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Chapter 5. Understanding Page Layout

In This Chapter

• Working with image files

• Selecting images on the page

• Knowing page layout settings

• Using text and graphics in your layouts

• Working with pages

• Using master pages and spreads

This chapter shows you how to put graphics and text together so that you can start creating page layouts. Interesting and creative page layouts help draw interest to the pictures and words contained within the publication. An interesting layout motivates more of the audience to read the text you place on a page.

Importing Images

You can add several kinds of image files to an InDesign document. Some of the most common kinds are JPEG, TIF, GIF, and PSD. Images are imported into graphic frames, which are instantly created when you add the image to the page.

InDesign allows you to make specific settings, such as those for quality, linkage, and color management, when importing an image. You can adjust additional settings when you import an image with the Image Import Options dialog box. In the "Importing other InDesign documents" section, you see how to change various import options, but for now, to import an image into InDesign (without changing the import settings), follow these steps:

1. Make sure that nothing on the page is selected.

   If an object on the page is selected, click an empty area so that the element is deselected before you proceed.

2. Choose File

   
   Place.

   The Place dialog ...