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10 Expert PowerPoint tricks and tips to Edit Images

Hello folks! This time we’re here with some interesting Powerpoint tricks and tips to edit images. Generally PowerPoint is meant for creating presentations in the form of slides. But if you observe the features of PowerPoint from its beginning to the present day, it has undergone tremendous changes. Now it’s not only used for designing slides, but can perform many activities that deal with images and videos. All I can say is it’s like a multipurpose tool which has got amazing features to edit images.

Normally when we think of Image editing the only thing comes to our mind is Photoshop the giant photo editor which is the best editing tool available to us. Using Photoshop one can have wonderful image effects. But everyone of us may not know how to use it since it need to be learned which takes some time. Don’t worry ! We have a simple trick to edit or create images professionally without any Photoshop but with the PowerPoint.

Yes! You can use PowerPoint to design your images beautifully. How ? Here we are going to see the tactful usage of the PowerPoint tools to modify images, indeed which are made to design slides. Lets explore those tools to edit and design our images beautifully. Note: MS-PowerPoint 13 is used through out this article.

Amazing PowerPoint tricks and tips to Edit images

1.Designing the borders of the image

There are around 25+ ready-made border effects in PowerPoint which are quite professional. Before going to explore these border effects, first open your MS-PowerPoint 13 and then choose a blank slide. Next delete those text boxes “click to add title and subtitle” just by selecting them( Press “Ctrl+A” and delete).

Next import the image which you want to design by dragging it directly on your slide or by pressing ‘Ctrl+O’, browse and select the drive >folder>image.

And now your image is ready for adding border effects. When you click the image, you’ll find FORMAT tab selected in the main menu if not, select it manually. Under the ribbon ( below main menu), you’ll find Picture Styles in a row, when you click inverted triangle icon, you can find all the border styles. Select the one which you like. That’s how you can add ready made border effects to your image.

And when you want to save your border designed image just right click the image and choose “Save as picture” and save it to your drive. Go to your saved picture and see how well it’s designed. Easy right!

2. Picture effects

Picture effects include lots of effects which are ready-made and customizable. Using these you can manipulate your image brilliantly.

Picture effects include

1. Presets  2. Shadow effects  3. Reflection  4. Glow  5. Soft edge  6. Be-level  7. 3D Rotation

You can access all these effects from below the ribbon in the format menu just like you’ve done in designing your borders. Exactly below FORMAT tab, you can see Picture effects, on clicking that you can find all the ready made picture effects.

In presets ready made border and rotation effects are available. In shadow effects different varieties of inner , outer, perspective shadow effects are found, you can easily add them to your image. Reflection, Glow, Soft Edge, Belevel all these effects also you can easily apply by just selecting or hovering your mouse on the effect’s icon. And 3D rotation is a quite interesting effect, which you can apply to your images with one click. Generally adding 3D effects to images is not that easy with normal image editors but in PowerPoint you can have amazing 3D customized effects. We’ll see adding custom effects at the end of this article.

3. Removing Background using PowerPoint

The Most famous image effect is changing the background of the image. To do that we need to remove the background of the image or crop the image and put it on the new background. Generally this effect can be perfectly achieved in Photoshop. But in the powerpoint with some more effort one can achieve this. If the image has plain coloured background then it would be bit easier to remove the background.

To remove background click “Remove Background” option at the extreme left in FORMAT menu. PowerPoint automatically predicts the background of the image, but if it’s not exactly selected, you can manually select or deselect the areas using the area marker tools. After completion of selection click “Keep changes ” from the Format menu. It often needs some patience to select the exact background if the image background is not in a plane colour. However it’s great that powerpoint is offering such a good feature. Below is the sample image whose background is changed using PowerPoint.

4. Corrections

This is a brightness/contrast and softness/sharpness adjust tool. It’s very good enough to adjust the lighting of the images. To use this effect click the “Corrections” option at extreme left after “remove background” tool. You will find there the necessary ready made light effects to design your image neatly.

5. Artistic and Colour effects

These are also the very helpful tools for editing your images. You can find these tools at extreme left beside “Corrections” tool. Using “Colour” effects you can change your image to any colour. Also you can select your own custom colour to have that colour effect.

Artistic effects enables you to add pencil, oil, negative, solarize etc effects to your images. The vital thing is that you can add them with one click yet they give professional look to your images. Also you can take help of other effect tools to further manipulate your image.

6. Crop Images to Shape

This is a very good feature which Powerpoint avails for editing photos. Basically cropping image to any standard shape say heart, star is not that easy. But using Powerpoint it becomes so simple. And PowerPoint has a very good collection of ready-made shapes. To crop an image to a shape, click the “crop(inverted triangle)” option in FORMAT menu at extreme right. On clicking “Crop” you’ll find “crop to shape” option in the list , when you hover your mouse on it, a list of ready-made shapes are shown to you, select the one which you want. That’s it your image gets cropped in that shape. That’s so easy!

7. Picture Layout

Picture layout is another great feature which PowerPoint offers, which we make use of it to design images beautifully. Let’s say you have 5 to 10 images of you which you want to make them into one like a Collage. Using Picture layout which you can find below “Picture Effects” in Format menu, you can combine all of your images into a beautiful shape with a caption to all the images. The simple way to use this feature is to drag around ten images into powerpoint and select all (Ctrl+A) and go to Picture layout option and select different designs then you can get a clear idea of it. Also the designed images can be dragged out of the layout and can be saved as a separate one also. Try it once to understand it well.

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8. Collages

With the help of Picture Layout tool, one create amazing Collages with captions also. But if you want a very customized collage then you just need to drag the images into powerpoint and apply the effects you want which we have seen so far. Then arrange the images as you wish by rotating (don’t consider the size of the slide) , by applying 3D effects and any other you want. After completion of your alignment just select all the images (Ctrl+A) and right-click, select “Save as Picture“. Select the format as “.png” if you want transparent background or “.jpg” for white background. That’s how you can create Collages (which are of the size of the combination of all images).

9. Text and Effects to edit text in PowerPoint

So far we have seen different features of Powerpoint to edit images. Now its time for text effects. Image editing without text is half done. Almost all the features whichever are available for editing images are also available for Texts. To type text, click “Insert” tab in the main menu bar. On clicking it, below the ribbon choose ” Text Box” and then click on the slide or image to see the text box. Type your texts in the text box, select the size and fonts styles from “Home menu” and select the text, then you can find a new FORMAT tab in the main menu clicking which you’ll see a new FORMAT menu for adding text effects. Just like you’ve seen different image effects for images , similarly you can see a variety of text effects. Exactly below FORMAT tab, there is “Text Effects” option clicking that you can add Shadow, Reflection, Glowing, 3D effects. You can really have professional text effects using these Powerpoint tools.

10. Custom Format Tools

Till now we have seen all the possible ready-made effects to design images and texts in PowerPoint. All ready-made effects may not suit always for completeness of your editing. For that every ready-made effect has custom editing feature. Lets say in Picture effects (2) when you want to add shadow effect to your image, you can choose one among the given and to customize it, you have to click “Shadow options” at the bottom of the list to have your own customizations. In the same way every ready-made effect will have an option to customize. If you want to customize each and every effect then just right-click the image and select “FORMAT Picture” then a new side bar gets opened with all the effects which you can customize. And when you select the text, TEXT OPTIONS automatically gets added to the sidebar. And now its your creativity to make use of these PowerPoint tools to have a professional design of your images in a very simple manner.

So that’s how we can use the amazing tools of PowerPoint to design images and texts. One worth noting point is that 3D effects which is really an amazing feature, using which you can create exquisite designs. It’s the user who can make most of these simple looking tools to edit images. As its not possible to depict every editing feature of PowerPoint here very extensively, soon we are going to create a video to explain every feature vividly.

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How currency value is determined of a country, in Layman's language

Why 1 USD = 67 INR ? Did you ever think of this ? Why every nation has its currency value? Why every  one wants to earn money in dollars? Why every day the value of a nation’s currency is varying ? Why the value of 1 USD in 1966 was 7.5 INR and why now its so far ? How currency value is determined or decided ? Most of us get this type of questions in our mind. And recently(June’2015) why Greece debt is going to have its effect on other nations like India. And overall how currency came into existence. In this article we are going to have a look at  all these questions and their answers in a simple layman’s language.

I was also the one who got all these questions in the mind many times. After finding out the solution to all these , I decided to share it with the netizens who could find it useful and understand well about the currencies.

First of all before demystifying the concept of currency valuation of any nation, we need to have a brief look at the origin of currency to understand well about each and every aspect of currency. So lets explore currency from its birth.

How currency value is determined ?

Understanding the currency From the beginning :

How currency came into existence ?

Every one of us need money to buy goods, property and any other. And how that money matters? In general we often use terms money and currency interchangeably. But in reality money is something that can exist in any form where as currency is commonly accepted form of money i.e., banknotes and coins.

In the early days when there was goods exchange prevailing, people and the traders used to buy goods at the expense of some precious metals like gold and silver. Soon those precious metal coins became the ideal medium of stored value. As the scale of trade and exchanges got increased across distances and quantity it wasn’t practical and safe for traders to carry hundreds and thousands of coins with them. So to simplify that  problem without disrupting trade , the concept of “notes” was created. It was first started in China in 8th century.

However these notes needed to be guaranteed by a trustworthy party which is where the banks came into existence. Whenever traders want to trade between fixed locations, banks hold their coins and issue them notes which were accepted by other parties who trusted the banks. The building of trust was therefore the banks job and this led to banks having branches in various cities so they could process trade.

How and Why currency was exchanged among nations ?

After notes came into existence, Banks used to hold the coins of traders and issue them the notes worth of those coins. Say trader “A” who want to carry out the trade with another trader “B” in the same location(nation), can easily carry out the trade with the notes available with “A” as those are going to be valid ones since “B” is in the same location as of “A”.  And if “A” wants to trade with another trader “C” who is of not his location, then “C” cannot accept the notes which are with “A” since his location has some other currency issued by his local bank. So in order to carry out the trade “A” has to get the currency which “C” can accept , i.e., “A” need to buy the currency or deposit coins in banks which can issue notes that are valid in the location where “C” is residing. So this calls for the exchange of currency. Thus currency exchanges takes place in order to carry out the trade.

It was in the beginning of currencies where coins used be to deposited to get notes and later on notes became ideal medium of exchange since people started to trust notes. The currency notes will have value until they are trusted by the people. As everyone trusted notes then there arised a question whether is there any need to deposit coins in the banks or the banks should have reserves of gold worth notes? which is known as Gold standard. By  1940 America under the presidentship of Richard Nixon declared that the central banks who issue the currency notes need not have any reserves of gold since everyone trusts the currency notes. But in India it is still assured the reserve of gold. This can be seen from the lines printed on the currency note “I promise to pay the bearer a sum of — ” which assures that it can pay you the gold worth your currency.

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How much currency can a nation print itself ?

One or the other time you might have got this question. So when a country suffers from recession then why can’t it print its own currency and circulate in the country? Doing that is very easy but the problem is every currency will have its value by demand and trust from other people or nations. When a country starts printing its own currency without considering its economic powers, resources, development, its trades and national wealth, soon its going to loose trust from other countries and is going to be black listed. The supply and production of currency in a nation is monitored by central banks or Reserve banks.  In India its RBI which administers and guides the commercial banking activities with a power to penalize and punish fraudulent acts.

Just like in 2009 how Zimbabwe lost its currency trust by printing directly a 100 trillion-dollar note whose value was even less than a dollar. So any nation can print its own currency as much as it can but doing so causes big recession than not having sufficient money. So it is the trust which makes the currency work and  when that trust is lost then that currency is not more than a tissue a paper.

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How currency value is determined of a country?

Every day we see in the business news saying that rupee value got increased or decreased by 20 or 30 or 60 paise. It seems to be very less fluctuation but when we consider it broadly then we can understand how this fluctuation has great impact on the nation’s economic strength. At present US dollar is universally accepted currency due to the relative strength of its national economy. The primary factor for changes in the currency value is trade and exchanges which a nation involves in.

Lets say when a nation wants to import crude oil from some gulf country then the importing nation has to pay to the exporting nation in the currency which it accepts. More generally dollar is the accepted currency. So nations like India whose currency is not dollar has to buy those accepted dollars and pay to the exporting country to carry out its trade. There comes the demand for dollars. And these imports and exports are carried out by many nations in various permutations and combinations. Stock markets of nations does the job of looking after trades and exchanges. So the most important factor to improve the value of currency by any nation is to increase its exports and lessen its imports i.e., it has to produce the stuff which other countries need, there by increasing the demand for its domestic currency.

The main reason for Dollar to enjoy its value now is connected with the past 1940’s. It was after the Second World War the only country that was prosperous in the world was the United States. And it was that time where most of the nations were indebted to it in huge amounts or had been devastated by the war. This tangible advantage allowed the US currency to reflect the strength of its nation and since then has continued to remain the most powerful currency in the world as well as the most valuable.

Then(June’2015) Greece crisis has  become a hot potato. Actually the crisis started a long ago in 2010, but it was with the help IMF (International Monetary Fund ), European central Bank and European commission, Greece was able to withstand till now(2015). And when Greece could not pay its $1.7 billion debt to IMF then that results in increase in interests in Europe. As a result there would be inflow or outflow of capital in the nations trading with Europe like India.

So this was the brief story in valuing the currencies of different nations and this is how currency value is determined. Techs Text has almost tried to present the article in layman’s language may be one or two jargons crept in. Also I limited it to be simple and short without lagging much. If you find any part to be modified or need clarity you can let your views through comments. I hope this going to solve your questions regarding currencies. If you like this then share it with your friends too. I look forward to listen your opinions.

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