Tutorial

Animation : Morph Images By Rotating In/Out

Sometimes you want to give a little pizzazz to entrance of a new image. Here I added movement with a rotation to the images for something unique.
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This requires a bit of preparation, but everything is done inside PowerPoint.
○ Insert both images on the slide
○ The first image, that will be fading out, apply a FADE OUT and SPIN animation. I set the spin to be 40º and CLOCKWISE
○ For the second image, right-click and choose FORMAT PICTURE. Go to the SIZE tab and set the ROTATION (I set mine to 20º)
○ Apply a FADE IN and SPIN animation. Set the spin to COUNTER CLOCKWISE and the same rotation you set in the step above (mine is set to 20º)
○ Set all animations to WITH PREVIOUS
○ Set the animations for the second image to begin at a .2 second delay

The sample presentation can be downloaded here.

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:03:28-08:00June 30th, 2006|Tutorial|

Online Movie Tutorial : Export image from PPT to add PhotoShop Dropshadow

I have just completed a screen capture tutorial that walks through the process of exporting an image from a presentation, opening it in PhotoShop, adding a soft dropshadow, properly saving it out and then inserting back into the presentation. This is a 4 minute narrated online movie, because if a picture is worth a 1,000 words, seeing a real demonstration is worth hours of frustration! To view click here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:03:10-08:00June 28th, 2006|Tutorial|

Animation from One Photo

Working on presentations is always rewarding when the client or an audience member comments on the presentation. Sometimes I am caught off-guard by what is being praised, something I view as simple but they view as great. Here an example from a recent show.

Part of the project involved using a series of photos of the company product in use to create a walk-in looping presentation. I was given the photos, was to use black background and add some animation and slide transitions – GREAT freedom to have fun! One of the animation techniques I used in various ways was to duplicate the image a number of times, crop each duplicate, position and apply a streaming animation to add a little movement. Here is the one of those slides:

Here is what was done:
○ Duplicate the image four times (to have 5 images)
○ Crop four images down to just the person
○ Resize each cropped image to they became progressively smaller
○ Position in an arch
○ Apply a FADE IN and FADE OUT animation to each
○ Adjust the timing of the animations in the advanced timeline

○ Position the original, full image, and apply a FADE IN animation
The result is a simple slideshow on a single slide that moves the snowboarder across the slide finally resolving to the full shot. After 7 seconds the show auto advanced to the next slide.

The nifty thing is all of the work was done inside PowerPoint using the crop, resize tools and animations tools. Download the presentation here
(note: this is a widescreen 16:9 presentation)

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:02:48-08:00June 26th, 2006|Tutorial|

Double-Click Launches WRONG Version of PPT

If you have multiple version of PowerPoint installed on your computer, you most likely just experienced this issue (or you are about to). The latest round of updates & patches for Office reset the registry entry for Office, so it reverts to Office 2000 (if installed). What this means is that the quick-launch, when you double click an icon, opens the document in Office 2000. Kind of frustrating, but here is the fairly quick and easy solution:

(1) Close PowerPoint.

(2) Go to START >> RUN >> BROWSE

(3) Go to MY COMPUTER >> C: >> MY PROGRAMS and open the most current version of Office (the one you want quick launches to open)

(4) Inside the Office Folder locate the PowerPoint .exe file (careful NOT to select the PowerPoint Viewer) and click okay.

(5) The Run menu has automatically added the path to PowerPoint, at the end of this information (outside the quote mark) add /REGSERVER

(6) You will get an INSTALL, then a CONFIGURE dialog. When it is done, you are back to the quick launch doing what you expect 🙂

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:00:08-08:00June 17th, 2006|Tutorial|

Zoom In on the Advanced Animation Timeline

I know I have covered this as part of other tutorials, but here a quick recap of this highly useful trick.

Here is the situation: you want to create a “waterfall” animation for your text (where each line fades in, overlapping the previous fade in animation). You apply the animation, view timeline in Advanced view and go to slide each animation bar but get frustrated with it jumping around…

Try this: click on the word “SECONDS” at the bottom. Choose “ZOOM IN” and do this 2-3x’s. Now the animation pane has been zoomed in and the animation bars are much wider – making it easier to slide them precisely where you want!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:49:08-08:00June 11th, 2006|Tutorial|

Animation Sample – Move and Grow

This is a quick animation sample that I created based on yesterday’s posted tutorial. Here I start with a small image and combine a MOTION PATH with a GROW EMPHASIS and finally a fully size image FADE IN. The result is some visually dynamic onscreen action, that overcomes one of PowerPoint’s raster graphic limitations.

Click here to download the PowerPoint file (500k).

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:50:27-08:00June 5th, 2006|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Grow-Shrink Animation – Part II

This is a continuation of the Part I post on May 22. In this tutorial PowerPoint presentation I make a photo shrink and then grow back to its 100%, without any resolution loss. Okay, so it is a tutorial on how to use animation to fake it, but the results are great and it is a technique I use on many projects.

Click here to download the PowerPoint file (900k). The entire animation sequence is broken down into individual steps over 10 slides.

And there is a forthcoming part three, which is another technique for making an image grow, without resolution loss.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:51:10-08:00June 3rd, 2006|Tutorial|

Enlarge an Image (Part 1)

There are some great animation effects that can be achieved using the “Emphasis” animations. One of the more frustrating is the Grow/Shrink emphasis. I have a developed a two part tutorial to go into details on how best to use this animation effect. Download Part I here (1 MB PPT file).

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:53:41-08:00May 22nd, 2006|Tutorial|

PhotoShop’s Trim Feature

When creating presentations I spend a lot of time in PhotoShop. And a lot of that time is spent creating images with no background around the object so it can float anywhere on the PowerPoint slide. The TRIM feature in PhotoShop is invaluable – yet few designers have heard of it!

(1) So you have an image like this.

(2) You spend time in PhotoShop “cutting out” the image so it sits on a transparent background.

(3) Now you are going to save it as a .png with transparency. But any space around the image is only going to make for a larger file size (it is transparent space, so you don’t need it, or want it). Enter the TRIM tool.
In Photoshop go to IMAGE >> TRIM.

(4) Make sure the settings are like these.

(5) PhotoShop will crop the image down to the exact pixel dimensions of the image!

Now when you save the image as a .png with transparency you are assured of only saving the necessary file size!

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:54:02-08:00May 20th, 2006|Tutorial|

Bitmap and Vector Graphics

My friend, and fellow PowerPoint MVP, Geetesh over at Indezine just added a very good article on his website on what bitmap and vector graphics are. It is a very quick read and provides a good understanding of how these two formats vary, which is important when resizing images in a presentation. Click here to read it.

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:54:22-08:00May 18th, 2006|Resource/Misc, Tutorial|
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