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you've added pictures to your
presentation you'll want to make them
look as good as possible
that could mean adjusting the color or
the brightness and contrast or even just
adding a border simply click a picture
to begin and then go to the format tab
I'll start by cropping this picture
click the crop command and these black
handles will appear around the image now
you'll need to make sure that the mouse
is right over the black handle so you
don't accidentally grab a resizing
handle instead then just click and drag
I'm just going to crop this image a
little bit and when you're finished
click the crop command again
just below that as a drop-down arrow and
if you select crop to shape you can
choose what shape you want your picture
to be I'd like this picture to have
rounded corners so I'll go with the
rounded rectangle shape for some
pictures you may want to add a border
I'm going to add a green border around
this image so it will better match the
heading hmm that's a little hard to see
so I'm going to increase the border
weight to three points
there we go
most images aren't perfect and that's
where the corrections command can really
help you'll find it in the adjust group
from here you can sharpen and soften the
image or you can adjust the brightness
and contrast for this one I'm just going
to make it a little bit sharper to help
bring out the details if you want to
modify the color go to the color command
here you can adjust the color saturation
tone or even recover the image I'm going
to adjust the color tone to make the
picture look just a little bit warmer
all right I think this picture looks
pretty good now so I'm going to go
through and see if any of the other
pictures need adjustments this picture
already looks really good but I think
there are a couple things we could do to
spice it up from the format tab go to
artistic effects and hover over the
options until you find one you like some
effects may work a bit better than
others depending on the picture you're
using this one sort of looks like a
painting which I think works really well
for this picture
I'm also going to choose a picture style
these can add various types of frames
and other effects to your pictures
I'm really liking the rotated white
frame so let's go with that
you know with all the pictures in this
presentation the file size is probably
getting pretty large and that might be a
problem if I want to email it to
somebody to fix that I'm going to
compress the pictures in the adjust
group click the compress pictures
command and you'll have the option of
deleting cropped areas of the pictures
and also changing the output resolution
email will give you the lowest
resolution which means the file size
will be as small as possible and in this
case I want to apply the changes to all
of the pictures in the presentation so
I'm going to uncheck the box that says
apply only to this picture and then
click OK
you may have noticed the picture changed
a bit when I did this and that's because
compression will lower the quality of a
picture so just remember that there's a
real trade-off here and you'll have to
decide whether you want higher quality
images or a smaller file size okay so
now you know all the basics of
formatting images in PowerPoint take
some time to explore all these options
to create great-looking pictures for
your next presentation