Transcript Drag&Drop Macro: Easter Eggs

PowerPoint Basics
Tutorial 3: Graphics
In this tutorial we’ll be looking at graphics, and the various types of illustrations that can
be included in a presentation, with special focus on clip art and shapes.
Pictures are usually photos or images with a lot of detail and colour.
They may take up a lot of memory in your presentation, and may not
always appear well especially if scaled up from small images. We’ve
talked about pictures (and photo albums) in our Slide Show project.
Clip Art usually consists of line art, drawings and diagrams. It may not
be as detailed as real-life photos, but it can be scaled up or down without
losing much detail and does not take up much memory.
Shapes are practically basic figures that you can use to build up your
own diagrams in PowerPoint. They can be saved as clip art images for
use in other presentations or applications. We’ve already explored some
basic shapes in Tutorial 1.
On the following slides we’ll practise the following skills:
 Moving, rotating, resizing and cropping pictures and clip art;
 Multiple selection of graphics;
 Managing layers on slides;
 Grouping and aligning objects;
 Managing graphic colours, brightness, contrast and colour transparency;
 Creating customised graphics and saving them for future use.
Go to the next slide in this tutorial.
You’re now on Slide 2
Let us first work with some graphics. We’ll
work with one of the photos we used in the
Slide Show in Tutorial 1.
1. Load one of the photos in the Sample
Pictures folder (Autumn Leaves should
do). Resize it proportionally to fit
into the space on the right.
2. Click once on the picture to highlight it.
Notice the rotation handle
protruding from the top of the frame (a
small green ball). Move the pointer
over it. It changes into a circular arrow.
Click and hold the mouse button, and
move to the left or right.
3. While the picture is highlighted, click
on the Format tab to see more
options, especially the Arrange and
Size tools (far right of the Ribbon).
4. The Rotate menu enables you to rotate
the picture any angle you want.
5. The Crop tool can enable you to cut off
parts of the picture, and show only the
part you want. Move the side and
corner handles inwards until you frame
only that part you want visible. Notice
that cropping is not the same as
resizing.
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Tutorial 3 – Graphics
You’re now on Slide 3
The Arrange tools in the Format tab
enable us to do a number of things with
graphics.
1. Load two other pictures from the
Sample Pictures folder. Resize them to
about 30% and place them in the space
on the right. Overlap the pictures.
Notice that the last picture you loaded
will cover part of the first picture. This
is because it is on a higher layer.
2. Click on the bottom picture, and click
Bring to Front. Now the first picture
is on top. Send to Back has the
opposite effect, sending a higher level
object to a lower level.
3. Click on one of the pictures, and select
the Align menu. Make sure Align to
Slide is switched on, and experiment
with the various alignments available.
4. Highlight both pictures by dragging
across both pictures, or clicking on
each consecutively while holding the
CTRL key.
5. Click on the Group button. Now the
pictures make part of a group. Move
them around, resize the group, rotate,
etc. To work on the pictures separately
again select the Ungroup option.
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You’re now on Slide 4
The Selection Pane button will open a
Selection and Visibility task pane. If
there are a lot of objects on the slide this
will help you make heads or tails of the
various layers. You can also temporarily
hide layers while working on others.
1. Make sure the Selection and
Visibility task pane is open. Click on
the whale and turtle pictures
respectively and see the items
highlighted in the Shapes list.
2. Click over the eye icon of one of the
shapes. Toggle its visibility.
3. Highlight one of the pictures only, and
Re-order its layer by using the Up or
Down buttons at the bottom of the
pane.
4. Group the two pictures, and observe
what happens in the task pane.
5. Ungroup the pictures.
6. Enlarge the picture on the highest layer
so that it completely covers the smaller
picture. You will be unable to click on
the hidden picture at this point.
7. Click on the number of the hidden
picture in the task pane. Notice what
happens. Bring it to the front.
8. You can change the name of the layers
by double-clicking and retyping.
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You’re now on Slide 5
Keep the Format Ribbon open for this
task as well. Click on the sports car and
take a look at the Adjust tools.
1. Select both the sports car and the green
background.
2. In the Arrange tool options, open the
Align drop-down menu. Make sure
that Align Selected Objects is
selected. This will align the two objects
in relation to each other rather than to
the whole slide.
3. Select Align Center and Align
Middle.
4. Select the sports car only. From the
Adjust tools, open the Recolor dropdown menu and pass the mouse
pointer over the various colour modes
– note the effect on the image.
5. Click on Set Transparent Color.
The mouse pointer has now changed.
Click over the light blue background
behind the sports car. This colour is
now transparent, so the green
background can be seen through.
6. Make sure the sports car is still
highlighted, and take some time
experimenting with the Brightness
and Contrast settings.
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Tutorial 3 – Graphics
You’re now on Slide 6
Tutorial 3 – Graphics
A
The Shapes available in PowerPoint
may be basic, but you can create some
complex graphics with them. Grouped
together, they can then be saved as standalone pictures. You’re going to create an
exact replica of the graphic on the right.
1. Click the Insert tab. Open the Shapes
drop-down menu.
2. Select Rounded Rectangle from the
Rectangles group. Create a rectangle.
3. Set the size to 6cm by 5cm. Give it a
solid line of about 7pt. Set the line
colour to dark red and the fill colour
to orange.
4. Now from the Basic Shapes select the
Smiley Face and create one of size
2cm by 2cm. While creating the face
hold down SHIFT so that it is a perfect
circle. Give it a black line and a pink
fill.
5. From the Flowchart shapes select the
one called Flowchart: Delay. Create
a shape of about 2cm by 3cm.
6. Click on the face. Click on the Home
tab and select Format Painter from
the Clipboard tools. Click on the
Flowchart: Delay shape. This will
now have the same line and fill colours
as the face.
B
If we put the face and the Flowchart: Delay shape together, we can
make up the (very) basic shape of a person.
7. Click on the Flowchart: Delay shape and rotate it 90 degrees anticlockwise. Place the face on top of it (use the Align tool to make sure
they are in line), and Group them.
8. Move them over the framed rectangle and use the Align tool again so
that the figure is in the centre and middle of the rectangle.
9. Now Group the figure and the rectangle together.
10. Right-click on the new group and select Save As Picture. Find a
place where to save the graphic and give it a name.
11. The default file format is PNG, which is usually sufficient. Windows
Metafile is also a good format to create graphics which can be resized
without losing much of their quality.
Now you can use this graphic in other PowerPoint presentations or even
in Word documents and other applications.
Extra exercise: Use some of the basic shapes to create your own
weather symbols.
That’s the end of this tutorial.