Tips and Tutorials About Photos, Graphics and Clip Art in PowerPoint

Using photos at times to replace the bulleted text items can have a real impact on how your presentation goes across.

Graphics such as drawings, clip art or graphs are frequently used in PowerPoint to get the point across visually. These ten PowerPoint graphics tips will aid you in creating a better PowerPoint presention.

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Optimizing photos to use in PowerPoint presentations. Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a quick and easy tool to use to optimize photos.

Inserting pictures on your computer into Microsoft PowerPoint slides takes just a few clicks.

Crop pictures to remove unwanted parts of the picture and reduce overall file size.

Resize PowerPoint photos and retain the placement on the slide at the same time.

What do photos / clip art and PowerPoint file sizes have in common?

Learn how to import, adjust, and arrange media such as photos, clip art and sound in your PowerPoint presentation.

The file size of PowerPoint presentations containing large photos can be dramatically reduced by compressing the photos in the presentation.

Free family tree charts to download. If you would like to start tracing your family's roots, PowerPoint has the tools to make it easy to create a family tree chart of all the members in your family.

Create a detailed family tree chart using PowerPoint 2003 and earlier versions.

Create a family tree using PowerPoint. Personalize and share your family history and ancestry by creating a family tree using the organization chart in PowerPoint.

Use PowerPoint animations to show photos changing from black and white to color while you watch.

Add a visual effect by making a picture convert from black and white to color before your eyes in a PowerPoint presentation.

PowerPoint slides can be easily converted to pictures in formats such as JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF or PNG.

When to use graphics or text in PowerPoint is a question asked by many new users to PowerPoint.

Watermarks are faded pictures. Use watermarks as backgrounds on PowerPoint slides.

Rolling credits can be added easily to a PowerPoint 2003 presentation by choosing and editing one of the custom animations.

Insert a Flash movie into your PowerPoint presentation. This is a step by step tutorial with screen shots.

Problems can arise when Flash object properties are missing.

Create a digital photo album in PowerPoint. Once completed, you can save the presentation to use as an online photo album and post it to the web.

Creating a digital photo album in PowerPoint is easy. Here are some tips to make the best digital photo album and help you jazz it up.

The photo album feature in PowerPoint 2003 is a quick and easy way to make digital photo albums. However, sometimes unforeseen problems crop up.

Add an existing Excel chart to your PowerPoint presentation.

The alignment of objects is a matter of a few simple steps in PowerPoint. Line up graphic objects horizontally, vertically, to the left, right, top or bottom, in relation to each other or relative to the slide.

"Nudge" objects to achieve a more precise location for your graphic object on the PowerPoint slide. Use the arrow keys on the number keypad to nudge an object left, right, up or down.

How do you select an object on a PowerPoint slide that is currently covered by another object, without moving the top object?

Invisible buttons or invisible hyperlinks in PowerPoint can be made simply by using the Custom Action Button or by using an AutoShape. A great tool for classroom quizzes and games, or for business presentations.

Make an image map in PowerPoint containing hotspots on the graphic to link to other slides or websites. Hotspots on image maps can be used to run macros or play sounds when clicked.

Hide background images on PowerPoint slides to make printed handouts clearer. Hiding background images will make text stand out on the slides.

Creating effective and interesting PowerPoint presentations takes a bit of effort. This series of advanced PowerPoint tutorials talks about photos and graphics in PowerPoint.