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Graphic frames

Graphic frames - InDesign Tutorial

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Graphic frames

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When it comes to working with graphic frames the most important thing to learn is that you can make changes to the container itself without affecting the contents and vice versa so it's almost like working with two entities that are linked. So the container is the frame itself which I can use to change what I see from the contents or the image so in a way adjusting the corners or edges of the container we are cropping the image so we are revealing parts of it or hiding parts of it you can also consider this masking so this is a very straightforward and simple thing that you just have to get used to if you haven't used Adobe InDesign that much. Now if you want to scale something or transform a frame or graphic frame you would want to hold down the command the control key and start dragging that way but this would end up also stretching or distorting the image so you also want to hold down the shift key most of the time to constrain the proportions. So this is changing both the…

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