Creating a Photo Album in PowerPoint

Creating a Photo Album in PowerPoint

Vic Fascio

Preparing

• Put pictures in the same folder

• Remember which folder you put them in!

• Don’t worry about arranging pix– Easy to arrange them inside

PowerPoint

Open New Presentation• File menu New

• Right pane options Blank Presentation

Insert menu Picture Photo Album

Click to choose pic source

Click down-arrow to navigate to location of picture folder

Optional: View Thumbnails

To see small previews of pix:

1. Click down-arrow by View icon

2. Choose Thumbnails

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

Photo Album Window• Arrange, flip, adjust pix and layout here

Flip

Adjust Brightness

Adjust Contrast

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

Photo Layout• Picture layout choices pulldown

Click here and choose layout

Photo Shape• Click Down-arrow by Frame shape

to choose how pix will appear

Background and Title text• To use a graphic background• Click Browse to choose Design Template• Try ’em out!!

Photo Album Window• Have PowerPoint create your album• Click Create– your masterpiece appears!

Adjust and save

• Don’t 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)

The picture toolbar

Change to shades of grey

Change brightness

Change contrast

Crop (get rid of part of picture)

Flip

Format lines

Compress

Re-color (sometimes)

Reset to original

Open Format picture window

Choose transparent color

• Click to select picture before you choose an option

To show toolbar:Right-click picture and choose “Show Picture toolbar”

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

That’s all, folks

• You’re done!