Integrating graphics into PowerPoint
Logic: access more images from within PowerPoint
Graphics are so important to a presentation. The
following is not really a tutorial but a demonstration to show you a cool new
way to select and incorporate excellent graphics in your presentation, and some
of the high end graphic editing effects in PowerPoint 2010.
Step 1 is to make a connection between PowerPoint 2010 and an online
graphic provider. The steps are:
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From within PowerPoint, go to the office.com website to potentially
download more clips.
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Download the Fotolia add-in for PowerPoint.
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Sign up for an account and except the terms and conditions.
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Then you can access either a daily set of free images or images from a
paid subscription.
Let's look at that through a series of images.
![powerpoint 2010 clip art dialog box](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics20.jpg)
Click here to Find more at
Office.com link
![office dot come web site](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics01.jpg)
You will be taken to a page where you can search for
thousands of images. Scroll down the page to find the link to the PowerPoint
connector add-in. Click the link to the Fotolia add in.
![third party addins availalbe at office.com](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics02.jpg)
You will be taken to a page at
http://en.fotolia.com/msribbon
![fotolia addin for PowerPoint 2007 and 2010](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics03.jpg)
Follow the steps to install the add-in.
![install the fotolia addin for PowerPoint 2007 and 2010](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics04.jpg)
You must Read and accept the Licence
Agreement.
![fotolia ribbon group in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics07.jpg)
When you next start PowerPoint, you will
have a photon tab on the ribbon. The next step is to login, and if you are not
an existing customer you will be prompted to create a new account.
![fotolia login dialog box](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics11.jpg)
You have the option of selecting from a
set of daily free images or from a paid subscription. The image below is from
the free subscription area.
![fotolia shipping cart](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics10.jpg)
Now, you will have access to high quality images from right within PowerPoint!
For example, I added the above image to the shopping
cart. It is very important to read and understand the terms and conditions for
each type of image. When I click the download link the image is saved to a
location of my choice on my hard drive. I then insert the image into PowerPoint
2010.
Now that the image is in PowerPoint, let
us do some editing! As I said, this is a demo, not a tutorial- you can work out
how to do this from the images and descriptions. Note that there is an excellent
example from
Ric Bretsneider here!
I insert the image and duplicate
it twice.
![3 duplicated images in powerpoint 2010](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics21.jpg)
The image above shows the original
at left, the center duplicate (to which a color effect has been applied)
and the third at right (which has had the background removed).
![powerpoin t2010 background removal tool](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics13.jpg)
Above is the Background removal tool in use.
Now, when I drag the boat (at right) over the center
image, we get a cool effect as follows.
![merge images in powerpoint 2010](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics15.jpg)
We can reproduce this affect as many times as we wish.
For example, I'm going to have both the boat and the boy in colour.
![overlay images in powerpoint 2010](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics17.jpg)
![graphic result](../images/graphic_build/ppt_2010_graphics18.jpg)
Now, you will notice jagged edges, and we certainly could clean the work up a
lot. But let's look as some sample images I created using this technique in
PowerPoint 2010.
![powerpoint 2010 graphic output sample 1](../images/graphic_build/sample_1.jpg)
![powerpoint 2010 graphic output sample 2](../images/graphic_build/sample_2.jpg)
Let's take the above and change the lower duplicate!
![powerpoint 2010 graphic output sample 3](../images/graphic_build/sample_3.jpg)
Cool!
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