CHAPTER

Norking with Images

0t is easy to read and comprehend a good interactive

document. A word processing application has rich
features, which allows tocreate an interactive document.
A document containing pictures is always easier to
understand than a pure text document. Pictures have
visual appeal, as our brain responds quickly to colors in
comparison to any other form of information. A picture
can be a drawing, chart, photo, logo, graph, or single video
frame. In digital document a picture can be a graphic or
image representation, which is a digital image. Till now,
we have created a text document with different features,
such as formatting and using styles. In this chapter
you will learn to create a document wvith pictures. You
will learn to insert and modify images in the document
to make it more attractive. LibreOffice Writer provides
various tools to work with images. 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.
Inserting an Imnage in a Document
LibreOffice Writer allows to work on images, shapes,
charts and diagrams by providing various tools.The
imagefile stored on the computercan be inserted into
a document using different ways, such as using Insert
dnage dialog, using Drag and Drop option, using Cuty
Copy and Paste option and lastly by Linking
Stehs tonseine sng tnsertuimage Option
A general procedure to insert an image using Insert
Image dialog box, is as follows.
Step 1 Open the document to insert an image
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Step 2 Place the cursor where you want to insert an NoTES
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Step 3. Seiect and click on Insert >Image from ment
bar
Step 4 An Insert Image dialog bOX will open which will
allow to choose the picture ile to be inserted
Step 5. Select the file and click on Open button to insert
an image in document

PracticalAcitivity2.1
Insert an image using Insert Image dialog box in the file
"noise.odt" created in previous chapter.
Step 1. Ensure that you have an image file on your computer
hard disk. Otherwise download a relevant image from
Internet.
Step 2. Open "noise. odt' file created in Practical Activity 1.2 of
Chapter 1.
Step 3. Place the cursor to the next line of the text to insert the
image file, and then click on Insert menu from the
menu bar as shown in Fig. 2.1.

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 Inserting Image using Drag and Drop option NoTES
Another option to insert images in the document is by
using Drag and Drop option. The standard procedure
is just drag the image from its source and drop it at
desired position in the documentAgeneral procedure
to insert an image using, drag and drop option, is as
followvs
Step 1. Openthe document to insert an image in
Libreffice Writer.
Step2Open atle browser window(Win+B) and select
the image file to be inserted
Step 3. Dragtheimage into the document
Step 4 Drop it, where you want it to appear in
the document.
Inserting tmage using Copy and Paste method
As stated above, another way to insert an image in the
document is by using copy and paste method. In this
method instead of draggirng the image, copy the image
andthen pasteinto the desired location ofthe document
Inserting an image using any of the above described method
saves a copy of image file in the document wherever image
is inserted, that means, the image gets embedded in
the document.

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Insert an image from one document (source) to another document
(target) using Clipboard. Sourcc file is typewriter. odt" having
"documentation.
different images of typewriter, and target file is
odt" created in the previous chapter.
Step 1. Open source file
"typewriter.odt"
and target file
"documentatior.
odt".
Step 2. In the source
docurnent, select
the imnage to be
copied, as shown
in Fig. 2.4.
Fig. 2.4: Selected inage in typewriter.odt

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Inserting an image by liniking NoTES
fmultiple copies of thà same image are required to be
Anserted in the document it is beneticial to save the link
of image instead of inserting the image Insertingalink
stores its reference instead of the image itself, thereby
reduces the size of the documentbecause actual image
is saved oniy once las a separate file along with the
document
Whenever a document containing the link is opened,
the image filegets merged, at theplace(s) where reference
was stored, and displayed on screen to the user. A
general procedureto link the image file is as follows.
In Insert Image dialog box, check the Link option as
shown in Fig. 2.7

Fig. 2.7: Link check box in Insert image dialog window

Kevboard shortcut to link an image - drag ánd drop
the image while holding the Ctrl+Shift keys.
Assignment 1
from
Explore how to insert an image from Writer's Gallery or
any other device?

Modifying an Image
Sometimes we may haveto modify theimage inserted in
toolbar
the document to suit its requirement The mage
image.
is used to resize, crop, delete and rotate the
Using the Iniagetoolbar
animage
Theimagetoolbar autonatically appears when want to
isinserted or selected in the documentIf you
on View Toolbars
keep it always on screen, click
Image toolbar will be
Image from the menå bar The
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 2.1 describes
displayed as shown in Fig. 2.8. Table
through this image
various tools that are made available
toolbar.
ge
Lfauit

Fig. 2.8: Image Toolbar

Toolbar
Table 2.1 Deseription of Image
Effect on image
Tool
available
There are 11 types of filters
given in
ImageFilter forimproving an image Details
Table 2.2
white
Image can be changed to black and
Image Mode gray-scale or a watermark

Crop Cuts off non-desirable part of the image

Flip Horizontally Flips the image Horizontally by 180
Flip VerticallyFlips theimage Vertically by 180t
Rotate 90 left Rotates the image by 90left
Rotate 90 right Rotates theimage by 90 right
Image can be rotated by any angle using
Rotate
this tool
Makes an image transparent by using the
Transparency value provided in percentage
Color
Using Drop Down list (as shown in
Fig. 2.9), Red, Blue or Green colour can
Colour be modified or adjustment for brightness
contrast and gamma can be made
+
To applyany of the tools from image toolbar, select the
om
image on which tool is to be applied and then click
the tool Clicking on the colour button will display the
colour drop downlist as shown in Fig 2.9. It consists of
0% six components in the drop down list. One can inerease
or decrease the percentage of these components. The
Co% first components represent the three primary colours
Red, Green and Blue, respectively The fourth component
represent the Brightness, t°th component represemt
L1.00 the Contrast and last sixthcomponent represent
the Gamma.
Fig. 2.9: Color dropdown list

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 Clicking on Image Filter opens up a window with
Default
11 ilters, as shown in Fig. 2.10. Table 2.2 gives the
brief description of various tools available in the Image
Filter window.
Table 2.2 Deseription of Image Filter
Tool Effect on Image Smooth
Inverts the colour values of coloured
nvert image.Ih case image, is gray-scale then its
brightness is inverted.
Smooth Softens the contrast of image,Another
dialogue box appears to adjust parameter Fig. 2. 10: Image Filter window
Sharpen Increases the contrast ofimage
Remove Noise Rermoves singie pixels fromthe image
Used in Photographs to reverse the tone.
Solarisation Dark appears light and light appears dark.
Another dialogue box appears to adjust
parameter.
Simulates the effect of time on picture On
Aging clicking it, another dialogue box appears to
adjust parameter.
Makes a picturà appear like painting by
reducing colours in the image Another
Posterise dialogue box appears to adjust parameter,
when this icon is clicked.
Charcoal Sketch sChangesimage as charcoal sketch
Relief Adjusts light source to createshadow using
dialogue box to adjust parameter
Joins group of pixels into a single area of
Mosaic one colour. Another dialogue box appears
to adjust parameter.

PracticalAcitivity2.3
Insert an image in a docurnent
and rotate the image.
Step 1. Open anew docuinent
in LibreOffice Writer.
Step 2. Go to Insert menu and
Select Image >> From
File
Step 3. Insert an image from
library as shown in
Fig. 2.1 1. Fiq. 2. l1: Imagqe inserted in a new
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 Step 5. Chck any of these cdges of the image and drag the
cursor towards the center of image as shown in
Fig. 2.16. Observe that the image is being cropped up to
thedotted lines. It is possible to crop the image by clicking
on dragging any of the cdge as per the requirement.

Fig. 2. 16: Cropping the imnage Fig. 2. 17: Image after cropping
from upper right edge
Step 6. Click anywhere on the page or press Esc key to leave
the crop tool and observe the cropped image as shown
in Fig. 2.17.

Resizing antmager
Sometimes you may want to resize the imnage to fit an
image at the desired place in a document. Resizing
is the process of reducing or enlarging the size of the
image This can be done in various ways.Quick and
easy way to resize an image is by dragging the image's
sizing handles Use the following steps to resize image:
Step 1 Clickon the image inserted in the
previous activity. Observe that there are
eight sizing handles surrounding th¿
imageas shown in Fig. 2.14.
Step 2. Position the pointer over one of the sizing
handles The pointer changes shape
indicating the direction of resizing
step 3.Click and drag to resize the image as
shown in Fig. 2.18.
Step 4 Release the mouse button when satistied
with the new sze and observe the size of
ihe image is reduced,
Fg. 2. 18: Resizing the image

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 By dragging the corner handles, one can resize
both the width and the height of the image
sinultaneously, while the other four handles
only resize one dimension at a time.
Note that while resizing the image its size
gets changed, but while cropping the image
Cuts it

petetine an mage
It is possible to delete the image
like we delete the text.To delete from the document just
the
image by clicking on theimage and imnage. just select the
press the Delete key
Drawing Objects
If you need to draw a
document, LibreOfficeflowchart
or a
callout box in
Writer provides the featureyour of
drawing tools for such work.The set of
drawing tools
available in Writer are easy to use, and helps
good quality designs, in ereating
diagrams
create the drawings, you can and drawingsOnce you
directly
document; These diagrams can also be place it inthe
Imported other packages.
in copied or
Using Drawing Tools
To display
Norm in the WriterDrawing Toolbar
Web
View > Toolbarswindow, click on
9tiogs >
as shown in Fig. Drawing
2.19. This
will display the
Bies Toolbar in the WriterDrawing
window
Dngcpetis as shown in Fig. 2.20. The
toolbar contains various basic
Fig. 2 !9 Enablng Drawing tools drawing objects of
different
types to
create any design of
There are many defaultyour choice.
SEcate designs in drawing objects used to
Step 1 Place the document; To use them
cursor in the document
want the drawing
can change the to be
where you
placedlanchored).
anchor later, if required.
You
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 Drawing

AA
Rectangle ounded
Right angle triangle

Polygon Circle Symbol (list) Flowchart (flist)

Star (list)
Curve (list) Square Fontwork

Scicct
Cuve Oval
Insert Line Call Out (list)
Rectangle Points
Lines & Arrows (list)
Arrow (list)
Call outs
Isosceles triangle
Toggle Extrusion
Basic slhapes (list) Text Box

Fig. 2.20: Drawing Toolbar

Step 2 Selectthe tool from the Drawing toolbar as

shown in Fig. 2.20. The inouse pointer changes
to a drawing-functionss pointer
Note - One more toolbar appears on the screen, the
Drawing Object Properties. It is shown in Fig. 2.23
and explained later.
Step 3 Move the pointerto the placein the document
where you want the image to appear and then
click-and-drag to create the drawing object
Step 46 Release the moISe button to finish drawing.
The selected drawing funetion remains activey
SO that you can draw another object of the
same type
Step 5 To cancel the selected drawing tunction press
the Esce key or click the Select icoR (the arrow)
On the Drawing toolbar
(0)
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