Expand the drop shadow section to customise your shadow further. To use the drop shadow tool, click the Format options button and tick the Drop shadow option. It allows you to add a shadow to your image. The drop shadow tool is only available in Google Slides. Open the Adjustments section and use the sliders to adjust each element. To use these tools, click the Image options (Docs) or Format options (Slides) button. This is great for creating backgrounds (in Slides) and correcting low-quality images. Click the re-colour drop-down box and choose the shade.Īdjust transparency, brightness & contrastīoth Google Docs and Slides have tools to adjust an images transparency, brightness and contrast. To re-colour your image, click the Image options (Docs) or Format options (Slides) button. It allows you to change the colour shade of your image, including making it black and white. The re-colour tool is available in both Docs and Slides. Choose the shape you want for your image. To mask your image, click the little arrow next to the crop button. It allows you to change the shape of your image. The mask image tool is only available in Google Slides. To crop your image, click the Crop button then use the black lines on the corners and sides to trim the image. It allows you to ‘trim’ the sides of your image to make it smaller and more focussed on the important parts. The crop image tool is available in both Docs and Slides. In Google Slides, this will display buttons for Crop, Mask, Reset Image, Replace Image and Format options, as shown below. In Google Docs, this will display buttons for Crop, Image options and Replace image, as shown below. To access the image editing tools, simply click once on the image you have inserted into your document or presentation. If you’re looking for an image to get started with, check out Lara Kirk’s post on five smart ways you can find images to use in your documents and presentations. The first step is to insert the image into your Google Doc or Slide.

However, Google Docs and Google Slides both include some basic image editing tools that are very easy for anyone to use! In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use each of the tools available to put your own flair on images. Image editing is one of things that can seem a little daunting.

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