Inserting Pictures and Clip Art

Quick reference

• 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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