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Step 5: Click on the Gallery icon in the Sidebar to close the Gallery pane. Or, click the Close ( ) button in the Gallery
pane.
Modifying an Image
When you insert a new image, you may need to modify it to suit the document. Modifying an image means to make
changes in an image like crop, resize, add border, etc. Here we will discuss the use of the Image toolbar for resizing,
cropping, and a workaround to rotate a picture.
Using the Image Toolbar
As soon as an image is inserted or selected in a document then the Image toolbar automatically appears on the screen.
If in case it is not visible, then go to View menu and select the Toolbars → Image option. Using the Image toolbar, you
can edit the image in different ways.
The tools on the Image toolbar with their description are given below:
Tools' Icon Tools' Name Description
It is also known as an image filter bar. It has various filters which can
Filter
be used on the selected image.
It helps you to change the modes of the image to Grayscale,
Image Mode
Black/ White, and Watermark.
It crops an image. By removing unwanted background elements
Crop Image
and create a focus on your desired object in the image.
Flip Vertically It flips the selected image vertically by 180 degree.
Flip Horizontally It flips the selected image horizontally by 180 degree.
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Rotate 90 Left It rotate the selected image 90 degree to left.
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Rotate 90 Right It rotate the selected image 90 degree to right.
Rotate It rotates the image at any degree in any direction.
It helps you to change the transparency of the image selected.
Transparency Useful for creating watermark or making transparent to keep it as
a background.
It helps you edit the colour properties of the image selected. Red,
Color Blue or Green colour can be modified or adjustment for brightness,
contrast and gamma can be made.
Using Color Tool
Clicking on the Color button will display the colour drop down list as shown in figure.
It consists of six components in the drop-down list. One can increase or decrease the percentage
of these components. The first component represents the three primary colours Red, Green and
Blue, respectively. The fourth component represents the Brightness, fifth component represents the
Contrast and last sixth component represents the Gamma.
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