Editing a Picture

After you’ve placed a picture in your document, workbook, presentation, or mail message, you can make substantial changes and add many different effects to the picture to make it look exactly the way you want.

Change Its Appearance

  1. Click to select the picture if it isn’t already selected, and click the Picture Tools Format tab if it isn’t already displayed.

  2. Click the Brightness, Contrast, and Recolor buttons in turn, and drag your mouse through each gallery that appears to see how the settings affect the picture. Click the settings to produce the effects you want.

    Change Its Appearance

See Also

See Also

"Modifying a Picture" for information about editing a picture in Publisher.

Rotate It

  1. Click to select the picture if it isn’t already selected.

  2. Drag the Rotation handle to rotate the picture.

    Rotate It

Tip

Tip

When you edit a picture, you’re editing only the copy of it that you’ve inserted into your document. If you want to change the original picture file, you’ll need to edit it in a separate program—for example, in the Windows Photo Gallery that comes with Windows Vista.

Add an Effect

  1. Move your mouse though the different styles in the Picture Styles section of the Ribbon to see how your picture looks when you apply that style, and then click the style you want.

  2. Click the Picture Border button, and move your mouse through the gallery to see the effects of a different picture-border color, weight, or pattern. Click any effects you want.

  3. Click Picture Effects to add or change the 3-D rotation, shadow, reflection, glow, or soft edges.

  4. If, after all that hard work, you don’t like the result, click the Reset Picture button to reset the entire picture to the way it looked when you first inserted it.

    Add an Effect

Caution

Caution

The Reset Picture button resets all the changes you’ve made, including any cropping or sizing. If you want to undo only one or two changes, use the Undo button on the Quick Access toolbar.

Tip

Tip

If you want to set precise values for brightness, contrast, shadow, or 3-D settings, including rotation, click the Format Shape button. To rotate a picture 90 or 180 degrees, click the Rotate button in the Arrange section of the Ribbon.

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