Digital cameras and scanners are virtually as cheap as film cameras once were. Even the typical home or small business generally has a digital camera and users who take and transfer dozens of digital pictures to the computer’s hard disk. Microsoft Publisher enables you to place pictures in formats commonly captured by digital cameras, such as JPEG and TIFF, as well as numerous other graphics formats created with drawing and painting programs, directly into a publication.

This process does not require a picture placeholder, so when you’re ready to insert a digital picture file into a publication, follow this process:

1. Display the page in the publication on which you’d like to insert the picture. Clicking a page icon in the status bar takes you there.
2. Select Insert?Picture?From File. The Insert Picture dialog box appears.
3. Navigate to the folder holding the file to insert. The dialog box lists the files with readable graphics formats stored in that folder.
4. Click the name of the text file to insert and then click Insert. The inserted picture file appears on the page.

After you insert the picture, you need to resize and position it as needed. You can drag the handles that appear on the corners and sides of the picture (Figure 31-17) to resize it, or move the mouse within the picture and drag to move it. You also can use the Measurement toolbar as described earlier to set the picture’s size and position. When you finish sizing the picture, click outside it to deselect it.

FIGURE 31-17
Resize and move the inserted picture as needed.

If you plan to have your publication professionally printed, you need to use high-resolution pictures to get good results. If you crop a portion of a digital camera shot and then size it at a large size in the publication, those changes might result in a low-resolution graphic that prints with a fuzzy
or blocky appearance. If you have any doubts about how an image might print, ask the print shop to inspect your publication file for such problems before proceeding with your print order.

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