Tutorial
Add a Color Photograph

So far, you have been working with single pages. But pages 2 and 3 of the bulletin-the interior two pages-are designed as a spread. The spread includes the feature article for the bulletin that starts with a drop cap. A color photograph in the middle of the spread brings it to life.
Just as you did on page 1, you need to create a picture block to house the photograph. This time you'll learn a shortcut when you create the picture block. But first you need to switch to facing pages view.
New Sahafi documents display one page in the document window, but you can also work with two facing pages at a time. Because the current page in the window, page 2, is a verso page, it will face page 3, a recto page, when the bulletin is printed and folded.

  1. Choose Views from the Document menu and then choose Facing Pages. Page 3 appears to the right of page 2 in the document window, and the icons for both pages are selected in the page scroll bar. Now you're ready to lay out the spread.

  2. Select the picture block tool in the Tools palette.

  3. Hold down the Command key while you draw a picture block that starts in the second grid rectangle in the second row on page 2 and ends in the first grid rectangle in the fourth row on page 3. The picture block snaps into place on the grid. Because you held down the Command key when you created it, the contents of the picture block automatically become selected with the cropping tool.

  4. Choose Import Graphic from the File menu and double click Baskets in the Tutorial Folder. After a moment, a color photograph of three baskets appears in the picture block. If you are working with a black-and-white monitor, you will only see a black-and-white representation of the photograph on your screen. But you can work with the image just as if you had a color monitor.