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MargotT
Community Member
14 years ago

Adding a little Twinkle

Hi all! I have a series of images to use in a module, each is more or less the same but changes very slightly to illustrate an example.  I wondered is there a way to add a little animation of t...
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JillMcNair
Community Member
14 years ago

Hi Margot,

I had an idea so I tried it.  It may be more work than you want to do though.  What I did was duplicate the picture and cropped out everything other than what I wanted to highlight.  (You could get really fancy and remove the background in Photoshop or PowerPoint).  I then placed the cropped picture over the base picture.  I needed to increase the transparency of the cropped picture so I could get it positioned exactly right.  I then added a glow to the cropped picture.  I then played around with when it would show up on the timeline.  I decided to add a second copy of the glowing cropped picture so the glow would flash on and off twice.

One more idea for your collection!  

Jill

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MartiJordan
Community Member
6 years ago

Wow, this is 7 years old!  Jill, I hope you see this.  Your idea helped me so much!  I duplicated then cropped a shiny area on my picture, overlayed it in place, brightened it, animated it, and had it appear and disappear pretty quickly.  When you don't know it's coming, it's a perfect twinkle.  THANKS TO YOU.  ~Marti