Inserting Pictures and Clip Art

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this lesson, we'll talk about clipart and icons and
• 00:07 how we can use them to dress up a document.
• 00:09 First, let's start with icons.
• 00:11 I want to replace the word phone with a little tiny telephone, and
• 00:15 maybe the word email with a little tiny email.
• 00:18 The important thing first is to just go ahead and
• 00:20 put your insertion point where you want the picture to land.
• 00:23 Come up to the Insert ribbon,
• 00:25 and in the Illustrations group, we have one that says Icons.
• 00:29 When I click on Icons and entire library opens up,
• 00:33 we have our Icon sets, we have Cutout People.
• 00:37 These literally have transparent backgrounds, so you could click any one of
• 00:40 them and they would show up just the person, no background.
• 00:43 We have Stickers, Illustrations, and of course Cartoon People.
• 00:47 Why not have some Cartoon People?
• 00:49 I'm just going to go with Icons.
• 00:52 I'm going to go ahead instead of searching through all the categories,
• 00:55 I'm just going to type the word phone and see what shows up.
• 00:58 And I'm going to select this little telephone right here, and
• 01:02 then click Insert.
• 01:03 And it drops on my screen.
• 01:04 I do have a Graphics Format ribbon, I can resize it or
• 01:07 do any of these coloring options with it.
• 01:10 So I'll go ahead and
• 01:11 change my Graphics Fill to a blue and I will resize that smaller.
• 01:15 Let's go ahead and do the email.
• 01:17 Same process, Insert ribbon, Icons, type email.
• 01:24 Choose which one you want, Insert,
• 01:28 recolor that with the Graphics Fill and resize it.
• 01:33 That's simple.
• 01:34 Of course, I'm probably going to remove the actual word email there,
• 01:39 and remove the word phone.
• 01:41 There we have it.
• 01:42 Well, let's go a step further.
• 01:44 And this time let's put a clip art on our document.
• 01:48 Not a photograph, but a clip art.
• 01:51 Well, those are found in the same place.
• 01:53 Instead of Insert Icons though, we go to Pictures, on Pictures,
• 01:58 we'll go to Online Pictures.
• 02:00 We'll type a category and then click the filter button to choose clip art.
• 02:05 So we don't have to type a category since it's already broken up into categories,
• 02:10 but take a look here on the animals, there's a little dot, dot, dot.
• 02:14 And this tells us that these are public domain.
• 02:18 When I click on the view all, they come up with a checkmark on Creative Commons only.
• 02:24 That means they're free for you to use, no copyright infringement.
• 02:29 My only thing is I only want to see clip arts,
• 02:31 I don't want to see the actual photographs.
• 02:34 So I'll go ahead and click on this filter and I'll choose clip art.
• 02:39 And here they are.
• 02:41 But I haven't designated dogs, so I'm going to type the word dog.
• 02:45 And there we go, I have dog clip art, and I can go ahead and
• 02:48 choose whichever one I want.
• 02:54 Notice when you do find one you want to use, there's another dot,
• 02:58 dot, dot, and it's saying Clipart Puppy Long Ears, tells you the name of it.
• 03:02 Tells you the original location of it.
• 03:04 I'm just going to select it and hit Insert, and then resize this.
• 03:10 Now clicking and dragging to resize this is going to take a bit, but
• 03:14 on your Picture Format ribbon up on top, on the right hand side I'm
• 03:18 just going to tell this that I want a height of two inches.
• 03:21 And that's a quick way to resize a clip art.
• 03:24 Okay, well, this is just a nice little gentle way of making your documents
• 03:29 a little more fancy without cluttering them up too much.

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