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306 Automatically crop multiple images

306 Automatically crop multiple images - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

306 Automatically crop multiple images

- [Instructor] Let's say I want to crop the edges of this image over here. It's easy to do manually, right? I just select the frame and then change the edges. I'll drag this one in, I'll drag that one in. Or, I could change the size of the image inside the frame. To do that, I'll double-click on this and that chooses the image inside the frame. Now, I can drag one of the corner or side handles. I'm going to hold down the Option + Shift keys, or Alt + Shift on Windows, and when I do that it scales it from the center point. So this is fine, but what if you need to crop dozens or hundreds of images all exactly the same amount? Now one common example of this is when you have photos that have a border around them, or a frame like this image over here. I want to enlarge this image to fit the graphic frame so that that golden wooden frame gets cut out. Now one way to do this is to select this frame, then go to the Object menu, choose the Fitting submenu and then choose Frame Fitting Options.…

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