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CA203Presentation Application

Adding Graphics

Lecture # 8

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Objectives

✔ Insert a clip art image.

✔ Modify a clip art image.

✔ Insert a picture.

✔ Modify a picture.

✔ Insert and modify stylized text.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Inserting a Picture• 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.

You can add pictures from the following:

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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.

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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.

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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.