Creating a Photo Album in PowerPoint

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Creating a Photo Album in PowerPoint

• Vic Fascio

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Preparing

• Put pictures in the same folder
• Know where to find the folder!
• Ideal
• Pix have descriptive titles
• Pix same shape
• Pix same size
• Dont worry about arranging pix
• Easy to arrange inside PowerPoint

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Open New Presentation

• File menu ? New
• Right pane options ? Blank Presentation

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Insert menu ? Picture ? Photo Album
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Click to choose pic source
Click down-arrow to navigate to location of
picture folder
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Optional View Thumbnails

• To see small previews of pix
• Click down-arrow by View icon
• Choose Thumbnails

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Choose Pictures
Important ? First Click Inside the picture
folder Select all Control A (Mac Cmd A) Or
Hold down Control (Mac Cmd) and click every pic
you want to select Then Click the Insert button
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Photo Album Window

• Arrange, flip, adjust pix and layout here

Flip Adjust Brightness Adjust Contrast
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Photo Sequence

• Click picture in sequence preview appears
• Click up and down arrows to set position in show

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Photo Layout

• Picture layout choices pulldownClick here and
  choose layout

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Photo Shape

• Click Down-arrow by Frame shapeto choose how pix
  will appear

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Background and Title text

• To use a graphic background
• Click Browse to choose Design Template
• Try em out!!

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Photo Album Window

• Have PowerPoint create your album
• Click Create your masterpiece appears!

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Adjust and save

• Dont forget to save your work
• Tweak individual slides
• To view
• Open your presentation in PowerPoint
• On the menu bar, click Slide Show ? View Show (or
  press F5)

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The picture toolbar
To show toolbar Right-click picture and choose
Show Picture toolbar

• Click to select picture before you choose an
  option

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Picture toolbar tip

• To save space
• Click the compress icon
• On the popup window choose
• All pix in document
• Web/Screen resolution
• Compress pix
• Delete cropped areas
• Click OK

Compress
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Thats all, folks

• Youre done!