Lesson E: Placing Images

When placing images (or text), not pasting as we did earlier, we find ourselves with a cursor loaded with content. Clicking with that cursor creates master overrides and inserts the cursor’s content into them.

Placing Images into Placeholder Frames

• Go to page 1: double-click its icon or choose it from the Page menu (lower left). Be sure both its icon and page number are highlighted in the Pages panel before continuing.
• Choose the Selection tool and make sure nothing is currently selected before we attempt to place an image (⌘-shift-A/Ctrl-Shift-A).
• Go to File > Place. In the dialog box, navigate to the downloaded folder called Project 2 Promotional Handout and choose the image yellowLeaping.png. Click Open.
• With the loaded cursor, carefully click within the perimeter of the large placeholder image frame. A good spot would be in the very middle of the page, between the text columns.

• Go to page 2. Be sure both its icon and page number are highlighted in the Pages panel.
• Choose the Selection tool and make sure nothing is selected (⌘-shift-A/Ctrl-Shift-A).
• Go to File > Place. Navigate to the Project 2 Promotional Handout folder and choose the image blueLeaping.png. Click Open.
• With the loaded cursor, carefully click within the perimeter of the placeholder image frame. Again, a good spot would be the very middle of the page.

In both cases, the object style we made ensures that the images fill their frames regardless of their original sizes. There are two more refinements.

• Go to page 1 again with nothing selected (⌘-shift-A/Ctrl-Shift-A).
• Go to File > Place. Navigate and choose the graphic weeMap.ai. Click Open.
• With the loaded cursor, carefully click in the empty space to the left of the page. Once the map graphic appears, drag it to a position above or below the text.
• Finally, highlight the whole line with the word “Location” (triple-click it). Change its Fill color to Paper in either the Properties panel or the Control panel.
• Use the Properties panel to redefine the style by clicking the icon to the right of header (the style’s name). Now both headers are the same.
• If you were to print this, you’d need to print on both sides of larger paper (like B4), then trim it to the page size (A4).