We're going to look at bringing in images and logos and rotating them.
We'll look at this one where we've cropped it.
You can see, look at this sneaky.
This one's actually a little bit bigger.
Okay. Corrupted into a nice little box will flip them.
We'll do all stuff with images.
All right, let's go and do that now.
To bring in an image,
icon or any visual graphic, it's the same.
First thing we need to do though,
is we need to get in the habit of,
if I have my black arrow selected,
and just click off in this dark gray area around the side here so that nothing selected.
There's a more official way you can go to Edit and go to de-select all.
We've got nothing selected then we're going to go to File Place.
Remember that's important for InDesign.
Pick the 01 flier folder and this one called lunch.
Now your cursor is loaded with
this little image and you've got two ways of putting it in there.
Now when you bringing in images into InDesign,
it can confuse you when you are new.
The easiest way is over here in the gray area to click once.
That'll bring up my image at full size.
If it's coming in too big,
you can go to Edit and go to undo Place,
that is going to go back.
What I want to do is click Hold and drag
in this gray area and doesn't really matter how big it is.
You can see that's the size of my image.
It's coming through really big.
Just click and drag it out to a more appropriate size.
The reason I do that is I'm going to go to Edit undo again,
or Control Z on a Mac or Command Z on a PC,
so undone, if I click on this green box here, the icon changes.
It's a little bit hard to see.
Title zoom in for us so you can see the brackets appear.
What it means is if I click on this.
It's merged them together.
My green boxes gone forever,
and you might want that, that's cool, so you can do that.
What I do is I find that's always a pain.
Edit, undo, undo, undo.
I'm going to keep going undo until that's back and remember,
I can just click once out here in the background.
Let's look at some of the things we can do with images.
First of all, probably you would want to resize them,
so resizing them seems easy.
You grab the black arrow,
you grab the corner and you drag it up and it does that by default,
lovely InDesign, I'm going to Undo.
What we need to do is our first shortcut.
We're not going to lead to many in this course,
there's going to be a cheat sheet of the info uploads of shortcuts,
but what we want to do is learn a couple of the more practical ones.
In this case it's resizing an image,
and you hold down on a Mac,
it's Command and Shift.
If you're on a PC, it's Control and Shift.
Hold those two down the keyboard, you hold on.
Grab this corner now and drag it up,
can you see it resizes.
We can resize it that way. To rotate it,
there's a manual rotation of the top here is a little indicator.
If I need it to be 45 degrees,
I can just type it in and it rotates. I'm going to Undo.
If you want to do it just more casually or you're just playing with a design,
is with the same black arrow hover.
You can see on the edge it does the resizing thing,
but if I hover just a bit further out you can see my icon changes.
It's a little double-headed arrow.
I can click Hold and drag that now,
and you can see that clicking Holding and dragging and it's more of a custom rotation.
I'm going to undo that. Another thing we might do is flip it.
Up the top, I've got it selected with my black arrow,
and there's this option here that flips horizontally.
Sometimes it ends up all the way over here and I'm going to click
and drag it back across. Flipping it vertically.
It does it at the top there as well.
I'm going to undo, undo,
undo, and we haven't got a flipped image.
The next thing we're gonna look at is something called the content grabber.
It's this little target that appears.
Now when you're trying to just move your image around.
So I need to move it down the bottom here.
Avoid this thing completely,
so I'm going to click and drag anywhere but there, and I can move it around.
If I drag this, what happens is,
in InDesign, your image is actually inside a picture frame already,
so they are two separate things and you can move them individually,
which is quite handy sometimes,
but can be a bit annoying when you're learning.
If I click and drag this,
you'll see the frame.
It's still there, but the picture within that frame has slid to the side,
and that can be quite cool when you're trying to crop things.
I can grab it to drag it back,
but I'm going to undo a couple of times.
Remember, Edit, Undo, and here's my shortcut.
What you need to do is if you're physically moving it,
click anywhere but the target.
But if you want to move it within the frame,
you can drag that little content grabber.
and undo If you really don't like the content grabber,
secret note I don't like it.
I turn this off, I go to View and I go to Extras,
and I go to hide Content Grabber,
There are other ways of cropping stuff.
Up to you You don't have to turn it off.
You might love it. Lots of people do.
What we're going to do now is look at some basic cropping because what
I want to do is I would like this thing,
let's click Hold and drag it.
So it's at least in the top right.
It's pretty clever. It's snapping to the edges,
if yours is not snapping.
Just double-check View.
There's one in here that's called Smart guides.
So Grids and Guides, Smart Guides.
That's the thing that helps it automatically jump to the edge.
You don't have to be like perfect pixel.
On and the top right,
I'm going to grab this bottom left.
I'm going to hold down my shortcut to resize it.
Who remembers what the shortcut was?
Command Shift on a Mac and Command Shift on a PC, so I'm dragging it out.
I want it to be at least or bigger than our background image.
It's snapped up in the corner there.
What I want to do is,
remember if I hold this two shortcut keys down it resizes it,
but if I don't,
remember when I grabbed it before,
crops it and that's going to work in our favor now because what I want to do is grab
this side and maybe roughly in the middle.
I want it to be like this and same with the bottom.
I'm going to drag it up, so it's just on my bleed.
I'm cropping bits of the image off,
but that's the look I'm looking for.
What also I might want to do is mimic content grabber. I hated it.
It's handy now look, I can drag the center of it and you can see,
I can drag it within this box a little bit.
Let's bring in one more thing.
Let's bring in the logo,
exact same technique as the image.
Remember black arrow clicking the background so you got nothing selected, Go to File.
Let's go to Place and pick one of the logos.
I'm going to use this first one logo, one full.
It doesn't have to be a JPEG or a PNG can be an Illustrator file,
which is another Adobe product. Let's click open.
Remember in this gray area in the background,
click once, or you can click and drag to get the size that you want.
Black arrow grab anywhere,
but the Content Grabber.
Remember if I try and move them using that seemed a bit weirdly,
the image is over here,
but the frame is still over here,
so I'm going to undo that.
Click off the background and I'm going to grab anywhere but the Content Grabber.
I'm going to stick it somewhere. That's my lovely logo.
Earlier I said you may be having nothing selected.
I'll show you the reason why is,
if I have this green box selected by accident and I want to bring in my logo,
let's say it's before I brought on this logo.
Actually, I'll delete it to make it.
I've got this green box selected.
File and I've forgotten to de-select it,
go to Place and I go to my logo and I click open.
It doesn't give me the option of dragging it out and giving it a size.
It fuses it with this green box,which is cool,
but it's stuck there now.
They are one and the same.
I'm going to undo until life was easier.
Remember, before you bring it in,
de-select in the background and then go to File Place.
All right friends that is working with images.
Let's go on and start working with type in InDesign.