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PowerPoint 2007 & 2010: How to Turn an Image Into An Animated Puzzle

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Make an Image Look Like a Puzzle. A presentation will open with an image of a whale overlaid with puzzle pieces.   Right-click the slide and select  Format Background. The Format Background dialog box will appear. Navigate to your own image, select it and click the Insert  button.

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Editing Images with PowerPoint

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Sometimes an eLearning course needs to be enhanced with an image , but finding the right one can be a chore in itself. It’s frustrating to locate an image only to find it just isn’t quite right. In these cases, it’s possible to tweak the image with a graphics editor. Background removal (2010). By Joseph Suarez.

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PowerPoint 2010: Adjusting the Saturation for a Clip Art Image

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In one of my recent Optimizing PowerPoint for eLearning & Presentations classes , I demonstrated how to adjust the saturation of an inserted image to take the image to grayscale. After the class, one of the students asked how to make this adjustment on clip art images. Ensure the picture is selected.

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PowerPoint 2010: Creating a Spinning Animation, Version 2.0

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After posting the first article, PowerPoint 2010: Creating a Spinning Animation , I got a tip from one of our readers, Konrad Schroth , for an alternate way to create a spinning animation. This method shifts the center axis to the tip of the original image and changes the axis from which the image spins.

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PowerPoint 2010: Creating a Spinning Animation

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Ensure the duplicate graphic is selected and flip it vertically ( Drawing Tools Format > Rotate > Flip Vertically ). Flip the duplicate horizontally (Drawing Tools Format > Rotate > Flip Horizontally ). When your clock hands spin now they will do so properly and look more like the image below.

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PowerPoint 2010: Using the Shape Union & Subtract Tools for eLearning

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Over the last two weeks I've introduced PowerPoint 2010's Shape Union and Shape Subtract tools.   Insert an image onto your slide in which you'd like to illustrate a "missing piece." The correct missing piece will fit perfectly into the image. Right-click and select Format Shape. by AJ George.

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PowerPoint 2007 & 2010: How to Turn an Image Into An Animated Puzzle, Part II

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On the slide, right-click one of the puzzle pieces and choose  Format Object. From the  3-D Format  category, in the  Top Bevel  area, change the  Width  to  5 pt  and the  Height  to  2 pt. From the Selection and Visibility Pane, select all of the puzzle pieces.