6. Enhancing Slides with Graphics

Chapter at a Glance

In this chapter, you will learn to:
	Insert and modify clip art images.
	Insert and modify pictures.
	Create a photo album.
	Draw, modify, and connect shapes.
	Insert and modify stylized text.
	Align and stack graphics.

With the ready availability of professionally designed templates, presentations have become more visually sophisticated and appealing. For better or worse, the importance of your message and the persuasiveness of the words you use are no longer enough to guarantee the success of a presentation. Many types of presentations can benefit from the addition of graphic elements as visual reinforcement or merely for decoration.

The general term graphics applies to several kinds of visual enhancements. For the purposes of this chapter's discussion, graphics include clip art, illustrations, photographs, shapes, and fancy text. All these types of graphics are inserted as objects on a slide and can then be sized, moved, copied, and formatted in a variety of ways.

In this chapter, you will work with clip art images, other types of pictures, and stylized text. You will create a photo album and draw a simple illustration using predefined shapes. Finally, you will see how to work with multiple graphics on a single slide.