CA203 Presentation Application Adding Graphics Lecture # 8

Objectives ✔ Insert a clip art image. ✔ Modify a clip art image. ✔ Insert a picture. ✔ Modify a picture. ✔ Insert and modify stylized text.

Graphics The graphics that you can add to slides to make your presentations more attractive or to convey information visually. Graphics can include shapes, pictures, photographs, cartoons, fancy (visualize) borders and designs, and stylized text objects.

Inserting a Clip Art Image PowerPoint includes hundreds of professionally designed pieces of clip art. To add a clip art: You can point to Picture on the Insert menu, and then click Clip Art Click Insert Clip Art on the Drawing toolbar In the Clip Art task pane, you can search for clip art by keyword and then click the image to select

Inserting a Clip Art Image Tip If you click AutoShapes on the Drawing toolbar and then click More AutoShapes, PowerPoint opens the Clip Art task pane with clip art shapes displayed. You can then click a shape to add it to the current slide.

Inserting a Clip Art Image To make clip art and other media available no matter where they are actually stored, you can use the Microsoft Clip Organizer. If you can’t find the image you want in the Clip Organizer, you can search for additional images in Office Online.

Inserting a Clip Art Image Tip To delete a clip art image from the Clip Organizer, click the down arrow to the right of the image, click “Delete from Clip Organizer,” and then click Yes to confirm the deletion.

Modifying a Clip Art Image Double-clicking or choose Format Picture a clip art image: On the Colors and Lines tab, you can change the color of the image’s background and its border. On the Size tab, you can enter specific dimensions for the height and width of the image, or you can scale the image as a percentage. On the Position tab, you can fine-tune the position of the image On the Picture tab, You can also specify, whether the image should be colored (Automatic), gray, or black and white, and you can control its brightness and contrast.

You can add pictures from the following: Inserting a Picture You can add pictures from the following: You can add graphics created in other programs, scanned photographs, or digital pictures to a slide by using the Picture command on the Insert menu. When you insert pictures from files or from a scanner or digital camera, you can select multiple pictures, view thumbnails of them, and insert them all at once, which is faster than inserting them one at a time. If you have a collection of pictures on your hard disk, you can use PowerPoint to create a photo album.

Modifying a Picture After you have inserted a picture into a slide, you can work with it in several ways to create the effect you want. You can enhance the image’s color, brightness, and contrast or Reset Picture to revert You can use the Crop Picture command to get only required part You can rotate a picture You can compress pictures to minimize the file size of the image.

Inserting and Modifying Stylized Text You can insert stylized text into a presentation by using WordArt. you can add visual enhancements to your text, that go beyond changing a font or font size—in effect, basically you turn words into a picture. WordArt can be used to emphasize short phrases, such as or a single word, such as. Our Customers Come First Welcome

Chapter 8 Summary You can insert any of the hundreds of clip art images included with The Microsoft Office System 2003 into a PowerPoint presentation. You can also search for additional images in Clips Online. You can then scale the image by a set percentage, size the image exactly by setting its dimensions, or size it manually by dragging its handles. You can change the color of clip art images to create a different look or to match the current color scheme. You can insert pictures created with another program or photographs from a scanner or digital camera into a slide. You can then size, crop, and move the pictures, and enhance their brightness and contrast. To reduce the size of presentations containing multiple pictures, you can compress the pictures. You can use WordArt to insert and format stylized text objects to create fancy titles.