Power Point® All?in?One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 3. Decorating Slides with Graphics and Photographs

In This Chapter

• Understanding the different graphics file formats

• Looking at copyright issues

• Placing graphics on slides and changing graphics' appearance

• Compressing graphics

• Recoloring, cropping, and altering graphic's brightness and contrast

• Downloading graphics from a scanner or digital camera

• Using a graphic as the background in slides

• Creating a photo album

• Handling graphics with Office Picture Manager

A picture, so they say, is worth a thousand words. Whether it's worth a thousand words or merely 950 is debatable. What is certain is that visuals help people remember things. A carefully chosen image in a presentation may help audience members remember or understand what your presentation is about. The image reinforces in their minds the ideas that you are trying to put across.

This chapter explains how you can make pictures — photographs and graphics — a part of your PowerPoint presentations. It looks into graphic file formats, copyrights, and other issues pertaining to graphics, as well as how to touch up graphics in PowerPoint and an auxiliary program called Office Picture Manager. You find out how to compress graphics, use them in the background, and compile them in a photo album as well.

By the way, the next chapter looks at another way to decorate PowerPoint presentations with images — by using clip art.

All about Picture File Formats

Graphics and photographs come in many different file formats, and as far as PowerPoint is ...