic; a couple ways to do this, its
going to go inside this frame, so if you've clicked off for some reason,
you can click back on it, make sure you've got it selected with your selection tool,
you can use the quick action down here called import file or file, place.
These are the same--will get you to the same place.
Okay, so file, place, you're going to navigate to where your image might be,
I've got some images ready to go in this Lorax folder and I'm just going to grab
one of them; this little Lorax, here we go, open.
Now, important to note, images are always placed at 100% of their size, so if you're
working with photographs you need to make sure you're working in photoshop,
editing it correctly, sizing it to the correct size and resolution before
putting it into InDesign.
So, you can see this file actually is a little bit smaller than my frame but,
that's okay, I can always adjust my frame using my selection tool, so I can
drag it in from the top to the bottom, or if you want to do that a little bit
quicker, so there's no space around it, you can use frame fitting down here.
So, there's some really good opportunities here.
You can fill your frame proportionally, now this is an interesting one where
it does make it feel like it sized it, but again, if your image is low quality
you might notice some degradation, so it basically filled it out
proportionally, so not skewing it, but you do loose some of your image.
We have fit content proportionally, so that will fit it towards the
top and bottom edge, but it's not actually skewing it.
Then we have some fit content to frame, watch what happens, this is stretching it
so, I don't really recommend that.
Same idea, uh, actually this fourth one is a really good one where this one makes
your frame go down to size of your actual image and then this autofit sometimes
can also be really useful, this is going to, um,
autofit your frame and your content together, so those can be good.
But let's divide into what's happening in this actual image.
Now, we've got our frame, this is the bounding box, I can see all eight
of those editing boxes, I can move my frame in, notice I'm not moving the image
I'm moving the frame because I've got the frame with that blue box,
so all I'm doing is adjusting the frame, image is staying the same,
the frame kind-of acts like a cropping mechanism in this case, so that's useful.
I can, of course, make a skewed frame by using my direct selection tool.
I can also, think about how to work with the actual image.
Now, so far, I've only been using the frame.
The image itself, if you hover over notice in this middle zone, you get what's called
content grabber, click here, just once, now, we have a new colorful edge,
this is like this orange kind-of golden color, right?
You see that?
So, that is the image, not the frame, the moment you enter the content
grabber, you're working with the image.
If I move, notice I'm moving the image, you can see the orange bounding box,
I've just shifted this whole image over, which is getting it really misaligned
to my frame, so be really careful, now look, my frame is in the same spot,
but my image is way over.
If you want to size up or down, scaling, your actual image, not the frame,
this is where you go, you need to be on the orange bounding box.
Now, holding shift is important depending on your version that keeps it proportional
so you're not skewing your image and then come into the image and get it aligned
with your frame in the way that you want it to be aligned.
Now again, let's do this one more time.
I'm going to go ahead and just click off, click anywhere else.
Normal, image, frame, blue, blue bounding box, the moment I enter the
content grabber right here in the middle, orange bounding box, that orange bounding
box is how I can scale up or down, I can move the image
let to right, excreta.
If you are attempting--now I've got things real crazy here--if you are attempting
to move them both at the same time, if you just grab your actual frame,
you should be able to carry them together.
If you want to scale them together at the same time--oops command-Z--shift and
command are what you need to do, so I'm going to back myself up.
So, notice I just got the blue bounding box, I'm going to hold down shift and
command, that tells InDesign 'resize the frame and resize the content',
shift and command, they're both getting smaller in the same proportion.
Okay, so that is our basics of working with images.
I'm going to delete this, now I'm going to draw a couple other frames,
let's do something more interesting, let's do a polygon.
Remember if you hold shift you're going to keep things proportional.
Polygon, I know it's a frame, it has the X.
Let's try the import file.
Import file, find your file, say open, now its placed it in there, now again,
its not quite right as far as the sizing goes, so do I need to edit
the size of the frame?
I can use the selection tool, editing the size of the frame,
making it fit a little bit better to my content, scaling it down, now I have a
frame that's constraining my image to this particular shape.
If I need to edit the image itself, click on the content grabber, now I see
the orange frame and I know this is the image scaling it up or down, left or right.
Okay, other ways of working.
You can always draw out your design first, knowing perhaps that you want a big image,
draw it out, maybe you want one smaller image, put it right here, and perhaps you
want some text, you could just draw some text right there and maybe fill it with
some dummy text down here so you can start to build your design.
If you want to place more than one image at a time, we can do that.
I'm going to go back here, I'm going do do file, place, and let's say I absolutely
know I want this one and the one beneath it, I'm going to hold the shift key,
I've grabbed two files and say open, now look what's happened to my cursor,
it is preloaded with my two files, it has an icon that says number two, if you
use your arrow on your keyboard you can scroll through to get a preview of which
one you're starting with.
I want to start with this one and I'm going to place it here, now its preloaded
my second one and I'm going to place it in this frame.
Now, this one of course, was not quite the right size, so maybe I want to do
some frame fitting, I can fill the frame proportionally, here it looks like
I'm not quite there either with the actual image size, I'm going to leave it for now
just to keep it simple, but that's a way where you can load multiple images
into your cursor and then place them on fly really quickly.
So, practice placing your images, also called importing, drawing out your
image frames and understanding how to edit them with the content grabber
and the bounding box.