- Locating and Inserting Clip Art
- Inserting a Picture
- Adding a Quick Style to a Picture
- Applying a Shape to a Picture
- Applying Picture Effects
- Applying a Border to a Picture
- Modifying Picture Brightness and Contrast
- Recoloring a Picture
- Modifying Picture Size
- Cropping and Rotating a Picture
- Creating WordArt Text
- Formatting WordArt Text
- Modifying WordArt Text Position
- Creating SmartArt Graphics
- Formatting a SmartArt Graphic
- Modifying a SmartArt Graphic
- Creating an Organization Chart
- Modifying an Organization Chart
- Inserting and Creating a Chart
- Changing a Chart Type
- Changing a Chart Layout Style
- Changing Chart Titles
- Changing Chart Labels
- Editing Chart Data
- Sharing Information Between Programs
- Linking and Embedding Objects
- Flagging Documents for Follow Up
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Modifying Picture Brightness and Contrast
Once you have inserted a picture, you can control the image’s colors, brightness, and contrast using Picture tools on the Formatting Palette tab on the Toolbox. The brightness and contrast controls let you make simple adjustments to the tonal range of a picture. The brightness and contrast controls change a picture by an overall lightening or darkening of the image pixels. You can experiment with the settings to get the look you want. If you don’t like the look, you can use the Reset Picture button to return the picture back to its original starting point.
Change Brightness
Click the picture whose brightness you want to increase or decrease.
Click the Formatting Palette tab on the Toolbox.
Click the Picture panel to expand it.
Drag the Brightness slider to a positive brightness to lighten the object colors by adding more white, or to a negative brightness to darken the object colors by adding more black.
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Change Contrast
- Click the picture whose contrast you want to increase or decrease.
- Click the Formatting Palette tab on the Toolbox.
- Click the Picture panel to expand it.
- Drag the Contrast slider to a positive contrast to increase intensity, resulting in less gray, or to a negative contrast to decrease intensity, resulting in more gray.
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