Adding Images as Objects

In addition to adding objects such as shapes, lines, and buttons to a frame, you can also insert another image as an object. Like other objects, this image resides in its own layer on the frame. You can insert any image files of the following types: BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIF, TIFF.

How to Add an Image as an Object

  1. Open the frame.

  2. Select Home > Insert Image.

    The Open dialog opens.

  3. In the Open dialog, locate and double-click the image file you want to add. The image is added to the frame as an object.
  4. To move the image object, click it and drag it to a new location on the frame.
  5. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Note A very useful tool when working with objects is a palette, which lets you store objects for future use. For example, if you are including callouts with some frames, chances are that you'll want to use the same look and feel for all of the callouts you create. Instead of creating new callouts from scratch each time or copying them from other frames, you can create an initial model callout and then add it to a palette. Then, when you're ready to use a callout in another frame, you can just drag your model callout from the palette to the frame (and make minor changes, such as the text, from there). See Palettes.