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Insert and use images in document class 10 with libre office

In this chapter Insert and use images in document class 10 with Libre Office, the learning outcomes are:

• Options to insert images into documents from various sources.
• Options to modify, resize, crop, and delete an image.
• Creating drawing objects, setting, or changing their properties. Resizing and grouping drawing objects.
• Positioning image in the text.

Let us begin Insert and use images in document class 10 with libre office!

Importance of images in document

Images are very essentials for an interactive and attractive documentation. An interactive document contains rich text including graphs, diagrams, images, and other visual objects. A document having pictures or images are always better than pure text based document.

Images help to understand the information cited in the document quickly. A picture inserted into the digital document is called a digital image. A picture is a digital image, which is representation of image in finite set of digital values 0 or 1, known as pixels. These are stored in various types of graphics files with the file extension, such as GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc.

Libre Office Writer provides various methods and options to work with images and make our document interactive as well as attractive.

So let us see how to insert images in document!

Ways to Insert and use images in document

There are various ways to insert images in document. Libre Office Writer provides various tools insert and images and work with images. These ways are as follows:

Insert Images using Insert Image Dialog

Follow the given steps to insert the image in the document:

1. Place the cursor where image is required in the document.
2. Click on Insert –> Image option. Now the Insert Image dialog box will appear.
3. Select an Image file to be inserted.
4. Click on Open button.
5. The image will be inserted into the document.

Practical Activity Insert Image using insert image dialog

Insert a your photo image in the document “Chapter 1 Applying Styles in Document.odt” file.

[1] Open the file “Applying Styles in Document.odt” in Libre Office Writer.

[2] Click on Insert –> Image option.

[3] Insert image dialog box will appear. Select a file to insert a picture.

[4] Click on the Open button, this will insert a picture in the document. Resize the picture as required.

Insert an image using Drag and Drop

The image can be also inserted using drag and drop. Follow these steps to insert image using drag and drop.

1. Open the Libre Office Writer document in which the image is to be inserted.
2. Open a folder where the image is saved.
3. Now drag the desired image into the document where you want to insert the picture.
4. The image will be inserted.

Practical Activity Insert Image using drag and drop option

Insert an image using drag and drop from desktop in the document “Applying Styles in document.odt”.

[1] Open the document “Applying styles in document.odt”. Place the cursor where the picture is required.

[2] Restore the Libre Office Writer window and adjust the size of window as needed.

Now the files and folders are displayed on desktop. Select the file from desktop to be inserted into the document.

[3] Now drag the selected image file into the document. Image will be inserted.

Insert an image using Cut or Copy, Paste

Copy and Paste images is a very easy task. Simply, copy the image from the source and paste it into the document at the desired location.

Practical Activity Insert Image using Cut or Copy, Paste image

Insert an image using copy-paste in the document “Applying Styles in document.odt”.

[1] Open the file “Applying Styles in document.odt”. Place the cursor where the image is required.

[2] Open the folder from where you need to copy the image. Copy the image by Right click –> Copy option or press Ctrl + C.

[3] Return to the document and paste the image, Paste the image through Edit –> Paste or Ctrl + v.

[4] The image gets inserted into the document.

Insert an image by linking

Sometimes we need the same image in the document multiple times. So rather than inserting them frequently, images can be inserted using the link option. A link provides a reference link of the image rather than an image.

Inserting an image as a link reduces the size of the document because the original file is saved at once only. When the link is opened the image file gets merged at the place where the reference was stored and displayed to the user.

There are two ways to insert image as a link:

1. Ensure the options link should be marked before inserting the image from the insert image dialog box.
2. Press the Ctrl + Shift key while dragging the image.

It will display the message as follows:

Resizing image

When an image is inserted in the document, it is inserted with an original size. Hence sometimes to fit the image in document , it should be resized.

Resizing image refers to changing the size of image by enlarging or reducing the image pixels.

To resize any image in libre office writer follow the given steps:

1. Select the image inserted in the document.
2. Now some dots appears on the image.
3. Pint the mouse on the respective dots from where you need resize image.
4. Drag according to the need.
5. The image gets resized.

Modifying an Image

Libre Office Writer facilitates various options to modify images through image toolbar. Image toolbar provides various options to modify the image such as resizing, cropping, deleting, and rotating the image.

Image Toolbar

Libre Office Writer displays an image toolbar when the image is inserted and selected. To keep the image toolbar always on the screen click on View –> Toolbars –> Image. The image toolbar looks like as follows:

The image toolbar has the following options:

[1] Image Filter: Libre Office Writer provides 11 types of filters to improve image, they are :

Apply each filter and observe the changes in the image.

[2] Image Mode: It provides 4 options to be applied to image, they are:

[3] Crop Image:

it is used to trim or cut an image and change the image size as well as the aspect ratio (length to width). In general crop tool allow to removal of unwanted parts from the image.

[4] Flip: There are two buttons to flip images. They are:

1. Flip Vertically
2. Flip Horizontally

It turns an image upside down but maintains the image’s left-right orientation, just like a reflection in Stillwater. This is not equivalent to rotating the object or defined area 180 degrees.

Horizontal flip, also known as image mirroring, is a technique that involves flipping an image horizontally, resulting in a mirrored version of the original image.

This transformation essentially swaps the left and right sides of the image, creating a mirror image effect.

[5] Rotate: Libre Office Writer offers three options for rotating an image. They are:

1. Rotate 90⁰ Left
2. Rotate 90⁰ Right
3. Rotate

This option rotates an image to 90 degree from left. Select the image and click on the button highlighted above. The preview looks like as follows:

Now let’s see the rotate image 90⁰ right option.

This option rotates an image 90 degrees right. See this preview:

The third rotate option allows free-form rotation. Select the option and rotate using the points available on the image.

The preview of this option is as follows:

[6] Transparency: This option makes the image transparent by a specific percentage. You can apply the percentage value from the toolbar.

Here I have applied 50% transparency on image. See the preview:

[7] Colour: This option opens a new color dialog. It contains options for applying colors like red, green, blue as well brightness, contrast and gamma. The percentage can be increased or decreased in the percentage.

See the preview, here I have applied 50% red color on my image:

Delete Image

Deleting images is a very easy task in Libre Office Writer. Click on the image and press the Delete key the image will be deleted from the document.

Creating Drawing objects

Drawing objects allows you to draw various diagrams, mind maps, flow charts, callouts etc. Libre Office Writer provides a drawing toolbar to use different shapes and make drawing. Drawing objects allows one to draw good-quality designs, diagrams, and drawings in the document. These drawings can be also copied into other files.

Activating drawing tools

The drawing tools can be activated from View –> Toolbars –> Drawing option. The drawing toolbar will be docked in the window at the bottom, just above the status bar in Libre Office Writer as follows:

This toolbar contains various basic drawing objects of different shapes. These shapes include lines, arrows, curves and polygons, rectangles, ellipses, circle, triangle, basic shapes, Symbol shapes, Block Arrows, Stars and Banners, Callout shapes, Flow chart shapes, Text box, and font work.

Creating Drawings using drawing tools

1. Select a drawing object to make a drawing. The mouse pointer will be changed into drawing functions.
2. Move the point as per the need and shape needs to be drawn.
3. Release the mouse pointer to finish drawing.
4. The drawing function remains active till. You can deactivate it by pressing the Esc key from the keyboard or clicking on the select icon from the drawing toolbar.

Changing the drawing object properties

The properties of drawing objects can be changed. When a shape or drawing is drawn in Libre Office Writer another toolbar will appear. This toolbar is the Drawing Objects Properties toolbar which can be used for customizing the drawing toolbar and drawing objects.

The drawing properties toolbar allows you to move, resize, rotate, edit, and configure for various purposes. The properties changed before creation are known as setting default values. The properties can be modified by right-clicking on the object.

Setting or Changing properties of drawing object

To set the properties before drawing object follow these steps:

1. Select the drawn object.
2. From the drawing object properties toolbar click on the icon of the property to be modified.
3. Change the value of the parameter.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to change all desired properties.

Resize the objects

To resize the objects follow the given steps:

1. Select the object to resize.
2. Move the mouse pointer as per the requirement from the dots and points.
3. For resizing and maintaining the original shape of the drawing, use corner handles.
4. Using edge handles will resize the drawing non-proportionally.

For resizing multiple objects, press the shift key.

Grouping objects

Follow these steps to group objects.

1. Select the objects by clicking on them.
2. Select the group tool from Drawing Object Properties or Choose Format –> Group –> Group or Right click on selection and Select Group option.

There are four options under Group. They are:

1. Group
2. Group
3. Enter Group
4. Exit Group

Positioning images in the text

Positioning the image is another important aspect of the document when working with text, images, and drawing objects. Text and Other drawing objects or images are not arranged properly is not good practice for documentation. Hence positioning them in the text becomes necessary.

Libre Office Writer provides the following options to position the images in the text:

These options are accessible through on of the following:

1. Format Menu
2. Context Menu (By Right Click)
3. Drawing Objects Properties Toolbar

Anchoring

Anchroring refers to the reference point for an image or drawing object. It allows to retain position of image or object to a page, paragraph, a character or a frame.

When it is set to any specific reference point the object moves accordingly.

Text Wrapping

It places the image relative to the text. It has the following options:

Alignment

The vertical or horizontal placement of the image with respect to the anchor in the document is known as alignment. An image can be aligned in different options as follows:

1. Horizontal
   • Left
   • Centered
   • Right
2. Vertical
   • Top
   • Center
   • Bottom

Arrangements

Arrangements refer to the position of the current drawing/image with respect to other drawing or text. The available options are as follows:

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