Cropping photos at an angle within InDesign?

Is this possible?
I have a bunch of product shots. I want to bring them into InDesign, rotate them until I like the angle, and then crop them (mask out the background) to fit inside a squared-up rectangle border.
I know I can do this all individually in Photoshop but it's better to do this while I am designing the layout. I don't want to have to keep going back into PS to tweak the angles.
I tried to do it with Pathfinder but it kept saying there was nothing there to mask.
Using CS4.

As said already, use the White Selection tool to select the graphic
Then Rotate the graphic.
Use the black arrow tool to resize the frame
There's 2 things going on here
1 your graphic sits inside a frame
2 your graphic and frame are independent of each other.
You can use the Black Arrow tool to move and reposition the frame on the page
You can use the White Arrow tool to move the graphic within the frame, in relation to position, size etc.

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