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355 Scale pictures inside a layout

355 Scale pictures inside a layout - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

355 Scale pictures inside a layout

- [Instructor] I wanna show you one of my favorite ways to scale pictures inside a layout. When I'm trying to fit pictures to a certain amount of space that I have, instead of eyeballing it, I find it a lot easier to actually use the Scale Field up here. So if I select an image, this is the horizontal scale and vertical scale. But I'm not a mathematician, so essentially what I'm doing is this, for example, say that I want this image to be exactly as wide as this text frame. So I'll select the text frame and see that it's 2.8 inches wide and then I'll drag this guy over and align it, that looks good. And then I'll just come up to the Scale Width field and type 2.8 inches. Now, because I'm leaving constrained proportions for scaling enabled, it will be a proportional scale and the width will exactly fit 2.8 inches. Isn't that cool? It works too with multiple images. So say that I had, I'm going to undo a couple of times, this image and this image and I want them both to fit 2.8 inches…

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