Chapter 3
IN THIS CHAPTER
Adding (and deleting) pictures
Modifying pictures
Altering the appearance of pictures
One way to spice up your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, or PowerPoint presentations is to add photographs that you’ve captured through a digital camera. Adding photographs is simple enough, but Office 2016 also includes different ways to manipulate your picture by using special visual effects.
One common problem with photographs is that they may appear too light or too dark. In the past, the only way to correct these types of problems was to edit the picture in a photo-editing program like Adobe Photoshop. Because not many people have Photoshop or know how to use it, Office 2016 now contains simple photo-editing tools that anyone can use to correct minor flaws.
After you’ve corrected any flaws, Office 2016 also lets you turn your photographs into art by adding frames, tilting the picture sideways, or adding a visual effect that makes the picture look more like a painting.
With Office 2016, you can add photographs, correct them, and modify them to give all your Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files that extra bit of color and showmanship.
To add a picture to a file, follow these steps:
Click the Pictures icon.
The Insert Picture dialog box appears.
Select the picture file you want to insert.
You may need to select a different folder or drive that contains the picture you want to insert.
To delete a picture in a file, follow these steps:
Select the picture that you want to delete.
Handles appear around your selected picture.
Every Office 2016 application can retrieve images from the Internet (if your computer has Internet access).
To retrieve an image from the Internet, follow these steps:
Click the Online Pictures icon.
An Insert Pictures dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 3-1.
Press Enter.
The Insert Pictures dialog box displays a list of images, as shown in Figure 3-2.
Click an image that you want to use and click the Insert button.
Office 2016 inserts your chosen picture in your file.
Many times, you may run programs on your computer that contain images you’d like to insert into an Office 2016 document, such as how a web page appears in a browser or how a particular program looks. Fortunately, Office 2016 includes a handy feature for capturing screenshots that you can insert into any Office 2016 file.
To capture a screenshot, follow these steps:
Click the Insert tab and click the Screenshot icon.
The Screenshot icon displays a menu of currently open programs, as shown in Figure 3-3.
Capture the image you want:
Office 2016 inserts your chosen image in your file.
After you add a picture to a file, it may not be in the correct position or be the right size. As a result, you may want to move, resize, or rotate it.
To move a picture, follow these steps:
Select the picture that you want to move.
Handles appear around your selected picture, as shown in Figure 3-4.
To resize a picture, follow these steps:
Select the picture that you want to move.
Handles appear around your selected picture.
If you click the Format tab, you can type a precise width and height for your picture in the Height and Width text box displayed in the Size group.
To create an interesting effect, you may want to rotate a picture in a file. To rotate a picture, follow these steps:
Select the picture that you want to rotate.
Handles appear around your selected picture. Note that the rotate handle appears to be sticking up from the top of the picture, as shown in Figure 3-5.
Move the mouse pointer over the rotate handle and drag the mouse.
The mouse pointer turns into a circular arrow icon when you move it over the rotate handle.
Sometimes a picture may look almost perfect, but still need some minor corrections. Other times a picture may look plain, but by adding some visual effects, you can turn a plain picture into a work of art.
To help you make your pictures look prettier and more visually engaging, Office 2016 lets you choose different effects, colors, frames, and styles.
Office 2016 offers several different ways to alter a picture’s visual appearance:
To choose a visual effect for a picture, follow these steps:
Click the picture that you want to modify.
The Format tab appears on the Ribbon.
Click the Corrections icon.
When you click the Corrections icon, a menu of correction options appears, as shown in Figure 3-6.
Click the Color icon.
A menu of color options appears, as shown in Figure 3-7.
Click the Artistic Effects icon.
A menu of visual effects options appears, as shown in Figure 3-8.
Click the Picture Effects icon.
A menu of color options appears. You may need to click a submenu to display additional options, as shown in Figure 3-9.
Rather than force you to make individual changes to a picture, Office 2016 provides a collection of predefined picture styles that you can apply to any picture added to a file. To choose a picture style, follow these steps:
Click the picture that you want to modify.
The Format tab appears on the Ribbon.
Click a style displayed in the Picture Styles group.
The Picture Styles group contains multiple options:
To help make your picture stand out, you may want to add a border. A border can appear in different colors, thicknesses, and styles (such as a solid line or a dotted line).
To add or modify a border around a picture, follow these steps:
Click the picture that you want to modify.
The Format tab appears on the Ribbon.
Click the Picture Border icon.
A pull-down menu of different colors and options appears, as shown in Figure 3-12.
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