Once you've added pictures to your presentation, you'll want to make them look as good as possible.
And that could mean adjusting the color, or the brightness and contrast, or even just
adding a border.
To begin, click on the picture, and then go to the Format tab...
I want to start by cropping this picture.
Click on the Crop command... and you'll see these black handles appear.
You'll need to make sure that the mouse is right over the black handle so that you don't
accidentally grab a resizing handle.
Then just click and drag...
And I'm just going to crop it a little bit...
When you're finished, click the Crop command again...
Just below that is a drop-down arrow... and if you go to 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...
For some of your pictures, you may want to add a border.
I want to create a gold border so it will match the heading...
I can't really see the border right now, so I'm going to change the weight to 3 points...
Most images aren't perfect, and that's where the Corrections menu comes in.
This is found 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 detail...
If you want to adjust the color, you can just go to the Color command.
And here you can adjust the saturation, the color tone, or you can even recolor the image.
I'm going to adjust the color tone to make the picture look a little bit warmer...
I think this picture looks pretty good now, so I'm going to go through and see if any
of the other pictures that need adjustments...
This picture already looks really good, but there are a couple of things we can do to
spice it up a little bit; specifically, Artistic Effects and Picture Styles.
From the Format tab, go to Artistic Effects... and just hover over the different options
until you find one that you like...
Depending what your picture looks like, some of them may look better than others...
This one sort of looks like a painting, which I think works well with this picture.
I'm also going to choose a Picture Style...
These can add various types of frames, and other types of effects to your pictures.
I think the rotated, white frame looks good.
I'm just going to move this picture a little so it's not blocking the text.
With all of the pictures in this presentation, the file size is probably 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...
Here you have the option of deleting the cropped areas of pictures and also changing the target
output.
E-mail will give them the lowest resolution, which means the file size will be as small
as possible.
And I want to apply these changes to all of the pictures in the presentation, so I'll
uncheck Apply Only To This Picture... and then click ok.
You may have noticed that the picture adjusted a little bit, and that's because compression
lowers the quality of the picture.
So there is a tradeoff, and you will have to decide whether you want higher quality
images or a smaller file size.