Creating a Photo Album Layout


Most presentations in PowerPoint are text-based, with accompanying photographs. The default Blank Presentation template is biased in favor of text. Graphics, as you have seen in this chapter, require some extra effort.

The Photo Albums feature in PowerPoint creates a new presentation that is specifically designed as a carrier of pictures. It is useful when you need to create a presentation that is very heavy on graphics, with little or no text except picture captions.

Creating a New Photo Album

When you create a new photo album, it starts a new presentation for you. Any other presentations that you may have open are not disturbed, and you can switch back to them at any time with the View tab. The new presentation has a title slide, as well as slides for the photos you place in the album.

To start a new photo album, follow these steps:

  1. On the Insert tab, click Photo Album. The Photo Album dialog box opens.

  2. To add a photo from a file, click the File/Disk button. The Insert New Pictures dialog box opens.

  3. Select one or more pictures, and then click Insert. (To select multiple pictures, hold down Ctrl or Shift as you click on the ones you want.) The photos appear in the Photo Album dialog box as shown in Figure 13.17.

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    Figure 13.17: Specify graphics to appear in the photo album, a page layout, and a style of photo frame.

  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed to insert all the photos from disk that you want.

  5. For each image on the Pictures in Album list, select the picture and then apply any correction needed with the buttons beneath the Preview pane. You can rotate right or left, increase or decrease the contrast, and increase or decrease the brightness.

  6. Use the arrows to move an image up or down in the order.

  7. In the Album Layout section, open the Picture Layout box and choose the layout for the presentation slides. For example, in Figure 13.17, 1 Picture has been chosen.

  8. If available, choose a frame shape from the Frame Shape list. Some choices from step 7 do not permit a frame shape to be chosen.

    EXPERT TIP 

    You can create themes specifically for photo albums, and then use them here by clicking the Browse button to browse for a theme. You might also want to experiment with the photo album themes in the dialog box when you create the photo album initially.

  9. (Optional) To add caption boxes for each picture, mark the Captions Below ALL Pictures check box.

  10. (Optional) To show the pictures in black and white, mark the ALL Pictures Black and White check box.

  11. Click Create. PowerPoint creates the new presentation containing the photos and the layout you specified.

  12. Save the photo album (Office image from book Save) as a presentation. Or, to save it in Web format, use Office image from book Save as image from book Other Formats and then choose Web Page as the file type.

Modifying a Photo Album

You can reopen the dialog box from Figure 13.15 by clicking the down arrow beneath the Photo Album button on the Insert tab and choosing Edit Photo Album.

You can also modify the slides in the presentation individually. These are just regular, editable slides, and you can add anything to them that you like, including text boxes, clip art, and so on. Think of it as an on-screen scrapbook! And new in PowerPoint 2007, you can also crop the photos inserted via the photo album as well.




Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Bible
Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Bible
ISBN: 0470144939
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 268
Authors: Faithe Wempen

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