WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:15.579 --> 00:00:17.170 good as possible. 00:00:17.170 --> 00:00:20.849 Word has some very powerful features that will let you do this. 00:00:20.849 --> 00:00:26.919 First, click on your picture, and the Format tab will appear. 00:00:26.919 --> 00:00:29.550 Let's start by cropping the picture. 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:35.610 Click the Crop command, and you should now see some black handles around the edge of 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:37.660 the picture. 00:00:37.660 --> 00:00:40.890 You'll need to put the mouse right over these handles, and if you're a little bit off, you 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:45.530 may accidentally grab one of the resizing handles. 00:00:45.530 --> 00:00:52.530 Click and drag, and the parts that are going to be cropped out are kind of a dark gray. 00:00:58.120 --> 00:01:05.070 When you're done, you can click the Crop command again, or you can just press Enter. 00:01:05.070 --> 00:01:10.620 Just below the Crop command is a drop-down arrow, and if you go down to Crop to Shape, 00:01:10.620 --> 00:01:14.790 you can choose what shape you want your picture to be. 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:20.900 I think I'll choose a rounded rectangle. 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:24.840 With some photographs, you'll need to make adjustments, and these commands can be found 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.060 in the Adjust group. 00:01:27.060 --> 00:01:33.620 If you go to Corrections, you can Sharpen or Soften the image, and you can also adjust 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:37.020 the brightness and contrast. 00:01:37.020 --> 00:01:42.659 As you hover over each one, you'll be able to see a live preview of it in the document. 00:01:42.659 --> 00:01:48.360 I think this one looks good. 00:01:48.360 --> 00:01:50.590 You can also adjust the color. 00:01:50.590 --> 00:01:57.260 You can change the Saturation, the Color Tone, which controls how warm or cool the colors 00:01:57.260 --> 00:02:02.100 appear, and you can also Recolor the image. 00:02:02.100 --> 00:02:08.500 But for this picture, I'm just going to adjust the Color Tone. 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:13.029 Finally, you can add an Artistic Effect. 00:02:13.029 --> 00:02:18.170 You probably don't want to add one to every single picture, but sometimes you may want 00:02:18.170 --> 00:02:21.779 to use them to spice up your document. 00:02:21.779 --> 00:02:25.049 Depending on what your picture looks like, some of these effects may look better than 00:02:25.049 --> 00:02:32.049 others, so just hover over some of them until you find one that looks good. 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:38.459 Word also has a lot of different Picture Styles that are built in. 00:02:38.459 --> 00:02:45.459 These are a great way to quickly change the appearance of your picture. 00:02:48.989 --> 00:02:53.260 Before you send out your document, you may want to compress your pictures, and this is 00:02:53.260 --> 00:02:56.079 also found in the Adjust group. 00:02:56.079 --> 00:03:00.109 Compressing Pictures will make the file size smaller, so your document will be easier to 00:03:00.109 --> 00:03:03.569 email or post on the web. 00:03:03.569 --> 00:03:07.349 There's an option to Delete cropped areas of pictures. 00:03:07.349 --> 00:03:11.599 When you crop a picture, it doesn't actually delete anything from the file, it just hides 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.049 the cropped areas. 00:03:13.049 --> 00:03:17.650 So even though you're not using those areas, they're still taking up space in the file. 00:03:17.650 --> 00:03:21.180 You can delete them by checking this option. 00:03:21.180 --> 00:03:23.799 You can also change the resolution. 00:03:23.799 --> 00:03:28.639 The Email setting has the lowest resolution, so that means it will have the smallest possible 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.260 file size. 00:03:31.260 --> 00:03:35.279 Then click OK. 00:03:35.279 --> 00:03:38.969 You may have noticed that the picture adjusted a little bit, and that's because compression 00:03:38.969 --> 00:03:41.430 lowers the quality of the picture. 00:03:41.430 --> 00:03:45.319 So there is a tradeoff, and you'll just have to decide whether you want to go with a higher 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:52.319 quality or a lower file size.