InDesign – How to Insert an Image

To insert an image, first go to the File menu at the top of the page and choose Place.

 You will be prompted to browse to your image file.

Once you click on your image file and click Open, a thumbnail of your image will be attached to your cursor. Just place your mouse wherever you want your image to appear and click once to insert the image into your document. You can move the image once it has been placed by clicking and dragging it.

To crop an image, click on any of the handles (little circles) surrounding the selected image. Click and drag towards the middle of the image to crop.

To re-size an image, hold down the Command key and click and drag any of the handles.

Drag towards the centre of the image to make it smaller, and away from the centre to make it bigger.

This can sometimes result in a distortion of the height-to-width ratio of the picture; to resize and keep the ratio the same, hold down the Command key and the Shift key and click and drag a handle.