Pictures - Size, Layers, Group

Quick reference

• 00:04 I'm going to start with a blank newsletter publication at this point to insert some
• 00:08 pictures and show you some features about working with pictures.
• 00:12 On the insert ribbon, please click pictures and go ahead and
• 00:15 find a few pictures that you can work with.
• 00:17 I already had these saved from the previous newsletter.
• 00:20 Notice when I hit insert, they landed into the scratch area, that is great because if
• 00:24 I did have text on my screen it's not interrupting or rearranging text.
• 00:29 Notice also they have handles on them.
• 00:30 Whatever has handles can be selected, clicked, and
• 00:33 dragged onto the publication even all four of them at the same time.
• 00:37 I am going to zoom in a little bit so we can see what's happening.
• 00:40 Now I can work with each one individually or
• 00:43 since they are still selected, I'll just work with the entire group.
• 00:46 Notice my Picture Tools formatting, ribbon is up and
• 00:49 it would be great if you would just float around and read each one of these.
• 00:54 There's a tool tip that shows up.
• 00:55 It's basically teaching you how the software works.
• 00:58 Now there's Arrange Thumbnails, we've used that before.
• 01:00 When I click on that, look what happens.
• 01:03 It shrinks my entire publication and puts all those photos into that scratch area.
• 01:07 Now I can click and drag what's called a lasso around these to select them, or
• 01:11 I could click and Ctrl click, click, click to select them.
• 01:15 Your personal preference, just get them selected.
• 01:17 Move them back on to the newsletter, so we can go ahead and work with them.
• 01:21 What I want to do is resize these photos, each one to be 2 inches high.
• 01:26 So in the size area, I'll click right here in the height section and
• 01:30 type a 2 and hit my Tab to move on to the next one.
• 01:33 Each one of them is now 2 inches high.
• 01:35 What if I want them to be 3 inches wide?
• 01:37 Click the 3, click back into the previous one,
• 01:40 each one is now 3 inches high.
• 01:41 Now if you click on each one individually,
• 01:43 you will see they are 3 by 3, 3 by 3.
• 01:46 That probably distorted them, but at this point it doesn't really matter.
• 01:50 Now I want to select all again.
• 01:51 Now, I can Ctrl click, click, click, but
• 01:53 they're kind of stacked on top of each other.
• 01:56 I can click and drag a lasso to select them all, or
• 01:59 I can press Ctrl+A which is the universal select all.
• 02:02 Now if I had text on my screen, Ctrl+A would select all the text so
• 02:06 be aware of that, there were three ways to select everything.
• 02:09 Ctrl click, click, click, click and drag a lasso, or
• 02:12 Ctrl+A to select all of them well.
• 02:14 Well, I want to align these middle.
• 02:17 Now this is going to pile them up like a deck of cards, click, there.
• 02:21 Good luck, getting this picture to go behind unless you know
• 02:25 the Bring Forward and the Send Backward buttons right up here.
• 02:28 Now they're in two places.
• 02:31 On the Picture Tools Format, we have Bring Forward, Send Backward.
• 02:34 We also have the right-click on the little tiny mini bar.
• 02:37 We have a little button that says, Bring forward, Send Backward.
• 02:42 All right, now it's a little small.
• 02:43 So I'm going to go ahead an increase the size and move this over to the left.
• 02:48 I'm going to right-click and I'm going to send backward.
• 02:51 Now this is layering these.
• 02:53 You can't really tell that I just layered those.
• 02:54 Let me just spread these apart.
• 02:56 It will make a little more sense if we can actually see these.
• 02:59 So I've got a pile of pictures and I want to layer them.
• 03:02 So I can bring forward, I can send backward, send backward, send backward.
• 03:07 Click this one over here, bring forward.
• 03:10 Send backward, send backward, send backwards.
• 03:12 Can you see how they layer it around that?
• 03:14 It might be easier actually if I had my boundaries showing here.
• 03:17 Let me click on my boundaries, here we go.
• 03:19 Click on this one.
• 03:21 And this time I'm going to right-click, and I'm going to send backwards,
• 03:25 send backwards, send backwards.
• 03:28 Can you see how they're burying or unburying themselves?
• 03:30 Another way to control this is with the beloved Graphics Manager,
• 03:33 which we've used in multiple lessons.
• 03:35 So it's great that you have this on your quick access toolbar.
• 03:38 Click the Graphics Manager, and
• 03:40 I can click on any one of these to actually select it.
• 03:43 And then I can come to my format and I could say, bring forward or hit the drag
• 03:47 down, bring to front or send backward, or hit the drop down, send to back.
• 03:52 It's kind of a great feature.
• 03:53 Okay, one of the great feature is the Move As group.
• 03:56 Let's bring this guy forward, he's got to come forward, let's see.
• 03:59 Okay, bring forward, bring forward, bring forward, there we go.
• 04:03 I want to click on drag and select all these pictures.
• 04:06 And now I'm going to group them, there is a button up here says group.
• 04:09 When I group these or Ctrl+Shift+G as the tool type is showing us, group these.
• 04:14 Now they will move as a group wherever I want them to always stay together.
• 04:18 Grouping your photos or shapes is a great feature in not just Publisher but
• 04:23 other programs as well.
• 04:25 All right, that's it for working with a pile of pictures,
• 04:31 sizing them, layering them, and grouping them.

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