Pictures - Size, Layers, Group

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this lesson, we're gonna work with pictures and resizing pictures and
• 00:08 we're just gonna use a blank document.
• 00:10 So when you first open up publisher, just go ahead and double-click Blank.
• 00:14 Click, click and it will open right up.
• 00:16 Now, I' have already collapsed my ribbons.
• 00:18 Yours can be open.
• 00:19 If you want them open, just double-click a ribbon tab.
• 00:22 But I like mine collapsed, cuz it gives me more screen to work with and
• 00:26 then I'm gonna go ahead and Insert > Pictures and
• 00:30 the picture files accompany this lesson video.
• 00:34 So, I'm gonna go ahead and just choose three of these.
• 00:36 The Office Lobby, the Office View and the Office Breakroom and click Insert.
• 00:40 Now notice when I click Insert, they didn't land on the publication.
• 00:44 They landed over here in the scratch area as thumbnails.
• 00:49 Now, I simply just have to click and drag.
• 00:52 Now because they were all still selected, I pulled them together as one unit.
• 00:57 Now if I click off of it and now just select one of them and
• 01:00 have handles on one of them, now I can reposition that entirely on its own and
• 01:05 I can click the other one.
• 01:07 Now in order to see this properly, I'm gonna Ctrl and
• 01:11 scroll on my mouse to zoom in on this.
• 01:14 So, you can see it a little better on the screen.
• 01:17 I want each one of these pictures to be two inches tall.
• 01:20 I don't care how wide they are, but I want them to be two inches tall.
• 01:24 I've selected a picture, it has handles on it.
• 01:27 My Picture Tools and Format ribbon are right up here, and
• 01:30 now my resize is right over here.
• 01:32 So I can click on that, type 2 and I do have to click into the next box and
• 01:37 you'll see that picture enlarge.
• 01:40 But what if i wanted to do all of them at the same time?
• 01:44 I'm now going to go ahead and press Ctrl+Z on my keyboard to undo that.
• 01:49 And now, I'm going to hold down my Ctrl key and click on the other two pictures.
• 01:55 So now I'm working with all of them at the same time instead of doing each one
• 01:59 individually, which is a lot of repetitive work.
• 02:02 So, I've click on Picture Tools format.
• 02:04 Notice that this box is blank.
• 02:06 It's because each one is a different height and it's confused,
• 02:09 it doesn't know what I want.
• 02:11 So, I'm gonna click in there and I'm gonna tell it 2 inches for each of them.
• 02:15 Click off of it and there we go.
• 02:17 We have a 2 inch picture for each of these.
• 02:20 Well, they're two inches high.
• 02:22 Again, I don't care how wide they are.
• 02:24 When I zoom down, you can see that this one was too big and
• 02:27 it fell off the side of the publication.
• 02:29 So let's go ahead now and work with the bring to front, and bring to back.
• 02:36 So I am going to kinda stagger these in this fashion, stagger them like this.
• 02:42 And as you can see,
• 02:43 it kind of decides which picture is going to be in the background.
• 02:48 It decides on its own, but you have the control to decide on your own.
• 02:53 So, what if I want this particular picture to overlap and sit on top of this one?
• 02:57 So I've selected that picture, you can see the handles.
• 03:01 I'll go to my Picture Tools ribbon, click on Format.
• 03:04 And now, I have a Bring Forward, Send Backward.
• 03:06 So I'm just going to click Bring Forward and as you can see,
• 03:10 it's now sitting on top of the other one.
• 03:12 So this one overlaps the brown one, hich overlaps the next one.
• 03:15 Well, let's go ahead and reverse that.
• 03:17 I'm going to click on the bottom one, go to my Format and
• 03:20 I'm going to bring that one forward.
• 03:24 And now I'm gonna click on this one, click on my Format and send that one backwards.
• 03:29 So as you can see, it's up to you.
• 03:31 You have total control of the layout here.
• 03:34 If you hit the drop-down arrow instead of just sending backward,
• 03:38 which will send it back one layer, you could send all the way to the back,
• 03:41 which will send it to the bottom of the pile.
• 03:44 Just image paper photos stacked up on a desk,
• 03:47 do you shuffle them all the way to the bottom or just back one at a time?
• 03:53 Same with the Bring Forward right here.
• 03:55 There are a couple other buttons.
• 03:57 This one is Group and this one is Ungroup.
• 04:00 So if I click all of these and click on Format > Group,
• 04:05 now I group them all as one picture.
• 04:08 Notice the handles are around the entire group instead of three individual
• 04:12 pictures.
• 04:13 The beauty of this is now they will move as a Group, they won't ever separate.
• 04:17 It's a great trick that group thing.
• 04:19 So now, I'm gonna click on Format.
• 04:21 And now I'm gonna choose Ungroup and now they all have individual handles again,
• 04:26 and I could just choose one, and just move one of them on its own.
• 04:30 So, that's today's lesson on resizing.
• 04:33 Thank you.

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