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- [Voiceover] Alright, our first project



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is gonna be to create

these three nameplates,



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the reason being that we have nameplates



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in the outside of our

booths here at lynda.com,



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and notice that each one of

them includes crop marks,



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so that I know exactly

how to cut the artwork,



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but this could just as

easily be business cards,



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or anything else where you wanna repeat



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the same thing over and over again



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inside of a single document.



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Alright, in this movie, I'm gonna show you



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a few different ways to place



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a photographic image into your artwork,



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and so I'll go ahead and switch over



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to my starter document here,



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and we'll start by visiting a command



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that we've seen in previous chapters.



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Under the File menu,

it's the Place command,



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which has a helpful keyboard shortcut



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of Ctrl+Shift+P, or

Command+Shift+P on the Mac,



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and now, go ahead and locate

this photograph right here,



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notice that it's named

after the photographer,



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a guy named Lucas Deming,



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and we have the Link checkbox turned on,



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that way we're gonna create

a link to this file on disk,



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which is generally what you want.



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If you turn it off, then

you're going to embed the image



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and you're not gonna have a

link to that photographic file.



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And, we'll discuss what

that looks like later,



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but for now, leave that checkbox on,



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leave the other ones off,



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and then, go ahead and

click on the Place button,



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and as you can see that goes

ahead and loads up your cursor,



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and then you click to determine



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the position of the top-left corner.



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Alright, so that's one way to work.



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I'll press Cntrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac



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to undo that placement,



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and this time around I'll

just use the keyboard shortcut



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of Cntrl+Shift+P or

Command+Shift+P on the Mac.



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Now, let's say that you want

to Place multiple images.



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For example, I not only

want to Place my photograph,



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but I also want to Place

this one of the gorilla.



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If you Shift+click,



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and by the way, if you have

access to the exercise files,



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you're gonna see more files than this



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inside the 25_place sub-folder,



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it's just that I'm creating

the files as I go along,



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but notice, if you Shift+click,



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then you select a range of files,



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if what you want to do instead

is select non-adjacent files,



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then click on one and then Cntrl+click



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or Command+click, on the other one,



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and now, just go ahead and

click on the Place button



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and you'll see, above

that photograph, that 1/2



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which tells us this is

the first of two images,



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both of which are loaded into my cursor.



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And, so, if I wanted to advance

to my photograph instead,



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I would just press an arrow key



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and that would take me to

the second of the two images



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and then I would click in order

to Place that second image,



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now you can see my cursor's loaded



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with just one photograph,



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because it says 1/1 above the thumbnail,



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and so if I were to click again,



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I Place the gorilla and

now my cursor is empty.



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Alright, I'll go ahead

and undo that once again



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by pressing Cntrl+Z or

Command+Z on the Mac



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a couple of times,



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and now I'll press

Cntrl+Shift+P or Command+Shift+P



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once again to bring up

the Place dialogue box.



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Let's say I wanna go ahead

and Place my photograph,



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but I don't wanna have to click,



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I just want Illustrator



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to automatically center

the photo in the artboard,



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then, what you want to do is

turn on the Replace checkbox.



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Even though you don't

have anything selected,



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there's nothing to Replace,



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if you click the Place button now,



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you'll no longer load the cursor



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and instead you'll just go ahead



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and center that image inside the artboard.



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Alright, now there's

one other way to work.



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Press Cntrl+Z or Command+Z on

the Mac to undo that change



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and I'll bring up the window



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for the folder that contains these images,



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and this time I'll just go

ahead and click on my photograph



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and drag it and drop it into the artboard,



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and notice the position of my cursor here,



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as soon as I release,



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the image is automatically

centered at that location,



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and, of course, if that's

not exactly what I want,



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I can just click inside the document



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and drag the image to a

different location like so.



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And, those are a few

different ways to Place



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a photographic image into



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a document, here, inside Illustrator.