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In this module, you will learn how to add pictures from your computer or from the internet into your diagram, and also how to replace shapes with other shapes in your diagram.
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Instructions
To add pictures, click on the Insert Menu and:
- Click "Pictures" to add a picture from your computer, or
- Click "Online Pictures" to add an online picture using a URL.
To change the type of shape in a diagram:
- Click on the shape, click on the Home Menu, and then Change Shape.
- 00:04 Let's see how we can add pictures into our diagram.
- 00:07 And also I can show you how to replace some shapes.
- 00:10 So, in this case, if I click on the Insert menu up top,
- 00:15 then notice how I can add pictures.
- 00:18 Now this one means that picture is already on your computer.
- 00:21 Or you can pick an online pictures and search on the internet.
- 00:24 So I'm picking the word pictures here.
- 00:27 And then you would point to your picture folder and I'm going to scroll down.
- 00:31 And let's say I want to use a keyboard here and I'll pick on open, okay?
- 00:38 Now, this particular picture, I'm going to move it over here.
- 00:41 And it works like a lot of the other programs as far as managing your pictures.
- 00:46 For example, this particular keyboard has this white space up top there, so
- 00:51 I would like to crop that picture.
- 00:53 So I'm going to click on the picture, and
- 00:55 I'll pick on the Format menu up top, see Format.
- 00:59 And then, I'm going to pick on the crop tool.
- 01:03 And then, I'm going to get these black lines.
- 01:05 I'm going to move the mouse to the black line, and just drag it down.
- 01:09 So I'm not resizing the keyboard,
- 01:11 I'm actually taking part of the picture off, and that's what crop means.
- 01:15 Then I'll just click over here, and
- 01:16 you can see the keyboard looks a little bit better.
- 01:19 So, if I pick on that picture, then you get the Format menu.
- 01:23 You can see there's different things you can do within the Format menu.
- 01:27 So we did insert and then picture.
- 01:30 This is getting pictures from your computer.
- 01:32 If you pick on an insert and
- 01:33 then online pictures, then you can search on the internet.
- 01:38 So you can use one of these categories or you can just search up here and find many,
- 01:42 many pictures on the internet.
- 01:44 So the reason I'm doing that is we used that keyboard shape earlier.
- 01:50 Well, maybe the shapes are okay, but
- 01:53 if I have an actual photograph, maybe it's looking a little bit better.
- 01:57 Now what I'll do is I want to replace that keyboard.
- 02:01 So I'm going to click on that keyboard and watch how you can change any shape.
- 02:06 You pick on the shape.
- 02:07 I'm going to pick on the Home Menu.
- 02:10 Now look what it says over here, we can change the shape.
- 02:13 You can change the shape to any shape that's already in the diagram within
- 02:17 the stencils.
- 02:18 So notice I can click over here, and then pick a different stencil.
- 02:22 But really the keyboard it's going to be a data type of shape.
- 02:25 So this is the traditional data shape in my flowchart so
- 02:29 I'm actually going to pick on this one.
- 02:31 So did you notice what I did?
- 02:33 I clicked on the picture, and then I clicked on change shape, and
- 02:36 it'll show you the different shapes that are available through the stencils
- 02:39 of that diagram.
- 02:41 So what I'll do now is I'll move that shape over, and
- 02:45 then I'll move the keyboard, the actual keyboard over here.
- 02:50 So that it's with that shape.
- 02:51 I'm going to resize that.
- 02:53 I'm going to click there and I'll type in keyboard input.
- 03:00 So I'm just going to move that and
- 03:02 notice how the lines come up to help me position it.
- 03:05 Looks like that would be where it would be centered.
- 03:08 So I showed you how to import pictures,
- 03:13 I guess insert picture is the picture from your computer,
- 03:16 or we have online pictures that's going to be pictures from the internet.
- 03:19 And then I showed you how to pick a shape.
- 03:21 And then you can pick on the Home menu, and you can change the shape to any other
- 03:26 available shape that's available in the diagram through the different stencils.
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