This document provides guidance on using images in PowerPoint presentations, emphasizing the importance of citing images even when they are public domain. It outlines copyright considerations, steps for saving images, and the correct format for citations according to APA guidelines. Additionally, it advises obtaining permission for copyrighted images and attributes that all web or scanned items must be credited to their original creators.

1. Adding Images to
PowerPoint
Correctly saving and citing images
Ellen Dickman
3/13/2013

2. What are public domain images?
 Free to use but you still must cite the image
What isn’t in public domain?
• Most digital images are protected by
copyright.
• Don’t think that if the registration symbol is
missing that it is free to use.
“Used with permission
from Microsoft”

3. But what if I can’t live without
it?
If you want to use an image for a
PowerPoint presentation and you
question it’s free use, obtain permission
from the copyright holder.
IDEAS
E-mail the author or
photographer
Call the publisher
“Used with permission from Microsoft”

4. Always cite!
Regardless of the
copyright status
you must cite
where you obtained
the image.

5. Badgers DO care!
Stolz, Gary M. Badger animal meles meles. [ Photograph]. Retrieved
from http://www.public-domain-image.com/fauna-animals-public-
domain-images-pictures/badgers-public-domain-images-
pictures/badger-animal-meles-meles.jpg.html

6. Standard APA citation of an
image
As a general rule, the following elements
are needed in the citation:
 Owner/creator/photographer/artist's
name, if known
 Date of image
 Name of Image in italics
 If no name, describe and put in brackets
 Retrieved from: URL if applicable

7. Retrieved from
http://www.public-domain-image.com/fauna-
animals-public-domain-images-
pictures/badgers-public-domain-images-
pictures/badger-animal-meles-meles.jpg.html
Author ( no date) Title of photograph
Description of image Retrieved from URL

8. More suggestions
If the image is scanned from a text or
retrieved from a journal
 Place of publication
 Publisher
 Date of retrieval utilizing online source

9. Choose an image that you like from the results list. Right-click on the image
(extended click for Mac users) and select "Save Picture As..." from the mouse
menu.

10. Select the location that you want to save the image in and click
'Save'. Do not click 'save' before you look at the location,
because you might not be able to find the image later.
Select “Save”
and remember
your location!

11. Helpful Hint!
Before closing your browser, try to open the
image you just saved, to make sure that
everything went well.
The last thing that
you want is to
discard a search
you spent time on,
only to discover
later that you cannot
use the image
because it has not
been saved “Used with permission from Microsoft”

12. Click on the slide that you want to
insert the image to
Created with PowerPoint presentation softwar

13. Green, Yvonne. Blood Pressure
Screening. [Photograph]. Retrieved
from:
http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp
Select Insert <
Picture < From
File...
On the 'Insert Picture'
dialog, find and
double-click on the
image that you want
to insert to
PowerPoint
Created with PowerPoint presentation
software.

14. Helpful Hint!
You will want to resize the
picture and don’t forget to
cite the image.
“Used with permission from Microsoft”

15. So….what do I cite?
Any items obtained from the web or
scanned from a print source should be
attributed to the owner of the
copyrighted work. This includes
photographs, paintings, or other works
of art, tables, graphs, and other
illustrations from primary or secondary
source materials. Youtube videos
should also be attributed.