Swapping Out Photos in Pages
Pages comes pre-loaded with quick-and-easy templates you can use to create any sort of document you’d like, from a single page flyer to a multi-page brochure. Each document comes with placeholder photos—high quality art supplied by Apple that you can use, or replace. Here’s how to replace out photos in Pages documents.
PREMIUM MEMBERS
Mac Create Premium Members can download the original Pages document saved as a template with the two new photos embedded from the Premium section.
Select a Template
Open Pages and select a template. In this example we’ll use the Brochure template. `
View the Page
This is the layout of the page with the image provided by Apple.
Bring up Media Browser
Click the link to bring up the Media Browser
Search for Your Image
We’re going to browse through a collection of images in Aperture for this. In the Premium Member version of this article, we’ve included a Template with these images from Aperture put in place.
Double-Click to see Larger
If you’d like to erview your selection before placing it, Double-Click on the thumbnail.
Drag onto Pages
Drag from the Media Browser onto your Pages document.
Page Updates
Your page will update with the new image. However, thanks to that center-of-page graphic, this isn’t exactly how we want the photo to look.
Edit
Double-click the image to edit it. You can edit the Mask, which we don’t want to do here (the mask is the portion of the document that hides the extra edges and is already set up to make the image fit the page right.) You can zoom into and out of the image by dragging the slider above Edit Mask.
Move the Photo
Click inside the photo and the cursor changes to a hand. You can drag your photo around to get the layout you’d like.
Check the Layout
Now we’ve got our image where we want it, let’s just swap out the photo on page 2 as well.
Second Page
There, we’ve changed the image on page 2 as well. All done.
PREMIUM MEMBERS (Copy)
Mac Create Premium Members can download the original Pages document saved as a template with the two new photos embedded from the Premium section.
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Author: David Schloss
David Schloss is the director of the Mac Create Network and the Aperture Users Network, a professional photographer, writer, editor and photographic educator who specializes adventure sports, travel and lifestyle photography. Schloss is the author of the books Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches and Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time. Schloss is the former Technical Editor for Photo District News, a position he held for six years.
