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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 4 Issue 17 August 23, 2005
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue:
1. PPT - Animate multiple objects
2. Photo Editing
3. Useful Resource - Picasa
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1. PPT - Animate multiple objects
There are times when you want to animate multiple objects on a
slide at the same time. For example, sometimes I will have a
diagram where I want to emphasize three spots on the diagram
using circles that show the important areas. If I animate each
circle one at a time, I have to click three times to get all
three circles on the screen. One option you have when animating
multiple objects is to change the animation sequence to have
items come on automatically with the previously animated object.
This can be set after you animate each object and it allows the
three circles to appear at the same time, but it requires a fair
amount of work to animate each circle and then go in and change
the timing for the second and third circle animations. A quicker
way to achieve the three objects coming on together is the
following. Select each object you want to animate together by
clicking on the first object, then holding the Ctrl key down when
clicking on the other objects. In my example, I select the first
circle, then hold the Ctrl key down and click on the second
circle and while still holding the Ctrl key down I click on the
third circle. Now I release the Ctrl key and animate the group
of objects using the normal animation task pane. When you select
multiple objects, PowerPoint animates them at the same time,
resulting in the exact effect you want, without nearly so much
work. Try this technique the next time you want multiple objects
to be animated together.
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2. Photo Editing
I use many more photos in my presentations than I did two years
ago and I have shared in past newsletters some techniques for
using photos in your presentations. I have talked about the
importance of resizing and resampling your photos down to a
useable size (1024 x 768 for a full screen photo usually) and
have recommended IrfanView in the past (download it at
http://www.irfanview.com). Before you do the resizing, make sure
you have edited your photo. By editing I am referring to two
steps. First is cleaning up your photo, the second is cropping.
Cleaning up may include fixing red eye that happens when using a
flash for a picture of a person, low lighting in a photo or minor
sharpening of colors or other aspects of the photo. Cropping is
removing portions of the photo starting from any edge or corner
so you can have the item of greatest importance in the photo be
as large as possible. Once all of the editing is done, save the
photo using a new file name. Never save the photo to the
original file name or you will lose the original photo. I
usually add some phrase to the file name to indicate it has been
edited and resampled, such as "small" to indicate that it is the
small version usable for presentations and web sites. You can
use software such as Photoshop for these tasks, but it is an
expensive and very complex program to use. A great tool is made
available from Google called Picasa - it is my resource listed
below.
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3. Useful Resource - Picasa
Google bought a program called Picasa a while ago and earlier
this year released a second version which is better than the
first. It is primarily designed as a photo catalog tool, but it
has very good editing tools built in. It has tools for red eye
reduction, fill lighting (one of the best features in my opinion)
and color sharpening. It also has a good cropping tool that
works well for focusing an audience on the portion of the picture
you want them to see. It can do resizing and resampling, but it
is not as flexible as IrfanView in my experience. I recommend
you check it out at http://picasa.google.com.
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