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Using the Object menu

Using the Object menu

From the course: InDesign and InCopy: Collaborative Workflows

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Using the Object menu

When the InDesign user has exported one or more images to the workflow just as they might do with the text frame and that means that you in InCopy have the opportunity to check out an image and manipulate it within its frame as I have. Check out this image here. Now, you can manipulate it right onscreen in Layout View by dragging on the image and that will re-crop it. You can't really change the frame size, as I mentioned in a different video. But other things that I can do with this are I can scale the image as well and you can scale it just by dragging on any handle and the image will scale. Now, if you want to scale it both vertically and horizontally then you would drag on any corner handle. If you want to make sure that your scaling is constrained so that both horizontal and vertical scale the same amounts, stays in proportion in other words, then hold down the Shift key as you drag on any handle. You'd want to release the mouse button before you release the Shift key. Let's say…

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