Overview of creating a photo album
A PowerPoint photo album is a presentation that you can create
to display your personal or business photographs. You can add effects that
include attention-grabbing slide transitions ,
colorful backgrounds and themes (theme: A combination of theme colors, theme fonts,
and theme effects. A theme may be applied to a file as a single selection.), specific layouts ,
and more. After the pictures are in your album, you can add captions, adjust
the order and layout, add frames around the pictures,
and even apply a theme to
further customize the look of your album.
To share your photo album with others, you can send it as an
attachment to an e-mail message, publish it to the Web, or print it.
Important The From Scanner or Camera option
for adding pictures to a presentation or photo album is not available in Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2007. For information about how to add a picture from a
scanner or digital camera to a photo album, see What
happened to the From Scanner or Camera option for adding pictures to a
presentation?
1. Title slide with theme
2. Picture
3. Empty text box used for spacing
4. Frame shape
5. Caption
Add a picture from a file or disk
1.
On the Insert tab,
in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Photo Album,
and then click New Photo Album.
2.
In the Photo Album
dialog box, under Insert picture from, click File/Disk.
3.
In the Insert New
Pictures dialog box, locate the folder that contains the picture that you
want to insert, and then click Insert.
4.
If you want to preview
a picture file in your photo album, under Pictures in album, click the
file name of the picture that you want to preview, and then view it in the Preview
window.
5.
If you want to change
the order in which the pictures are displayed, under Pictures in album,
click the file name of the picture that you want to move, and then use the
arrow buttons to move it up or down in the list.
6.
In the Photo Album
dialog box, click Create.
Note To change the appearance of the
pictures in your photo album (including specifying a layout ,
adding a frame to your pictures, selecting a theme (theme: A combination of theme colors, theme fonts,
and theme effects. A theme may be applied to a file as a single selection.), and inserting a text box ),
see .
Add a caption
When you add captions, you type text that describes each picture
in your photo album.
1.
Add a picture.
2.
On the Insert tab,
in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Photo Album,
and then click Edit Photo Album.
3.
In the Edit Photo
Album dialog box, under Picture Options, select the Captions
below ALL pictures check box.
Note If this check box is unavailable,
you must first choose a layout
for the pictures in the photo album. To choose a layout for your pictures,
under Album Layout, in the Picture layout list, select the layout
that you want.
4.
Click Update.
By default, PowerPoint uses the picture file name as a
placeholder for the caption text.
5.
In Normal view,
click the caption text placeholder, and then type the caption.
Change the appearance of a picture
1.
Open the photo album
presentation containing the picture that you want to change.
2.
On the Insert tab,
in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Photo Album,
and then click Edit Photo Album.
3.
In the Edit Photo
Album dialog box, do one or more of the following:
§ To display all the pictures in your photo
album in black and white, under Picture Options, select the ALL pictures
black and white check box.
§ To select a layout (layout: The arrangement of elements, such as title
and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, shapes, and movies, on a
slide.) for your pictures,
under Album Layout, in the Picture layout list, select the layout
that you want.
§ To frame your pictures, under Album Layout,
in the Frame shape list, select a frame shape that looks good with all
of the pictures in your photo album.
§ To select a theme (theme: A combination of theme colors, theme fonts,
and theme effects. A theme may be applied to a file as a single selection.) for your photo album, under Album Layout,
next to Theme, click Browse, and then in the Choose Theme
dialog box, locate the theme that you want to use.
§ To add a text box
(which provides spacing in your photo album), under Pictures in album,
click the picture that you want a text box to supplement, and then click New
Text Box.
§ To rotate, increase or decrease the
brightness, or increase or decrease the contrast of a picture, in the Pictures
in album list, click the picture that you want to rotate, and then do the
following:
§ To rotate a picture clockwise, click 
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§ To rotate a picture counter-clockwise, click 
§ To increase the contrast, click 
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§ To decrease the contrast, click 
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§ To increase the brightness, click 
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§ To decrease the brightness, click 
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