Basics of Images

• For now we will work in word.
  • But in theory we should be able to use any of the packages.
  • The layout in excel is just a little different.
• Start word.
• Let's add some text.
  • Word will generate garbage text for us.
  • type =lorem(33,10)
  • This will give us 33 paragraphs of text with ten "sentences" in each.
  • not terribly useful but works here.
• I'd like to focus on inserting pictures
• Let's get some data by googling images for lorem ipsum.
• Almost all of these operations are on the Insert tab, Illustrations workgroup.
  • Some are really straight forward.
  • Others require just a bit more explanation.
• They include
  • Pictures : On your file system.
  • Online Pictures: search with bing or use your one drive.
  • Shapes: Use predefined shapes
  • Smart Art: use some predefined charts.
  • Charts: A simple version of excel charts. I would use excel.
  • Screenshot: A built in screen shot tool.
• Let's play with screenshot a bit.
  • Some of the windows, are there, so we can insert an entire window
  • Or we can select with a screen clipping tool.
• Select the screen clipping tool
  • The word window will go away
  • And the entire screen will turn white.
  • Then select and drag over the image you want.
• Notice, there is a new tab which has appeared in the ribbon
  • Picture Tools, Format
  • This gives us a tun of new tools, related to images.
• Notice as well, the box around the image.
  • You can probably handle rotation and resize.
  • Layout options are important.
    • By selecting these, you can change how the image interacts with the text
    • Experiment, see how these change.
    • I set it to be behind, what should I do? (UNDO)
• On the format tab there are a large number of really cool tools.
  • It is not quite photoshop, but there is some power here.
  • I really like the background removal tool here.
  • Play with it a bit.
• Cropping is worth some effort as well.
• screen clipping tool is useful (snip) especially if you want to take a picture of an office application.
• ctrl-Print Scrn as well.
  • This is especially useful when you want to take a picture of a drop down menu.