How do I watermark a picture using MicrosoftWord 2007?

[Kayla Henstridge]

Hello everyone,
I am in the process of making some invations for a little guys birthday
party and he wants the background to be Cars. So I go into the MicrosoftWord
2007 not knowing how to make it the background so I go for help. In doing so
I follow everything till I get to a step that says " under Image Control,
click washout in the color list and then click recolor." after that I was
stuck. There is nothing there for me to see that says "image control". I was
wonering if someone could help me with this ASAP. The invations need to be
done VERY soon, hopefully by tomrrow if so. HELP WANTED!!!

 

[Jay Freedman]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:08:01 -0800, Kayla Henstridge <Kayla

Hello everyone,
I am in the process of making some invations for a little guys birthday
party and he wants the background to be Cars. So I go into the MicrosoftWord
2007 not knowing how to make it the background so I go for help. In doing so
I follow everything till I get to a step that says " under Image Control,
click washout in the color list and then click recolor." after that I was
stuck. There is nothing there for me to see that says "image control". I was
wonering if someone could help me with this ASAP. The invations need to be
done VERY soon, hopefully by tomrrow if so. HELP WANTED!!!

I'm not sure what Help topic you were reading -- the one titled "Brand a
document with a watermark or background", and the subsection of it called "Turn
a picture into a watermark or background", doesn't mention anything about "image
control".

If the picture is already in the document, select it (you may have to open the
header area by double-clicking it before the picture becomes clickable).

The Picture Tools tab should now be visible above the ribbon, and under it is a
Format tab -- click that. At the left end of the ribbon are Brightness,
Contrast, and Recolor buttons. "Washout" (which is a value on the Recolor button
and also a checkbox in the Printed Watermark dialog) is equivalent to setting a
high Brightness value and a low Contrast value.

 

[CompleteNewb]

Kayla:

I'm using Word 2003, so some of these menu options may be in different
places and worded differently, but if you search help or look around in the
menus you should find them relatively easily.

If I understand correctly, you're using an external image (ie. a picture
located somewhere on your harddrive), and you want that to be behind all the
other text/objects on the invite, and dimmed out so be a sort of watermarked
pattern.

It sounds like you may not have inserted the picture yet. You need to
insert the image first; go to "Insert", choose "Picture" and then choose
"from file". Locate the image, and click OK.

Now the image should appear on the document. Now click once on the image so
it is selected, and go to "Format" and choose "Picture".

Click the "Layout" tab, and choose "Behind Text". Now click the "Picture"
tab and where it says "Image Control" click the drop-down box and choose
"Washout". Then click OK, etc.

If the picture is not where you want it, or is not the size you want it, you
can use the typical drawing tools to move and size it (click on it, and drag
the little corner handles to size, or just click in it somewhere to drag it
around and move it).

The only thing that can sometimes be a pain is that when you click to edit
text, if you don't click right where the cursor goes, Word thinks you're
trying to click the picture, so will select the picture again. You just
need to be careful where you click to put the cursor for editing text.

Have a fun party!

 

[Kayla Henstridge]

Hello Jay,
I just went online and typed in "watermark" in search because I'm not all
that good at making things when it comes to things like this, haven't gotten
to that stage in school yet. Doing that later on this year I do believe.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH. I just followed what you said and I now have it better
than how I done it in WordPerfect. Thanks, he will be happy now, you done
more for him than you did for me, thanks again bud..!

 

[Kayla Henstridge]

Hello CompleteNewb,
Between your post and the other guys post I managed to get it working. Got
the invites done now all I need to do is print them and glue them on bristol
board then pass them out for him, he will be happy times a thousand when I
show them to him. His whole party theme is the cars movie so he had to have
cars invitations and we couldn't find them in the stores no where so I had to
take it upon myself and make some for him so he would be happy and when I sat
dawn to do it, I got lost and didn't know where to start but you guys just
made not only my day but his day as well. Thanks again guys, your miracle
workers.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Wish him happy birthday for me!

Hello Jay,
I just went online and typed in "watermark" in search because I'm not all
that good at making things when it comes to things like this, haven't gotten
to that stage in school yet. Doing that later on this year I do believe.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH. I just followed what you said and I now have it better
than how I done it in WordPerfect. Thanks, he will be happy now, you done
more for him than you did for me, thanks again bud..!

 

[Kayla Henstridge]

will do, ill let him know that you were the one that was able to get his
invations solved out. thanks again.