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Hi, Riotta Scott back with you for the fifth and final video in our
InDesign CS6 Create a Newsletter from Scratch series.
In this video, we'll learn a couple of the basics of working with images.
Let's start with the table of contents on the left side of the giraffe.
I'm going to hold down Ctrl + Shift + Spacebar
to temporarily access my Zoom Tool,
and I'll click and drag around the area I want to zoom into.
I've right-justified the text frame because I want the page numbers
to be aligned with the giraffe's neck along here.
I don't want them to overlap the neck, though.
So we'll open the Text Wrap panel...
That's under Window...
Text Wrap...
and I'm going to go ahead and dock this
because we'll use it a couple more times as we're going along.
When we want to wrap text around an image,
we select the image, not the text frame.
So I'll select the giraffe here...
and in the Text Wrap panel we're going to hit this third icon,
which is the Wrap Around Object...
and you'll notice we've lost our text,
even in this other text box here.
And that's because it wants to
wrap around the Bounding Box.
So that's incorrect.
Wrap to Left Side is correct, so we'll leave that.
But the Contour Options Type...
sometimes when you have an image that has a
transparent background like this one,
you can do Detect Edges...
and that only sort of works here --
we did get our text back in this box,
but there's some crazy stuff going on around here,
and I'm not sure what caused that,
but luckily I did save the Alpha Channel for this image,
so we're going to go with Alpha Channel...
and that's much better.
You can see this blue outline
that's showing you where the edges are,
and I want to push the text a little bit away from this,
and I could just simply grab my text frame and
nudge it over with my arrow keys,
but that doesn't work in every situation,
so we're going to just change the inset.
So I went with 4 points there,
and it's moved out a little bit
and that looks exactly like I want it.
Now I'll add an image to the article on the second page...
go to the second page...
And I want to place it here in the middle of these three columns,
so we'll go File... Place...
and I'll grab this image... Open...
Now I have the image on my cursor here,
but I'm not sure you can see it
because sometimes this program doesn't record it
(the video capture)...
I could place it right here but it gets confused sometimes
about exactly where to place it,
so I'm going to come out here
and paste it to the pasteboard.
So then I'll just drag it into the area...
I think I'll hit Ctrl + 0 to zoom out
so I can see what I'm doing...
And then I'll grab the image...
and just drag it over here...
and let go.
Now I'll zoom back in...
and you'll see that our image overlaps the text.
So once again like we did with the giraffe,
we're going to use our Text Wrap.
Make sure the image is selected...
and hit Text Wrap...
and again we will do it from the bounding box -- or --
Wrap Around Object...
and we want to wrap to Both Right and Left side,
so that's correct, and Same as Clipping
is fine also.
So we can close that.
Now I'm going to select the background text again and
try one more thing we haven't done before.
Well, there's a couple of things we could do.
We want to make this even across here,
so we could just pull this up a little bit at a time
until we get what we want...
and then we have some overset text there,
so that's not quite working.
But let's try this:
We can right-click and go to Text Frame Options...
and try Balance Columns.
And that balances them out a little bit better.
OK. Once last thing...
If you recall, we were able to easily add rounded corners
to our rectangle shape in a previous video.
We can do the same thing with images.
Make sure the image is selected,
and then we'll come up here to the Control Panel,
and the rounded corner option is down here...
click that...
and I'll click away, and you've got a rounded corner.
Let'*** Ctrl + 0 on our keyboard to zoom out.
And then we'll hit W on our keyboard...
take a little preview...
And that shows us our full page.
That's the end of our InDesign CS6
Create a Newsletter from Scratch series,
and we hope we've given you enough information
to create a basic newsletter.
But if you want to learn more about this very powerful program,
please register for our full class series
here at University of Missouri - Columbia.
In the interest of keeping these tutorials short,
I've cut out a couple of things such as
grouping, and that's -- we use this ad down here...
and... let me go back to page 1 --
Typing on a Path, which is what we did here...
so I've cut those videos out and
we'll offer them on our YouTube Channel as extras,
so please check them out.
Before I end this video,
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