Picture Options in PowerPoint 2016
During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 training tutorial video, we will show you some of the basic picture options that are very helpful when working with your PowerPoint presentation. We will discuss how to put borders around a picture, shadow, reflection, glow, soft edges, bevel, and 3-D rotation. We will also talk about picture styles.
Hi there. Welcome back. This is PowerPoint 2016 and we’ve made it down to module seven now and we’re going to talk about working with pictures.
Now so far we’ve actually put some pictures in our presentation and we even took one and put it inside of an object. But we haven’t really worked with changing colors or cropping pictures or anything like that so that’s kind of the idea of the things that I want to get into in this particular module.
Now we’re in the first section here, the Picture Options, so let’s look at some basic things you can do to change the look of the picture.
Okay so we’re back in our presentation here and I’d like to go back to slide two. Now we had actually inserted a picture here on slide two and if you notice this picture really doesn’t look right because this blue clashes with the blue that’s in our presentation. So let’s say first of all that you want to keep the blue back here but you just want to fix it so it doesn’t look so bad. So here’s a couple things you can do.
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So first of all we can add a border to this picture. Now remember when we did this with objects we just used the Shape Outline and we had all of these options. I wanted you to know that when you’re clicked on a picture your Picture Tools contextual tab appears and all of this has to do with pictures. The Picture Border option right here, these are the exact same options we saw just a second ago under the Home tab. So it doesn’t matter which one you use.
So first of all let’s pick a color for our border. And we can see it there but remember that if you really want it to stand out go ahead and play with the weight and the dashes. Now remember the weight is like a thickness for your line and the dashes that’s going to allow you if you don’t want a straight border you can have dots or dashes or any of these other dash options that you see here.
So I’m just going to leave it on a straight line for now. But you’ll notice that just by adding a border this picture looks totally different. It just stands out and the blue doesn’t really clash. As a matter of fact you don’t really notice it as much. So any picture you can apply a border to like this and it just really enhances the picture.
Now if we look over here at Picture Effects this is where you can actually have a shadow around your picture if you like. And we had seen some of these options when we worked with our objects. Remember you have outer shadows, inner shadows and you also have perspective shadows. Those are the ones that kind of lay down on the ground just like this.
We also had talked a little bit about the fact that you can have a reflection. So if you want your picture to have a reflection you can do that and you’ll see the reflection right down there.
Now you can also work with the glow. Remember that’s going to be a nice, soft glow around your picture and you’ve got different variants of that you can choose from. You can also pick soft edges. And also you had the ability to go back and pick from the bevel options. So remember you might want your picture to have a bevel look.
Now the last one was those 3-D Rotation. So you can see here that you can rotate your picture at any angle that you like. You’ve got some perspective options, you’ve got some oblique options down here at the bottom. You’ve just got a bunch of different options you can work with here. Okay?
Now I’m not going to leave it like that but I wanted to show you that those are some options that could look pretty nice depending on which options you chose there.
Now let’s go ahead and put this picture back the way it was when we started. Now I want to show you this little option here.
If you go all the way to the left here do you see this Reset Picture? This allows you to reset the picture and if you want to reset the picture and the size you can do that too. I’ll just reset the picture. And you’ll notice it took all the formatting off that I just applied. So don’t forget where that option was. When you click on your picture it’s Reset Picture.
Now also instead of just manually picking these which are certainly okay, you can look at the Picture Styles. Now if you just move your mouse over some of the different styles here you’ll see that some of these are pretty cool actually.
Like this one’s pretty neat. Or if you wanted more of a circle effect you can have that. So you can see there’s all kinds of different ones you can pick from here. So I’m going to leave that one for now. Okay?
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So don’t forget you have Picture Styles and then you can work with the border and the Picture Effects here.
Now these options here we’re not really going to get into too much right now because those are just like we talked about with objects in module six.
You can layer your pictures, move them forwards or backwards in the stack. If you had multiple pictures you could align them using your align options here. So just don’t forget that those are there if you need them. Okay?
Alright. So what I want to do now is go ahead and look at section two of this module because I want to show you how to crop pictures because sometimes you don’t need everything that’s in the picture.
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!
