Power Point - Can you do this?
Mar 23, 2011
Hello,
I am trying to use Power Point to animate a scenario.
I have an office setting and a guy sitting on an office chair. What I want to do is to have the guy slide from out of his cubicle, then slide back in.
Where I am having the problem is getting that graphic to 'go behind' to other one, giving the illusion that he is sliding in/out of his cubicle.
At first (and I thought I was being quite clever here) I thought I could create a rectangle and bring it to the front, then make it transparent. I thought I was a genius! When I tried it.....guess what.....it was transparent. You could see right through the bloody thing. OK...time to re-group now and ask for help. I have spent over an hour trying different things.
Do you have any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks!
-Dave
I have attached a pic so you can see what I am explaining.
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Hi Dave - you could try creating a duplicate of the image, place it on top of the original, and crop it so that only the cubicle wall is showing. Then put your guy in between the two images so that the cropped image is concealing him till he slides out from behind it. I'm attaching a sample so you can see what I mean. The pptx is for PPT 2007/2010, The ppt is in case you have PPT 2003.
Brilliant!
I thought I was a clever clogs......but you got it nailed!
Thanks for the help Jeanette!
Cheers,
Dave
Okay, I ain't been round much lately and what Jeanette provided looks great.
Here's a second option I have used.
Make a copy of the empty office picture.
Put a green shape with no outline, large enough to cover the guy in the hall way.
Select the picture and shape.
Cut them
Paste back as a PNG
Recolor the shape to be transparent.
Make original picture the backmost picture.
Make the guy in the chair the next layer
Move the picture with the hole in it onto the top layer on top of the original picture.
Add a motion path to pull the guy in the chair into the hole and back out.
Jeanette, you hit it right on the head. You came up with the same layered solution I was thinking of.
Ooops... Very sorry I'm really late...
Solution from Jeanette is great. Just to add to to it - In the example she had provided, you could make a cubicle wall with a simple neat crop. But in instances like Dave's `Office Chair' example, its not possible to take a duplicate of the wall by a neat crop.
I don't have Photoshop, so I always use Power Point to cut out my images. You can use the freeform tool to stencil the image.
Luckily, I had downloaded the same images from elearningArt.
So I have attached the finished version of the same image, and some directions on how I did it in Power Point.Hope this helps...
Though I am late, I hope the attached file would serve useful to someone else.
Thank you Poornima - that is an awsesome tip! For folks who might want to see a visual walk-through of the process that Poornima suggests, Montse did a nice screencast with a similar example and you can watch it here: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204870467
Incidentally, for anyone who'd like to download a four-slide interaction that Tom created based on the cubicle guy posted above, check out this download.
This is too cool! Thanks for the download... you guys are great!
This is really nice. Thanks!
You guys make it so easy. Just being able to study the different PowerPoint slides and its attributes make this community priceless.
Hi
I had done something similar but for a different effect. Here I wanted to show a page out of a policy document. Check it out.
Regards
Sridhar
Sridhar,
That's sweet. Opens up a new avenue of thought for me.
Poornima , thanks very much it is brilliant
Sridar
thanks for sharing, it's simple, elegant and very impressive !
Sridar,
That is so clever!
Now, I'll be purposefully looking for instances where I can use that!!!
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