Ordering and Rotating Objects in Slides

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How to format images using opacity and cropping tools, and right click menu items.

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Ordering and Rotating Objects in Slides
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Ordering and Rotating Objects in Slides

These are options found by right-clicking an object, and in the “Image options” sidebar.

When to use

When you need to rotate or flip objects, when you need to move them in front of one another, and when you need to crop or change the visual quality of an image.

Instructions

Change the order of objects

When objects overlap, you can change which objects appear on top of others

  • Right click an object
  • Click “Order”
    • Move to front: Bring the object in front of all the other objects
    • Bring forward: Move the object in front of one other object
    • Send backward: Move the object behind one other object
    • Send to back: Move the object behind all the other objects

Rotate and flip objects

  • Right click an object
  • Click “Rotate”
    • Rotate clockwise 90˚: Rotate the object clockwise
    • Rotate counter-clockwise 90˚: Rotate the object counter-clockwise
    • Flip horizontally: Flip the object left to right
    • Flip vertically: Flip the object upside down

Center objects on the slide

  • Right click an object
  • Click “Center on page”
    • Horizontally: To center the object on the slide from left to right
    • Vertically: Center the object on the slide from top to bottom

Grouping objects

  • Select multiple objects
  • Right click the objects
  • Click “Group”
  • Now they behave as one object
  • Click “ungroup” to separate them

Cropping an image

  • Double click an image
  • Drag the black sliders to crop the edges of the image
  • Drag the center of the image to move it inside the cropped section
  • Click outside to save the selection
  • Double click again to readjust cropping

Cropping an image to create a shape

  • Select an image
  • Click the “Crop” arrow button in the toolbar
  • Choose the shape of your cropped image
  • Drag the black sliders to crop the edges of the image
  • Drag the center of the image to move it inside the cropped section
  • Click outside to save the selection
  • Double click again to readjust cropping

Image options

  • Right click an image
  • Click “Image options”
    • Recolor: Change the colors in the image
    • Transparency: Drag the slider to make the image more or less see-through
    • Brightness: Drag the slider to make the image lighter or darker
    • Contrast: Drag the slider to make the different parts of the image more or less distinct
    • Reset Adjustments: Return the image to its original look
  • 00:04 Adding a number of images and pictures to your slide
  • 00:07 show can really impress your audience and make your presentation pop.
  • 00:13 So let's take a deeper look at how we can edit and format images so
  • 00:18 that they can look the that we want them to when we go to present.
  • 00:22 It's important to have images that overlap
  • 00:25 in the way that you would like them to be as a part of your presentation.
  • 00:29 Let's say in this case I would like this green arrow to actually overlap
  • 00:33 this image here.
  • 00:35 To do so, I'm going to right-click on this image and select Order.
  • 00:40 And here I can choose to bring it to the front or
  • 00:43 bring it to the back or send backward.
  • 00:46 In this case, I'm gonna say send to back.
  • 00:49 And now you can see that this image is overlapping.
  • 00:52 In fact, any image that I drag will now overlap that particular image.
  • 00:56 So that's great, that's exactly what I desire.
  • 01:00 Now, in this case on the right hand side,
  • 01:03 let's take a look at how we can rotate this image.
  • 01:06 You can see that I would actually like this arrow to sort of be behind it but
  • 01:10 I don't like the way that the actual arrow in this bullseye
  • 01:14 is overlapping the green arrow here.
  • 01:18 So in order to rotate an image, simply select it and
  • 01:22 then find this small dot at the top of the image.
  • 01:26 By clicking and dragging, you can rotate that image to its desired position.
  • 01:32 I'm gonna rotate it to roughly there.
  • 01:35 And now you can see I've moved this arrow in the bullseye away from
  • 01:40 the green arrow here.
  • 01:41 And then I can drag it to its desired location.
  • 01:45 Now, something else that you may want to experiment with is rotating or
  • 01:49 flipping a particular image.
  • 01:51 I think it would be more powerful if this woman was facing the bull's eye.
  • 01:57 So I'm gonna select it, I'm gonna right-click, and
  • 02:00 then I'm gonna hover over rotate.
  • 02:02 And in this case, I'm going to select Flip horizontally.
  • 02:07 Now she's facing the same direction as the arrow.
  • 02:10 I think that's a lot more powerful, in this particular case.
  • 02:14 Lastly, I wanna go here to the bullseye and
  • 02:18 I could bring the green arrow forward, so that the tip of the arrow is overlapping.
  • 02:24 But I'm gonna try something different this time.
  • 02:27 I'd like to make this image a little transparent so
  • 02:30 that we can see the tip of this arrow just underneath this bullseye.
  • 02:36 So in this case, I'm going to right click again, but
  • 02:40 this time I'm going to select Image options.
  • 02:43 Under image options, we have a few different things that we can alter.
  • 02:47 We can recolor the particular image, we can change its brightness or its contrast.
  • 02:54 But in this case, I want to change its transparency.
  • 02:58 So I'm gonna slide this over to roughly 20% and
  • 03:02 now you can see as I go back to the image, and I'm gonna close this menu.
  • 03:07 You can see now we have the tip of the green arrow just underneath this image.
  • 03:14 So get familiar with the ability to rotate and flip and
  • 03:19 resizing your images, again, with adjusting its color and
  • 03:23 even adjusting its transparency for your particular needs.

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