920 Chapter 30 Create Visual Interest
After you insert a graphic into a publication, you can move and size it just as you can
any other object. When a graphic object is selected, Publisher displays the Picture Tools
Format contextual tab on the ribbon. You can use the commands on this tab to modify
the appearance of the selected graphic in various ways, including the following:
● Rotate the graphic to any angle.
● Crop away the parts of the graphic that you don’t want to show in the publication,
or crop the graphic into a shape. (The graphic itself is not altered—parts of it are
simply not shown.)
● Compress the image to minimize the file size.
● Adjust the brightness, contrast, and color of the image, and apply color variations
such as grayscale (shades of gray), sepia (to give the image an old-fashioned look),
and washout (muted shades of the original colors).
● Add a border, shadow, or preformatted frame effect.
● Make parts of the graphic transparent.
And if you decide you don’t like the changes you have made to a graphic, you can restore
the original image by clicking the Reset Picture button.
In this exercise, you’ll insert and modify a clip art image, and then insert and crop a
picture. Then you’ll decrease the file sizes of the two graphics by compressing them.SET UP You need the Blank_start publication and BirthdayGirl image located in your
Chapter30 practice file folder, and an Internet connection, to complete this exercise.
Open the Blank_start publication, and save it as Graphics. Then follow the steps.- On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the Clip Art button.
Tip If you are designing the layout of a publication and know you will want to insert
some sort of graphic later, you can click Picture Placeholder to insert a graphic
placeholder.
The Clip Art task pane opens.- In the Search for box at the top of the Clip Art task pane, type birthday. Then
define the scope of your search, as follows:
❍ If All media file types doesn’t already appear in the Results should be
box, click the Results should be arrow and then, in the list, select the All
media types check box.
❍ If the Include Office.com content check box isn’t already selected,
select it.
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