Adding Photos to Your Charts and Diagrams

How Can Photos Enhance a Diagram?
Photos can transform an abstract diagram into concrete communication.

Imagine your next flowchart with stylish photographs illustrating a complicated process instead of just abstract symbols.

What if you could add faces to all the names on your org chart? Or illustrate a crime scene in vivid detail?

Imagine an accident diagram with actual photos of the crash. What if you could add x-rays and slides to your medical diagrams?

Would your customers be more likely to place an order if your forms and flyers had photos of your products?

Inserting a Photo into a Flowchart
You can insert a picture or photo (such as a JPG, GIF, PNG or other bitmap image) into your drawing by choosing Picture on the Insert Tab and browsing to locate the picture on your computer.

Unless you have already selected a place for the picture to go (such as a selected shape or a table cell) it will be placed near the upper left corner of your SmartDraw drawing by default. You can then drag it to any position you like.

Replacing a Placeholder Photo
You can also insert a picture into an existing Picture Placeholder on some of the ready-made SmartTemplates.

The placeholders are temporary images meant to be replaced by your real images. Double-click on the placeholder to open the floating Image Toolbar, click on the yellow folder icon, and then browse to the picture the same way you would using the Picture command on the Insert Tab.

You can delete a picture, or a picture placeholder, from the page like any other object, by clicking on it to select it and hitting the delete key.

Editing an Inserted Photo
To edit a photo, you can double-click on it and use the zoom and pan on the Image Toolbar.

Alternatively, you can select the photo and click on the Picture Tab to adjust the photo's brightness and contrast, and more.