Placing Photographs onto a Page

Almost all Yearbook (YB) pages require at least some pictures, so it important that you know how to load a photograph onto an Illustrator page.

Open the page you are working on into Illustrator CS

 

Check that you are on the Photos layer

 

Got to the File menu and choose Place (as in place a picture on the page).

 

The Place dialogue box will open up and allow you to select the picture you want.

 

Double click the photographs folder

 

Click the first photograph you want to place on the page and click Place

 

The picture you have chosen will now be placed in the middle of your page, ready for you to move into position somewhere on your page.

To add more pictures just repeat the same process