Inserting Pictures and Clip Art

Quick reference

• 00:05 Hello, in this lesson we gonna insert some pictures.
• 00:08 So, if you would go ahead and look at your insert ribbon,
• 00:11 we have an illustration section,
• 00:12 and the very first two we'll work with are the pictures and the online pictures.
• 00:17 All right, so
• 00:18 right down here on the screen I've got a little section on the exercise file.
• 00:23 It says Insert a picture from your sample pictures file.
• 00:26 So when I click on the insert ribbon and pictures,
• 00:29 it should open up directly to your pictures files.
• 00:31 Now, I don't have a sample pictures file, cuz I did away with mine, but
• 00:35 I do have a flowers file, so whatever file you have in there.
• 00:37 Most everyone does have a sample picture.
• 00:40 So I'll go ahead and double click the flowers.
• 00:42 And these are actual photographs of flowers.
• 00:45 And so I can just choose any one of them I'd like, and
• 00:48 I'll hit insert on the screen.
• 00:50 Now when this picture opens up, along with it comes a brand-new ribbon, and
• 00:54 right up here you’ll see picture>tools>format.
• 00:56 Now here’s everything you can do.
• 00:59 Remove background, you can recolor it, you can put a frame around it,
• 01:02 you could put borders around it wrap text around it.
• 01:04 You can even resize it and that's what I wanna draw your attention to.
• 01:08 Right here is the sizing of the picture.
• 01:11 So automatically, I can just go ahead and tell it,
• 01:14 I only want this picture to be one inch high and then when I hit my Tab key or
• 01:18 click into the next section, look it automatically resized itself.
• 01:23 Now when I click off of it into the white area, I lose my picture tools ribbon.
• 01:27 When you click back on to the picture, your picture tools comes back up.
• 01:31 You must click format.
• 01:33 Now you can see that the width automatically adjusted to 1.09.
• 01:36 So I don't want to force both the height and
• 01:39 the width cuz I didn't create the picture.
• 01:42 I don't know the real measurements.
• 01:43 But another thing that's happening on here is if you don't wanna retype to resize,
• 01:48 you can actually use the little white circles on the corners.
• 01:52 I always recommend using the corners, because then it adjusts the height and
• 01:57 width correctly rather than stretching.
• 02:00 We've all seen this happen.
• 02:02 You stretch a picture out and it doesn't even look right.
• 02:04 You think, what's wrong with that?
• 02:05 Well someone just didn't use the right handle to resize it.
• 02:09 Whenever you resize something that turns out badly,
• 02:12 remember the Ctrl+Z button Ctrl Z wi ll put it right back.
• 02:15 And again always resize with the corner.
• 02:18 Now another thing happening right up here is we have a little box showing up right
• 02:22 up here on the picture.
• 02:24 That is our text alignment.
• 02:25 So we can actually tell this how to wrap within the text.
• 02:29 So if I click and drag this picture into my text,
• 02:32 now notice my mouse has a little box on it.
• 02:35 If you can see my mouse there with a box on it, that box is called a lasso.
• 02:38 If you've got a lasso on your mouse, it's a good idea to pay close attention,
• 02:42 because when you let go, that's where you're going to drop that particular item.
• 02:47 So I'll position my insertion point right up here in the sentence.
• 02:50 When I let go, I just landed that picture within the sentence.
• 02:54 But now I have this text wrapping button so I can choose where I want it to wrap.
• 02:59 Square to the text, tight within the text, through the text.
• 03:04 You can choose.
• 03:05 I'll choose the top and bottom.
• 03:07 So it forced all the text to go below it to this one.
• 03:12 That was let's see, Square so the text went square around it.
• 03:16 Look, it all went square around it.
• 03:18 So you have a lot of control over how you align the text and
• 03:22 where you draw your picture.
• 03:24 So, I'll just go ahead and set this right back to normal where it was and
• 03:27 I'll move the picture down below it with the lasso.
• 03:29 Click and drag the picture.
• 03:31 You'll see the lasso, whoops.
• 03:32 I think it goes right up here.
• 03:34 There we go.
• 03:35 We'll put it right there.
• 03:36 All right, that's fine.
• 03:38 Let's go ahead and do another one.
• 03:39 This time, we're going to insert a picture.
• 03:42 So insert, and online picture, and we're going to wait for this screen to come and
• 03:46 it immediately defaults to Bing image search,
• 03:49 because that is the agreement Microsoft has with Bing.
• 03:53 And we're looking for world flags.
• 03:55 I just chose that as a random thing to search for.
• 03:58 And let's see, I'll show all results.
• 04:01 Right here, I have a world with a bunch of flags laid over the top of it.
• 04:04 Obviously this isn't a photograph.
• 04:05 It’s a computer generated photo okay?
• 04:08 So it's called a clipart.
• 04:10 And when I hit insert, here we go, but it's huge.
• 04:12 The full width of my page.
• 04:14 I don't want it to be, as you can see Picture Tools, Format six inches tall and
• 04:19 six inches wide.
• 04:20 Actually I only want this to be exactly two inches wide, and
• 04:24 when I click on the other box, it should automatically resize itself.
• 04:29 Let me see here.
• 04:30 The feedback doesn't happen right away.
• 04:32 It’s almost like I have to click out of it and
• 04:34 back to it to see that two inches wide, 1.95 tall.
• 04:37 But look what happened there.
• 04:38 Okay, so that's the difference between a photo, which is an actual photograph or
• 04:43 pictures of photograph and a clip art which is a computer generated design.
• 04:48 That is how you resize them, either manually typing or using the corners and
• 04:53 that is how you align them with text with this box right here.
• 04:57 All right, thank you.

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