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Learn how to apply and control picture sizes and placement.
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Inserting Pictures and Clipart
Learn how to apply and control picture sizes and placement
When to use
Adding pictures to a document adds interest and richness.
Instructions:
Note: When you add a picture a new ribbon appears called the PICTURES ribbon.
INSERT RIBBON, PICTURES & ONLINE PICTURES
1.Click Insert, Pictures: the computer defaults to your Pictures Library
2.Choose a picture and click Insert
3.Click Insert, Online Pictures: the computer opens a screen for you to type the picture you would like to find online.
MOVE and RE-SIZE a PICTURE
1.Click and Drag a photo with the mouse: Notice the mouse arrow has a tiny square attached called a “lasso”. This means something is attached to the mouse and when you let go it will drop it at that point.
2. Re-size a picture: You can resize using the white handles around the picture frame; and you can use the Size options on the Picture Tools ribbon
LAYOUT OPTIONS
1.The tiny symbol next to the picture is the “Layout Options” tool. This allows you to choose how the picture aligns within the text of your document.
2.Click through the options and observe what happens as each is selected.
- There is no right or wrong answer when using Layout Options; it is simply up to you and your document design choices.
- 00:00 In this lesson, we begin to have some fun with pictures, pictures and clip art.
- 00:08 This is how you add interest to your text and to your document.
- 00:12 If you'll click on the Insert ribbon In the illustrations group,
- 00:16 you will see a button right here that says, Pictures.
- 00:19 When you click on Pictures, it defaults to your Pictures Library and
- 00:23 everyone has these sample pictures in there.
- 00:26 So we'll go ahead and use that folder.
- 00:28 When you double, now you can see all the sample pictures that Microsoft sent along
- 00:32 with the program.
- 00:33 I'm gonna start with the chrysanthemum picture.
- 00:35 Go ahead and hit Insert and it inserts on my screen, but it quite large.
- 00:39 It takes up the entire width of the document.
- 00:41 Notice up here, you have a brand new ribbon that appeared.
- 00:44 Because you're working with pictures,
- 00:45 the computer knows you're gonna want all these picture tools.
- 00:48 On the right-hand side, we have the size.
- 00:51 So I could actually highlight that and type the number 2 in there and
- 00:54 when I click off of there, it just shrunk it to 2 inches wide.
- 00:57 Now when I clicked on my paper, my picture toolbar banished.
- 01:01 When I clicked back on my picture, the picture toolbar, the picture ribbon,
- 01:05 reappears.
- 01:06 Just so you know that.
- 01:07 There is another way to resize, as well.
- 01:09 Notice the white little handles.
- 01:11 Those are called handles around the little squares.
- 01:14 If you float your mouse on the corner, which is always advisable when you're
- 01:17 resizing pictures, because this will resize the height and
- 01:20 width at the same time and keep the picture in it's parameters.
- 01:23 If you float your mouse on the side handle and resize this way,
- 01:26 imagine this is someone's face.
- 01:28 You will have squished it and have distorted their face quite badly.
- 01:31 So we don't want to resize with the side handles,
- 01:34 we resize with the corner handles.
- 01:36 Notice on top with spinning arrow.
- 01:39 If you click that, that is how you tilt a picture right or left.
- 01:42 See?
- 01:42 This is why it's fun to work with pictures.
- 01:44 Let's go ahead and find a picture a different way, possibly a clip art.
- 01:48 Go ahead back to your Insert ribbon.
- 01:50 Instead of Pictures this time, we're going to use Online Pictures.
- 01:53 When you click Online Pictures, it defaults to search in
- 01:57 the Bing Image Search and I'm gonna type two words, world flags.
- 02:02 When I hit Enter, we're gonna see a series of options to insert some world flags.
- 02:08 So, I'm gonna take this world picture.
- 02:10 Now this, obviously is not a photograph of the world with flags laying over it.
- 02:15 Go ahead and click Insert on that.
- 02:17 This is called a clip art.
- 02:19 It's simply a computer generated design.
- 02:21 The picture and for whatever reason you can use this,
- 02:25 you can tilt this, you can resize it, depending on what size you want.
- 02:30 It's quite fun actually to work with these.
- 02:33 That is the difference between a picture and that is a photograph of the flower
- 02:37 versus a clip art, which is simply computer generated design.
- 02:41 Now, I'm gonna make this quite small.
- 02:43 And let's see,
- 02:44 I'm going to move my world flags picture simply by clicking and dragging it.
- 02:50 Now notice when I click and drag, take a look at my arrow.
- 02:52 It has a little tiny square on it.
- 02:54 That arrow is called a lasso and when you're clicking and dragging and
- 02:58 you see that lasso on there, you better be paying attention,
- 03:00 because it's moving something along with it.
- 03:02 Now, I'm gonna drop that lasso right in the middle of a couple words
- 03:06 in my sentence and watch what happens.
- 03:07 It actually broke my sentence apart.
- 03:09 Well, this is how you control how a picture lays within text.
- 03:13 So you click on the picture and notice we have a little animal right outside here,
- 03:18 this is called the layout options.
- 03:20 So when you click on that option, now you can choose how you want it to layout.
- 03:24 Do you want the text to be square around the picture?
- 03:27 Do you want the text to be, well, let's see.
- 03:31 What did that one say, if I float my mouse tight to the picture?
- 03:33 What's the next one?
- 03:34 Through, so that means the text width, the picture would lay over the top or
- 03:39 right through the center of the text.
- 03:41 I can click this again and I have top and bottom, so that would push the text.
- 03:48 It's pushing that little picture that other picture I had around,
- 03:51 that puts the picture above it.
- 03:53 It's just one of those things where you need to know about it,
- 03:55 cuz it's very important how the text aligns around your document.
- 03:59 But it's just really important, now see this is through.
- 04:03 So now I've got the picture laying behind the letters.
- 04:06 It's just important that you are aware that you do have the options, you're not
- 04:11 stuck with how the picture lines up with the text you totally control it, but
- 04:15 it does take some practice to go in there and figure out which works best for
- 04:19 what you need.
- 04:20 That's how you add pictures, its quite fun.
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