Pictures - Placeholders

Quick reference

• 00:04 This lesson is about picture frames we are gonna go ahead and start with the new
• 00:08 template of the trader news, business news letter also a file In the lesson videos.
• 00:14 And over here, I'm gonna click on Insert, and
• 00:17 we have an option that says Picture Placeholder.
• 00:19 Now, it inserts an empty picture frame to reserve space for
• 00:23 pictures you want to add later.
• 00:25 So basically, you can work on your text and your content and
• 00:28 not worry about pictures until your photographer provides them.
• 00:31 When I activate picture place holder, I'll Ctrl zoom in here,
• 00:37 the picture drops right in the middle of text and kind of wrecks my text.
• 00:40 Well you can click and drag and move that around and reposition it.
• 00:44 But, the moment you click off of that, I'm gonna go ahead and
• 00:47 click over in the margin area, look what happens.
• 00:50 It completely vanishes.
• 00:52 Good luck knowing that you dropped a picture frame there.
• 00:55 So let's go ahead and make some setting changes on our screen so
• 00:59 we have more control over what's happening on the document.
• 01:03 Alright. On the view ribbon,
• 01:04 I have the button that says Graphics Manager.
• 01:06 Mine is also sitting over here on my quick access toolbar.
• 01:09 I'm going to activate that and the Graphics Manager appears.
• 01:13 And right here on page one, it says empty, so
• 01:16 when I click that, it lights up the picture frame.
• 01:19 So, I basically have an empty frame hanging out there which shows.
• 01:23 Now if you're not seeing the little icons on your Graphics Manager, make sure your
• 01:27 sort by: says Page number, and you have a check mark in the Show Thumbnail.
• 01:31 There's another way to tell at a glance that you've got a picture frame there,
• 01:34 and on the View ribbon right over here, we have an option that says Boundaries.
• 01:39 When I click Boundaries, it'll actually draw lines, border boundaries,
• 01:43 around my text boxes, my picture frames.
• 01:46 Here's another text box.
• 01:48 So a moment ago, those weren't there.
• 01:50 Now a lot of people don't like the Boundaries button on because it looks
• 01:54 busy and you don't have lines around your text boxes.
• 01:58 Why do you wanna see them.
• 02:00 For the empty picture frames.
• 02:01 That's why you want to see them.
• 02:03 If you want to turn it off, go ahead and turn it off.
• 02:05 But, in this case,
• 02:06 I do want them on because I want to know where my empty picture frame is.
• 02:10 Alright, on the page navigation panel over here on the left, please click page four.
• 02:15 We're going to come right down here and we're going to insert.
• 02:18 Three picture frames.
• 02:19 So I'm gonna click Insert > Picture Placeholder, and go ahead and
• 02:24 do it three times.
• 02:25 They land right on top of each other, you just need to be aware of it.
• 02:29 I can see it happening over on my Graphics Manager over here.
• 02:33 I'm gonna pause just for a moment, I'm going to double-click my ribbon so
• 02:37 I can see more of my screen room.
• 02:40 It was just a little too small, I actually wanted to see more of the screen window.
• 02:45 Alright so now I can just click and drag these across from each other.
• 02:48 Notice when I click and drag these blue lines show up.
• 02:51 Those are called guidelines, they help you when you are moving frames or pictures or
• 02:55 anything, to stay lined up to the previous element.
• 02:59 So I'm just going to click and drag and move these off and watch my guidelines.
• 03:03 And everything looks fine.
• 03:05 Now, at this point, I can go ahead and insert some pictures.
• 03:07 So I'm gonna click on the first one and
• 03:09 it's gonna ask me from your computer or the Internet.
• 03:12 I'll go to My Computer.
• 03:14 Here are some pictures that are saved with the lesson files And
• 03:18 I'm going to go ahead and put the office break room in this first one.
• 03:21 Now when that comes in, I'm gonna zoom in so you can this.
• 03:25 Look, the picture itself is a little wider than the actual frame.
• 03:28 So I have a choice.
• 03:29 I can use the crop tools and make the frame wider.
• 03:33 Or I can go to my picture tools format, and I can tell this to fit.
• 03:38 Actually just fit within the size of that square.
• 03:41 And notice it'll reshape the picture accordingly.
• 03:45 Okay, I'm gonna zoom out so we can work on the second one.
• 03:47 I'll click on this picture frame.
• 03:49 And this time I'm going to go to my computer files, and
• 03:52 I'm gonna put office lobby.
• 03:53 Notice it's a rectangle.
• 03:55 I'm gonna click that.
• 03:56 Hit Insert.
• 03:57 And immediately it shows me that it's much wider than the square.
• 04:01 Again, you can change the size of the picture frame or
• 04:04 I can click this, go to format and choose fit and
• 04:08 it will force the picture to fit within the parameters of the square.
• 04:11 Do you get the idea of what's going on here?
• 04:13 And also watch what's happening over in your Graphics Manager.
• 04:16 My two pictures are in, I've got one empty space left.
• 04:19 I can click it here.
• 04:20 I can click it out here and go ahead and insert yet another picture.
• 04:23 This time we'll go ahead and put the office staff picture in this one.
• 04:26 And there you go.
• 04:28 That's how you hold spots for pictures that you haven't put in yet.
• 04:31 That's how you control those, by showing the View Boundaries, and
• 04:36 the Graphics Manager.
• 04:37 All right. Thank you.

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