WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:11.450 --> 00:00:17.260 Once you've added pictures to your presentation, you'll want to make them look as good as possible. 00:00:17.260 --> 00:00:21.830 And that could mean adjusting the color, or the brightness and contrast, or even just 00:00:21.830 --> 00:00:23.880 adding a border. 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:29.000 To begin, click on the picture, and then go to the Format tab... 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.739 I want to start by cropping this picture. 00:00:31.739 --> 00:00:37.270 Click on the Crop command... and you'll see these black handles appear. 00:00:37.270 --> 00:00:41.180 You'll need to make sure that the mouse is right over the black handle so that you don't 00:00:41.180 --> 00:00:44.500 accidentally grab a resizing handle. 00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:45.850 Then just click and drag... 00:00:45.850 --> 00:00:50.210 And I'm just going to crop it a little bit... 00:00:50.210 --> 00:00:54.670 When you're finished, click the Crop command again... 00:00:54.670 --> 00:01:00.160 Just below that is a drop-down arrow... and if you go to Crop to Shape, you can choose 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:02.810 what shape you want your picture to be. 00:01:02.810 --> 00:01:09.380 I'd like this picture to have rounded corners, so I'll go with the rounded rectangle... 00:01:09.380 --> 00:01:12.650 For some of your pictures, you may want to add a border. 00:01:12.650 --> 00:01:17.999 I want to create a gold border so it will match the heading... 00:01:17.999 --> 00:01:26.450 I can't really see the border right now, so I'm going to change the weight to 3 points... 00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:31.459 Most images aren't perfect, and that's where the Corrections menu comes in. 00:01:31.459 --> 00:01:34.459 This is found in the Adjust group... 00:01:34.459 --> 00:01:39.380 From here, you can sharpen and soften the image, or you can adjust the brightness and 00:01:39.380 --> 00:01:40.649 contrast. 00:01:40.649 --> 00:01:46.520 For this one, I'm just going to make it a little bit sharper to help bring out the detail... 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:51.259 If you want to adjust the color, you can just go to the Color command. 00:01:51.259 --> 00:01:58.689 And here you can adjust the saturation, the color tone, or you can even recolor the image. 00:01:58.689 --> 00:02:02.179 I'm going to adjust the color tone to make the picture look a little bit warmer... 00:02:02.179 --> 00:02:08.220 I think this picture looks pretty good now, so I'm going to go through and see if any 00:02:08.220 --> 00:02:12.490 of the other pictures that need adjustments... 00:02:12.490 --> 00:02:16.600 This picture already looks really good, but there are a couple of things we can do to 00:02:16.600 --> 00:02:21.670 spice it up a little bit; specifically, Artistic Effects and Picture Styles. 00:02:21.670 --> 00:02:28.840 From the Format tab, go to Artistic Effects... and just hover over the different options 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.420 until you find one that you like... 00:02:31.420 --> 00:02:36.290 Depending what your picture looks like, some of them may look better than others... 00:02:36.290 --> 00:02:41.450 This one sort of looks like a painting, which I think works well with this picture. 00:02:41.450 --> 00:02:44.300 I'm also going to choose a Picture Style... 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:50.480 These can add various types of frames, and other types of effects to your pictures. 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:54.590 I think the rotated, white frame looks good. 00:02:54.590 --> 00:02:58.450 I'm just going to move this picture a little so it's not blocking the text. 00:02:58.450 --> 00:03:04.700 With all of the pictures in this presentation, the file size is probably pretty large, and 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:07.690 that might be a problem if I want to email it to somebody. 00:03:07.690 --> 00:03:12.620 To fix that, I'm going to compress the pictures. 00:03:12.620 --> 00:03:19.780 In the Adjust group, click the Compress Pictures command... 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:24.569 Here you have the option of deleting the cropped areas of pictures and also changing the target 00:03:24.569 --> 00:03:27.269 output. 00:03:27.269 --> 00:03:31.731 E-mail will give them the lowest resolution, which means the file size will be as small 00:03:31.731 --> 00:03:32.731 as possible. 00:03:32.731 --> 00:03:37.510 And I want to apply these changes to all of the pictures in the presentation, so I'll 00:03:37.510 --> 00:03:44.450 uncheck Apply Only To This Picture... and then click ok. 00:03:44.450 --> 00:03:48.719 You may have noticed that the picture adjusted a little bit, and that's because compression 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.010 lowers the quality of the picture. 00:03:51.010 --> 00:03:55.090 So there is a tradeoff, and you will have to decide whether you want higher quality 00:03:55.090 --> 00:03:57.450 images or a smaller file size.