From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
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Place images - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
Place images
- [Instructor] Okay, let's go ahead and place our first image into our brochure. And it's the cover. Now what we're going to do first of all, is we're going to make sure that we are on the background's layer, by clicking on that in the layers panel. We're also going to make doubly sure that it says one in this page number just here, if it doesn't, click on the list there and choose one. Okay, and then we're going to tap F on our keyboard to bring in an image frame. Now, I'm going to go from the red line at the top left here, diagonally down to the red line at the bottom right. And it might help if you zoom out just a shade, command minus, or control minus to zoom out. Okay, then just go to the top there, and click and drag across. Okay, once you've done that command zero, or control zero to fit the document. And this is a place holder for a frame, and sometimes I actually draw the frames first. Anything you place will…
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Document setup2m 39s
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Create guides2m
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Master pages1m 54s
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Layers2m 12s
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Typography6m 21s
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Place images3m 41s
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Moving assets between layers1m 18s
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Place an Illustrator file1m 41s
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Add a character style3m 40s
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Reposition an image3m 2s
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Formatting text4m 19s
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Threading text1m 21s
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Columns and span3m 42s
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Challenge: Center heading1m 52s
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Solution: Center heading1m 11s
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Add inset spacing2m 42s
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Grid drawing and gaps3m 7s
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Challenge: Grid drawing53s
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Challenge: Thread text1m 44s
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Importing data3m 55s
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Styling a table3m 55s
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Object layer options5m 16s
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Gradient feather4m 2s
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