The options offered by the transformation tools and the Control palette and Transform pane let you change the appearance of imported pictures in several ways, as covered in Chapter 24, but that's not all you can do with your graphics.
InDesign provides several other picture-modification features that let you ‚ among other things ‚ wrap text around pictures, show and hide portions of pictures using clipping paths, place pictures within compound shapes , and place pictures within a text thread so that they move along with the surrounding text.