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Now, in the previous module, we look at how to edit our slide layouts and some of these layouts are just begging to have pictures added to them so in this module we'll tackle that subject, which is how to add a picture to your slide because, again, not only will your words help tell the story in most of your PowerPoint presentations, but pictures are an important component of that as well. And all you really have to do is follow the directions in the slide layouts. So if you've got a slide like this, all you have to do is click that button to insert a picture from a file. Or if I'm dealing with this layout, which is title slide with pictures, you can see up here, title slide with picture, click that icon to add the picture. So fine. Let's go ahead and do that and just examine what happens. What happens is that you get a finder window and you can navigate to a picture. Let's just choose the VTC logo. This is an 800 by 600 picture and is meant to be, can serve as a desktop background and then we will insert it. And now I've got this picture added and it will be cropped sometimes, depending on your destination. Let's look at that same operation in this slide right here. Notice how the results aren't necessarily the same. So do keep that in mind. Another option you have as I undo each of these actions here, and I'm just doing this with an edit undo, so another option you have is that you can do this. You can make a selection of the item you want to insert and you can treat picture layers as separate objects and now insert. Now you have a little bit better control over the overall size and shape and positioning of that object. It doesn't necessarily just go right where the placeholder is or match the placeholder's settings. So you can expand it, increase the size by just clicking and dragging the handles as you saw here and then reposition it by just dragging it around the slide again as you just saw me demonstrate. Now, the other option you have for inserting content, picture content is that you can use the trusty old toolbox. And again, this used to be referred to just as the Formatting Palette, but if we go right next door, we see the Object Palette and we can insert shapes, clipart images, symbols and then pictures. Now, if you don't see something that's preloaded right here, by default Office applications in the toolbox, in the Object Palette, will look for your iPhoto library. But you don't necessarily have to find the iPhoto library as the default location. You can choose another library or a folder, which is actually what I've done. So you can show just photo libraries or show image folders. So again, it can look for just iPhoto or just all image folders. So I have an image folder of pictures and then I was able to make the selection of that folder and then it loaded up everything that was in that folder that was an image file that I could use. So now it just becomes a matter of clicking and dragging and again, the parameters are set by that placeholder. There's really no way to manipulate that from the Object Palette. You just click and drag and then your image is cropped according to the parameters of the placeholder. So that's, those are the two ways that you can quickly and easily add picture content to your slide.