From the course: PowerPoint Essential Training (Microsoft 365)

Add images - PowerPoint Tutorial

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- [Instructor] Let's officially add an image to our presentation. The first thing I'm going to do is change the color of this background on this slide so that we can see what's going on a little bit better. I'll change to the Design tab, click Format Background, and change it to a solid fill. I can close out of this. And now I'll select the text box and bring it about halfway down so that it's aligned to the middle. While I'm dragging it, you'll notice that this red line has appeared on the slide. These are called smart guides. Smart guides will make suggestions when you're moving objects around on the slide, when you might want to let go when it's aligned with other elements on the slide. For example, right now it's telling me that this text box is properly aligned in the middle and the center of the slide. I'll let go, and now I can center align the text. I'll change the Home ribbon tab and center align it. The reason that I'm showing you this is because you'll see those smart guides when you move any object, whether it's a text box or an image. Let's insert one. I'll change to the Insert ribbon tab. Now we can insert shapes and icons, and I'll be going over those later. You can also insert a 3D model. On the left-hand side, you can insert a photo album or a screenshot. A screenshot is fantastic if you're doing a training presentation and you need to mark up exactly what you're doing on the screen. In fact, if I click this, you can choose from any available window that you might have open on your desktop computer, and you can also include a screen clipping. This will let you drag and drop directly from your screen into the presentation. I'm going to click on Pictures. I'll start with Online Pictures. You can type a word in and do an online search from Bing to find just the right image for your presentation. You can also scroll down and click some available categories to get you started. It is important to note that, when you're doing an online search, that you respect the author's copyright use for that image. I'll click the X to close out of this. We'll go back to Pictures. You can also insert Stock Images. This is a great feature of PowerPoint because not everybody is subscribed to a stock image service that usually charges on a monthly basis. You can choose from a long list a beautiful stock imagery that you can use in your presentation. You can also access icons this way and even cutout people. The great thing about these cutout people is that the background is transparent, so you can use them in conjunction with your business presentations. There's even people holding signs so that you can add your own text, icons or images to them. There's certain personas so that you can consistently use the same character throughout your presentation, and each character is sitting, standing, and has a number of different expressions, such as happy or sad. There's children, there's people in wheelchairs, all sorts of cutout people. This is a great asset that you can use for your presentations. You can even search for an expression, for example, happy. I'll close out of this. I'll go back to Pictures, and I'm going to insert pictures from This Device. I'll scroll down and find my logo. I'll click Insert, and it's going to dump it directly in the center of the slide. The Designer tab pops up, and it's going to give me some great ideas, but I'm going to close out of this because I want to show you how to manually work with an image. You can move it around by clicking and dragging on it. For example, I can slide it anywhere I want. And when you slide it around, the smart guides will also appear because this is an object. Something else that you might want to do with an image is resize it. You can click and drag on a diagonal corner, and you should always hold the Shift key while you're doing it, so it keeps the aspect ratio the same so it doesn't stretch or skew the image. I can move it around some more. And now that I have an image, when it's selected, a new ribbon tab, the Picture Format tab appears. There's all sorts of things I can do with this picture, such as changing the style of it, and I can hover my mouse over it to get a preview. If I click on this down triangle, I get some more ideas. I can add a border, some picture effects such as shadows. I can add reflections, bevels, even add 3D rotations to it. And all the way on the left-hand side, I can add some artistic effects and color changes to my photo. For example, if it's too dark or too bright, I can add some corrections. I can even change the transparency of it. So I can sharpen it, I can soften it, and we'll be going over more of these features in later videos with some other images that we'll be using. In fact, this is my favorite chapter in the entire course because we're going to be going over some amazing effects and all by using tools built right into PowerPoint. This is going to help us build modern, clean line presentations. The focus needs to be on your message while you're speaking. The presentation is just there to help and create a powerful visual to go along with your words. That's how important images are. Now that we have a nice title slide, we're ready to move on.

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