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Lassoing

An image editing tool that enables you to select an irregular object by dragging the mouse around it (while the mouse button is held down) and letting go

combine

Click the Insert tab at the top of your screen and select Shapes. Choose from a wide range of preexisting geometric shapes. ... Customize a pre-existing shape, by merging two into one. ... Click Combine to make one shape with the overlapping part of the shapes omitted.

remove background

Click the picture that you want to remove the background from. Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Adjust group, click Remove Background. ... If necessary, under Picture Tools, on the Background Removal tab

Union (merge shapes)

Customize a pre-existing shape, by merging two into one. Select both shapes by holding down Ctrl and clicking. Then, beneath the Format tab, click Merge Shapes near the top left. Click Union to make the two shapes one

compress

Select the picture you want to compress. Click the Picture Tools Format tab, and then click Compress Pictures. Do one of the following: To compress your pictures for insertion into a document, under Resolution, click Print. ... Click OK, and name and save the compressed picture somewhere you can find it.

Intersect (merge shapes)

Select the shapes to merge. Press and hold Shift to select multiple shapes. The Shape Format tab appears. Note that it only appears when a shape is selected. On the Shape Format tab, click Merge Shapes, and then pick the option you want.

Subtract (merge shapes)

Select the shapes to merge. Press and hold Shift to select multiple shapes. The Shape Format tab appears. Note that it only appears when a shape is selected. On the Shape Format tab, click Merge Shapes, and then pick the option you want.

Fragment (merge shapes)

Select the shapes you want to merge: press and hold the Shift key while you select each shape in turn. ... On the Drawing Tools Format tab, in the Insert Shapes group, select Merge Shapes, and then pick the option you want.

keyword

a descriptor of an image's content

gridlines

a set of dotted horizontal and vertical lines that overlay the entire slide

smart guides

appear automatically as you drag objects on a slide to help you line them up with other content on the slide

saturation

determines the intensity of the color, ranging from 0% (grayscale, no color) to 400% (extremely vivid color)

recolor

enables you to select color wash to place over the image or to set it to grayscale, black and white, or washout

ruler

help you measure the size of an object on the slide

guides

movable, vertical and horizontal non-printing lines that you can use when positioning objects on a slide

tone

refers to the subtle tint of the image's color, ranging from warmer shades (more red) to cooler shades (more blue)

crop

remove a portion of the graphic that you think is unnecessary in order to focus attention on the most important part of a picture

aspect ratio

resize it

clip art

simple pictures and symbols made available for computer users to add to their documents

rotate

to move or turn in a circle

Flip

to turn to the side

Bring Forward

Select an object. The Format tab will appear. From the Format tab, click the Bring Forward or Send Backward drop-down box. From the drop-down menu, select Bring to Front or Send to Back. Sending an object to the back. The objects will reorder. The reordered objects.

Send Backward

Select the object you want to move. If the object is hidden, select any object, and then press TAB or SHIFT+TAB until the object you want is selected. Do one of the following: Bring an object to the front of the stack: