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For that, right-click on the image and select Format options. You can even make your image transparent by adjusting the transparency. You can customize the brightness and contrast of your image in Google Slides. Adjust Image Transparency, Brightness, and Contrast Tip: Don’t like the shape crop feature in Google Slides? Check five websites that let you mask your images in various shapes.

#GOOGLE DRIVE PHOTOS SLIDESHOW HOW TO#

Do check our post on how to mask images in Google Slides.

Then click on the small arrow next to the Crop icon in the menu bar. You can crop your image in various shapes in Google Slides. Then click anywhere outside the image or press the Enter key on your keyboard to crop the image. Using the slightly darker black bars, drag the image inwards to crop it as per need. When the Crop tool is active, you will see a black border around the image. Alternatively, right-click on the image and select Crop image. For that, click on the image and hit the Crop icon in the menu bar at the top. You can crop it directly in Google Slides. Crop ImageĪt times, your image might have unrequired portions. Now whenever you move images, you will see red lines. Those will guide you while moving your images. To make things easy, you can enable alignment lines. While aligning images, one isn’t sure whether it’s placed properly for other items. Then manually enter the location of the image under the Position section.

Or right-click on the image and go to Format options.

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Pro Tip: To change the position of an image, simply drag it. Then set the parameters according to your need. For that, right-click on your image and select Format options. Choose the appropriate option.įurther, you can manually set the image’s dimensions, rotation angle and even lock the aspect ratio. Alternatively, if you want to rotate an image by 90 degrees or flip horizontally/vertically, right-click on the image and select Rotate. Then using the tiny circular icon at the top of the image, rotate the image. Similarly, to rotate an image, click on the image to select it. Pro Tip: Find out how to resize images in bulk. You can use the tiny boxes available in the border’s center, but that will not maintain the aspect ratio. When the blue border appears around the image, resize the image by dragging it with the corner boxes’ help. So you might need to resize or rotate it. When you add an image to Google Slides, it will be used in its original size. Whatever image you pick will automatically be stretched or shrunken to fit your slideshow presentation, so it’s best to pick an image or template that’s the same size.Excited? Let’s get started. Adding a Background Image to Google Slidesįirst, if you’re unfamiliar with Google Slides, I highly recommend checking out my Basic Tour of Google Slides first.Īdding a background image to Google Slides is fairly simple. Both of these tools allow you to easily design templates.

This isn’t a tutorial on HOW to design the background image or template, but, if you’re looking to make a template, I highly recommend Canva or PowerPoint. A background image created elsewhere will allow you to add elements that aren’t available in Google Slides.

Sometimes you can’t create all of the elements you want in Google Slides.

(Or, maybe purposefully deleting the image.)

Adding an image or template as the background prevents students from moving, or accidentally deleting, the image.

If you’re more comfortable designing in a different program, it allows you to do a bulk of the design work there.

There’s a variety of reasons adding background images is helpful. Let’s learn how to do it! Why would I add a background image to my Google Slides activity? It also allows you to create a nice looking templates. This makes it harder for your students to accidentally move pieces that they don’t need to move. Adding a background image to your Google Slides presentation is a handy trick.

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