You've got a pop up menu here from which you can choose presets, or you can just type in your own value over here, like 25 degrees. If you want to rotate it in more fine increments, you can move to the left just a little bit and change this field here. Now both of those go in 90 degree increments. This one rotates counter-clockwise, and this one to the left, rotates it back, clockwise. The easiest way to do that is to go up to the control panel and click on one of these rotation buttons. Okay, now let's rotate this frame down here. It's just something to keep in mind when scaling objects on your page. If you scale a bitmapped image up, the resolution goes down, scale it down, and the resolution goes up. Of course you can scale your texts and vector art like Illustrator art, all you want, but scaling bitmapped images like this Photoshop JPEG image here, it does have an effect on its quality. Now this a little strange, I'm replacing a percentage with an absolute value, but it works because when I hit return or enter the whole thing gets scaled to that size. For example, let's change this 100% here to say 884 points. So instead of typing it in the width field, you should use the scale field. I happen to know that I want this to be exactly 884 points wide, but don't try and set that up here in the width field, because that will just change the frame. Now I want to point out one last option for scaling because it's not immediately obvious. But as I said earlier, InDesign automatically resets this back to say 100%. Now we can come over to the scale field and change this from the pop-up menu, or just type a value you want. I want the upper right corner to stay fixed. Right now it's set to the center and that's not right for this. Everything else will scale around that point. The reference point tells InDesign what should anchor. That's this feature way over on the left side of the control panel. But before we use the scale features here, you want to make sure that the reference point is set properly. Now, if you need more precision, instead of just dragging and eyeballing it, you can scale using the control panel. Command shift or control shift, that scales it proportionally. So instead, what you should do is add the shift key. So we'd better undo that, command or control Z. So I'll command or control drag on this corner handle, but this scales it disproportionally. That tells a selection tool to scale both the frame and what's inside the frame. In order to resize both the frame and its contents, you can hold down the command key on the Mac or the control key on Windows. So let me undo that, command Z or control Z on Windows. Most of the time, when I want to scale an object or a group of objects, I just use a selection tool, just click on the object, and then you can drag a corner handle, but that doesn't resize the contents. It's just something you need to be aware of. Then, if you double-click the image again it goes back to the frame and you can see that this is at 100%. And then if we look up in the control panel, we can see that this image inside the frame has been scaled down to 37%. So remember you can double click on an image with a selection tool to select the image inside the frame. The image inside the frame is not necessarily 100%. So what's going on there? Well, when InDesign scales a frame, it almost always sets this value back to 100%, but that's just the frame. See up here, when you select an image, it says that the scaling is 100%, but I am positive that this image is scaled down. Actually, the first gotcha is staring right at us. Let's talk about how to scale objects and what kind of gotchas you need to look out for. It seems like nothing's ever just the right size on your page, but that's okay.
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