4. Telling a story with photographs

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this chapter you will know how to

· import digital photographs into a presentation

· how to resize the photographs as appropriate

· how to accompany the photographs with appropriate text

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Adding Photographs

Adding photographs to PowerPoint is done in the same way as adding them to Word – you click on the Insert tab and then on the Pictures icon. From the Open File dialogue box you navigate to where your picture files are stored. Once you locate the picture you want you click on Insert. The picture is then added to the slide. Again, just like Word, the picture is automatically resized to fit into the slide.

Figure 4‑1

The picture above was added to the slide as described above, using the Picture icon on the Insert tab. The text box beside the picture was also inserted in a similar manner, using the Text Box icon on the same Insert tab.

Using the Photo Album facility

This is a way of displaying a collection of photographs using PowerPoint slides. Although the photographs can be loaded individually from different locations of your computer, this system will work more efficiently if the photographs destined for presentation were all in the same folder. To begin we select the Photo Album icon from the Insert tab as shown below.

Figure 4‑2

This brings up the dialogue box in Figure 4‑3. Here we click on File/Disk. Which brings up the dialogue box in Figure 4‑4

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Here we select the photographs that we want to add to the album and then click on Insert. After a short pause your Photo Album dialogue box will look as in Figure 4‑5 below. Once we click on Create, all the pictures we have selected are imported and a separate slide is created for each one. A title slide is also created. This is shown below in Figure 4‑6.

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