Pictures - Styles, Frames, Captions

Quick reference

• 00:04 All right, we're gonna go ahead and start this lesson about picture styles,
• 00:08 picture frames, and captions by using the File > New > Trader News newsletter.
• 00:11 Double-click that, it opens up on your screen.
• 00:14 We're gonna go ahead and stay on page one.
• 00:16 Activate that bottom picture, and I'm gonna control wheel up to kind of zoom
• 00:20 into that picture, so we can see the changes right away.
• 00:23 Now, I'm scrolling over to the right side of my screen.
• 00:25 Because when I click on Picture Tools > Format,
• 00:28 the tools I wanna use are right here, and when I hit those drop down areas,
• 00:31 they would lay over my picture, but I want you to see them.
• 00:34 Now these are pre-formatted picture frames, it's just some graphics designer
• 00:38 at Microsoft thought these were cool and made them part of the list.
• 00:41 You can design your own with the tools sitting right next to it.
• 00:45 Here I have, let's see, picture effects, so here I have shadow effects.
• 00:49 Shadows are kind of great because they add depth to a picture.
• 00:53 So I could choose this one and notice,
• 00:55 look in the background when I click off of it.
• 00:57 When I zoom in a little bit, it actually looks like a picture is being held up
• 01:01 over the paper cuz you can see the shadow in the background.
• 01:04 If I Ctrl+Z and undo that, the shadow is gone.
• 01:08 Now most pictures when you work with them, think of
• 01:11 when you're looking at a magazine, are magazine photos, do they have shadows?
• 01:16 Do they have frames on them?
• 01:18 Mostly, the answer is no, but occasionally yes if it adds depth to the picture.
• 01:23 So I'm not here to teach you how to be a graphics designer,
• 01:25 but I am here to show you your tools if you want to get creative with a photo.
• 01:30 So this is basically a glow, so I've got a low glow effect in the background.
• 01:35 I'm pressing Ctrl+Z to undo these after I'm finished with them.
• 01:38 The Soft Edges is kinda cool because you can make, basically,
• 01:43 it just looks like this nice little cloudy edge of a photo,
• 01:47 just kind of like you took an eraser and erased some of it.
• 01:50 It's a nice effect.
• 01:52 And let's see, go back there to my effects.
• 01:55 And then of course, we have the bevel or
• 01:57 the 3D rotation, which will switch a picture around.
• 02:01 Let's see, let me Ctrl-zoom down so we can see what happened.
• 02:05 So basically, I tilted it a little bit on this one.
• 02:09 It's fun to experiment with this.
• 02:11 But I'll always draw you back to theme of when is the last time
• 02:15 in a magazine you saw something really crazy, a reflection going on?
• 02:19 Keep that in mind as you use these picture tools.
• 02:23 Because if it's nothing you would see normally,
• 02:25 you might not wanna use it here, so.
• 02:27 All right, let's go with picture frame.
• 02:30 So I'm still on that picture, right over here, I have picture frames.
• 02:35 Well line colors basically is what they're called, and so
• 02:38 I'm gonna go ahead and choose a dark line color.
• 02:41 And you can barely see it on my screen because it's not very thick.
• 02:45 Now thickness is called weight, so I'll go ahead and
• 02:48 put a really thick border on this particular frame.
• 02:52 Now that that's there, maybe I wanna change this to a polka dot border or
• 02:56 a square border or a dashed border,
• 02:59 it all depends on how thick you apply the frame to what effect you get here.
• 03:03 Again, you need to stay professional if at all possible,
• 03:06 the pattern's kind of a cool option as well.
• 03:08 When you click Pattern, I could put stripes or polka dots on this.
• 03:11 When I click OK, there you go, you've got the stripe pattern on here.
• 03:15 Of course, I'm probably not going to do that, but just so you know,
• 03:18 you have those options.
• 03:19 The next thing I wanna talk to you about is the caption.
• 03:21 If you notice right underneath, it says photo caption, but
• 03:24 when I click on that box, it has its own frame.
• 03:27 If this was a true picture caption attached to the photo,
• 03:32 it wouldn't have a separate frame.
• 03:33 And I can actually click and drag that away.
• 03:35 That is simply a text box that they placed underneath that particular picture, so
• 03:39 let's go ahead and give it a true caption.
• 03:41 I'm going to click on the picture, gonna go to my Format ribbon, and
• 03:45 right over here, this option says Caption.
• 03:48 When you hit the drop down arrow, you can decide caption under, above, to the left.
• 03:52 You can choose if you want a filled in caption, any of these things,
• 03:56 like a colored caption.
• 03:58 Now I went ahead and chose that particular one, and
• 04:01 notice, I have handles around the picture and the caption.
• 04:04 Take a look at what happened up on the ribbons.
• 04:06 I have my Picture Tools ribbon, Text Box ribbon, and a Drawing Tools Format ribbon.
• 04:11 That's because the text box always is a square, and it is a shape.
• 04:16 So you get your drawing tools, and then you get your text options, and
• 04:20 then of course, your picture options.
• 04:21 So right now, I've got three new ribbons just because I applied picture captions.
• 04:26 Excellent tip to know, so I'll leave you with that.
• 04:29 Go ahead and practice with your styles, practice with your captions, and
• 04:32 have fun with this.
• 04:33 It's kind of one of the fun parts of using Publisher.
• 04:37 Thank you.

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