Shapes
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Last Updated: March 5th 2009
06/23/2009 04:55 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part III
Specifically, my office team was helping me with a review of Artlandia's new SymmetryWorks plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that lets me create organic looking patterns from all shapes. Since we are biased towards circles at this point of time, we decided to create a repeating circular pattern using SymmetryWorks. These patterns were intended as a starting point for PowerPoint backgrounds.
06/20/2009 02:50 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part II
I shared a few "circle" thoughts with you in the first post in this series: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part I -- and now it's time to look at some more circles. What could be better than an entire book on circles, and my favorite is a book that's entirely filled with color pictures of any sort of circular pattern that you might have seen!
06/19/2009 03:40 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part I
In this new Design Shape series of posts, I'll look at concepts that are not limited to PowerPoint alone, although you can expect me to relate them to PowerPoint in some way or the other because as you must have guessed it, I am in a circle that revolves around PowerPoint!
03/19/2009 04:40 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: 3-D Rotation Options
In this tutorial series, I showed you how you can play with all the effects available in PowerPoint 2007. This is the last tutorial in this series, and builds upon the previous tutorial that showed you how to apply 3D Rotation to a shape in PowerPoint 2007 (or higher version).
03/19/2009 03:34 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Apply 3-D Rotation Effects to Shapes
We have already covered all effects available in PowerPoint 2007 in this tutorial series except the 3-D, and we remedy that now with this tutorial where I show you how you can add a 3-D Rotation effect to a selected shape in PowerPoint 2007 (or higher version).
03/19/2009 02:44 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: 3-D Options (Effects) for Shapes
3-D Options seems like something that should work with the 3-D Rotation effect in PowerPoint 2007, yet it also works with other effects such as Bevel and Presets. In simple terms, 3-D Options let you format the bevel style of a shape with many more options that are available in the conventional Bevel gallery. You can customize options such as contour, contour color, depth, depth color, and materials. This detailed tutorial explains every option within the 3-D Options gamut.
03/18/2009 03:21 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Apply Bevel Effects to Shapes
We have already covered most of the effects available in PowerPoint 2007 in this tutorial series -- and now I show you how you can add a Bevel effect to a selected shape in PowerPoint 2007 (or higher version).
03/18/2009 10:54 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Apply Soft Edges Effects to Shapes
We have already explored a few of the effects that PowerPoint 2007 allows to be used on shapes -- and that's the reason they are called Shape Effects. Soft Edges are one of these effects, and we'll look at what you can do with soft edges, which adds an eaten-up, feathered edge to a selected shape. Soft edges work best with larger shapes, especially if you use some of the larger soft edge variations available. PowerPoint provides some ready-to-use soft edges, but there is no option to format soft edges beyond these readymade offerings. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to apply soft edge to a shape.
03/17/2009 10:58 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: More Glow Colors
In a previous tutorial, I showed you how you can apply a glow effect to a shape in PowerPoint 2007 (or higher version). In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can change the glow color.
03/16/2009 04:16 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Apply Glow Effects to Shapes
In previous tutorials, I have showed you how you can add preset, shadow, and reflection effects to shapes in PowerPoint 2007. Now I move on to the next effect: Glow. Glow adds a hazed color perimeter outside the shape area. PowerPoint provides several glow variations, and in this tutorial I'll show you how to apply glow effects to a shape.
02/23/2009 03:34 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Apply Preset Effects to Shapes
PowerPoint 2007 offers six effect types that you can apply to most slide objects including shapes. However there may be times when you don't want to go through the trouble of experimenting with these six effects to see if a particular shadow effect style works well with another bevel effect. If that sounds familiar, you will love the Presets option that combines effects that generally work well with each other.
02/23/2009 03:23 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Shape Effects
PowerPoint 2007 shape effects can be applied to selected shapes on a slide. There are six shape effects available in PowerPoint 2007: shadow, reflection, glow, soft edges, bevel, and 3-D rotation. In addition you also have presets. I'll explain each of these effects options in individually detailed pages. In this tutorial, I'll explain basics of applying effects.
02/09/2009 12:43 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Formatting 3-D Style
Although PowerPoint 2003 and earlier versions don't have a specific Effects category like PowerPoint 2007, they do have two effects -- these are shadows and 3D. In this tutorial, we'll cover the 3-D styles. Unlike shadows, 3-D styles only work with AutoShapes -- this leaves out pictures but you can always use a rectangle AutoShape with a picture fill to mimic a picture with a 3D style.
02/09/2009 11:32 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Formatting Shadows
We have already covered the fill and line options in PowerPoint 2003 and earlier. While these versions of PowerPoint do not have a dedicated "effects" set like in PowerPoint 2007, they do offer some effects like shadows and 3D. In this series of tutorials, we will first explore shadows.
02/05/2009 03:08 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Gradient Outlines
I have already showed you the different outline attributes in PowerPoint 2007. In this tutorial, the outline options series will conclude with this article on gradient lines. Gradient lines are a new feature in PowerPoint 2007
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