Once you have your images in your slide, you're going to want to place them strategically and even
crop out part of the images you don't want.
Let's take a look at the features for images in Google Slides.
I have these three images here inside of my slide.
I can freely move them around simply by clicking and dragging.
So if I wanted this image of our studio in the bottom left hand corner, I could just drag it into place.
It tries to keep a slight margin between the edge of the slide and your image, but still you can drag
it directly to the corner and notice you get the read guidelines show exactly where the edge is.
If I want to change the size of an image, I can drag the sizing handles towards or away from the center.
The whole shift when I do this, the image will hold its height to width ratio.
Now you'll notice when I drag that image, it ended up behind the image of the kitchen.
If I want to change the stacking order of images I can control, click on the image or right click on
a Windows machine, go to order and choose to bring the image forward or bring it to the front of the
stack.
You have to imagine the images are one on top of each other, just like they would be in real life.
So if they overlap, one image covers part of another.
Likewise, I can take an image control, click, choose order and send it backwards or send it to the
back.
By manipulating all the images, I'll get a stacking order that I want.
Let's size this image down a little bit by dragging towards the center while holding shift.
I'm going to delete two of the images.
Just by selecting them both and pressing delete on my keyboard.
Now with the final image, let's say I want this image to occupy approximately half the page.
So first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to size the image.
So the image fills the space top to bottom.
So it isn't quite half the page I want to crop out part of the image.
Luckily, there's a crop tool.
If I hold control and click or right click on a Windows machine, I can choose the crop image option.
Notice when I choose crop image, we get more pronounced handles at the corners and mid segments for
our image.
I can drag any of those to the left or right to crop part of the image.
So notice part of the image is translucent now, and that image actually is no longer visible in our
presentation.
If I click off of the image, you can see we've cropped that part of the image.
If I go back into crop mode by right clicking or control clicking and choosing crop, I can also scroll
the image within that frame and choose what part of the image is visible.
I think I like it.
Crops like that.
There are additional options for images under the Format Options button inside your toolbar.
Here we can adjust the exact size and rotation of the image.
We can also change the scale of the width or the scale of the height.
I like to click lock aspect ratio.
This way, we don't spoil the height with ratio of the image and kind of make the image look distended.
We can position the image exactly either from the top left or the center.
Now here we can do some interesting effects.
We can recover the image, some of these effects are pretty cool.
For example, we can make the image grayscale or give the image kind of a patina effect.
Now, when it comes to these, you've got to have a good reason for using them, like any other effect,
it can appear gratuitous if there isn't a reason to apply the effect in that location.
We can make some adjustments to the transparency, brightness and contrast of the image.
If we make the image more transparent, you can see the background through the image or whatever might
be behind it.
We can also make the image brighter.
Darker.
Or change the contrast value of the image.
We can always press reset to set them back to their normal settings.
Our images can also have a drop shadow.
And a reflection.
By the way, this reflection that I just added appears outside of the slight itself.
That means it wouldn't be visible in presentation mode, and our actual viewers of this slideshow wouldn't
see it.