| IMAGEsource is
an Adobe InDesign plugin built to connect directly into your
Digital Asset Library. The benefits of IMAGEsource for the Designer
/ Production Artist are:
A. IMAGEsource turns every image
folder on your system into an InDesign library
You can use other software to browse for and display
images. You can use the "Gallery" feature in Photoshop
for example. Productivity wise, you can Copy / Toggle to InDesign
/ Paste. You can also display both apps side-by-side and drag-drop
images at full size into the InDesign page (though the amount
of desktop space devoted to each is greatly diminished).
Instead, select IMAGEsource from the InDesign Window menu,
then:
1. Use the Browse Folder option on the palette menu to navigate
to your desired image folder.
2. Select either a Thumbnail view or a List view option.
3. Use the Search palette option to display a "subset"
of the folder.
Choose "Show All" to restore
visibility to all images.
4. Use the "arrow" keys to scroll up or down the
list and view image size and type information as well.
Now you have easy access to your graphics without having
to toggle between apps or reduce your layout area to facilitate
drag-and-drop.
B. IMAGEsource allows for placement
options that will virtually eliminate the cumbersome application
of additional fitting commands
Conventional drag-and-drop methods or the native
InDesign File / Place commands bring images onto the page
at 100% size (requiring manual scaling or application of InDesign
fitting options).
Once you locate your image in the IMAGEsource library display,
you can do the following:
1. Place the Image at 100% size. Drag-and-drop the
Image Name or any Thumbnail anywhere on the InDesign page,
or Replicate the Place command via drag-drop over an existing
frame.
2. Place and REDUCE Image to Fit proportionally from the
IMAGEsource palette. With an empty frame selected, double-click
the image name or thumbnail in the IMAGEsource palette to
place the image and (via option) automatically reduce the
image to fit proportionally in the selected frame. Double-click
once again to fit the frame to the newly-resized image.
3. Place and (optionally) ENLARGE Image to Fit proportionally
from the IMAGEsource palette. With an empty frame selected,
double-click name or thumbnail to place the image and (via
option) the image will first display at 100%. Double-click
once again and automatically enlarge the image to fit proportionally
in the selected frame. Double-click a third time to again
fit the frame to the newly-resized image. IMAGEsource also
has the ability to re-size the frame only and leave the image
at 100%.
An additional benefit to placing images using IMAGEsource
is that they retain their ability to "snap" into
shape if the image needs to be re-sized later.
After placing and applying the fitting options from the IMAGEsource
palette, alter the size of the image frame once again. Double-click
on the image and it re-sizes proportionally and adjusts the
frame to the
new dimensions simultaneously!
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