InDesign: Adding images

"Place" your image

To place your image, go to File > Place, and locate your image. The cursor will change to a small version of your picture. Click on the frame, and your picture should appear.

If it looks strange, right-click on the picture and choose “Fit Content Proportionally” (the picture is proportional, but there may be space around it) or “Fit Frame Proportionally” (the frame will stretch the image to fill the whole frame).

Adjusting inside of the frame

To change the image inside the frame, use the selection tool to double-click on the image. You will see an orange frame around your image. Click and drag the “donut” on the center of the image to move it around within the frame, or use the handles on the corners to resize it.

To move your image around, use the selection tool to grab the donut to move just the image or click outside of it to move the frame and picture.

Text wrapping

InDesign is particularly good at wrapping text around images, meaning your pictures have space around them and text cannot appear behind them or on top of them.

This option is in the Properties tab to the left. You have several choices and can also choose how far away you would like the object to be.

You can wrap text around any object, including other text boxes. If you don’t see the option on the Properties tab, go to Window > Text Wrap to open a floating window with similar options