Hi, I'm Anne-Marie Concepción from InDesignSecrets.com Here is a question
that I hear a lot: "How do I swap images inside of a layout?" Say for example this
image with the beautiful drop shadow is supposed to have the picture of the tree.
And this image over here with the manly border is supposed to have the image of
the dude. How do I swap them? I can't just drag the frames over because I want the
frame effects to remain. I just want to move the contents. Well, it's kind of a
pain, but it's possible to do. That's the point of this video. I'll show how to do
it manually, but also there is hope because there is a script—a free script—
that can help you do this and I'll show you where to get that script at the end.
So here's how you do it manually. You have to remember that an image always
has contents and it has the frame itself. So what we want to do is we want to take
the contents of the image and paste it into the other frame. To start, always
just duplicate these guys. So I'm drag-selecting across them and holding down
the Option key and dragging down to peel off copies. So now we have a copy. We're
going to select the contents of this picture, of the man, and you can do so if
you have this little "donut hole" showing. You can click and that will
automatically select the contents. Do you see how it gets a different colored
stroke? Or you could switch to the white arrow tool, which automatically selects
the contents. Now that it's selected I can copy it. And then I go to the picture
that I want to paste it into and I choose Paste Into. Now make sure that you
choose the frame and not the contents. Make sure that you're seeing the little
blue border, blue boxes around it and also that you're using the dark selection
tool and…otherwise Paste Into will not be available because it's saying that, "Oh,
you can't paste into itself. You have to paste into a frame." Got that? Anyway we're
going to go ahead and Paste Into. And there he is. And then we can do the same
thing here. So this time I'm going to click right here to get the contents of
the beautiful landscaping. I'll right-click and choose Copy. And because
I'm still on the selection tool I can click here—right click—and look there's
Paste Into. Yay! There it is. All right…so I have swapped both pictures and they
are perfect and now the headings make sense. Now where is that script? Well, if
you go to InDesignSecrets.com, look for a post that David Blatner wrote,
"Exchange or Swap Two Images with this Free InDesign Script. And he explains how
to use it and how to install it and everybody loves it. And what it does, is
it just lets you select these two images, right click, and at the bottom here
you'll see a command that says Swap the Images. Much easier. But now you know how
to do it manually and also with a script.
Hey I hope you found this tip helpful. Be sure to check out InDesignSecrets.com
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