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if you're using photographs in your
documents you'll probably want to make
them look as good as possible word has
some very powerful features that will
let you do this first click on your
picture and the format tab will appear
let's start by cropping the picture
click the crop command
and you should now see some black
handles around the edge of the picture
you'll need to put your mouse right over
these handles and if you're a little bit
off you may accidentally grab one of the
resizing handles
click and drag
and the parts that are going to be
cropped out are kind of a dark gray
when you're done you can click the crop
command again or you can just press
Enter
just below the crop command is a
drop-down arrow and if you go down to
crop to shape you can choose what type
of shape you want your picture to be I
think I'll choose a rounded rectangle
with some photographs you'll need to
make adjustments and these commands can
be found in the adjust group if you go
to Corrections you can sharpen or soften
the image
and you can also adjust the brightness
and contrast
as you hover over each one you'll be
able to see a live preview of it in the
document
I think this one looks good
you can also adjust the color you can
change the saturation
the color tone which controls how warm
or cool the colors appear and you can
also recolor the image
but for this picture I'm just going to
adjust the color tone
finally you can add an artistic effect
you probably don't want to add one to
every single picture but sometimes you
may want to use them to spice up your
document and depending on what your
picture looks like some of the effects
may look better than others
so just hover over some of them until
you find one that looks good
word also has a lot of different picture
styles that are built-in and these are a
great way to quickly change the
appearance of your picture
before you send out your document you
may want to compress your pictures and
this is also found in the adjust group
compressing pictures will make the file
size smaller so your document will be
easier to email or post on the web
and there's an option to delete cropped
areas of pictures when you crop a
picture it doesn't actually delete
anything from the file it just hides the
cropped areas so even though you're not
using those areas they're still taking
up space in the file you can delete them
by checking this option
you can also change the resolution the
email setting has the lowest resolution
so that means they'll have the smallest
possible file size 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 trade-off and
you'll just have to decide whether you
want to go with a higher quality or a
lower file size like what you just saw
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