How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping

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82 lessons / 7 hours 4 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan. I am a graphic designer and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI)  for InDesign.

Together we will work through real life projects starting with a simple company flyer, then a brochure & a company newsletter. We’ll make business cards & take control of a really long annual report.

We will work with colour, picking your own and also using corporate colours. You will explore how to choose & use fonts like a professional. We will find, resize & crop images for your documents.

There are projects for you to complete, so you can practise your skills & use these for your creative portfolio.

In this course I supply exercise files so you can play along. I will also save my files as I go through each video so that you can compare yours to mine - handy if something goes wrong.

Know that I will be around to help - if you get lost you can drop a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video and I'll be sure to get back to you.

I will share every design trick I have learnt in the last 15 years of designing. My goal is for you to finish this course with all the necessary skills to start making beautiful documents using InDesign.


What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign CC 2018 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous design skills are needed.
  • No previous InDesign skills are needed.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 76 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.
  • You'll learn to design a flyer, newsletter, brochure, annual report & business cards.
  • Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.
  • You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.
  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
  • Techniques used by professional graphic designers.
  • Professional workflows and shortcuts.
  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • No previous InDesign experience is necessary.
  • This course is for people completely new to InDesign. No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary.
  • This is a relaxed, well paced introduction that will enable you to produce most common publications. Only basic computing skills are necessary - If you can send emails and surf the internet then you will cope well with our course.

Course duration 6 hours 20 mins + your study.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at getting images inside of shapes. Circles, Pentagons… It's pretty easy, let's go and do that now.

So there's two ways, let's do the easy way. Let's have nothing selected, 'Black Arrow', click in the background. Let's go to 'File', 'Place'. In your exercise files, go to '04 Long Document', and go to 'Cafe', let's bring him in. Obviously, you can bring in any image you like. Now, I'm going to click, hold, and drag it out to an appropriate size. You might click once, and then have to re-size it. To get it into something, because it’s going to go inside this circle, right? So what I'd like to do is—

So this is an easier way, because you can work on this image separately. Then kind of get it positioned over where you want it. Make sure it's big enough to actually cover the circle, otherwise we'll see a strip of the pink through there. So I'm going to make it a little bigger. Roughly, we can adjust that afterwards. Then we're going to 'Edit', 'Cut'. Select on the 'Circle'. And go to 'Edit', 'Paste Into'. We can do some adjustments afterwards by grabbing the 'Content Grabber'. Move it around, or just double click anywhere, then move it around. So that's how to paste inside.

Couple of things you might run into with problems. I'm going to 'undo' that. He's back, if you don't have it above where you want it to go-- if I just leave him kind of way, willy nilly, and go to 'Cut' here, go to 'Edit', 'Paste Into', it goes inside, but you can only see the corner of it. Worse, it might even be tucked down here, and you'll never see it. And you can keep pasting into it, but it will never work. So just make sure that before you actually cut it, put it exactly where you want it to go, then cut and paste it.

So, I said there was two ways, there's another way. With it selected you can go to 'Edit', 'Place'. And you can go to 'Cafe'. And what will happen by default is that it will paste inside of it, and that's fine. The problem is it's comes through as actual size, and it's a really big image. You see, it's that big, it's way bigger than our Spread. So it's just a little bit hard now to zoom out, and then to start scaling it. You have to be a, not a Pro, but it's a bit fiddly to do it that way. I find it's easier to do it separately. Get it to a planned position, cut and paste it inside.

Before we go, last thing we'll do is get the text to run around here. So with it selected, 'Window'-- actually I want you to do it by yourself. I want to see if you can get it going. I'm going to do it. 'Same as Clipping', this one here, I'm going to push this out. I said go and do it by yourself, I just totally did it in front of you. That's all right. We'll do another image, we'll replace this blue one but we're going to look at something called Adobe Stock, and how that works. Let's go and do that now.

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