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Home > Microsoft PowerPoint > Things You Can Do with Pictures in PowerPoint 2016

Things You Can Do with Pictures in PowerPoint 2016

During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 training tutorial video, we will talk more about some of the things you can do with pictures. Here we will show you how to mix and match pictures using what you have learned so far in the previous sections in order to produce a more sophisticated output.

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Okay welcome back. We’re working in PowerPoint 2016 and this is module seven where we’re talking about pictures.

Now we’ve already done some formatting with our pictures. We’ve looked at some ways to crop pictures. So now I want to take some time and just show you some really cool things you can do when you mix and match pictures or use pieces and parts of pictures.

Okay so we’re back in our presentation and what I’d like to do is add a new slide and make the new slide number six. So I’m going to go to New Slide and put in the blank layout.

Now I’m going to put in a couple of pictures just to show you something really cool that you can do. I’m going to go up to Insert and I’m going to put in a picture and I’m going to choose this one right here. Now what this is is basically a circle that has nothing in it right here and we’re actually going to take another picture and insert it in there.

Now before I do that what I’d like to do is take this white background off of this picture. And let me enlarge it just a tad more. So first I’m going to remove the background. And we’ve already seen how to do this. Remember you want to include in this box the areas of the picture you want to keep. And now if I click away from it notice it’s gotten rid of that white in the background.

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Now let me show you the picture I want to put in the center there. I’m going to insert a picture and let’s say it’s this cap and gown right here. Now first of all you’ll notice a couple of things. It’s got that white background and I could go take it off but I’m going to show you some other ways to do this because I want to put this right in the center here.

So remember how we looked at the Picture Styles? You remember this? So what if I picked this one that looks like a circle or an oval like this? And I probably want it a little bit smaller because I’m going to put it right on top of this and I’m going to make it in the shape of a circle so it fits right in the middle there. And sometimes you have to play with it a little bit. But look at that. It fits right in the middle there.

Now you can play with the border and the colors and things like that but let’s try one more thing. Let’s say that at this point we take the background off. So let’s say I go to Remove Background and I go ahead and just tell it the parts I want to keep and do something like this. And let’s click away from it and look at that. Look how it’s got the same color that was originally in this object in the background here. Isn’t that cool?

Now how about if we put some text down here? We can always draw a text box and we can type some text in there. So what if we say 2016 Graduates. Now sometimes with a text box you have to pull it like this and then you can work with it. Alright?

So need to put a two there. So we’ve got 2016 Graduates. Now I’m going to change the size of it a little bit and I’m also going to change my font color a little bit so we can see it. And let’s just use black for now. And I’ll make it bold and center it in the placeholder there. And it could be I want to make it a little bit bigger too. Awesome. Look at that. So you can always play with things like this.

So you see how you can work with different objects and put them inside of others just to make some really cool pictures and some effects like this.

Now how about this? Let me put another slide in. I’m going to click on New Slide, put another blank one in. Now what if I go ahead and grab this picture of this guy here? He’s thinking. And he’s thinking that he might want to go to school. So let’s go ahead and make him a little bit bigger.

And I’m going to take the background off of him as well. Make sure we get his hair in there and all of his shirt. Get this in there. Perfect. Now what is he thinking? What if we went in and we drew one of those callouts. Remember these? Right down here at the bottom?

Let’s draw this one. Okay and we’ll change the color and all that in here. And remember you can actually move the little mouthpiece if you want like this. So he’s thinking, “Should I go back to school?” Okay? I guess I could spell that right. Alright. So he’s thinking, “Should I go back to school?” Now I’m going to go ahead and change the text color a little bit so we can see it.

Let’s just use black. And if you want to make it bold you could do something like that. And then maybe you can change the color here if you want. So you could always go up to your Shape Fill and maybe put one of those textures in the background. Those are always kind of cool. How about this one? So see how you can utilize some of your drawing objects and your pictures together?

Now let me show you one more cool thing you can do. I’m going to put in one more picture. We’ll make it number eight here.

Okay so let’s say that you put in a picture like this. Let’s say I’m going to use this one here that says Diploma. Now I’m going to make it a little bit bigger so we can see it right here. Now this one probably would need a little cropping. So you can crop off the white on the edges there. And I’ll do the top and I’ll do the bottom there. There you go.

Now I like this picture but it’s kind of boring. Now I could put a line around it but how about a frame? So I’ve got another picture here that has a frame around it and let’s say it’s this one here where it says Diploma. Now I could care less about what’s in the middle of it.

I’m going to use this border or this frame on the outside of this picture. Now first I’m going to crop out the white around the edges here. So let me turn on the crop and let me do it down at the bottom here and on the sides. And we’re going not going to see that stuff in the middle when we get through here.

So now I need to make it a little bit bigger. So let’s go ahead and make it the size of our object. We actually want it a little bit bigger or we can edit the one that’s inside when we get it in there. Now we’ve got two pictures. So we’re going to take this one and move it to the back. So I’m going to go ahead and choose Send to Back. There you go.

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And now what I can do is take this picture here and just kind of line it up so it goes right inside the frame there. And again you have to work with your picture sometimes like I told you earlier. But you can kind of see what I’m doing here. So you can always do stuff like that to work with the frame.

So those just give you some ideas of how to use pieces and parts of pictures to work together and that’s really cool. Just kind of use your imagination when you get to points like this.

So that’s going to wrap module seven. I do have a quick exercise that I’m going to have you do for me where we’re going to put in some pictures and change colors and things like that just like we went through. So I will see you real quick over in the exercise for module seven.

Simon Calder

Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA. He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!

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