Overview
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Learn best practices for using photos and videos in your PowerPoint presentations.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Why use photos in a presentation?
- Aesthetic recommendation when choosing images
- Technical requirements for presentation images
- Using stock photography
- Sources for free images
- Copyright essentials for presenters
- Using the ribbon to browse content
- Browsing online
- Browsing photos and video
- Organizing media
- Using the Insert command
- Dragging and dropping images
- Copying and pasting images
- Using screenshots
- Inserting a photo album
- Using Corrections commands
- Using Recolor commands
- Using Artistic Effects
- Creating background images
- Reusing an effect
- Compressing pictures
- Cropping an image
- Cropping with a shape
- Adjusting an image within a crop
- Straightening a photo
- Using embedded transparency
- Removing a background
- Adding transparency with Photoshop
- Adding transparency with Photoshop Elements
- Designing with a grid
- Using photo-oriented themes
- Supported files
- Adding a video file
- Trimming a video file's duration
- Setting the volume for a video clip
- Setting playback controls for a video clip
- Controlling video playback during a presentation
- Prepping a photo for PowerPoint with Photoshop
- Prepping a photo for PowerPoint with Photoshop Elements
- Prepping a video file with QuickTime Pro
- Prepping a video file with Windows Media Encoder
- Wrapping up
