word adding and managing pictures - How to add and manage pictures into Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016

okay in this video I'm going to show you how to add pictures to your document and how to format those as well when we talk about adding pictures a picture would be a JPEG file or a bitmap file any kind of uh digital photograph that you might get from a digital camera or from a scanner or from the Internet or from your hard drive so you're just going to click somewhere in your document and you're going to say uh insert and then picture insert picture now that's going to open up Windows explore from which you can find uh different picture files so let's say I have this one that's a cruise now I have a cruise somewhere all right there's the cruise so I want to pick on that and then pick on insert okay now this picture comes in a larger than you might have expected so here's how to change the size of your picture file you're going to click on the picture now what you're you're looking for uh is something that's called the sizing handles the sizing handles appear here on the on the corners on the sides uh on the bottom on the top on the other side now you can tell you're on a sizing handle because your mouse becomes a double arrow like that I like to use the ones in the corner because it's going to keep it in proportion so I'm going to move my mouse to where I get a double arrow here in the corner that's the sizing handle I'm going to hold down this is just a Windows 7 message um I'm going to hold down my left Mouse button and then just drag this in and notice how the picture changed size that's why we call the sizing handle I do like to use the ones in the corner because it does keep it in proportion now what if you wanted to move that picture well you can just uh hold move your mouse to the picture hold down your left Mouse button and you can just drag it down and notice how it moved okay uh or I can just move it over here so moving your picture is not difficult now what if I want to move this to the right if I try to pick it up and drag it to the right see how it's not going so here's a trick that I like I'm going to click on this picture now on your keyboard you're going to hit the left Mouse button and now hit the space a couple times and notice how the picture is moving over so what we're doing is we're actually padding that with spaces but you know um I can click on the picture you're going to hit your left uh arrow button and then you're going to hit the space b a couple times like that uh so that'll certainly work I want to hit backspace to get rid of some of those spaces another thing that'll work is if you click on the picture then you can use uh the center justify and the right justify and then you'll see the picture moves that way as well but if you want to move at a specific dis uh distance you click on that picture you hit the left arrow button and then hit the space a few times s like that okay now uh another thing that I want to show you is formatting your picture and changing the appearance a little bit so you're going to click on that picture and then if you notice you have a new menu that's called The Format menu the format menu only appears when you click on the picture so let's go there and let me show you some of these features first of all you can change the brightness so I want to click on the pull down and uh you'll notice that the picture will be changing uh that's that's that preview mode so you want to find one that that you like same thing with the contrast all right so you're going to move down here and find one that you like that's why I really like that preview mode quite a bit uh here the recolor um you can actually change different things about the color there so we can make a gray scale we can make it black and white uh was out you can barely see the picture now but it's still there that almost like make it a watermark on the screen okay uh so if you wanted to go back to the original color you pick on automatic now uh another thing that you can do is you can compress the picture uh you might you might want to try that compress picture because uh it will make the picture smaller make the document a little bit smaller so that um sometimes with email programs they block larger files so uh that's why you would want to compress it if you pick on reset it's going to put it back to the way it was originally now we have all these shadow effects as well we can easily add a shadow to the picture all right so if I pick one of those you can you can see the shadow effect uh now uh I'm going to come over here and there's one that's called rotate notice rotate will actually uh swing the picture around all right so you can try different things with the rotation now this guy over here is called crop I'm going to pick on crop and then uh watch your mouse see with a crop you can chop off some of the picture maybe I want to chop off some of the water on this side so you actually move to the picture and then drag it over so now I didn't really resize the picture I actually got rid of some of the water there watch again I'm going to go uh get the sizing head on this side drag it over and now I got rid of the water on that side so we're actually chopping off some of the picture when we do a crop uh when you're done with the crop just click on that now actually uh you get some additional features when you're in a document that was made in 2007 if you notice where my mouse is going it says compatibility mode that means this document was made in a previous version of Microsoft Word so let me go to um a new document and I'm going to say insert picture and then I'm going to be able to uh uh let's get a picture here here so here's a hammock I'm going to pick on insert okay now I can I can uh highlight that picture and make it bigger with the sizing handle but when I pick on the picture this time and pick on format notice how you have some additional choices so for example with the recolor what I can do is add a red tint to that or a yellow tint you have these different tint colors so you can try one of those okay just to give yourself a different effect there or here's the gray scale or the black and white now also with this version we have all these um formatting options these picture Styles so notice how these ones are adding a picture frame or these ones are adding a shadow all right so you have really lots of great frames here lots of data effects so you can try some of those now once I pick that then I can really customize it um the picture border is going to be the color of the frame notice how I can change to any one of these colors the picture shape you can make the picture uh fall into any one of these shapes as we can see just for different effects okay and then the picture effects allows you to do things like Shadow reflection glow of course you have to pick in the picture first but check out some of these these can be really helpful for you like if I picked on Shadow or even reflection let's do reflection and um notice how the preview mode is kicking in and notice how you see uh a reflection of the picture down here so that adds some nice effects for you as well if I click on that picture we back to format um so these are these will talk about your text I'm going to cover those in a different video but here's your ation here's the crop so I wanted to give you some good ways to uh to manage your pictures there'll be other videos about managing your pictures as well but at least we have the basics now