Yay? we’ve now managed to retain our stroke weights (remember we’re using the sizing shortcut? not the scaling one? the only reason the images ‘scale’ is because of the Auto-Fit setting being enabled).How to resize an image in Photoshop for best quality. Next press the Shift key, then drag one of the selection handles outward to size up or inward to size down. You find this setting in the Control panel, as well is in the Frame Fitting Options ( Object menu).

So here’s the trick to scaling your images AND resizing your text frames.Įnable the Auto-Fit option for all of the graphic frames in your selection first. We’re lucky that with CS5 another cool new feature was introduced in InDesign called Auto-Fit. I was asked in a recent class I taught whether you could scale the images up proportionately AND resize the text frames without changing the font size. A technique that allows us to select multiple objects images and text frames, and resize the text frames without changing the font size whilst “scaling” the image content. So let’s look at a technique that mixes scaling and resizing. The graphic frames are also sized proportionately? But but what’s happened to the images? Well? the content has stayed behind? Hmmm… not so good right?

It won’t change the stroke weight of the graphic frames as could occur when scaling. “Sizing” proportionately sizes the text frames up without changing the font size. To size multiple selected objects proportionately, press the Shift key, then drag one of the selection handles outward to size up or inward to size down. To control whether or not strokes are scaled when scaling objects, you can enable or disable the Adjust Stroke Weight when Scaling setting from the Transform panel menu, or the Control panel menu. You might notice that strokes you’ve applied to objects are also scaled when you user this keyboard shortcut. To scale multiple selected objects proportionately, press the Cmd+Shift (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift (PC) keys, then drag one of the selection handles outward to scale up or inward to scale down. Here’s a screenshot of the starting point.

Let’s take a quick look at how things work. Yes, you can also use just the Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (PC) keys? but that wouldn’t retain aspect ratios ) This is a story about scaling and sizing objects? InDesign CS5 introduced the ability to resize and scale multiple selected objects using the Selection tool and the Shift or Cmd+shift (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift (PC) keys.

Illustrator how to resize image