Click in the cell and insert your image. (This may be a Copy and Paste job from another place or, if you have an image filed away somewhere you can Insert | Picture | From file . . . )

The image will arrive in the cell, lined up against the left and top edges. This may not be obvious at this time but if you click on the cell and drag out one of the corner handles to make the cell bigger it will be clear.

This is unlikely to be what you want. Pictures usually look much better in the middle, like this:

To achieve this positioning (or alignment) you will need the Table and Borders toolbar. Sometimes this pops up whenever you’re in a table but if it isn’t on display anywhere you can find it by going to View | Toolbars | Table and Borders. It's often useful to drag it off the toolbar and near to the place you're working. It will look a bit like this:

There are lots of useful buttons on this toolbar. The alignment one is on the 2nd row, 4th from the left. Click the little arrow and there will be a selection of 9 possible object alignments displayed. You need the middle one – centre horizontally and vertically. The image gets nicely centred in the cell. (This section of the toolbar can also be dragged off to separate (and it stays available instead of disappearing when not being used).

Now for a border or outside frame. On the top row are selections for the style of border, size or thickness of the border and the colour. The ‘normal’ settings are a thin black line. Pick a combination and then click on the border button (with a square on it in the illustration above). This should apply your selection.

An alternative style, colour or thickness can be selected at any time but won’t be display until you press the border button again. (You may have to turn the border off and then on again to apply the new selections.)

The next step is to add a background colour to the cell. Click in the cell and use the paintpot or Fill button on the Tables and Borders toolbar to open a range of colours. Pick a colour and that should be displayed in the cell. This can easily be changed and the result displays straightaway.

red flower

Once you have a nice combination of outside border and background, you may wish to add some text. To get text below the picture you will need to click just to the right of the picture (not on the picture!) where you should see the flashing black cursor. Then press Enter to go below the picture. It should be centred (as per the alignment setting you made earlier). Pick a suitable font and colour using Format | Font and enter the text you require.

For some illustrations you may also wish to add a border around the image itself. This can be achieved in the same way as for the cell. Click on the picture (so that the handles are showing) and then use the Tables and Border toolbar selections and buttons. The border will be around the edges of the picture this time instead of around the cell.

This illustrates the use of a plain black line around a picture.

A full page display can be made by re-sizing the cell and image appropriately (and possibly using Landscape paper) but you will need a good quality image to avoid degradation.