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Importing graphics

Importing graphics - InDesign Tutorial

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Importing graphics

- [Instructor] It's time to turn our attention to pictures, you know, graphics, images, whatever you want to call them. I have my magazine file open from the Exercise Files folder, and I want to jump to the last spread of the document. And I'll do that by clicking this little button in the lower left corner of the document window. That's the last spread button. Okay, now, the basic method for importing an image is to use the Place Command, which you can find underneath the File menu. Or you could press Command D on the Mac or Control D on windows. When you choose place, InDesign shows you a list of all the images or files that I could place right now, I'm going to look inside my Exercise Files folder. And then inside the links folder. I'll scroll down until I find the image that I want. It's this Bellflower icon. And when I click open, you'll see that InDesign loads that image up into the place cursor.…

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