Inserting a “Picture”

To add a “Picture”, click the “Picture” button in the “Insert” tab in the “Ribbon”.

Or you can click the “Picture” icon in the “Placeholder box”.

This opens the “Insert Picture” dialog box.
In the dialog box, navigate to the file you want to insert and double click it.

This places the image in the slide.
The “Format” contextual tab appears in the “Ribbon”.

Resizing

When an image is selected in the slide, levers are displayed on the edges of the image.
By clicking and dragging these, we can change the size of our image.
To retain the proportions between length and width, click and drag the levers at the corners of the image.

If you wish to keep the center of the picture at the same place, keep the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed while you click and drag a handle.

A second way to change the dimensions of the picture is by making use of the “Shape Height” and Shape Width” text boxes, at the far right of the “Format” tab of the ribbon.
When we resize the picture in the second way, we get to change the length / width ratio of our picture .

A third way of changing the dimensions of our “picture “, is by making use of the “size and position” dialog box.
Click on the downward pointing arrow at the bottom right hand corner of the “Size” section.
In this dialog box, in which the “Size” tab is selected, you can not only adjust the size of your image, but also rotate and crop the image.
I’ll elaborate on these last two options in the next section.

Image “Rotate” and “Crop”

To “Rotate” a picture, we can use the “Size and position” dialog box but, we can also use the green circle that appears in the middle or at the top of the picture, when it is selected.

Place the mouse pointer over the circle and when it changes to a circular arrow, click and drag it to the left or right.

If you want something more precise, you can still use the “Size and Position” dialog box, in which you can enter the “Rotation” angle .
 

To “Crop” a picture , select the photo and click the “Crop” button in the “Ribbon”.

With the “Crop” button, we can cut out portions of our photo.

Select the image and click the “Crop” button under the “Format” tab in the “Ribbon”.
Our mouse pointer is changed to a “Crop tool”, and at the edges and corners of the picture “Crop handles” are displayed.
Place your mouse pointer over one of these “Crop handles” and click and drag it to a part of the picture

You can repeat this until you have only the parts of the photo that you want to keep.

The same tool can be accessed with the help of the “Size and Position” dialog box, with which you can crop the left, right, top and bottom and you can also set the co-ordinates which are to be cropped.
But, I think you have already found that out, yourself.

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