I absolutely love adding photos and videos to my presentation. It just makes them so much more engaging. Let's go to our title slide where we put our name and come up here and click on the plus symbol. Let's start with Photos because they're a little bit easier to work with.

So as soon as you click on Photos over here on the right, you'll get a pop up, and this will allow you to search through the Adobe Stock Library. So if you don't have any photos today, go ahead and let's search for something. So let's say I want to talk about myself, and I'm a teacher, so I'm going to type in teacher here, see if I can find any teacherly photos. Those are usually individual people. There we go. I'll just click on that one, and later I can always replace that. You can see that there's a little spinning thing here because it's loading this high quality photo into the project.

Now that it's loaded, it I can click on the pencil and zoom in. I can move the picture around once I've zoomed in a little. Or I could zoom out now because this text, I don't want it over the top of my picture. This is a little bit tricky without having the text selected. You can see there's a hand symbol, and I can just drag and drop that text to a couple different zones. So I could drag it to the lower right, the upper right, so you could see I can do it on these corners or smack dab in the middle. So you just have a couple different areas. So that is something that you can work with.

Now if you click on the pencil and you've decided, okay, I want to delete this, or I want a different picture, you can just click on photo, come over here, and we can search for another photo. Or if you have a photo on your computer, you can click on Upload Photo and then navigate to the folder where it's at. I love to mountain bike, so maybe I'll put a picture of myself mountain biking on there. You could also grab photos from these other locations. You could take a picture right from your laptop using the camera on your laptop. Lightroom creative Cloud Dropbox Google Drive, which a lot of schools are using. If you want to choose Google Drive, you do have to click on this, and then it will ask you to connect to your school Google Account.

Once you click on that school Google account, you do have to choose Allow goes through this process of connecting it, and it doesn't look like it's connected, but if I click on the picture and go back to this three dots. The second time I do it. If I click on Google drive, it will connect. And I can either search by name or double click on any of these folders to find some of my media. Let's add a new blank slide and talk about video. Click on video. You do have to have your own video clips. I'll give you a sample file to play around with, but you do need to have your own. So I'm going to go ahead and click on this. I recommend the MP4 file format to keep your files a little bit smaller. And later in another tutorial, we'll show you how to convert a different file format into M P four.

Go ahead and hit open. And the first thing it's going to do, it's going to load your video and it's going to ask you to trim the video. Now, this video is, I think, about just under two minutes long. And if I scrub through it using this control down here, you can see that this is a video my brother shot of me snowboarding in the summer of 2022. And at the end, there's this cool shot of me going across this little pond here. So I think what I'd like to do is have this section and then the pond section. This allows you to control how much of the video that you include. Now you can see that it maxes out at 30 seconds. Let's say I want to go from right here at 50 seconds, and I want that ending.

You can hit save. That will load the video clip into that slide. This may take a little bit of time because it's essentially uploading video through your browser. So the faster your connection, the faster this process will take. Now that the video clip is done loading on here, you'll see that we have some controls right here. I can zoom in to the video. I can trim the video. So that'll just open up that trim window. Again, this means that there's more video that I left in there. And if you want to, it will automatically create a new slide and load that video into it. So I wanted to show you that I'm going to go ahead and click on this Continue clip. And it allows me to choose how much more of the video I want.

So let's say I want to finish it right there and I'll hit save. So now that that video clip loaded, you can see that I have the first one, and then it seamlessly goes into the second one. And you can tell because we've got this little arrow symbol here. Again, when you click on a clip, you can click on the pencil symbol and continue to work with these things, including the volume. And this is one thing that I wanted to show you. If you click on the volume, you get another dialog box that pops up here and you can choose to mute the volume. So take all the audio out from the video clip because there's already music maybe playing in your project. You can make it go soft or you can turn it up loud.

So if there was dialogue in this video, I'd want that dialogue to continue. I'd want you to be able to hear it. Even though there's some music playing, in this case, I'm already going to have some music in the background of my project. And I don't want the music from this to be competing. So I'm going to click on both of my clips here. Click on the clip, go to the pencil, hit the volume and mute that. So I am going to have to mute it on both of those. Working with video can be really pretty easy. It does take some time to wait for it to load, practice adding some photos. And if you have access to a video clip, try adding that video. So.