Okay, let's go ahead and explore what's in the folders and then we'll create our first image. The folders contain frames, overlays and decorations, PowerPoint templates, practice images, and a PDF with the links and nodes. So first in the frames folder, you'll find a number of frames. And they look kind of funny here, but they'll look fine once we bring them into PowerPoint. Next, we have decorations and overlays. Again, they look really funny in the folder, but they're going to look great once we bring them into PowerPoint.
Then we have our PowerPoint templates. The first PowerPoint template has seven blank slides pre formatted for Instagram, and you'll be using that for your class project. The second template is a single blank slide that's read only. So you'll always have a pre formatted template to use just in case. And the third template is the practice template that already has pre formatted images and texts that you can play With the next folder is our practice images. The practice images are royalty free, copyright free and can be used in any project you want, even commercial projects, and we'll talk about usage rights a little bit later.
Then you'll also find the PDF with the notes and links to the class. Okay, now we're going to create our first image. You can just watch or you can follow along with me. I'm going to go through that pretty quick just to show you how easy it is and then we'll go through each step in greater detail so you fully understand the process. Let's go. Now the first thing I'm going to do is just drag an image right into the PowerPoint template.
Okay, now I'm going to drag it up to the left corner. And I'm going to resize the image so it fits perfectly in the template. The next thing I'm going to do is add text. Go to Insert, text box, and then just draw a box where you want to put your text. Now this box is Gonna automatically resize itself based on the text you put in the box. Okay, as you can see, the text that I've typed in is black and small.
So we need to reformat the text, it's very simple. I'm going to go ahead and highlight that. I'm going to go up and I'm actually going to choose a different font. Let's see what we will like I like actor, that's a nice font, you may or may not have that. That's okay. I'm going to choose white, and then go ahead and increase the size of the text.
And then we can play around with this later, but I just wanted to show you how easy that was. Okay, that's it, we brought in our image, and we've added text, we're essentially done. So two things we can do, we can save this as the PowerPoint template, which I usually like to do, and then we can save the image by itself. So I'm going to go ahead and save that I'm going to go back to File, Save as a draft down and I'm going to select PNG. And I'll tell you about that later why we want to use a PNG file. At this point, I could rename this, but I'm just gonna leave it the way it is right now and click Save.
PowerPoint asks which slides Do you want to export? All the slides are just this one. Since the other slides are all blank, I just want to save this one. Okay, so the slide was saved individually in the folder that I started with a PowerPoint presentation. So let's take a look at that. Okay, that's it.
Easy as pie are images created. Let's head to the next lesson.