You can incorporate static images and shapes into your presentations and use them as design elements. They can be useful as static assets like logos, icons, diagrams, or other design elements, and can be added to slides to illustrate some content; for example, an icon that indicates some text is a Warning.
Depending on your permissions, you may also be able to make your static images dynamic in Illustrate; this option will be shown on the right-click context menu if it has been enabled by your Administrator.
Adding graphics to your presentation
Open the slide
- Open the slide that you want to add your graphic to from the Slides panel.
Add a shape
Shapes are preset graphics that you can add to your presentation as design elements. For example, they may act as banners that are placed behind some text to make it stand out, or an icon (such as the light bulb symbol) that is used to draw attention to a text box that includes some conceptual information.
To add shapes to your presentation:
- From the Toolbox, right-click Shapes and select the required shape from the options.
- Click the canvas at the point where you would like to add your shape.
The shape is added to the canvas and can be moved, resized, aligned, copied, cut, or pasted. See below for more information.
Add an Image
Import your own static images into your presentation, where they can be used as static design elements, like logos or icons.
There are two ways to import your own images:
- From the Toolbox, click the Import Images button (arrow below), then find and select the required image from its folder location.
- Use Windows Explorer to find the image in its folder location and drag and drop it onto the slide canvas.
Supported Image Formats
The following image formats may be imported:
Raster Images
- PNG
- JPEG
- BMP
- GIF
Vector Images
- SVG
- SVG_XML
Format your shape or image (optional)
Once added, both shapes and images can be moved, resized, aligned, copied, cut, or pasted on the canvas and using the options on the right-click context menu.
Selecting a shape on the canvas also enables the stroke and fill color options on the ribbon; use these options to change the border and fill color of the selected shape:
