How to pose pictures into odd shapes, using PowerPoint
This article explains how to set a film that is i shape (a "square peg") within an prototype of around other shape (a "round hole" - or star, elipse, octagon, etc) - using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Original title: How to set a foursquare peg into a circular hole - inwards pictures
Recently, I've been using PowerPoint to brand the thumbnail image for my posts. This way that I ain the copyright of the pictures, thus tin forcefulness out part them without worrying most copyright issues.
One approach I've used is to uncovering an interesting copyright-free film that is related to the subject of the post, together with and thus set it within a shape that adds around visual involvement or has around words along side it. Another affair that I'm going to endeavor is using multiple pictures inwards this way to brand a more-interesting-than-usual collage.
1 Get your image file, together with relieve it somewhere on your computer.
H5N1 broad attain of picture-file formats are supported past times PowerPoint: in the 2007 version this includes equally shown inwards this list:
2 In PowerPoint, make a blank side (Home > Layout > Blank)
3 Then add a shape (Insert > Shapes, click on the shape you lot want)
Intially, the shape amongst accept the fill-colour together with edge that are the electrical flow default values. But you lot tin forcefulness out alter this, which is what nosotros are going to do.
four Right-click on the shape, together with select Format Shape from the pop-up menu
v In the Fill tab, select Picture or Texture Fill, together with thus click the File button together with navigate to the prototype file you lot got inwards stride 1, together with click OK.
six Make sure that the component of the film that you lot desire to demonstrate is inwards the picture: to get-go with the shape is centered on the middle of the picture.
Change this using the Offsets to deed the shape to the left or correct over the image. You tin forcefulness out brand the offsets positive or negative equally shown.
You tin forcefulness out monitor the results of dissimilar settings inwards PowerPoints slide thumbnails (on the left manus side, if you lot accept it showing), or past times dragging the pop-up carte to a dissimilar house inwards the covert thus that you lot tin forcefulness out run across the shape itself.
Job Done - at this point, you lot accept an prototype that is cropped to the shape that you lot chose - right away you lot merely accept to put it into your blog.
There are (at least) 3 ways to acquire the shape-cropped-picture from PowerPoint into your blog.
I unremarkably copy the item from PowerPoint, together with and thus glue it into a film editor (Paintbrush etc), manually. This is an old-fashioned approacb - but it lets me adapt the size together with seat of the image, together with relieve it (usually a .png) amongst a file-name that describes the prototype actually good which is skillful for mating the spider web log come upward up inwards search results (SEO). The this film tin forcefulness out travel inserted into a post merely similar whatever other picture.
Another option is to select File > Save As from Powerpoint, together with select to save the slides inwards an prototype format, eg JPEG which tin forcefulness out also be inserted into a post inwards the usual way. You are probable to travel asked whether to set all the slides inwards i image, or to brand i prototype per slide. Usually, it would travel best to brand i prototype per slide - but I don't operate this method because the prototype that is created is the size of the whole slide, rather than merely the pictures on it.
H5N1 tertiary option is to display the PowerPoint file equally a slideshow. This isn't something that I'd exercise for exclusively i shaped image, but may travel relevant inwards around situations.
One affair that you lot don't accept whatever command of within PowerPoint is the zoom score of the inserted picture.
If you lot brand the shape larger, it doesn't demonstrate a larger proportion of the picture. Instead, it merely shows the existing film inwards a larger size, equally you lot tin forcefulness out run across inwards the slides shown here.
I suspect that if you lot desire to zoom inwards to a item surface area of the prototype file, the exclusively approach is to edit the film inwards around other tool, crop out the flake that you lot exercise non desire to show, and exclusively conk along the business office that you lot desire to include within your shape.
However PowerPoint does accept around express command over the contrast together with brightness of the picture, from the Picture tab of the Format Shape window.
Yes, you lot can.
Photoshop, together with similar commercial tools almost sure accept features similar this, together with I'm sure that GIMP (like a public-domain, less powerful version of Photoshop) together with Inkscape (another public-domain prototype plan which is to a greater extent than focussed on scalable-vector-graphics together with objects than on pixels) also accept these features.
So why operate PowerPoint? In short, its (relatively) cheap together with many people accept access to it already. It's also very slow to learn, compared to the other packages, together with what you lot larn is probable to apply to lots of tasks together with non merely inwards making pictures for your blog.
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Original title: How to set a foursquare peg into a circular hole - inwards pictures
One approach I've used is to uncovering an interesting copyright-free film that is related to the subject of the post, together with and thus set it within a shape that adds around visual involvement or has around words along side it. Another affair that I'm going to endeavor is using multiple pictures inwards this way to brand a more-interesting-than-usual collage.
How to set a film within a shape
NB PowerPoint commands are based on Office 2007 together with 2010 - but the same principles most-likely apply inwards other versions where the commands may travel slightly different.H5N1 broad attain of picture-file formats are supported past times PowerPoint: in the 2007 version this includes equally shown inwards this list:
2 In PowerPoint, make a blank side (Home > Layout > Blank)
3 Then add a shape (Insert > Shapes, click on the shape you lot want)
Intially, the shape amongst accept the fill-colour together with edge that are the electrical flow default values. But you lot tin forcefulness out alter this, which is what nosotros are going to do.
four Right-click on the shape, together with select Format Shape from the pop-up menu
v In the Fill tab, select Picture or Texture Fill, together with thus click the File button together with navigate to the prototype file you lot got inwards stride 1, together with click OK.
Change this using the Offsets to deed the shape to the left or correct over the image. You tin forcefulness out brand the offsets positive or negative equally shown.
You tin forcefulness out monitor the results of dissimilar settings inwards PowerPoints slide thumbnails (on the left manus side, if you lot accept it showing), or past times dragging the pop-up carte to a dissimilar house inwards the covert thus that you lot tin forcefulness out run across the shape itself.
Job Done - at this point, you lot accept an prototype that is cropped to the shape that you lot chose - right away you lot merely accept to put it into your blog.
Using the picture
There are (at least) 3 ways to acquire the shape-cropped-picture from PowerPoint into your blog.
I unremarkably copy the item from PowerPoint, together with and thus glue it into a film editor (Paintbrush etc), manually. This is an old-fashioned approacb - but it lets me adapt the size together with seat of the image, together with relieve it (usually a .png) amongst a file-name that describes the prototype actually good which is skillful for mating the spider web log come upward up inwards search results (SEO). The this film tin forcefulness out travel inserted into a post merely similar whatever other picture.
Another option is to select File > Save As from Powerpoint, together with select to save the slides inwards an prototype format, eg JPEG which tin forcefulness out also be inserted into a post inwards the usual way. You are probable to travel asked whether to set all the slides inwards i image, or to brand i prototype per slide. Usually, it would travel best to brand i prototype per slide - but I don't operate this method because the prototype that is created is the size of the whole slide, rather than merely the pictures on it.
H5N1 tertiary option is to display the PowerPoint file equally a slideshow. This isn't something that I'd exercise for exclusively i shaped image, but may travel relevant inwards around situations.
Adjusting the size together with character of the picture
If you lot brand the shape larger, it doesn't demonstrate a larger proportion of the picture. Instead, it merely shows the existing film inwards a larger size, equally you lot tin forcefulness out run across inwards the slides shown here.
I suspect that if you lot desire to zoom inwards to a item surface area of the prototype file, the exclusively approach is to edit the film inwards around other tool, crop out the flake that you lot exercise non desire to show, and exclusively conk along the business office that you lot desire to include within your shape.
However PowerPoint does accept around express command over the contrast together with brightness of the picture, from the Picture tab of the Format Shape window.
Can you lot exercise this inwards other tools? Why PowerPoint?
Yes, you lot can.
Photoshop, together with similar commercial tools almost sure accept features similar this, together with I'm sure that GIMP (like a public-domain, less powerful version of Photoshop) together with Inkscape (another public-domain prototype plan which is to a greater extent than focussed on scalable-vector-graphics together with objects than on pixels) also accept these features.
So why operate PowerPoint? In short, its (relatively) cheap together with many people accept access to it already. It's also very slow to learn, compared to the other packages, together with what you lot larn is probable to apply to lots of tasks together with non merely inwards making pictures for your blog.
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