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!
