Which photo album is a presentation that you can create to display your personal photographs?

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Creating a Photo Album

This Quick and Easy System Creates a Professional-Looking Photo Album

1. Insert a Photo Album

   A photo album can hold multiple images on a single slide. In the Ribbon, click the Insert tab. From the Illustrations group, click the Photo Album icon and select New Photo Album.

2. Import Your Photos

   Select Insert picture from: File/Disk button and navigate to the Chapter 3 folder that you copied to your computer. Select the Photos folder and then the 05 Album_Photos folder. Click in an empty area of the window and drag around all of the photo thumbnails in the folder. You’ll notice that the filenames for all of the images that you selected are now in the Pictures in Album Window.

3. Organize Your Photos

   Click on a filename in the Pictures in album window and it will appear in the adjacent Preview window. You can specify the order of the photos in your album by selecting a photo and using the up and down arrow keys beneath the Pictures in album window to re-arrange their order A. If a photo needs to be rotated (such as image 7 DSC_0197), then select its filename and rotate it using the rotate clockwise or rotate counterclockwise buttons B.

4. Review and Adjust

   Click on each filename In the Pictures in album window and adjust the brightness and contrast levels using the buttons below the Preview window A. Remove any duplicates or unwanted photos by selecting the filename and clicking the Remove button below the Pictures in album window B. Many times there will be a variety of different styles of photography or a wide range of colors. To make the entire album consistent with the historic approach of this presentation, select the ALL pictures black and white option C.

5. Utilize Album Layout

   Click on Picture Layout and select 1 picture. This will center each photo on its own page A. Select Soft Edge Rectangle from the Frame shape drop-down menu. This will give each photo a feathered edge to help blend into the slide background. Look at the thumbnail representation to the right B. In the Theme menu click Browse. Navigate to the Sources folder inside the Chapter 3 folder that you copied to your computer. Select American_History_Album.thmx. If you would like to add a slide with a blank text box, there is also a New Text Box button to accommodate that. You’ll notice that if you select it, a new number will appear in your Pictures in album window titled Text Box.

6. Create and Modify

   Click the Create button at the bottom of the window and let PowerPoint go to work A. A photo album is automatically created to the specifications that you selected B. Even though PowerPoint has automated this process, all of your photos remain editable. You can still click on them and make modifications using the Format tab. You can also cut and paste these slides into your main presentation.

   

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Creating a Photo Album

If you have a bunch of pictures you want to pull together for a presentation, a quick way is to create a photo album. Unfortunately, the Photo Album feature is pretty old and doesn’t give you a way to insert online pictures. Download pictures from your online storage or set up a synced folder on your hard drive so you can access all the images you want to include.

Create a Photo Album

Turn your pictures into a photo album, fast.

1. Go to File, New and start a new presentation based on the Blank Presentation theme.

2. On the Insert tab, click Photo Album. This opens the Photo Album dialog box.

3. Click the File/Disk button to insert pictures from your hard drive. Select pictures you want to include and click Insert to add them to the picture list. You can press Ctrl while clicking to select multiple individual pictures. To select a range of pictures, press Shift and click the first and last pictures in the range.

4. Click New Text Box to create a slide with a text box you can type in later. This is useful to create sections throughout your photo album.

5. You can change the picture layout to multiple pictures or multiple pictures plus slide title. The default photo album uses a Fit to Slide Picture Layout, which fills each slide with a picture.
6. When the pictures don’t encompass the entire slide, you’ll be able to change the Frame shape to apply settings such as rounded rectangles or soft edges. The preview thumbnail will give you an idea of what the slide will look like.
7. Reorder or remove pictures using the buttons below the picture list. Be sure to check the box beside the pictures to make these tools available.
8. Use the buttons below the picture preview to adjust brightness and contrast or rotate a picture.
9. Turn on Captions below all pictures to automatically add the filename below each image.
10. Choose a theme at the bottom of the dialog box if you want. You’ll have a better selection of themes to choose from if you skip applying a theme here and do it afterward from the Design tab.
11. After you’re finished with all the settings and picture touch-ups, click Create to make your photo album!

12. Other steps to complete your photo album might include adding any necessary text, applying automatic transitions (Chapter 8, “Adding Animations and Transitions”), and setting the presentation to loop (Chapter 11, “Setting Up Your Slide Show”).

13. To add pictures to or otherwise edit your photo album later, go to the Insert tab and click the arrow next to the Photo Album button, and then choose Edit Photo Album.

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