Inserting images in learning materials
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Clipart is available through Insert, Picture, Clipart, as I am sure you
know.. You then need to search for what you want. If you cannot find
anything appropriate there is more free Microsoft clipart on the web,
that you can download at http://tinyurl.com/47qh6c, (or search
Google for Microsoft on line clipart)
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Internet images Personally my first stop for images is the photo
sharing website www.flickr.com . Using the advanced search allows
you to look for Creative Commons licensed images too, that you may
legally use. Please remember that copyright still exists on the high
seas of the internet. Or you can of course search Google images.
That’s not where I want the picture to
appear!
Once you have inserted the picture, you may
find it appears not quite in the place you
expect. Or it is difficult to drag and drop to a
new position. There may be a number of
reasons for this, but often it’s to do with the
image being inline rather than floating. Inline
has nothing to do with the internet, rather it
just means the image appears at the insertion point, as if it was a typed letter.
If you want images to be inserted floating in the drawing layer so you can
position them precisely on the page you must change this through the Format
picture option.
To change an inline picture to a floating picture and vice-versa:
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Right click the picture, then click Format picture. (alternatively select the picture
then on the Format menu, click Picture)
Then click the Layout tab.
Click the square or tight icon. (To change a floating picture to an inline
picture, select the Inline with text icon.)
Screen grabs
You can capture the PC screen display using the Print Screen key on the
keyboard (If you just want the active window use Alt+ Print Screen)
You can then crop the image that appears (and a whole lot else) using the
picture toolbar. If you cannot see the picture toolbar right click the picture and
select Show picture toolbar:
The picture toolbar. A
good example of a
cropped screen grab!
Crop icon
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Compress
icon
Crop the picture using the middle drag handles of the image. Then use the
Compress icon to reduce file size, choosing whether you want it for print or
screen viewing. Make sure you apply it to all the images in the document.
Autoshapes
Add to your images with some creative drawing yourself. Thought bubbles,
speech bubbles, labels with pointers (call out boxes) are examples of
Autoshapes, available through the drawing toolbar. And there’s more:
pyramids cylinders lightning bolts etc
The only
limit is my
imagination!
Resizing photos
Your umpteen megapixel camera can take some very nice photos, but they don’t half
make your ppt shows and word docs HUGE! I have already discussed how to
compress pictures, but it is also useful to know that you can batch resize photos in
your MyPictures folder, creating much smaller versions which are perfectly adequate
for most normal uses. Here’s how
 Go to the folder where your pictures are, and select the pictures you want to
resize.
 Right click the mouse and select resize pictures
 Choose the size you want
Your originals are not deleted, but you now have a set of pictures of more manageable
file size.
Quick tip: Are
you plagued by
the drawing
canvas when
you start to
draw? Get rid
of it!
Go to Tools,
Options and
the General
tab. Remove
the tick for
Automatically
create
drawing
canvas when
inserting
Autoshapes
The Credits
If you are interested the images in this worksheet are set as follows:
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The image of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao was pinched off the internet using
Google, and is Tight, with Right horizontal alignment
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The sun going down on the paragraph above is Behind text, with Other horizontal
alignment
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The man thinking big thoughts is clipart and is Tight. The thought bubble is an Autoshape
callout The cylinder is an Autoshape Basic shape
No images were harmed in the making of this worksheet
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