Tutorial: Create cool character bubbles in PowerPoint or Storyline

That's GREAT, Jerson, thanks for sharing !

Any chance of very brief text version please.  videos are blocked at my place of work.

Thanks

Hi, matt

i know and appreciate how much effort Jerson puts in and he has been very helpful if the past, especially as some of the free stuff he has given the community is blocked at my place of work from downloading and he has been very generous then.

perhaps I didn't phrase it well but I wondered if it was just something as simple as 'crop to shape' or group and paste special.

thanks

michelle

Nice technique! Thank you for sharing!

Hi Michelle,

I've been wanting to start creating written tutorials with my videos, but time wasn't on my side for this one.  I was in the same boat as you where youtube wasn't allowed in my workplace, but I was able to get access to it by putting in a request to my IT department. The reason I told them I needed access to youtube was to view tutorials (like mine) on the software I use.

But here are the steps in a nut shell:

1. Place your character on the slide, copy and place a duplicate exactly over the previous character.

2. Hide the duplicate character(top one)

3. Crop the first character two square. Pay attention to how the limbs or head are cropped.

4. In PowerPoint or Storyline, go to format, and in the picture shape option select a shape you would like to use. I like using the circle. 

5. Modify the image by adding a fill, border, or shadow if you like.

6. Unhide the duplicate image and crop from the bottom. Crop it enough so that it looks like the duplicate and the image below it are the same.  (See original post image above)

You are a gentleman and a scholar! Thank you.

I am in IT, and have you tube access, unfortunately due to the complexities of IT web access and you tube sadly still most have 'error occurred'.

Still, nothing gets the day going like an It challenge

regards

michelle

Great tutorial as always Jerson. Thanks for sharing your creativity

Very nice!  Thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial. It's a good reminder for those who use PowerPoint for graphics development--always think layers. I think someone else posted a similar tutorial a while back where they had the character poking out of a door. Same basic idea, but they cropped from the side.

Jerson, thank you so much for such a simple and elegant technique! Of all of the ways of creating this effect, I think I like yours the best!

Thank a lot, Jerson. Simple but punchy technique, a great combo!

Pretty nifty trick, Jerson!

Thank you Jerson... love your characters

Glad everyone found this helpful.

@Christine, I had a lot of fun drawing the kid characters. I used Calvin and Hobbes as a reference for many of the faces.  I plan on putting out a few more kid characters in the coming months.

This is great, Jerson. Thank you!

Thank you for the great tutorial.  It will be very useful.

This is excellent, thank you so much for sharing.

Very useful thank you.

Look's great! I'll have to give it a try :D

Awesome work