It is possible to change the colour of clip art and to remove, move, separate or add various components to the clip art. Here are a few pointers to who to go about this. This only applied to some clip art, but you will soon know if it is applicable to clip art with which you are working.

To change the colour of various elements

Right click on the clip art image.

You will see a pop-menu appear.

Click on Edit Picture.

You should then click on the part of the image that you want to edit.

In the example below we wish to change the colour of the outer frame.

Notice the circles and squares highlighting the active selection.

Right click on the selected area.

Click on Format AutoShape.

In the window that appears check that the Colours and Lines tab is selected.

Select a new Fill colour by opening the colour panel (click on the black down arrow to the right of the colour panel)

Click OK

Notice that the outer frame colour has changed

To remove / move / copy elements of a clip art image

In this example we will remove the crown on top of the ladies head.

Click on the part of the image that you wish to remove.

Press the Delete button on the keyboard.

Repeat Step 1 until all the little parts have been removed.

If you depress the Shift key on the keyboard while clicking many components one after the other, you can select many component simultaneously.

After clicking all the elements of the bouquet, you can click and drag it to a new location.

We have now created a new clip art image of a bouquet of flowers and we will discard the remnants of the original clip art image.