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How to Insert a Picture?
There are 2 ways to insert a picture.
Click Picture button on Insert tab or click Picture icon on right sidebar and click Insert picture.
![insert picture button](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/insert-picture-button.png)
![insert picture button](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/insert-picture-button2.png)
How to Set Brightness, Contrast and Transparency of Picture?
You can set the brightness, contrast and transparency of the picture on Picture panel.
![picture panel options](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/picture-panel-option.png)
How to Clip Pictures with Pre-defined Shapes?
You can follow the below steps to clip a picture to a certain shape.
- Insert a picture.
- Select the picture, and choose a pre-defined shape from the Predefined Clipping library.
- You can see 2 selection frames. The green one is for resizing the original picture, and the black one is for resizing the targeted shape.
- Click on the outside blank space, and the clipping is done.
- If you want to go back to the original picture and change to other shapes, simply click the below clip button.
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![predefined clipping library](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/predefined-clipping-library.png)
![picture selection frame](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/picture-selection-frame.png)
![clipped picture](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/clipped-picture.png)
![original shape button](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/original-shape-button.png)
How to Clip Pictures with Custom Shapes?
You can clip a picture to any shape that you want.
- Insert a picture.
- Draw a custom shape with Pen tool on Symbol tab. Set the custom shape with No fill for better adjusting the drawing.
- After finish drawing, select the objects, and click Intersect or Subtract button to clip the picture.
![inserted picture](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/inserted-picture2.png)
![create custom shape](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/create-custom-shape.png)
![crop picture with custom shape](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/crop-picture-with-custom-shape.png)
How to Change Picture Effect with Pre-defined Filters?
You can clip a picture to any shape that you want.
![recolor picture button](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/recolor-picture-button.png)
![recolored picture](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/infographic/recolored-picture.png)