Artistic Clip Art
Logic: use PowerPoint 2013's native Clip Art features to blend in new colors and lines.
![PowerPoint 2013 online clipart search dialogue box](../images/artistic/img20.jpg)
In the insert pictures from online dialogue box I
specifically searched for clipart of a family and added the WMF text to get a
Windows metafile.
![insert online picture dialogue box with results](../images/artistic/img21.jpg)
Right-click on the image that is inserted on the slide and select
grouping-ungroup.
![Ungrouping metafile](../images/artistic/img23.jpg)
You if you want to convert the object to Microsoft office drawing object.
Click Yes.
![convert to a drawing object dialogue box](../images/artistic/img24.jpg)
We then proceed to ungroup the object.
You will get
this box. You allow it to Ungroup, and then
Ungroup it a second time. You will then get all of the individual,
vector objects.
![ungrouped metafile made up of individual objects](../images/artistic/img25.jpg)
Notice we now have the object broken up into a number of
separate objects. One thing that we will have to do is to find a box
that is transparent that covers the whole object and delete it.
It is
the transparent frame that the original art was held within.
![changing the line colour](../images/artistic/img27.jpg)
With all of the objects selected we can change the line
color to something such as yellow ...
![yellow line added to shapes](../images/artistic/img28.jpg)
or even the line thickness...
![change the line thickness](../images/artistic/img29.jpg)
To 4.5 points.
![changed line thickness](../images/artistic/img2B.jpg)
Best of all, we can make these objects to 3d!
![format shape effects preset 4](../images/artistic/img2C.jpg)
![resultant image](../images/artistic/img2D.jpg)
How cool is that?
![another version of the same image with different effect applied](../images/artistic/img2E.jpg)
These effects are well worth trying different options.
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2007 to 2013
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