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Working with graphics
Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom
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Moving the handles of a frame using the Selection tool changes the size of the frame and adjusts
how much of the image is displayed. Using the Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (Mac
OS) modi er keys allows you to scale the image and the frame together.
7 To reveal the text that is beneath the image, position the Selection tool on the image and
right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+click (Mac OS); then choose Arrange > Send to Back.
The image is placed behind the text.
Positioning graphics within a frame
You may need to crop or scale images that are placed in your layout. Here you will explore
some visual tools that help with the positioning and scaling of graphics.
1 Navigate to page 1 by using the page drop-down menu or the Pages panel.
2 Choose the Selection tool ( ), then click to select the graphic frame at the bottom-left
corner of page 1. The frame spans the left and center columns. InDesign displays empty
graphic frames with an X inside the frame.
3 Choose File > Place. In the Place dialog box, navigate to the id01lessons folder and select
the snowshoe.psd image. Press Open. The image is placed inside the selected frame, and
is larger than the frame. Next you will determine the size of the image and adjust it to  t
within the frame.
4 Choose the Direct Selection tool ( ) in the Tools panel and click to select the snowshoe
image. The edges of the image are displayed with a light-brown border, showing the
actual size of the graphic within the frame.
5 Select the Hand tool ( ) from the Tools panel. Click and hold the document. As you
noticed earlier in this lesson, the page magni cation changes and a red frame appears
when using the Hand tool.
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