Thursday, May 13, 2010

Working with pictures in Office 2010 with the new Photo tools

A key feature with Office 2010 is the time you save by staying in the program. The best example are the new photo tools in found in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Here's a quick overview of the features:

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How the New Photo Tools Work in Office 2010

 

Check out this index of articles on the photo tools at Office 2010

Save the original version of an edited picture

ArticleWhen you change a Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) , JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg) , or Portable Network Graphics (.png) image, you can save...

Add or change an effect for a picture

ArticleYou can enhance your picture by adding effects, such as shadows, glows, reflections, soft edges, bevels, and three-dimensional (3-D) rotations to it. You...

Change the color, transparency, or recolor a picture

ArticleYou can adjust the color intensity (saturation) and color tone (temperature) of a picture, recolor it, or change the transparency of one of its colors...

Remove a picture background

ArticleYou can remove a background from a picture to accent or highlight the subject of the picture or to remove distracting detail. Original picture Same picture...

Apply an artistic effect to a picture

ArticleYou can apply artistic effects to a picture or a picture fill to make the picture look more like a sketch, drawing, or painting. A picture fill is a shape...

Crop a picture

ArticleYou can use the enhanced cropping tools to trim and efficiently remove unwanted portions of pictures to get just the look that you want and make your...

Reduce the file size of a picture

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Assign an action to a built-in button or picture

ArticleAction buttons are built-in button shapes (located in the Shapes gallery) t hat you can add to your presentation , and then assign an action to occur...

Add alternative text to a shape, picture, chart, table, SmartArt graphic, or other object

ArticleYou can create alternative text (alt text or Alt Text) for shapes, pictures, charts, tables, SmartArt graphics, or other objects in your Office document...

Turn off picture compression

ArticleTo keep the maximum picture quality, you can turn off compression for all pictures in a file. However, turning off compression can cause very large file...

Insert a screenshot or screen clipping

ArticleYou can quickly and easily add a screenshot to your Office file to enhance the readability or capture information without leaving the program that you are...

Insert a picture or clip art

ArticleYou can insert or copy pictures and clip art into an Excel worksheet or a PowerPoint presentation from many different sources, including downloading from...

Apply PowerPoint animation effects with one click

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Add transitions to a PowerPoint presentation

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Change the action settings of a button, picture, or clip art

ArticleIf you have a picture, clip art, or button shape in your presentation that has an action assigned to it (such as move to next slide, move to previous...

(Source: http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/CH010371772.aspx)



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