PowerPoint 2011
Date Created: November 4th 2010
Last Updated: November 4th 2010
05/23/2012 10:27 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Group Pictures
Many times you may place several pictures on your slide -- these may be just inserted in a haphazard manner and pictures of different sizes may be scattered within the slide area. In addition, you may also have some shapes or other slide objects placed on the slide. To arrange them all properly would result in a more aesthetic slide. We have already explored some techniques that will help you arrange your pictures and other content -- look at our Resize, Rotate, and Flip Pictures and Align and Distribute Pictures tutorials. Moving ahead, we will explore how you can group pictures on your slide in this tutorial.
05/21/2012 10:38 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Align and Distribute Pictures
In PowerPoint, when there are multiple pictures inserted on a slide, their position and alignment matters a lot. Most of the time, pictures may be placed just randomly placed on the slide. In some cases, such a haphazard arrangement may work -- but most of the time you will have to align objects in a proper way on your slide. Even before you align the pictures, you should explore whether all the pictures are the same size or not -- we have already explained how you can resize pictures in our Resize, Rotate, and Flip Pictures tutorial.
05/17/2012 09:36 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Change Picture
Imagine this scenario: you chose what you though was a perfect picture. So you insert the picture, and then enhance it using the cool picture editing options available in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. You may have gone further -- for example, you could have applied some of the Adjust Picture options, added a border, applied some Picture Effects, etc. You went ahead and added a perfect combination of both the Fade and Zoom animations, and also timed it to happen at the speed you want. And then you discover a better picture, or your boss asked you to change to another picture. You also need to retain all the effects and animations! You could delete the original picture and start all over again, and yes, that is a long process! Or you can change any existing picture into another with just a couple of clicks.
05/17/2012 02:53 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Picture Styles
PowerPoint's adjust picture options enable you to customize inserted pictures in your slides in many ways. Additionally, PowerPoint also provides you with a collection of preset Picture Styles, which can be directly applied to any selected picture. Picture Styles are somewhat similar to the Shape Styles since they take just a single click to provide the selected picture with a great look -- but, that's where the similarity ends. Because, the Picture Styles are not Theme specific. They just make the picture stylish by applying a border, changing the frame shape, or, by adding some 3-D effects.
05/16/2012 03:34 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Picture Effects
PowerPoint enables users to edit inserted pictures using the adjust picture options, and provides them with some preset Picture Styles which can be directly applied to the selected pictures. Also, they can add beautiful borders to the pictures. But, this is not the end -- they can also apply individual effects to the inserted picture like, a shadow, glow, bevel, 3-D rotation etc.
05/15/2012 11:42 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Resize, Rotate, and Flip Pictures
In this series of tutorials on working with pictures in PowerPoint 2011, you have already learned about adjusting picture options, and applying Picture Styles, Picture Effects, and Picture Borders that can help you to enhance the look of your inserted pictures. These skills will make your pictures look better and will provide you with ideas to make your pictures stand apart. Yet, there are some basic picture editing skills that are very significant -- these include learning how you can resize, rotate, and flip pictures.
05/10/2012 08:26 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Picture Borders
Although it is so easy to insert a picture in your PowerPoint slide, you should almost always look at doing more with your pictures thereafter. Probably the first thing you can do to make the picture more effective is cropping. In addition, you can also adjust how the picture looks by applying adjust picture options. Thereafter, you may apply any of the preset Picture Styles available. However, PowerPoint packs quite a punch as far as picture edits are concerned -- you can even play with the borders that surround your pictures. In this tutorial, we will explore the Border options that allow you to add anything from a simple outline to a beautiful frame to make your pictures stand apart.
05/03/2012 09:50 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Reposition Picture Fills with Crop
In PowerPoint, shapes and pictures are important parts of a slide -- both of them are mainly used to add visual elements to your presentations. However, there are some problem areas when you use a picture as a fill for a shape. Primarily, you'll find that PowerPoint insists on filling the entire picture to a shape -- in the process, the picture itself may appear distorted. Figure 1 depicts an example -- on the left is the actual picture we used to fill the shape on the right -- note that the man's face is squeezed and squashed when used as a picture fill. This completely destroys the look we wanted to attain. Fortunately, regaining the proportion is an easy option, as you will learn in this tutorial.
05/01/2012 09:15 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Crop Pictures (Mask to Shape)
You already learned how to play with all the different Crop options in PowerPoint 2011 -- all except the Mask to Shape option, which we explain in this tutorial. Mask to Shape can be immensely helpful if you want any picture to show contained within a shape. In other words, you start with a conventional, rectangular picture and end up a picture that's not contained within a non-rectangular shape.
04/29/2012 09:07 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Crop Pictures
Once you insert a picture in your slide, there is so much you can do it to make it appear consistent with the look of your slides -- you can make corrections to brightness, sharpness, and contrast values. You can also play with recolor options, and apply Photoshop style filters. However, even before you play with all these options, you must ponder and decide whether you want to use PowerPoint's Crop options. Cropping an area removes unrequired areas, and lets you add focus to the areas of the picture that are relevant to the topic of your presentation. Cropping also lets you remove some unwanted areas.