Creating a Photo Album

Creating a photo album in PowerPoint from pictures on your hard disk or other storage media is a great way to share photographs or other illustrations. You can customize the album by using layout options such as frames of different shapes, and you can add captions to each picture.

In this exercise, you will create a photo album displaying pictures of various items being offered for sale.

USE the 03_PhotoAlbum1 through 03_PhotoAlbum4 photographs. These practice files are located in the Chapter06 subfolder under SBS_PowerPoint2007.

OPEN a new blank presentation.

1.	On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the Photo Album button. The Photo Album dialog box opens.
2.	Click the File/Disk button. In the Insert New Pictures dialog box, navigate to your Documents\MSP\SBS_PowerPoint2007\Chapter06 folder.
3.	Select the 03_PhotoAlbum1, 03_PhotoAlbum2, 03_PhotoAlbum3, and 03_PhotoAlbum4 images, and then click Insert. The Photo Album dialog box now has four graphics files listed in the Pictures In Album list. You can select each picture in turn to view them. If you decide to change the order in which they will appear in the album, you can click a picture and then click the Move Up or Move Down button. You can also adjust the rotation, contrast, and brightness of each picture. [View full size image]
4.	Under Album Layout, click the Picture layout arrow, and then in the list, click 4 pictures with title.
5.	Click the Frame shape arrow, and in the list, click Rounded Rectangle. Then click Create. PowerPoint creates a presentation called Photo Album that contains a title slide and a slide containing the four pictures.
6.	On Slide 1, select the words Photo Album, and then type Favorite Things. Then replace the subtitle (by followed by your user name) with Unique Gifts.
7.	Display Slide 2, click the title placeholder, and then type Something She Will Treasure.
8.	In turn, select each picture, and on the Format contextual tab, click the Size Dialog Box Launcher, and on the Size tab of the Size and Position dialog box, clear the Lock aspect ratio check box, set the Height to 2.5" and the Width to 3.3", and then click Close.
9.	Adjust the positions of the pictures as necessary.
10.	On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the Photo Album arrow, and then click Edit Photo Album.
11.	In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, under Picture Options, select the Captions below ALL pictures check box, and then click Update.
12.	Replace the file names below each photograph with suitable captions, and then click a blank area of the slide.
13.	On the Design tab, in the Themes group, display the Themes gallery, and select a theme that showcases the pictures. We chose the Paper theme. [View full size image]

CLOSE the Photo Album presentation without saving your changes.