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Rotating images and text

Rotating images and text - InDesign Tutorial

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Rotating images and text

- [Instructor] Sometimes it doesn't take much to break out of the grid. In this example, I'm just going to rotate some of the images. I'll come to my Layers panel and let's lock the text layer. I'm now going to select these three pictures. I have an Objects dial called Postcard, and this includes a white border and a drop shadow. So now with that object style applied to these images, I'll select them, tap R for my Rotate Tool, and I'm just going to rotate them in such a way so that it looks like the images have just been dropped randomly onto my page. Now, when I do that, I do need to pay careful attention to what's going on with the text wrap. So I might need to now adjust the position of my text frame. Let's unlock the text layer, turn on the guides, and I will pull the text frame down to there, and let's also pull the caption down one grid line as well. And perhaps I might also want to throw in a small amount of rotation in the title. I'll double-click to select this portion of the…

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