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Note If you are interested in pre-made photo album templates for PowerPoint 2007, see PowerPoint Photo Album Templates on Microsoft Office Online.
Overview of creating a photo album
A PowerPoint photo album is a presentation that you can create to display your personal or business photographs. You can add effects that include attention-grabbing slide transitions (transition: One of a set of transitional display effects that are available in some Microsoft Office applications. Transitions specify how the display changes (such as fading to black) as a user moves from one item (such as slide or Web page) to another.), colorful backgrounds and themes (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.), specific layouts (layout: The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, AutoShapes, and movies, on a slide.), and more. After the pictures are in your album, you can add captions, adjust the order and layout, add frames around the pictures, and even apply a theme to further customize the look of your album.
To share your photo album with others, you can send it as an attachment to an e-mail message, publish it to the Web, or print it.
Important The From Scanner or Camera option for adding pictures to a presentation or photo album is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. For information about how to add a picture from a scanner or digital camera to a photo album, see What happened to the From Scanner or Camera option for adding pictures to a presentation?
Title slide with theme
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Empty text box used for spacing
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Add a picture from a file or disk
- On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Photo Album, and then click New Photo Album.
- In the Photo Album dialog box, under Insert picture from, click File/Disk.
- In the Insert New Pictures dialog box, locate the folder that contains the picture that you want to insert, and then click Insert.
- If you want to preview a picture file in your photo album, under Pictures in album, click the file name of the picture that you want to preview, and then view it in the Preview window.
- If you want to change the order in which the pictures are displayed, under Pictures in album, click the file name of the picture that you want to move, and then use the arrow buttons to move it up or down in the list.
- In the Photo Album dialog box, click Create.
Note To change the appearance of the pictures in your photo album (including specifying a layout (layout: The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, AutoShapes, and movies, on a slide.), adding a frame to your pictures, selecting a theme (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.), and inserting a text box (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.)), see Change the appearance of a picture.
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Add a caption
When you add captions, you type text that describes each picture in your photo album.
- Add a picture.
- On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Photo Album, and then click Edit Photo Album.
- In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, under Picture Options, select the Captions below ALL pictures check box.
Note If this check box is unavailable, you must first choose a layout (layout: The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, AutoShapes, and movies, on a slide.) for the pictures in the photo album. To choose a layout for your pictures, under Album Layout, in the Picture layout list, select the layout that you want.
- Click Update.
By default, PowerPoint uses the picture file name as a placeholder for the caption text.
- In Normal view, click the caption text placeholder, and then type the caption.
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Change the appearance of a picture
- Open the photo album presentation containing the picture that you want to change.
- On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the arrow under Photo Album, and then click Edit Photo Album.
- In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, do one or more of the following:
- To display all the pictures in your photo album in black and white, under Picture Options, select the ALL pictures black and white check box.
- To select a layout (layout: The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, shapes, and movies, on a slide.) for your pictures, under Album Layout, in the Picture layout list, select the layout that you want.
- To frame your pictures, under Album Layout, in the Frame shape list, select a frame shape that looks good with all of the pictures in your photo album.
- To select a theme (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.) for your photo album, under Album Layout, next to Theme, click Browse, and then in the Choose Theme dialog box, locate the theme that you want to use.
To learn more about using themes, see Apply a theme (or background) to your presentation.
- To add a text box (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.) (which provides spacing in your photo album), under Pictures in album, click the picture that you want a text box to supplement, and then click New Text Box.
- To rotate, increase or decrease the brightness, or increase or decrease the contrast of a picture, in the Pictures in album list, click the picture that you want to rotate, and then do the following:
- To rotate a picture clockwise, click
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- To rotate a picture counter-clockwise, click
- To increase the contrast, click
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- To decrease the contrast, click
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- To increase the brightness, click
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- To decrease the brightness, click
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