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Fit images

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- [Instructor] In the previous step, I placed the images into the frames that we had drawn earlier on. The images are in all cases bigger than those frames, so we need to fit the images within the frames. I have the images larger so that we have some flexibility in terms of scaling the images, should we decide to change the design, so we've got plenty of room to work with. These are our fitting options. If I come and choose this image, and then right click, and then come to fitting, we have these different options. It's going to be one of these first two that will be appropriate, typically, the first one, fill frame proportionally, and that's what I'll be using. When you choose fill frame proportionally, one of the dimensions will fit exactly, in the case of this image, since it is a horizontal image, the vertical dimension fits exactly within the frame, and then we have cropping of an equal amount on the left and right. If I move over the image and click on the content grabber, we…

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