There are many red and white Santa hats that you can quickly add to any photo using Word, Outlook, PowerPoint or any Microsoft Office app. I’ll explain where to get some Santa hats and how to add them to a picture.
A Santa Hat can add a little festive fun to a photo, like this selfie from Florence with “David”.
Where to find Santa Hat graphics
SVG graphics are easily resizable with no loss in quality no matter how big or small you make it, making it the best choice for a Santa Hat. Failing that a JPG or PNG image will do.
Modern Office supports SVG graphics (Microsoft calls them “Icons”) in Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and Office 2019 for Windows or Mac
This link will search for “Santa Hat” in Google Images, SVG only with Creative Commons licence.
Google Images has options to narrow the search, see the line of options starting with “transparent” and “drawn”.
Download the SVG graphic as a separate file and save to your computer.
Five steps to overlay one graphic over a picture
Putting one image over another the much the same in all Office apps, we’ll use Word.
It’s a simple five step process like this.
1. Add main image
2. Add second or more picture/graphics to the same page or slide
3. Change second and other graphics to ‘In front of Text’.
4. Drag and drop the extra graphic over the main image
If the graphic won’t move over the picture, make sure the graphic wrapping is set to ‘In front of text’ (Step 3).
5. Resize as needed
This is where SVG’s are really handy because they can be as small or large as needed without loss of quality.
Optional extras
Clone or copy the graphic
Copy then Paste to make copies or clones of the graphic to put in other places.
Rotate or Flip
Look on the Graphics Format ribbon for useful image options, like Arrange | Rotate to ‘flip’ the image. In this case, to make Santa’s pom-pom go to the right.
Grouping
Group the image and graphics together so they are treated as a single block. See Group and Ungroup objects in Word, PowerPoint and Office
To do that, the main or base image has to be changed to With Text Wrapping | Behind Text. Why? Grouped objects can’t be ‘In Line with Text’.
Here we’ve made two groups. One group for just the “Torlonia Santa Hats” then a second group inside that which adds the base image “Torlonia with Santa Hats”.
Use the ‘eye’ icons to show/hide any image.
Why Torlonia?
The base image is from an exhibition of the amazing Torlonia Collection in Italy.
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