One of the new time-saving features that everyone is talking about in InDesign CS3 is the ability to Place multiple images at one time. If you haven’t discovered it yet, here’s how it works. Set up some Graphic Frames in your layout, go to File > Place, and locate the folder that contains your images. Select the first image, then Command-click (Control-click with PC) to select additional images you’d like to Place, and then click the Open button. This loads all the images to be Placed. A preview of the first image is seen in the loaded brush. If you click on a Frame, the image is Placed in that Frame and the next image is previewed in the brush.
But what if you want to place the images in a different order than they are previewed? No problem! If you want to skip a particular image, use the Down Arrow on your keyboard to skip to the next image preview. Both the Up and Down or Left and Right Arrows can be used to flip through the Previews of all the loaded images. If you loaded extra pictures that you later decide not to Place, simply click on any tool in the Tools panel to unload the brush of all remaining images.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
