How to edit, crop, and add borders to photos in Google Slides

Have you inserted a photo into Google Slides and want to edit it beautifully? Here's how to edit, crop, and add borders to photos in Google Slides .

Google Slides is a great tool that helps you create professional presentations. An important and indispensable part if you want your speech to attract the audience is images. If you use the wrong image or place it in an inappropriate location, you can cause the opposite reaction. To avoid that, you can recolor, format, and re-edit photos in Google Slides to make everything look as professional as possible.

Basically, using Google Slides is similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. You'll find many familiar features here from choosing fonts, formatting margins, inserting transitions to adding charts and more.

In 2014, Google Slides introduced some interesting editing features such as cropping, creating overlays, and adding borders to photos. By 2022, these features have become the most "attractive" point of Slides. As a teacher, you can use them to create beautiful visual effects for lectures in class or online.

You can try many different types of effects. However, the first thing you need to learn is how to edit photos in Google Slides. This step is not difficult and you do not need to rely on third-party tools. Below are detailed instructions.

Instructions for editing photos in Google Slides

How to crop photos in Google Slides

  1. Click on the photo in your slide to select it.
  2. Click the Crop icon and drag the box to the position you want.
  3. To undo, select the image by clicking on it, then press the remaining image icon.

How to edit, crop, and add borders to photos in Google Slides

How to use overlays for photos in Google Slides

To crop an image to a specific shape, select a mask from the drop-down menu next to the Crop icon. You have many options for shapes, arrows and other callout designs to insert into Google Slides as shown below.

How to edit, crop, and add borders to photos in Google Slides

How to add borders to photos in Google Slides

  1. Select or share photos in your slides.
  2. Click the border color icon - Border.
  3. Choose the color you like.
  4. Click the Line icon to adjust the thickness of the border.
  5. To remove the border, click the Border color and select Transparent.

How to edit, crop, and add borders to photos in Google Slides

How to adjust photo color

  1. To adjust the color of an image, first click on the image to select it.
  2. Next, click Format , select and edit the following parameters: size, rotation, position, color change, refinement, shadow and reflection.

How to edit, crop, and add borders to photos in Google Slides

It's done! Above is how to edit photos in Google Slides . As you can see, it's not too difficult, right?

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