I’m working in Windows10. I’m experienced in inDesign (and in fact, used Pagemaker from the moment it came out ~1985), so I’m not a newbie, but this makes me nuts every time I’m doing a newsletter with photos and clip art. I have googled this many times but cannot seem to find a satisfactory answer.
So: you have the photo/image AND you have the frame. You can grab the image and the frame separately, which is often useful, as for example, when you slide the photo around inside the frame (in effect, cropping the image).
But what if I want to grab the image AND the frame at the same time to move them or to re-size them simultaneously? I can’t figure out how to do this. I feel like I used to know how… or I used to be able to. I know you can go up to Object>Fitting/Content…etc. to do something like this, but isn’t there a way to grab the image and the frame at the same time? I want to re-size the picture and its frame on the fly.
Please tell me there is a way to do this… and *what *it is…
ETA: Is it control + click on the image? That seems to work sometimes. <pulling out hair>
I don’t use ID but since you’re pulling your hair out…is there a way to “link layers” like in Photoshop? In Photoshop I would crtl+click on the layers to link in the layers panel and then click the lock icon.
Not exactly… but one of the links at the bottom of the page you linked to may have the solution. I’m just so mentally exhausted (not from this particular problem, but just from working on the whole project for the last nine hours) that I can’t get together enough brain cells to investigate at the moment.
I’m not familiar with in design, but chances are if you can select the frame or photo individually, you can select both by Shift-clicking them. Select the frame, then while holding Shift, select the image.
if that doesn’t work this page says that you can access the Object-etc. menu by right clicking on the object instead of having to actually go up to the menu.
I don’t want to move the image&frame combo, I want to resize them simultaneously.
You would think that selecting them both so you can move them would also make it possible to grab a corner handle and resize them both at the same time. But as soon as you click on one of the corners you de-select both of them and only select either the image or the frame.
Control-click might do it…it seems to me that sometimes that works, but not always (depending on what I’ve done right before that). Will tackle tomorrow when clear-headed.
Oh, yeah, then just hold down CTRL while dragging. or CTRL+SHIFT while dragging to also maintain their aspect ratio.
When it doesn’t work is if you’ve accidentally selected the image (say, via a double-click) and the cursor has become a panning hand. In that case, just deselect both and then click once in the image, outside the selector circle. And then ctrl-drag a corner.
Yes, what **Reply **said. (What an apt screen name.) If the frame is selected then control+click can grab and resize (or move) **both **the image and the frame at the same time. If the image is selected, then ONLY the image is selected, not the frame, too. What I’ve been doing wrong is not noticing whether I have the image or the frame selected. Usually I’m up against a deadline and working fast and getting more and more aggravated.
Sure. I remember being frustrated by that exact same scenario when I first learned Illustrator years ago… there are like 15 different ways to interact with the same object using one of two cursors. Frustrating and very unintuitive sometimes.
