Can anyone suggest a way that I can simulate a folded piece of paper opening to reveal a word? I'm doing a scenario where the secret word is revealed at the end, and in the story, the word is written on a folded piece of paper. I thought it would be nice to simulate that, but alas, my artistic abilities are limited. I've made some pretty funny animations with my attempts though! Any pointers would be appreciated.
YES! That would work great! How did you do that? I can see that the shadows are important. Did you use 3 rectangles with 2 of them skewed, or are those 3 separate graphics? That's awesome!
Yep, it's mainly built with rectangles drawn in PowerPoint, with some shadows and gradients applied to make it look like folded paper. I also edited the points on some of the rectangles to make the corners look not-quite-square.
Couple things about that, though. On slides 2 and 3, I grouped the drawn shapes & text, and saved them as a PNG (you can do that by right-clicking the group, and choosing Save Picture As. Then I re-inserted the PNG onto the slide. This way, since the group is treated by PowerPoint & Presenter as a single image, it fades in more smoothly. Otherwise, the red text seemed to "ghost in" and it didn't look quite right. If you want to check out the actual drawn shapes for slides 2 and 3, or adapt them for your own project, I placed them on an unused slide master. You can go to View > Slide Master and you'll see them there.
Hope that helps! Just let me know if you have questions or need help customizing.
Thank you so much Jeanette! What I was missing was the LAYERING! I was trying to use pieces and move them around. That opens up a whole new world of possibilities for me! Thanks again.
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Hi there Lisa
- would something like this work? Folded Paper
YES! That would work great! How did you do that? I can see that the shadows are important. Did you use 3 rectangles with 2 of them skewed, or are those 3 separate graphics? That's awesome!
Yep, it's mainly built with rectangles drawn in PowerPoint, with some shadows and gradients applied to make it look like folded paper. I also edited the points on some of the rectangles to make the corners look not-quite-square.
Couple things about that, though. On slides 2 and 3, I grouped the drawn shapes & text, and saved them as a PNG (you can do that by right-clicking the group, and choosing Save Picture As. Then I re-inserted the PNG onto the slide. This way, since the group is treated by PowerPoint & Presenter as a single image, it fades in more smoothly. Otherwise, the red text seemed to "ghost in" and it didn't look quite right. If you want to check out the actual drawn shapes for slides 2 and 3, or adapt them for your own project, I placed them on an unused slide master. You can go to View > Slide Master and you'll see them there.
Hope that helps! Just let me know if you have questions or need help customizing.
Thank you so much Jeanette! What I was missing was the LAYERING! I was trying to use pieces and move them around. That opens up a whole new world of possibilities for me! Thanks again.
Glad to hear that! Would love to see what you come up with for your course, if you're able to share. Good luck with what you're building!
Nice work... AND very helpful!
Glad that this thread is still assisting users Christine :)
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