Windows Live Paint, Windows 7’s improved drawing program, has been expanded to include a ribbon panel that makes drawing a picture easier than ever. Using the new Scenic Ribbon in Paint, you can access a variety of virtual pens and brushes for drawing whatever you can dream up.
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Although there’s an added hassle to obtain Paint, the program includes several new features to enhance your ability to draw and edit photos.
- Click the Start button, type paint, and click Paint in the search results.The Paint window opens. Maximize the window, if it isn’t already.
- Click and drag your mouse over the white canvas to draw a black squiggle using the default brush and color; then release the mouse button.The canvas is the area you draw on, below the Ribbon.If your computer uses a pen or has a touch screen, you may be able to draw directly on your screen.
- Click the down arrow on the Brushes button in the Ribbon to see a panel of brushes. Select one you like.Hover your mouse pointer over each brush to see a tooltip that describes it.
- Click one of the small color boxes at the right end of the Ribbon to select that color.
- Click and drag your mouse over the canvas again.The new line will reflect the new brush and color you chose.You can also use Paint’s premade Shapes tools. Click the Shapes button on the Ribbon; click a shape on the panel that drops down; and click and drag in the canvas to draw that shape. Then click the paint-bucket icon on the Tools panel to change the inside (or fillcolor) of the shape.
- To add text to your drawing, click the A button on the Tools panel; then click the canvas and start typing in the text box that appears.Notice that a new Text tab opens above the Ribbon.
- Select the text you just typed and choose options in the Text tab to size and format your text.You can change fonts, colors, sizes, and so on.
- Save your drawing by pressing Ctrl+S.You can also save the drawing by clicking the Save button — the tiny disk icon in the Paint title bar.
Microsoft PowerPoint was originally designed for created slide presentations, not posters. But it can also be used to create a poster. When you create a poster with PowerPoint, you are creating the poster on only ONE slide (a very large slide).
NOTE: PowerPoint for Macintosh versions 2016 and 2011 are very similar. This section describes both. Screenshots from the 2011 version may differ slightly from the 2016 version but the features work the same way.
PowerPoint 2016 includes a few new features. Features unique to 2016 are identified below by the highlighted text New for 2016.
The following are steps and techniques to get you started creating your poster in PowerPoint.
Getting Started
Click on the PowerPoint icon in the dock, or double-click on the 'Microsoft Powerpoint.app' in the Applications folder on your Macintosh. The 'Powerpoint Presentation Gallery' appears. In most cases (unless you have previously created a template you want to use), choose to create a new presentation with a white background by clicking the 'White' thumbnail in the list of themes.
Or if you are editing a presentation you previously created you can click on its name in the 'Recent Presentations' at the bottom of the left-hand column of the window.
Alternatively, you can click 'Cancel' and a new, blank presentation will appear. Or you can go to the File menu and choose 'New Presentation' or 'Open...'.
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A new PowerPoint document appears. By default, it shows text entry boxes for a title slide.
Above the document window, a formatting toolbar or 'ribbon' appears. Above the toolbar is a row of tabs (Home, Themes, Tables, Charts, etc.)
Set up your page and work area
Click the Home tab. Then click on the Slides Layout drop-down menu and then click on the 'Blank' thumbnail. This will remove the 'Title' and 'Subtitle' text boxes on the slide, with you probably don't need to use. (You can also delete them by selecting them (click and drag over the them with the mouse cursor) and pressing the delete key.
Next set your poster size by clicking on the Themes tab, then click on 'Page Setup' Slide Size' and choose 'Page Setup...'.
In the Page Setup dialog, enter the dimensions of your poster.
NOTE: PowerPoint will only accept sizes up to 56 X 56 inches. If your poster is larger than that, create the poster at half size. Then when you print it, print at 200%. For example, if you set the size at 20' X 40' and print the poster at 200%, it will end up being 40' X 80'.
If you are not currently connected to a large format printer, the following dialog box may appear. Click OK if you know you will be printing it on large format printer that can print at your desired size.
To make your workspace less cluttered, you may want to remove the slide thumbnails and a notes panes from your document window. You can do this by dragging the handles on the edges of these areas to the left and to the bottom, as shown below.
Here is the way the work area looks without the thumbnails and notes window panes: