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Okay, everybody, hi. David Dilling from Markzware.
Today's little tip here is
How to Place Images in Adobe InDesign CS6,
how to put an image into an InDesign document,
in this case, CS6,
but the same applies to CS5.5, CS5, CS4, yeah, and so forth, really.
It's very important, because,
for some novices or, you know, people starting out,
they don't know exactly how to do it.
They're more familiar with Word,
or with Publisher, or something like that,
and they're doing it incorrectly,
which can cause corruption and
can cause your file to not open anymore.
And we at Markzware, I'll put a link,
also fix bad files,
and we see this often.
And, a lot of the time,
the case is they're doing it wrong,
placing images incorrectly.
So, let me show you what I mean here.
(music plays)
The proper way to place an image.
Let's start with that. Is...
I want to place an image here in between this text.
The proper way to place an image in Adobe InDesign CS6
is to go up here to, you know, to add a graphic into your document
or add a logo, or add, you know, a screen picture, whatever it might be,
the way to do that standard is under
File and go to Place.
On a Macintosh, that's Command-D on your keyboard, as a shortcut,
which is very handy.
And when you click Place, so,
then you'll be asked to choose a document. You get this Place dialogue
and, then you, like, you know, like, your file, opening a file,
but in this case, you're going to place it.
So, you choose the image you want to place.
You click Open
and now you have that image right where you want it.
Now, of course, you have to resize it.
(mouse clicks)
Now, we have to get the content in there proportionately,
So, we go to Object,
and we go Fitting,
and we go Fit Content Proportionately.
Now, you see we get that... that in there.
Alright, so that's a way to properly place an image.
There's also another...
another way you can do
File > Place.
Let me see. Now, I haven't chosen a location to place it yet.
I've just gone to File > Place.
Now, I can choose exactly where I want to place that image,
so I can, like, you know, place that over here, whatever.
That's just a small, little...
little, mini Markzware logo for Twitter and whatnot.
Alright, so there's a couple
quick tips on how to
place images, you know, "Placing Images 101" in InDesign,
you know, the basics of it.
Now, How Not to Place Images.
So, let me show you here what some people do.
And what they do is they'll, like, go to the Internet,
and here's the Markzware page,
and they find an image they like,
like, hey, that's a cool Markzware logo.
Let's throw that right in here.
You know, it looks great on screen, right?
Okay. So, let's... Let's put a couple more in there.
Well, here's a nice little... little icon thing, you know,
and, hey, I want to make that... I want to make that bigger.
So, I just learned that trick: Object > Fitting > Fit Object Proportionately
and make it bigger and, you know,
you can... It looks relatively okay.
It looks a little grainy, a little fuzzy, you know.
That's some... Is it high res or low res?
These are all things we have to really keep in mind.
So, people often, are going, you know, often, I don't know if it's often.
I hope not, but people are using the Internet, you know,
for instance, if you go to... if you look for...
do a search for FlightCheck.
and then, you search, you know, you go to Images.
When you search for FlightCheck,
the preflight, patented tool
to help you check your files before going to print,
you'll get a bunch of images.
So, you might say, well, here,
"I want to use that one"
or you might actually click on it
and "View original image"
and then you can go over here
and put the whole... the whole darn image in there.
Just for sakes, we'll do it like that. Okay.
Another bad way to place images is the following...
is going into Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint,
and a lot of people do it from Word.
Now, I'm showing you from PowerPoint, just because I...
I know I have images embedded there.
And what we can do...
The same thing applies for Word.
A lot of people do this in Word,
because a lot of Word documents
are semi-used for desktop publishing type of layouts.
So, hey, here's a cool image.
I want to use my Quality Triangle.
So, you can go over here and you grab it from PowerPoint,
and it all seems to work. And it does work.
I mean, there is the, you know,
the image of Preflight Quality Control,
how checking... preflighting your files will save you tons of time and money,
if you stop a problem at Design,
compared to Press, right? Okay.
So, there we have it. Okay.
So, here we have some images.
Now, I'm not going to go around and,
you know, make this a perfect-looking layout.
That's not the idea here, right now.
I've just shown you the proper way to place images
and now I've shown you some improper ways to place images.
It looks fine, right?
Everything looks fine in this.
So, now we're going to save this document out
on my desktop.
Now, the first thing I can do to have a look at is
check it with FlightCheck.
FlightCheck is a preflighting application
to look (FlightCheck eagle screeches) inside and x-ray your files
to find given problems, based on said preferences,
to make sure that everything will output correctly.
A very handy tool for design and prepress alike,
and, certainly, for publishers.
Now, what you quickly see, InDesign has preflight built in,
but this is a lot, in my view (laughs), of course,
but in other people's views, as well, a lot simpler,
because it's a stand-alone and just focuses on that.
In the first view, we get results,
but I just want to jump right in and show you,
now, we get Colors and Fonts
and we see some missing fonts
that can be a big problem.
And we're just going to hide Fonts and Colors for now.
And what I just wanted to show you here
is the Images section.
And, right away, what you see
are some interesting things.
You see we have some stored images,
and what you'll see is these stored images don't have a name,
because they're coming from the ones I've dragged and dropped from the Internet.
Make this screen bigger.
(mouse clicks)
What you'll see is we're getting these strange, you know,
HD:Users:MarkzwareEU:Desktop:PDF2DTP-customers-v2.indd:MARKER2_766.
It's showing up with a number
and it's coming from the Internet.
These are the images coming from the Internet.
They're shown as stored,
not locally on our hard drive.
They're from the Internet,
so, they look fine and they seem fine
for the time being, but if I sent this file off to be printed,
it just... it just wouldn't work.
Stronger, or furthermore, it can also cause a file to go corrupt,
because it's... it's not the proper way,
it's... it's something... InDesign just doesn't like it, you know,
and it causes corruption. Okay?
You see we have a missing... a missing image,
so, that's also a problem.
By the way, FlightCheck can collect your job, as well,
with all fonts and images
collected into one folder.
Very handy!
And, if we did that in this case, what you'll see
and I won't compress it. You can compress the job, also very useful.
What you'll see
(computer chimes)
You get here a file
with a FlightCheck folder that says, "Watch out. There are problems."
But in that folder, excuse me,
that we need to send to the next person in the workflow,
whether it's a publisher, or a designer, or pre-press printing.
We get the file, preflight report,
the fonts, for use only for this job, and the images.
Now, what you'll see, right away,
is that we don't have those...
it didn't collect those images from the Internet.
Of course not.
It just can't do that.
InDesign can't deal with it.
FlightCheck doesn't deal with it, either.
It's just the way it is.
You have to, you know...
Desktop publishing is done, traditionally,
that you use the images locally from your hard drive
or from associated drives,
which should be connected, of course.
If you disconnect a drive,
the image also won't be available anymore for collection.
Alright, everybody. So, that's how you can place images within InDesign CS6.
That's what they call placing.
File > Place is the best way to place an image.
You can also drag and drop from your hard drive
onto your document,
and I'll show you that real quick here.
(mouse clicks)
So, if I have here a folder of images,
I can take one and drop it in like that, and then you get that place thing.
So, you can do... you can do that,
and that's valid, because it's coming from a location on your hard drive
and it will now be... and you see up here in the Links panel,
you see up here in InDesign that
it is available for collection.
It's not missing, but if we scroll down to these links,
see, we don't see 'em.
They're not even there.
I mean, we can go to that page
and we could look in the links,
and it's just not showing up,
because, like we saw in FlightCheck,
FlightCheck sees them, that we don't even see them here,
and FlightCheck tells you they're stored,
meaning they're just... they're from someplace else.
They're temporarily stored in your... in your hard drive, so it appears,
but they're not there.
As you can see in InDesign,
it tells us, well, we don't even know they're not there.
I mean, it just doesn't even... It doesn't even show you.
So, that's how to place images in InDesign CS6.
For more information on Markzware's products,
like FlightCheck, or... or you saw PDF2DTP.
That's a tool to, you know, not place a PDF in your InDesign,
because you can also place a PDF as a page or an image,
but it will convert PDFs right into InDesign or Quark,
so, a great way to get your PDF files converted in InDesign.
Once again, David Dilling from Markzware,
on this quick tip on how to place images in InDesign CS6,
the Do's and the Do Not's.
Thank you very much. Have a great day! Take care.