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Now here’s the easy-to-miss checkbox! In the Place dialog that appears, look in the lower-left corner and check the Replace Selected Item checkbox.
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Press Command-D (PC: Control-D) to activate the Place command. Click on the graphic you’d like to replace. In this case, you’ll want to start with your Direct Selection tool (A), which will allow you to work with the contents of the graphics frame unlike the Selection tool (V), which works more directly with the frame itself. Let’s start with a selected graphics frame whose contents you want to replace. Then you want to pay attention to a very important checkbox in the Place dialog that’s easy to miss. Sometimes when you place images, weird things happen, such as your image being placed at 100% inside your text frame-how the heck did that happen anyway? The key to avoiding confusion when placing a graphic in InDesign is to always keep track of two things: (1) What tool is currently selected, and (2) what frame is currently selected. Practice this sequence until it’s second nature. Then, with the Selection tool still active and without any keys pressed, simply click anywhere in the middle of your image and drag it to where you want it placed. Now, with the Selection tool still active, press Command-Shift (PC: Control-Shift) and then click-and-drag one of the corners of your image to proportionally resize both the graphics frame and its image contents to whatever dimension you desire. If you use two hands to apply your keyboard shortcuts (right hand on the control keys and left for the alpha keys, E and C) you can perform both of these in less than one second (fit the image proportionally within the frame and then resize the frame around the image). These keyboard shortcuts can be performed in rapid succession. Focus on and learn two of these: Command-Option-Shift-E (PC: Control-Alt-Shift-E) to Fit Content Proportionally (without distortion) in the current window, and Command-Option-C (PC: Control-Alt-C) to Fit Frame to Content.
#Indesign resize image series#
You’ll see five Fitting options with a series of somewhat confusing keyboard shortcuts. Now, select Object>Fitting to view the Fitting choices. With your graphic object selected, activate your Selection tool (V). Here’s where the keyboard shortcuts come in handy. A portion of the image you’re placing will appear inside of that graphics frame. Here’s a typical effective sequence:Īfter pressing Command-D (PC: Control-D) and selecting your image in the Place dialog, click-and-drag to create a graphics frame. Often, a better approach is to click-and-drag to create a graphics frame at approximately the size that you want and then use some keyboard shortcuts and your selection tools to quickly control your final image size and placement. And depending upon which tool you have selected, this circumstance may lead to even further frustration (more on tools below). This often leads to frustration and time wasted resizing the images. This may be okay if the dimensions of your image aren’t too large, but may be a rude awakening if you’re placing a 24×26″ digital camera image whose output dimensions you’ve not yet resized in Photoshop.
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If you simply click on the page with this Loaded Graphics icon, your graphic will be placed at 100% size, and where you initially clicked will be established as the upper-left corner of the image. Once you activate the Place command, a small Loaded Graphics icon appears. Let’s assume the simplest case: Nothing is selected on your InDesign document. What happens next depends upon what’s currently selected on your page, which tool is active, and what you do with the Loaded Graphics icon that appears-so it pays to have a plan. The fastest way to place an image in an InDesign page is to use the keyboard shortcut Command-D (PC: Control-D) to activate the Place command. When working in InDesign, knowing a few shortcuts and keeping track of which tool you’re using will help you work faster and easier.