Hi, I'm Erica Gamet with InDesign Secrets. In this video, I'm going to show you how
to place an image into your InDesign document. When you place anything into
InDesign you use the same command and that's the Place command. It's up here, under the
File menu, under Place. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Command- or
Control-D. I'll click Place and it brings up the Place dialog box. You can navigate to
wherever your images are sitting. A couple of options I want to look at
before we import anything is down at the bottom, we have a Replace Selected Item
already selected. I want to deselect that because what
that does is, it will put the image that we choose into whatever we have selected
on our page. And if you're like me, you may have forgotten you've got something
selected on another page. Also, we can click Show Import Options. Selecting this
option will bring up a second dialog box where we get to choose options. Now we
won't have many available to us in this case, but depending on what you're
importing, you may want to have that turned on. So I've selected that. I'm
going to go ahead and just select an image…and click Open. And because we have those
options selected, it came up with a second dialog box, and as you can see
most of my options are grayed out. I'm gonna leave everything as is and
just click OK. Now we have our loaded place cursor. And this is just the image
ready to be placed. We have a couple different options for actually placing
this image onto our document. I can simply just click and let it place the
image to size on my page. And as I can see, that runs off the right and the
bottom of my page. I can't even see the edges of the photo, so that's probably
not the best option. I'm gonna undo that— Command- or Control-Z—and get back to my
loaded place cursor. A better option is to click and drag while holding down the
mouse button…and it will drag out a frame to the size that it needs. It will
also maintain the orientation and the proportions of your original image. When
you've got it to size, simply let go and the image is placed inside that frame.
I'm going to take another step backwards (Command- or Control-Z to undo) and get back to
my loaded place cursor. Because sometimes you want a frame that's a different
orientation than your original image. To do that, I need to use the Shift key. I'm
going to click and start to drag and then hit the Shift key and
now I can play with the proportions of that frame that I'm drawing out. When I
have the size I want in the shape I want, I'm going to just let go of the mouse key.
I'm still holding down the Shift key while I'm doing this at the moment. As
you can see, the frame is the size I wanted it to be but the image doesn't
fill up the frame like I had hoped. A quick fix for this is to go up to the
Object menu, down to the Fitting menu, and choose Fill Frame Proportionally. Now the
image completely fills the frame that I created. From here you'll probably have
to make more adjustments to the image and the frame, but we'll cover that in
more detail in a future video. Now when you go to place your image you may
already have a frame on your page and have it selected and you want the image
to go directly into that. With that image selected we're going to go back to the
Place menu (File > Place), choose that same image…but we're going to make sure that
we click Replace Selected Item. I'm also going to turn off Show Import Options. If
this is de-selected, it will automatically use the options you chose last time. So
I'm going to de-select that and click Open, and it automatically dropped that
image into that particular frame. I'm going to step backwards again, hit Undo,
Command- or Control-Z, and hit Escape so I get my loaded place cursor gone. I just
want to go back to the point where I had this frame selected. I have it selected.
Go up to the File menu, choose Place and maybe we have that Replace Selected Item
turned off. Because again, that's a good safety feature to not have that on. So I
have that off, select my image, and start to place it and I realized I really did
want to put that image inside that frame. It's no big deal.
I can just roll over that image—and it's really hard to see, I know—but when you
do that, the little brackets around that place cursor icon become these rounded
brackets. And when I do that, it says, "Oh, you must want to put that image inside
that frame." So simply roll over it and click and the image goes inside that
frame. And lastly let's say you already have an empty frame and you don't intend
to put that image inside there. We do the same Place command (File > Place)…I'm gonna
choose that same image and click Open. And we drag it out and we think that's
good. Then we realize we really wanted it inside this existing frame.
I can do that as well without having to replace it. I just need to select the
image that I've placed, copy it (Command- or Control-C) or I can cut it (Command- or
Control-X), select the empty frame, go up under the Edit menu, and choose Paste
Into. Now that image is sitting inside that frame.
Well I certainly hope you found this tip helpful. Be sure to check out
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