96. Insert Graphics into a Presentation  BEFORE YOU BEGIN 95 Insert a Chart into a Presentation
 SEE ALSO 99 Impress with Animation Effects
Impress enables you to put pictures throughout your presentation slides. Perhaps you'll want to stress your point when giving a motivational speech, for example, by showing a runner winning a race.  NOTE Impress supports all popular graphic file formats, including JPG, GIF, and BMP files.
When you insert a graphic image, Impress places the image's anchor at that location. You will see the anchor when editing but not when you present your presentation. The anchor also does not show if you print your slides as handouts. The anchor shows where you inserted the actual image. The anchor and the actual image may not appear together, depending on how you format the image, but they will appear on the same slide. When you want to move an image, move its anchor and not the image itself. | 1. | Request a Picture To insert a graphic image from a file, first select the slide where you want the image to go. If the slide contains a picture placeholder (a small icon showing a house), double-click the placeholder to add the picture. If the slide doesn't contain a placeholder, select Picture from the Insert menu and then click From File in the submenu. Impress displays the Insert Graphics dialog box, which is nothing more than a Windows file-selection dialog where you use to navigate to the file you want to insert. 96. Insert Graphics into a Presentation  TIP Click the Insert Graphics dialog box's View button and select Thumbnails to see a preview of your graphic before you insert it. Once you select the graphic image you want to place in your presentation, click the Open button to insert the image. The image appears in your presentation at the location you first selected. | | 2. | Move and Resize Using the Mouse
Once Impress brings the graphic image into your presentation, you usually need to make adjustments so the image suits your needs and rests on the slide in the proper position and with the correct size .
Typically, Impress imports a graphic image and centers it at the location you inserted it. No text wraps to either side of the image because, unlike a word processed document, a presentation relies on the exact placement of text and data on your slide. Therefore, you'll usually have to move the image so that it doesn't overwrite any important information on your slide.
To resize the image, drag any of the eight resizing handles inward to reduce the image size or outward to increase the image size.
| | 3. | Flip if Needed Depending on your image and your data, you may want to flip, or reverse , the image so it points the other direction, either vertically or horizontally. Right-click over the graphic, select the Flip menu, and then select Vertically or Horizontally to flip the image so it faces differently. TIP If you insert multiple graphics, they can overlap each other. By right-clicking an image and selecting Arrange, Send Backward , or Bring Forward , you can control which image gets the top spot when layered with other images. | | 4. | Move and Resize to Exact Specifications
Right-click the image and select Position and Size to display the Position and Size dialog box. From this dialog box, you can resize, move, or slant the graphic image using exact measurements. The Position X and Position Y values determine where the image appears on the page from the upper-left corner. The Size values determine how large your image will appear. If you do resize an image, be sure you click to select the Keep ratio option so that Impress resizes the width in proportion to the height changes you make (or so Impress resizes the height in proportion to any width changes you make) to keep your image clear and in the correct ratio as the original. If you fail to maintain the ratio, your image can become stretched out of proportion. Checking the options in the Protect area ensures that you don't inadvertently move the image with your mouse later.
| | 5. | Rotate the Image if Needed
Click the Position and Size dialog box's Rotation tab to display the Rotation page. Here, you can rotate the image any angle by specifying a value in the Angle field. The pivot point , which remains at the center of your image unless you change the pivot point, determines where the imaginary spindle lies while the image rotates.
| TIP If you rotate or resize the image too much and want to begin again with the original position and size, click the Position and Size dialog box's Reset button to restore the values to the original image state.
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