Manage Picture Tools

Quick reference

• 00:04 We're gonna stay with the premade template and begin working with pictures, but
• 00:08 it's important to set up the screen, so you can manage them properly.
• 00:12 So, I've got the first page on my screen, and
• 00:14 I wanted to draw your attention right up here to View.
• 00:17 On that View ribbon,
• 00:18 when you activate that, there's an option that says Graphics Manager.
• 00:21 When I activate that, you'll see a right hand panel just showed up on my screen.
• 00:26 It's showing all pictures by file name and I have this little list right over here,
• 00:30 and none of these names really mean anything to me.
• 00:33 It seems a little confusing, so
• 00:35 what I can do instead is on the Show Thumbnail, I can just click that, and
• 00:40 now, all the actual pictures show up on this little box right here.
• 00:45 Now notice on the bottom of my Graphics Manager, I have this little arrow here,
• 00:50 which is going to scroll me to the bottom until I can see all the options in there,
• 00:54 depending on how big your screen is, you may not have that arrow.
• 00:57 But I just want to draw your attention to an item here that says
• 01:00 Change Picture Display.
• 01:02 When I activate that, it gives me the option detailed display or hide pictures.
• 01:06 Now, I'm going to draw your attention to the left hand panel,
• 01:08 where my page navigation is.
• 01:11 When I click hide pictures and hit OK.
• 01:13 All of those pictures are replaced with X's.
• 01:16 When I scroll through my actual publication, there was a picture here and
• 01:19 now there's a big empty spot.
• 01:22 Basically, it helps you scroll through your project faster without
• 01:26 all these pictures having to load their details.
• 01:28 So if you're focused on working on text, just make your detail pictures disappear,
• 01:33 keep you focused on your text, and when you want them back, you simply
• 01:36 go here to change picture display, click that, bring back our detail display, and
• 01:41 all the pictures, full color, will come back to the screen.
• 01:45 All right, here's another tip about the graphics manager.
• 01:48 When you're starting to work with pictures, you want that at the ready,
• 01:51 without having to try to remember where it's at.
• 01:54 So let's go ahead and put it on the quick access toolbar.
• 01:57 I'm on my view ribbon, float my mouse over graphics manager, right click, and
• 02:02 choose add to quick access toolbar, and click.
• 02:05 Now I can turn it off when I don't need it.
• 02:07 But, it's right there, at the ready, turn it on when you do need it: great tip.
• 02:12 Now, another thing to keep in mind when you're working with pictures,
• 02:16 you need a lot of screen space, so I'm also going to collapse my ribbons.
• 02:21 Again, I could aim for any ribbon up here, double click.
• 02:24 Click click.
• 02:25 That will collapse a ribbon, and that just got me about an inch of screen room,
• 02:29 again, so I can see my text, see my pictures easier.
• 02:33 Now if I want to use any of the ribbons, I simply click them.
• 02:36 They'll expand for a moment.
• 02:38 When I click off, they collapse again.
• 02:40 If you decide you don't like that, you absolutely want that back,
• 02:43 simply float your mouse on any ribbon name, double click, click, click.
• 02:47 And they will come right back.
• 02:49 So that is how you control your screen space,
• 02:52 control your graphics manager, and there's one more thing I want to show you.
• 02:56 It's called thumbnail, the thumbnail feature.
• 02:59 So I'm going to to scroll down, so we can see multiple pictures at once.
• 03:03 Now, when you're working with multiple pictures, you click on one.
• 03:06 Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard.
• 03:08 Hold down Ctrl, click on the second picture.
• 03:11 Hold down Ctrl, click on the third picture.
• 03:13 As you can see, each picture received these handles, so
• 03:16 I can tell at a glance that I have three pictures selected.
• 03:20 And now on my Picture Tools Format,
• 03:23 there's an option there that says Arrange Thumbnails.
• 03:26 When I activate that, it takes all the pictures and
• 03:29 puts them right over here on the side in tiny little thumbnails.
• 03:33 Now, it removed them from their spots, so I don't want that.
• 03:36 I'm going to undo that, but I just want to draw your attention.
• 03:39 If you just want to pile them off to the side,
• 03:41 this is called the scratch area, then that's how you do it.
• 03:44 All right, let's undo that.
• 03:46 On my Quick Access Bar I have a button that says Undo.
• 03:49 And it's telling me control Z will do the same thing.
• 03:51 Your personal preference.
• 03:52 You can click the arrow, or you can press control Z to undo that,
• 03:56 the pictures go back where they belong, and that's it for this video.
• 04:00 Stay with me in the next one, and
• 04:01 we'll start doing some detail work on the pictures.

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