sometimes there may be parts of an image
that you want to crop out and not use
just click the crop command in the size
group and you'll see black crop handles
appear the black corner crop handles
will crop the picture and retain its
proportions just click the handle and
while holding down the mouse button drag
the handle to the desired area and then
release the button or you could just
crop a little of the top or the side
part of the image and there you go your
image is cropped if you have specific
dimensions that you need your picture to
be PowerPoint does give you the ability
to set the crop to specific measurements
here in the size group over on the left
and the adjust group you have some
commands that will change your picture
in various ways the one I probably use
the most is the compressed pictures
command large file sizes can really make
your PowerPoint slides load and display
slowly and can be difficult or
impossible to send the presentation by
email to compress the picture just click
the command the compress pictures dialog
box appears here you can choose to only
compress the picture that is selected or
you can go ahead and compress all the
pictures in the slideshow you can click
OK to compress the pictures if you want
to change the default compression
settings click the options button in the
compression settings dialog box that
appears you can make some choices about
your options and the type of outputs or
how you'll use the powerpoints
presentation then click OK
the default settings have always been
sufficient for my needs some of the
other commands allow you to change the
brightness or contrast of color in the
image you can just click each of these
commands to display a menu of options I
sometimes use the brightness command to
lighten some of my images that are a
little dark or we're taking without the
camera flash the recolor commands lets
you change the picture to black and
whites sepia or other fun colors homes
there resets picture command removes all
the formatting changes you made to the
picture and changes it back to the
original that you insert it and the
change picture command opens up a dialog
box so you can switch to a different
picture on your computer now that we've
inserted a picture and modified it using
all these greats PowerPoint features
let's take a look at the clip art
feature
I need a fourth slide so I can include
instructions for a group activity and
include a clip arts image the title of
this one will be team exercise and I
want an image here that will look good
with the instructions I'll add here
later the team exercise involves trying
to get a teammates across a log bridge
successfully I don't have any pictures
on my computer that seemed right for
this slide to take a look at available
clip arts I can click the clip arts
commands in the placeholder or select
the insert tab and choose the clip arts
commands in the illustrations group
whichever way you choose the clip art
task pane appears on the right in the
search for field
we will enter some words that describe
the type of picture we are looking for
in the search in drop down menu we will
select the clip art collections that we
want to search to find the image by
default all the collections are chosen
we'll just leave that as it is
so powerpoints will search our computer
and
office online for images then we can
choose a type of media file to look for
clip art illustrations include
traditional clip art that looks more
like drawings or cartoon images
photographs movies and sounds I actually
only want photographs in this
presentation and now we're ready to
click go it may take a bit for all the
results to display as PowerPoint
searches for images you can use now we
can just scroll through and look at our
options you'll notice the world icon on
some of these and that means the image
is from a web collection if you don't
see one you like don't worry you can
always try different search words or
click the office online link to go to
the Microsoft websites and search the
thousands of clip arts available but
here I think this one will work to
insert it you can just click the image
or click the drop down arrow next to the
image to see some of your options from
here you can copy this image to your
collection find similar styles or go
ahead and insert it just click it and
the clip art appears in the slide notice
now that the same picture tools format
tab appears on the ribbon when the clip
arts is selected you can modify the clip
arts in all the same ways that you
modify the picture on slide 2 it is easy
to insert pictures and clip arts and the
picture tools really allow you to modify
the images in interesting ways
I think well-placed pictures can really
make people go WOW when they see your
presentation and PowerPoint gives you
the tools to do it spend some time
exploring pictures and clip art for
yourself