![]() ![]() You could manipulate your image to make room and put in a text box, but then it is governed by the Drawing Object Styles that apply, and you could get confused. This lower area, the Object Area, is usually where you put in text such as bullet points, but if you use the Insert Image the text ability goes away. ![]() The default new slide comes with two AutoLayout areas, one for the slide Title (Title Area for AutoLayouts), and the other for content (Object Area for AutoLayouts). If you know you want an image on the slide you can insert it here, but be aware of one thing. We’ll talk about all of these options at some point, but for now I want to focus on Insert Image. ![]() The quadrant on the upper left is labeled “Insert Table”, on the upper right is labeled “Insert Chart”, on the lower left is labeled “Insert Image”, and on the lower right is labeled “Insert Movie”. ![]() To start with, the default new slide will look like this: Those will be the subject of a future tutorial. The other kinds of images you might work with are Drawing objects, which you create using Draw directly or indirectly via the Drawing toolbar in Impress, which you can edit and change using the built-in tools. For example, in the previous tutorial about a Template for Hacker Public Radio, I used a logo from, the HPR web site that was in *.png format, and a background I downloaded from a web site that was in *.gif format. These can be dropped in to your presentation and used as needed. This does not only mean photographs, though they are certainly pictures, but more broadly I think of pictures as pre-existing graphical objects, frequently in a common format like *.png (Portable Network Graphics), *.gif (Graphics Interchange Format), or *.jpeg (Joint Photographic Experts Group). Using pictures in your presentations can add a great deal to the presentation. I will start this by looking at pictures. So it is important that we start developing an understanding of the graphical elements in Impress. In fact, we saw in the previous tutorials that Impress and Draw share a common set of Styles that apply to both programs, and I have often seen in documentation that Impress and Draw are often mentioned in the same breath, so to speak. As we pointed out previously, Impress is inherently a graphical, and even multimedia, way of communicating. ![]()
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