Inserting a Photograph - Moving and Resizing a Photograph - Inserting Clip Art - Moving and Resizing Clip Art - Layer Images

Photographs can be scanned and saved to your disk or hard drive then inserted into PowerPoint. To get information on how to scan a photo, click here.

Click on the Slide View button.

At your menubar, click on Insert > Picture > From File.

Click on the Arrow in the "Look in" box and find our digital photograph

Click Insert.

When the photograph is in PowerPoint you can click on it once and little white squares show up at each corner of the photograph. These are called "Handles".

• Put you cursor in the middle of the picture and drag to move it.

• Put your cursor over one of the white corner boxes. When you do this your cursor turns into a double arrow. Click, hold and drag the cursor to resize the image.

• To keep your image in proportion, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard while dragging the white box with your cursor.

Be sure you are still in Slide View

At the menubar click on Insert > Picture > Clip Art

At the Insert ClipArt dialog box, Right click on the Clip Art of your choice, then click Insert.

When the Clip Art is in PowerPoint you can click on it once and little white squares show up around the image. These are called "Handles".

• Put you cursor in the middle of the image and drag to move it.

• Put your cursor over one of the handles. When you do this your cursor turns into a double arrow. Click, hold and drag the cursor to resize the image.

• To keep your image in proportion, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard while dragging the white box with your cursor.

You can put an image in front or behind other images or text. To try this insert an image into a slide that has text on it.

Right Click on your image. Choose Order, then Bring to Front, Bring to Back, etc.

In this image the lion was right-clicked on and moved to the front by choosing "Order > Bring to Front".

You can do the same with arranging the order of several images.

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