Useful functions and applications - 3

Today is our last week focusing on the introduction of Microsoft PowerPoint. Some of the techniques to do basic graphic processing will be included below.

First of all, let’s talk about adjusting the overall settings of a picture. You can use “tailor” to take off the undesired part of the picture:

You can either use some advanced adjustment to fade the picture though there isn’t a function called “fade”. Take the graph above for instance, if we increase the brightness(亮度) by 20% and decrease the contrast(對比) by 20%, we can approximately obtain a fade effect:

Sometimes when you need a schematic diagram in your presentation to convey concepts like the apparatus or a principle, you don’t need to spend that much time to find a picture that meets your need. You can create your own one without worrying about the low definition just by combining fundamental items like this:

and something more complicated like this(maybe some of you have seen this apparatus lol):

Though those pictures aren’t so beautiful, they’re clear enough to explain ideas. What’s important is to break the whole picture into parts, and then combine all finished parts altogether.

If you’ve finished all the work on creating and arranging all the items into a scheme, don’t forget to group them together and export the final picture as an independent document. By doing this, you can avoid some unpredictable rearrangements arisen during the copy-and-paste processes.

That’s all for today. Also, it’s the end of all the PowerPoint sections. I’d like to express my sincere appreciation to all of you~ In the following weeks, we’ll take strides to another interesting application to make impressing presentations – Prezi.