- [Instructor] In PowerPoint, almost everything
is what's called an object.
So text, boxes, shapes, images, they're all objects,
and we can add effects to those objects.
So let's take a look at how to do that.
So I'm going to scroll down to this last slide here.
And I have this object here,
which is basically a shape with some text in it.
Now, when I select this shape, I get a format ribbon here.
And so if I want, I can manipulate it.
Now we've already done some of this by changing the fill
and the outline,
but we also have what are called shape effects.
So, if I pull this down,
you'll see we have a number of different types of presets
that we can use.
We can also do our own.
So we have things such as drop shadows,
which help make things stand out.
We have reflections, glows, soft edges, 3D rotation.
So all of these can be used to add a little bit more
visual interest to your shapes.
Now, the text within this can also be affected.
So over here, a little bit further to the right,
we have all of these different text effects.
So if I hover over these,
you can see each one of these affects
our text a little bit differently.
We can also change the text fill,
which is basically the color.
We can add a color to the outline of that text.
And we can also do text effects,
which again are very similar.
So we have shadows, reflections, bevels, rotation and so on.
Now, in addition to shape effects,
we can also affect images.
So in this particular slide, I have a background image.
And so let's go ahead and affect that.
So I'm going to go into design and then over here
on the right, we're going to select format background.
Now we've used this menu before to insert the background,
but we have two additional tabs.
The one on the far right is for pictures.
So we can create a picture correction or a picture color,
so we can sharpen or soften the image.
So if I click on these presets and select the far left,
you'll see this image gets a little bit blurrier.
I'm going to go ahead and undo that.
We can also affect brightness and contrast,
as well as saturation.
So if I turn my saturation to zero,
by highlighting it and typing in zero or moving the slider,
you can see this becomes a black and white image.
And if I type in a hundred,
it will go ahead and make that image normal.
Now we can also change the color tone,
which is basically the tinting
or we can do what's called recolor.
And that will go ahead and create effects such as this.
So if I select this blue one,
you can see how that affects this image.
Now here in the middle,
we also have another tab and that's for artistic effects.
So if I pulled down this menu here, you'll see,
I have a whole bunch of different types of effects.
So if I select chalk sketch, for example,
it'll go ahead and make it look like this.
And I have some additional controls for this.
So, we have a number of different ways to affect objects
and images.