CA203
Presentation Application
Adding Graphics
Lecture # 8
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Objectives
✔ Insert a clip art image.
✔ Modify a clip art image.
✔ Insert a picture.
✔ Modify a picture.
✔ Insert and modify stylized text.
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Graphics
• The graphics that you can add to slides to
make your presentations more attractive
or to convey information visually.
• Graphics can include shapes, pictures,
photographs, cartoons, fancy (visualize)
borders and designs, and stylized text
objects.
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Inserting a Clip Art Image
• PowerPoint includes hundreds
of professionally designed
pieces of clip art.
• To add a clip art:
– You can point to Picture on the
Insert menu, and then click Clip
Art
– Click Insert Clip Art on the
Drawing toolbar
– In the Clip Art task pane, you
can search for clip art by keyword
and then click the image to select
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Inserting a Clip Art Image
• Tip
– If you click
AutoShapes on the
Drawing toolbar and
then click More
AutoShapes,
PowerPoint opens the
Clip Art task pane with
clip art shapes
displayed. You can
then click a shape to
add it to the current
slide.
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Inserting a Clip Art Image
• To make clip art and
other media available no
matter where they are
actually stored, you can
use the Microsoft Clip
Organizer.
• If you can’t find the image
you want in the Clip
Organizer, you can
search for additional
images in Office Online.
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Inserting a Clip Art Image
• Tip
– To delete a clip art
image from the Clip
Organizer, click the
down arrow to the right
of the image, click
“Delete from Clip
Organizer,” and then
click Yes to confirm
the deletion.
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Modifying a Clip Art Image
• Double-clicking or choose Format
Picture a clip art image:
– On the Colors and Lines tab,
you can change the color of the
image’s background and its
border.
– On the Size tab, you can enter
specific dimensions for the height
and width of the image, or you
can scale the image as a
percentage.
– On the Position tab, you can
fine-tune the position of the
image
– On the Picture tab, You can also
specify, whether the image
should be colored (Automatic),
gray, or black and white, and you
can control its brightness and
contrast.
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Inserting a Picture
• You can add graphics created in
other programs, scanned
photographs, or digital pictures
to a slide by using the Picture
command on the Insert menu.
• When you insert pictures from
files or from a scanner or digital
camera, you can select multiple
pictures, view thumbnails of
them, and insert them all at
once, which is faster than
inserting them one at a time.
• If you have a collection of
pictures on your hard disk, you
can use PowerPoint to create a
photo album.
You can add pictures
from the following:
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Modifying a Picture
• After you have inserted a
picture into a slide, you
can work with it in several
ways to create the effect
you want.
– You can enhance the
image’s color, brightness,
and contrast or Reset
Picture to revert
– You can use the Crop
Picture command to get
only required part
– You can rotate a picture
– You can compress pictures
to minimize the file size of
the image.
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Inserting and Modifying Stylized
Text
• You can insert stylized text into a presentation by using
WordArt.
• you can add visual enhancements to your text, that go
beyond changing a font or font size—in effect, basically
you turn words into a picture.
• WordArt can be used to emphasize short phrases, such
as
• or a single word, such as.
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Chapter 8 Summary
• You can insert any of the hundreds of clip art images included with
The Microsoft Office System 2003 into a PowerPoint presentation.
You can also search for additional images in Clips Online. You can
then scale the image by a set percentage, size the image exactly by
setting its dimensions, or size it manually by dragging its handles.
• You can change the color of clip art images to create a different
look or to match the current color scheme.
• You can insert pictures created with another program or
photographs from a scanner or digital camera into a slide. You can
then size, crop, and move the pictures, and enhance their
brightness and contrast.
• To reduce the size of presentations containing multiple pictures,
you can compress the pictures.
• You can use WordArt to insert and format stylized text objects to
create fancy titles.
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