Everyone here at TLC Creative Services is sending Christmas cheer with some PowerPoint holiday animation!
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And as I was just reminded this holiday season “There has been only one Christmas… the rest are anniversaries.“
– Troy @ TLC
Hope you have a great holiday. And thanks to Jennifer at the office who created this fun Thanksgiving Turkey entirely in PowerPoint!
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– Troy @ TLC
As a salute to everyone in the U.S. military for everything you do, and sacrifice – here is a tribute created in PowerPoint:
1. Great video loop from videoblocks.com
2. Image from istockphoto
3. Same image after some development work in Photoshop and saved as a .png with transparency
4. Image from istockphoto
5. Same image after resizing and development work in Photoshop, saved as a .png with transparency
Assemble all in PowerPoint 2010, animate and export as a video
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Troy @ TLC
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Just a little Halloween fun here at TLC Creative Services!
– Troy @ TLC
Okay, the title is a bit misleading for this one. It is not so much the presenter notes that are improved, but rather the way you open/close the presenter notes.
Here is my sample slide, which is not showing the Presenter Notes:
New in PPT 2013 is the addition of a NOTES button on the bottom of the UI.
Click the NOTES button and the Presenter Notes open – no need to fiddle with positioning the cursor and getting the double arrow cursor so you can click and drag to raise up and open the Presenter Notes.
Here is a video of the NOTES button in action
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– Troy @ TLC
Smart Guides were introduced in PowerPoint 2010 and are a great feature. PowerPoint 2013 has made the good tool even more usable. Smart Guides can now visually show when shapes are equally spaced apart from one another.
This feature is easier to see than explain, so here is a demo showing 6 boxes being aligned and equally spaced (and another great selection of background music).
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– Troy @ TLC
Using the Shape Combine/Subtract/Union tools TLC Creative designer, Jennifer, developed this great pumpkin entirely from standard PPT shapes.
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The development was basically 30 steps, which we captured as individual slides to create the video directly from PPT.
Here is what the slide looks like, which you can download here (47K) .
– Troy @ TLC
Wanda, one of our talented TLC Creative designers, developed this great Halloween themed template we are sharing with everyone.
The template is native to PPT 2010, 16×9 aspect ratio and features several layouts including a great animated title slide (Note: All elements on the title slide from the background to the cauldron and hat were created in PowerPoint).
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Download the full template here:
– Troy @ TLC
Some projects are perfect for PowerPoint even if they have nothing to do with a presentation. As example, I have completed dozens of website mockups for the sales team at TurnTo. Using a combination of SnagIt, Photoshop, and PowerPoint I can quickly develop an animated mockup of a webpage experience that provides an example of how the TurnTo technology could be implemented on a website.
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This video shows a PowerPoint presentation that is a mockup of a demo webpage – all with no HTML/CSS coding. Just one example of using PowerPoint outside of the presentation world and allowing me to work smarter and providing faster and more economical results for clients.
– Troy @ TLC
Marketing presentations for Pixar properties are always fun! In this slide, I was provided art from Toy Story 2 with the instructions to make it lively for the product introduction.
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Here is the slide with is composed of 3 animated images:
Animation:
1. The background image (picture 7) is oversize and uses a short motion path to make the sky move as Woody flies by.
2. The first instance of Woody flying is the image on the right (picture 4), which uses a custom motion path.
3. Finally, Woody flies back and stops in the middle of the slide with a simple Fly In animation.
Note: Images for this presentation are provided by client and cannot be distributed (so the editable slide is not available, sorry).
– Troy @ TLC