Inserting Graphics in PowerPoint 2016
During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 training tutorial video, you will learn how to insert some graphics–like Clip Art and animated pictures or gifs–into your PowerPoint slides so that your PowerPoint presentation looks more appealing.
Okay, we’re working in module five, Adding Graphics to Your Presentation.
So if you think about it graphics really just make your presentation a little more visually appealing because your slides can get kind of boring if you just have bullet points or text on them. So we’ve talked about adding shapes. That was section one. And now we’re in section two. Let’s talk about adding those graphics.
Okay, we’re here on slide three of our presentation and let’s say that we want to add a little clipart picture over on the right here because this is actually kind of boring. We’ve got some bullets but it’s kind of dead over on the right. So here’s how you’re going to do that.
If you go to the Insert tab you’re going to go to online pictures. Now, this is going to do a Bing Image Search. So you can actually type in anything you want. Let’s put in College Clipart and let’s just see what comes up when we hit the Enter key.
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Now you’ll see several different clipart pictures popped up and there’s also a yellow ribbon here. I just want to tell you what this is very quickly. It says Search engine results are images licensed under creative commons. Now if you don’t know what creative commons is when someone actually puts a picture out on the internet or a YouTube video is another good example then that person actually owns that picture or that video.
So you just can’t go grab it and put it on your website or whatever you’re doing. They do have the ability when they actually put that picture or video out there to give it a license called Creative Commons. That means that you do have permission to go ahead and take those pictures and actually use them. And that’s all this is saying is that all these came up under creative common so you can use them. So I’m going to go ahead and just close out of that. And you can see here there are several different little pictures that you could use.
So let’s just say I want to use this one. I’m just going to double click on it or you can click once and Insert, whatever works. And there it just put it back into your slide for you.
Now I can move this by clicking right in the middle of it and dragging the object over to the right. And I kind of like this size so I’m going to leave it. But if I didn’t like it I could use the control handles we talked about to change the size of the object.
Now people really like clipart pictures. They’re just fun. They add a little fun insert to your presentation. But let me show you something a little more fun you can do with clipart pictures.
Now let’s go slide two. Let’s say for some reason that I want to add a clipart picture but I want it to be an animated clipart picture. And animated ones are ones that actually move. So what you’re going to do is when you go to Insert, Online Pictures. Again it’s going to do that Image Search but this time I’m going to type in Animated GIF College and let’s see what we get. Now animated GIFs are the animated files.
Now the thing about these is you can’t really see the animation until you actually put them into your slide and then run slideshow. So let’s see if we can find a really good one here. I think I saw a really good one up here. Yeah this guy here. He’s running to class. So I’m going to go ahead and put him in.
So I’m going to choose Insert and let me go ahead and make him a little bit bigger real quick. Now he’s not animated right now but if you go ahead and run the slideshow, and remember that’s your last button down here at the bottom, then you’re going to see that he is animated and you can see him running there.
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So that’s kind of how that works. Okay? I’m going to go ahead and get out of the slideshow here. So you can always put in an animated GIF just to give it a little more interest there.
So we’ve talked about shapes. We’ve now talked about graphics. So let’s move on to the next section which is section three and talk about putting in pictures.
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!
