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Cropping and fitting graphics

Cropping and fitting graphics - InDesign Tutorial

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Cropping and fitting graphics

- [Instructor] When you place an image into an empty frame, it often doesn't appear at the correct size on your page. For example, let's go to the layout menu and choose next spread. Now I'm going to put an image inside this frame. So I'll select it. Then go to the place dialog box with a command D or a control D on windows. Now let's go ahead and choose one of these images like this third one, and I'll click open. Now I can tell immediately that this is not what I was hoping for. I wanted to fit the image inside this frame. It's important to remember that the frame is not the same as the image. They're two separate things, one inside the other. You can select the image inside the frame with the selection tool, in two ways. You can double click the image or just click once on that little donut shaped icon in the middle. Now we've selected the image inside the frame. You can see the top edge of the image way out here.…

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