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Notice that a graphic copied into PowerPoint from clipart libraries, Internet images or any other source,
cannot be recolored. It must be used as is. MS PowerPoint even gives you the following message:
"The object is a bitmap. To recolor it, you must use an image editing program such as Microsoft
Photo Editor." Please note that MS Photo Editor is no longer available.
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Publisher can do a little editing of images, but it is limited to their specific exposure choices.
The below images were adjusted for
- More Brightness
- Less Brightness
- More contrast
- Grayscale
- Fill Color (of background only)
but it isn't possible to change the actual color of the image.
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As in Publisher, Word is only designed to allow the user minimal color
changing capabilities and those only affect the exposure and background color.
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Despite being a paint program, no true color change can be done to images here either.
The image has hundreds of colors and the number of colors cannot be reduced.
The color fill bucket was used in this example and after 10-15 clicks of the bucket,
we still have only color changed a small section.
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Graphics-Toolbox handles images easily and the recoloring functions are very smooth. Below we have shown 2 options:
- Kept the tonal effect and changed the entire graphic from green to pink
- Reduced the graphic to 3 colors and changed them to be 3 different colors: yellow, orange & green.
Each of the 2 color change functions below was accomplished in less than 60 seconds!
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