- [Voiceover] Alright, our first project
is gonna be to create these three nameplates,
the reason being that we have nameplates
in the outside of our booths here at lynda.com,
and notice that each one of them includes crop marks,
so that I know exactly how to cut the artwork,
but this could just as easily be business cards,
or anything else where you wanna repeat
the same thing over and over again
inside of a single document.
Alright, in this movie, I'm gonna show you
a few different ways to place
a photographic image into your artwork,
and so I'll go ahead and switch over
to my starter document here,
and we'll start by visiting a command
that we've seen in previous chapters.
Under the File menu, it's the Place command,
which has a helpful keyboard shortcut
of Ctrl+Shift+P, or Command+Shift+P on the Mac,
and now, go ahead and locate this photograph right here,
notice that it's named after the photographer,
a guy named Lucas Deming,
and we have the Link checkbox turned on,
that way we're gonna create a link to this file on disk,
which is generally what you want.
If you turn it off, then you're going to embed the image
and you're not gonna have a link to that photographic file.
And, we'll discuss what that looks like later,
but for now, leave that checkbox on,
leave the other ones off,
and then, go ahead and click on the Place button,
and as you can see that goes ahead and loads up your cursor,
and then you click to determine
the position of the top-left corner.
Alright, so that's one way to work.
I'll press Cntrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac
to undo that placement,
and this time around I'll just use the keyboard shortcut
of Cntrl+Shift+P or Command+Shift+P on the Mac.
Now, let's say that you want to Place multiple images.
For example, I not only want to Place my photograph,
but I also want to Place this one of the gorilla.
If you Shift+click,
and by the way, if you have access to the exercise files,
you're gonna see more files than this
inside the 25_place sub-folder,
it's just that I'm creating the files as I go along,
but notice, if you Shift+click,
then you select a range of files,
if what you want to do instead is select non-adjacent files,
then click on one and then Cntrl+click
or Command+click, on the other one,
and now, just go ahead and click on the Place button
and you'll see, above that photograph, that 1/2
which tells us this is the first of two images,
both of which are loaded into my cursor.
And, so, if I wanted to advance to my photograph instead,
I would just press an arrow key
and that would take me to the second of the two images
and then I would click in order to Place that second image,
now you can see my cursor's loaded
with just one photograph,
because it says 1/1 above the thumbnail,
and so if I were to click again,
I Place the gorilla and now my cursor is empty.
Alright, I'll go ahead and undo that once again
by pressing Cntrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac
a couple of times,
and now I'll press Cntrl+Shift+P or Command+Shift+P
once again to bring up the Place dialogue box.
Let's say I wanna go ahead and Place my photograph,
but I don't wanna have to click,
I just want Illustrator
to automatically center the photo in the artboard,
then, what you want to do is turn on the Replace checkbox.
Even though you don't have anything selected,
there's nothing to Replace,
if you click the Place button now,
you'll no longer load the cursor
and instead you'll just go ahead
and center that image inside the artboard.
Alright, now there's one other way to work.
Press Cntrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac to undo that change
and I'll bring up the window
for the folder that contains these images,
and this time I'll just go ahead and click on my photograph
and drag it and drop it into the artboard,
and notice the position of my cursor here,
as soon as I release,
the image is automatically centered at that location,
and, of course, if that's not exactly what I want,
I can just click inside the document
and drag the image to a different location like so.
And, those are a few different ways to Place
a photographic image into
a document, here, inside Illustrator.