Easy Graphic Design with PowerPoint

1. How to Create Any Graphic Design Inside Powerpoint: Take a look at the beautiful Crew Dragon capsule by SpaceX. Isn't it magnificent. Oh but wait, this is not a real photo, right? But it does look really good. You can absolutely recognize it and believe it or not, I created it with PowerPoint. Here are all the individual parts that compose this graphic. And I'm going to admit something. I have 0 design skills, no exaggeration. I cannot draw anything by myself. I'm pretty bad when it comes to choosing colors, making never seen consistent and coherent, etcetera. But what I do know how to do is how to make full use of PowerPoint to arrive at these kinds of results. And I promise you that I can easily teach you how to do exactly the same. Maybe you already guessed it, but the technique is rather simple. I don't actually draw anything from scratch. I reproduce graphics on top of existing pictures. Here is the original image that I used to recreate a capsule. So I recreated the individual shapes, colours, shadows, highlights, and depth effects. All of this in about 30 minutes or less. And only inside PowerPoints, no other software was used that any moment. So in this course I will show you exactly how to do that. And most importantly, all the little techniques that make the biggest differences, we will really get deep into PowerPoint capabilities. You will be able to create your own graphics for any kind of purpose, like illustrating your videos, creating your thumbnails, banners, logos, and everything that you want basically. And here's another example why this technique can be useful. To take a look, I guess you recognize who this is. This was one of my first attempts quite a long time ago, and I'm not saying that that's particularly beautiful. I did not put much effort into it, but it does the trick. You instantly recognize the queen of the UK, even though her face and hence look really weird. So for one of my videos, I needed to show a picture of her. But for some reason all the actual photos were extremely expensive. I couldn't pay several hundreds of dollars to buy the rights for a picture. That was a minor detail in one of my videos. And I couldn't find any free picture of her. Instead, I recreated her inside PowerPoint in a few minutes and my problem was solved. I had my illustration. I did not overpay, and I didn't infringe any copyrights. However, just to be clear, this is only an example and we are not going to do the queen as the project in this course. For now, we will only reduce the Crew Dragon capsule, but it's more than enough for you to master all the aspects of this approach. Also, when I say that it takes 30 minutes to reduce the Crew Dragon I needed when I'm doing it by myself. Obviously when I'm going to teach you and explain all my steps, it will take more time. So the actual lengths of the projects in this course is obviously longer because of that. Finally, just one last thing about me. If you want any proof of my PowerPoint skills in general, I'm also the author of the bestseller course called How to create animated videos with PowerPoint, which has thousands of students and reviews. And if you've taken that course, you know that I'm really trying to push PowerPoint to the limit. And it turns out that it's a pretty powerful software. You can do a lot of things with it. So I'm really excited about this course and I can't wait to teach you this techniques, so you can use them for your own projects. Hopefully, I'll see you inside. 2. Introduction: Hey there and welcome to this course where I will teach you how to draw absolutely anything that you want using PowerPoint, even if you have no design skills. And this is how we're going to proceed. I don't like theoretical approaches. So right after this video, you'll open up your PowerPoint and we will start working right away. I think the best way to learn is hands on to practice as soon as possible. So I'm going to show you and explain how I do everything. And all you'll need to do is to repeat after me. Now, there are a few things to know. Sometimes I will be doing things on my screen that will seem a bit long or repetitive. There is no way around it. A lot of these moments, I accelerated the video for you to make them less boring. However, keep in mind that you also have the option to accelerate the video playback yourself. In the bar below. You can either watch the full video of faster or just the moments that you feel like you already know or understand. And lastly, I'm using PowerPoint Office 365 subscription version on windows. And this is the one I recommend in this course. Most of the things should be possible in older versions as well, except the bonus morph effect at the very end of each project, which I think is only available in the latest subscription version. But there might still be minor differences, just as there will be differences between Windows and Mac versions. So this is something I cannot guarantee. If you don't see the effect or the button and clicking on, it means that you don't have the latest subscription version of PowerPoint or it doesn't exist on Mac. And I wouldn't be able to help you in this case, just skip it and keep going. Whatever you can't do, you can't do. And so that's pretty much it without further ado. Let's start the first project. 3. Introduction - Setting the background and the model picture: Hey there. So let's start with the first project where we are going to draw the Crew Dragon capsule in PowerPoint. So first of all, what we need to do is to find the image of a crewed dragon or anything that you would want to redraw in PowerPoint. So let's go and Google. And here you can type Crew Dragon, go on images. And here you would see tools, and here you would see sort by license. And here you will need to select, reuse and modification authorized. So this means that the image should take from here, you can actually use it for your own projects under some certain conditions, of course, but usually they are explained pretty clearly on the webpage. Also, you can click on Size and select large and then doublets This one. Yeah, alright, take this one from Wikimedia Commons, right? When you click here on Wikimedia Commons, you can find pictures that you are authorized to reuse. However, you still have to check under which conditions and usually you need to give at least the credit to the author. In this case, it's nasa SpaceX obviously. So then you just click on this image, right-click and save this on your PC, and then you go back to PowerPoint. So let's click to add the first slide. You can delete these squares here. And let's first insert that crew Dragon picture. So it will be a bit messy as you'll see, in order to draw this things, you will have a few slides. You will need to go back and forth between slides. But basically the idea is the following. We will create objects and shapes on top of this image. And then we will try to make them look as close to this image as possible. However, one of the problems PowerPoint is that for example, if you insert something here, let's say you insert this and then you want to work with this. You will very often accidentally click on the image and you will move it and it will be super annoying. So in order to overcome this problem, what I do is that I will copy all of that and set it as the background on the next slide. Okay, so you inserted this picture here, then you click here to make it full screen. And then you press the Print Screen button on your PC, right? So you copy this, you create a new slide. Here. Again, delete all of that. Then you do a right-click format background. Here, you choose picture or texture field, and then you choose clean board. Okay? So now you have this picture on the background and you cannot move it anymore. So it's not going to be annoying. You will not have these problems where you accidentally just move everything around. And once you have this, now you can actually start redrawing the capsule itself. 4. How to create any custom shape: So there are many elements here, right? And as I said, it will not look exactly as on the picture. Obviously, that's the whole point. So you need to try to figure out which are the main elements here that she would like to see on your own picture. And I would say, we should start with this part here. Alright, let's start with this part. This is very simple. So in PowerPoint, you can insert many shapes, right? There are many, many shapes and you can also create custom shapes. So what we're gonna do is that when you see a shape here that resembles more or less the one that you want to recreate here, then you're going to choose it if you don't see it. And then we'll use custom shapes. But for this one, I see that for example, this shape here could fit. Alright, so whatever, left, right. Let's put it here. Let's try to position it as closely as possible to the actual shape of that thing. Yeah, more or less like this. And here's like this. Obviously, this is not the total how it looks, but no worries. The first thing that you have to do is click here and take out the outline. So Shape, Format, Shape, outline, no outline. And then you make a right click, format sheep, and you add transparency. So this is temporary. You will need to add transparency to all the objects that you're creating in order to see behind, right? In order to shape them exactly as the original picture. So don't do it too transparent or you will not see anything. And don't do it. Not enough transparent. So you don't actually see what's behind. So yeah, something around 40% is probably good. So then you can close this. And now we need to change this shape. And there is a really cool feature in PowerPoint that we're going to use a lot. It's once you've created your shape, you click on it. And then in shape format, you can click on Edit Shape. And here edit points. Okay? Now you can move this points around and also set them and do things like this. So I will go back and I will zoom in. So in order to zoom in, you can either use this bar here or just push control and then rotate the wheel of your mouse on Windows, right? I don't know how it is on Mac. So what you need to do here is try to put this points exactly to make the shape of this like cylinder here. Let's try to do this. As you can see, you can always push the black points here. Each of these black points has a bar like this, which you can extend and then decide how the rest of it looks. And you can also right-click on each of these points and select whether these are corner points, straight points, or smooth points. If you click here, it will make it a bit more smooth around that area. But for now, I think that corner point shouldn't be enough. Culture go back like this is better. Alright? So let's try to put this here. Let's try to put this one here, right? You start by putting the corners where they should be. And this one probably hear something like this. So as you can see, it's not exactly as it should be. So then you click on this point here. And by the way, watch out. You really need to click when you see this symbol appearing, right? Because if you see this symbol appearing, it will actually add a new point. Alright? So you really need to click. It's a bit annoying, but you have to see this symbol with this four arrows. So click here and then you see this bar. And now try to set it up as closely to the original image as possible, right? Like this. And so if you see that this doesn't work, keep playing around with it. Alright, Kipling around. I would rather live it like this. Oops. Because again, it does not have to reassemble exactly the original picture. It just has to look more or less like it. Okay. Not this one. Put it here. And again, play with this. So how does it look? Okay, it looks more or less as I would want it to look good. Let me move this one around, more around here. And you can actually do this. It's a tedious work. But as you'll get used to it, you'll do it much faster eventually. 5. Creating custom shape - Part 2: Alright, so now let's say we have that sheet. Obviously it's not finished, nothing and the color here does not correspond to anything. But what you have to do is to keep creating other shapes here that you will want to see on your final picture. So let's try now. So this is going to be a bit massive, but let's try to do this whole capsule here itself. Alright? So insert shapes. And I don't actually see a shape that would fit, right? I don't necessarily see a shape that would fit. So in that case, you can click here, and this is a free form shape. When you choose it, you can actually select points like this. You'll see in the line and click here. You can click here. Click here, click here. Like this. Alright? Of course it looks like nothing great. It looks bad obviously. So the whole point is to keep improving it. Now once again, you should right-click Format Shape and make it transparent around 40. And ideally choose another color, whichever you prefer, where you see the best. The point here is to be able to differentiate this sheep from this shape. So for now, don't think about the actual colors. Just choose any color that you like, okay? And of course, shape, outline, ticket up. So I pick this color and now we have to add that this shape again to try to fit it as closely as possible to the original image. So once again, it, it shape and it points. Let's start. For instance, this point here, we could make a right-click and choose a smooth point. Right? That will probably correspond a bit better to the shape of this thing here. Okay? It always keeps moving around. And this one also, let's make it smooth. This it makes it a bit more round. Here. Smooth point. Is this one also like this? Ok, so we're getting closer to the shape. But don't worry if it's not exactly as it's supposed to be because you will be able to edit all of this later on. All right. Let's say I will keep it like this for now. 6. Creating a complex custom shape - Part 3: And now we will keep going like this for this shape here. So as you'll see here, I will obviously not redo every single one of these shapes because it would just take way too much time. So what I'm doing is I'm really trying to select the shapes which I think are the most representative or like the biggest features, the most visible on an image, right? In such a way that once you see the finished image from PowerPoint, you'll recognize the object that you tried to recreate. So obviously, some of these things will not play such an important role as you'll see. But this one here is extremely important, right? Let's take a look at the finished image. As you can see here. This is a very striking characteristic, so we need that one. All right, so let's try to redo this. For this, I will once again use this shape. But as you'll see, the way I did it the first time, you don't need to actually do it like this. So you can simply start here, go here, then go here, then go here, here, here, here, and here. All right, it looks super weird. But you don't actually need to follow exactly these corners because you do this later by playing with this little black points. Alright? So let's choose a very different shape, color, shape, outline, and form a cheap transparency. 40%. What you can also do is that if this bothers you, you can hide that part here. So there is a very interesting panel here on home and select. There is a selection being here. You'll see all the objects on your slide. And you can just see them for the time you need. Okay? So I just deselect this one. And I'll close this. So click here, shape, format it, its shape and edit points. Let's start doing that. We'll probably have to convert all of them to smooth points once again. So right-click smooth point, or maybe not all of them. It really depends on the situation. This one for sure. By the way, when you're stuck and you see that this does not answer exactly as you want to. It means that you need to add more points. So you can click on the line here when the selector changes and you can add another point. Alright? So let's say for me this was not satisfying. So I added another point which I made smooth once again, like this. And that's when you try to make it look as close to this picture as possible. So does this look like this? Yeah, this is fine. What about here? Okay, This Changes Everything great. So keep playing with this until you get to the most satisfying result. Pretty sure here I'll have to add the point or maybe not. They may be this one should be a straight corners or corner point like this. What about this one for white corn knows well, yes, sometimes corner points feed better. It's really up to you. You really have to see what fits better. And this one, I'm pretty sure I'm going to leave this corner point because it's like sort of sticky in the end. Made several mistakes. So when you do this, just go back like this. And that's it and probably leave it as it is for now. And so here, select, selection pane. Already have some of the shapes, right? Some of the main shapes. But of course, this has far, far from over. 7. Creating an easy custom shape - Part 4: So now let's redo these wings here. So this is much easier. Ok, go and insert shapes. And you choose once again this free form. But it's going to be much easier. So drag a straight line like this, another one like this, and like this, and like this, and here we go. You can also do the other one right away. This here and here. Try to really follow the original shapes, but then you can select both of them by holding the Control key. Take all the outline. And for now you know what? We don't even need to edit them. We can just leave them as it is because these are straight lines. So it's very easy to do, like anything that has straight lines is super easy to copy. Obviously, everything that does not have straight lines is a bit more complicated. So before we move on to the other very little details like here and here, let's already start doing some cool stuff around this area here. And then we will finalize everything later. So I'm going to change the order a little bit. Originally. I didn't plan to do it like this, but it really doesn't matter. And I think it's, it's probably more interesting if we see some of the cool stuff before. 8. Setting the right colors and gradients: So now what you need to do, the first thing is to choose the colors which correspond as close as possible to this original image here. And this is very easy. So since we have a background here, you should go back to the previous slide where we have this picture copied. Control-c, Control-V inputted here somewhere around your slide. Now, let's say that you want to set the color of this thing the same as here. Like more or less. You just go to Shape, Format, Shape, fill, eyedropper, and then you select the color that you want here. Okay? You can do like this for this one, shape fill eyedropper. We're going to use it a lot. And this one, shape fill, eye dropper and S1. Alright, so you see some shapes here, but obviously they don't look anything close to that image here. So how did it arrive to this result here? Let's keep going. First of all, what is a really easy thing to do is to choose a gradient color instead of one plain color. So make a right-click Format Shape. And here, choose gradient, right? These are all the colors that you're going to have here. And I always advise you to simply delete the middle ones. So you click on them, and then you click on delete and delete. Now, let's say that you want to set this color here on the left and something like this. So here is color. You click here, you once again go on, eyedropper. Select this. And let's say that the second color you want it to be more dark blue. So you choose eye dropper and you go here. Here you can choose the angle, right angle, and how far away this transition happens. So the angle, try to match it as it is here. Alright? You can also, if you think that a 100 or 90 doesn't fit, and you can also write here like 95, and then you have the angle here that you want. So this is the first step to make your shapes here look a bit more realistic away. Now, it can do the same for this one, right? Gradient field. Once you use it, once, it will propose you to use the same colors as before, but obviously that's not what you're gonna do. So this one here, select eyedropper, lets say this. And this one here. Again, let's say this, right? It's not exactly the same. And the angle should probably be a bit different, right? So it goes more like this. Okay, what did I do here? Oh, I added two times the colors. So I'll just delete this. Ok. So you see the angle is not the same here it's like this, and here it is like this. Well, I made it a little bit different. So this is the first step, right? You'll create the shapes and then you set a color that you take from the original picture. And you try to reproduce the gradient, right? Because there's usually some level of gradient and when you reproduce it, it looks a bit better. So I didn't do this one's here, I'll make it simpler. I'll just take this color here and here as well. And eye dropper like this. Ok. Now this one actually has the same thing. So let's do it real quick. Format, Shape, gradient field. The first color shouldn't be this one, and the second color should be visible. And the angle here is a bit more strict. Like this. Okay? 9. Shadows for depth effect - Part 1: So now that we're done with this, let's create a cool effect here, which is a shadow, it's an eternal shadow. So you'll click on this object and you'd go and Shape, Format, Shape effects, shadow. And for now, let's just use this one like inner. Alright. So it'll lead you looks more interesting. I think you see where I'm going with this, but it's not over. So you can go and shape effects, shadow, shadow options. And here you can do all the options of your shadow, right? So let's say I wanted to put this a bit further. Like let's say I want to make this a bit more blurred, like this. Let's say six. Let's say I want to make it a bit more distant. Like nine, as you can see that this is what it does. Let's say, put it like nine angle. I think I like 295. And the transparency, right? So you can make your shadow white like more or less visible. So let's say like something like this. So this looks interesting. Obviously it's far from perfect. I would change some points here. That's the cool thing is that once you finish your objects, you can still change their points. So for example, let's zoom in. I'm not very satisfied with the fact that you see here this behind. So I'm gonna go on Shape Format as it shape it hit points and start over here. Let's see what happens if I turn it into a street corner like this, okay, that was good there. But to change everything here, I might meet two points here, after all. Bit annoying. So alright, yeah, probably two points is a better solution here, right? When it doesn't work at the point. Simple. All right. I think it's a bit better now, although it should touch the other. Alright? Okay. I prefer it like this, so it's getting better. 10. Shadows for depth effect - Part 2: Alright, so now let's compare these two images. We have some of the shapes which we still need to improve. Of course, this is not definite at all. And there are many other details that we should decide whether we include them like we reproduce them or not. So one of the most important details on this capsule, other shadows here, right, the shadows, This is really beautiful and it's very complicated to do. I mean, it's, it's rather complicated to do everything that the shadows gradient like this. It's not going to be easy. But of course, I have a way to do some of them. So in order for this picture not to bother us, you can delete it for now and then you can zoom in again. So what you need to do first is to unseat this thing here. So you go and selection pane and you click here. We need to see the original picture so we can copy these shadows, right? You can see that this is quite the characteristic thing. It kind of pops out in this image, so we might want to use that. So insert shapes. And let's do a super basic triangle like this. Alright? So here we have it. Let's try to do it. Okay? Shape, outline of course, as usual, and now Edit Points and let's try to make it a bit more smooth. So or maybe actually limit leg, this leg of this, it also works, right? It's, it's not a big deal. Alright? So the shape is here. Now we need the color of that thing. So you can either take the previous image here or you can just move this a little bit, shape fill eye dropper and select this color here and then move it back. Okay? Of course, this still does not look like a proper shadow because it has this rough edges. And so here you can go and cheap Format, Shape effects soft edges. And let's say you select this one right here, five points. Let me take back the other picture. Alright? So this is what we created. When you select Shape effects soft edges, it makes the sheep smaller, of course, because it sort of cuts out the edges. So now you need to make it bigger, proportionally bigger. So in order to make this object proportionally bigger, on Windows, you hold control and shift, and then here on the corner, you make it bigger. Alright? So tried to make it as big as necessary. Ok. This actually already creates us every semblance of a shadow. Alright? As you can see here, it's not so bad. So let's keep doing it with this one. Okay, select, selection pane. Here, insert shapes. Let's do another one. Like this, like this, and like this, I will zoom in a little bit here, shape, outline, and itchy and get points. Just make it slightly more round. Nothing crazy. Like this. All right, this looks more or less like this other original shadow. Okay, this is good. And now you can shape fill with this color and put it here. And let us also do this one. Looks a bit weird, but let's do it. You'll see it's, it's really necessary. So Insert Shapes, angle. It looks something like this, right? I'm not sure but shape outline, points. You don't need to be super accurate here. Okay. Shape fill, eyedropper here. And let's put it here. Alright, now we can see once again are shaped and apply the other effects. So shape effects, soft edges, five points. It made it shrink. Now you hold again control shift and you make it bigger, as big as, as necessary. So bit's, okay. Alright, it starts to look good. This one to ship effects. So edges, we almost don't see it going bigger. By the way, if you have trouble moving it precisely with your mouse, you can use the arrows on your keyboard. Ok, you can see that this shadow here is barely visible, but it does give a contrast overall. Ok. If you want, you can click here and you can click on shape, fill more fill colors. And here you can just decide to put a slightly stronger color like this, right? So it's a bit more visible now. Now you can move it a little bit like this so you actually see the shapes that she wanted to reproduce. I believed that this one should be updated a little bit more and be a bit closer to this edge here. Alright. Let's take a look at the original picture. Yeah, that's more or less how it looks. So as you can see, we already created a really cool 3D effect here, just with this objects here and the shadows. And this were the main things that you should master, right, is to create shapes exactly as you want using this eight points. That's the first thing. Then apply gradient colors, then applied effects like this to create shadows and also create your own shadows using shapes and then applying smooth edges on top of them. As you'll see, as we move forward, we will still change some of these things, right? We will replace, we will move objects around so that they fit better and better. The picture that we want to create. 11. Custom circle shapes - Part 1: Alright, now let's keep going with all the other details that we need to finish this drawing. So I'm talking about this front part here is actually quite complicated. So let's see what we can do. First of all, go back here and let's hide this part for now. Okay, oops, not here. Select, selection thing. You hide this part. So it doesn't bother you. Let's start by recreating this hatch here. So as I said, I'm absolutely not in coin to recreate every single metallic piece here or anything like that. It's unnecessary, right? What we need is an illustration, right? We don't need to do it exactly as it looks in the picture. So insert, so this is a circle obviously, right? So sheeps oval and try to make it as close to that one as possible. You can also rotate it like this. Let's zoom in. Alright. So this is close to what we are looking for. And what I would do here is once again, let's make it transparent. And let's create a border, this time, like an outline, okay, a big one. Like let's say six. The outline should be of this color here. So click here, shape, outline, right, dropper, and select this brown color, right? So as you can see, it's already close to it. And now we're going to simplify everson from here and the shape fill just make something great. Whatever. I choose one of these dark, grey or almost black colors, or let's say actually more like this, like lighter, something like this. And now let's not make it transparent anymore. And let's just make the illusion as if we were seen inside these hatch, right? So you go and shape affects shadow. And once again you choose this shadow here. And then you'll click again on shape effects, shadow and shadow options. So transparency will leave it at the same level. Here. Let's try to increase the blower like to 11. And the distance is the most important here, right? So you want to make it look as if it was going deep inside. So let's see 20. And I don't like the angle. So let's increase the angle. Yeah, 350. So if we look back with our main shape here, either already, it looks like something rank, it's amazing of course, but we're getting there. So let's take it off again. 12. Custom circle shapes - Part 2: Now let's recreate this kind of circle here, right? As you can see, there is this area here. It's not gonna be easy. It's not gonna look exactly like this. But let's try to make something close to just this part here. Once again, insert and choose oval. Make it as big as this actual area itself. And by the way, you can also change the points of a circle, right? So right now I am not able to make the circle exactly as I want to. So you can go back like first of all, let's make it transparent. Often forget this. So make it transparent. And then you go Edit Shape, Edit Points. You actually can do it on a circle. Alright, so then you change your circle a little bit and you can fit it even more. As you need. Ok. Like this. What I will do here is that I will choose a transparent fill. So no fill and outline output. Wife just for now. And then you click again on Outline. Weight and more lines here. And here you see the width. So put this as big as possible, right? And I don't know, maybe that's not enough. Let's click more. Surely. Yeah, let's leave it like this for now. We will see later. So now you can adjust it a little bit more once again. And now the points look pretty ugly. It's not as it was supposed to be. So let's try to fix this. It did shape, it points. Right? Let's try to make it look good. This is very annoying when it sort of cancels everything. But what can you do have to do with this? No choice. Okay, we'll keep doing this later. So what I wanna do here is, first of all, Let's apply this color, Shape, Format. Shape. Phil, I drop or let's apply this carl. Oops, nope, it's not here. It's actually the outline. Outline. I dropped her like this. And now let's go and shape effects and make once again those soft edges. Rather hear soft edge options. And let's make, let's increase the size. Okay, so when we make it softer like this, it obviously also makes it thinner. So as you make it more soft, you should also increase the width of the outline. So. Let's go back here. Outline, weight, more outline and here width. Let's make it even bigger, even bigger actually, let's make it bigger, bigger and bigger and bigger. You know what? Let's make it actually bigger and then softer, right? I know it's weird, but we are trying things here. Let see how it looks. Let's see what the end results going to be. No idea. So sheep effects soft edges. Let's play with this again and make it even softer, right? Something like this. Okay. Who knows? Maybe it's gonna look good. I don't know yet. We'll see, you know what? Let's actually make it smaller. 5-legged this. And it looks weird because we don't see the hatch in the front. So click on selection pane and let's put this hatch in the front here. You can move it upwards. Now at least we see a bit more what we're doing here. So I don't really want to see this back part here. And I feel like the angle of this thing is not correct. So you can go and shape effects, 3D rotation and 3D rotation options, and let's try to rotate it in order to align it with the rest of the capsule. So this is here. Okay. I actually don't know exactly which ones this thing correspond to. But here, that's the one you see. Now it looks a bit more like it's aligned with everything. So you tried on your side, you gave each one of them like x, y, z, rotation, whichever looks the best, and then you apply it. And now let's try to move this thing a little bit on the left here. So it seems that there is less border there, van here, OK. And let's once again show the shape that we created here. So select, selection pane here. Alright? Okay, it's not ideal, but it's something as usual, right? We see that there is this cone here, like this one. And maybe what we could do is apply an additional shadow onto it. Okay? So let's go and Shape Format, Shape effects, shadow. And here choose this shadow, right? Outer shadow, not inner shadow but other shadow. So once again, shape effects shadow and then Shuttle options. Let's make it a bit to less transparent. Let's make it bigger. Let's make it blurrier. Even more. So here the angle, and let's rotate it even more. And there's the right direction. Let's say like this. And the distance, let's make it five. Okay? So this gives the impression of this 3D coordinate here, okay? So it's not ideal. But it works for us at this point. You can then align this thing with the rest of the capsule, right? Even though it's not exactly how it looks on the original picture, but who cares, right? It doesn't matter. 13. Custom circle shapes - Part 3: So it starts to have some okay shape. And now let's look here once again. And I would like to try to reduce this sort of light grey metallic ring here. So let's hide this once again. Selection pane height. And we will also highlight this and probably this. Okay, so we don't need a Torno. Insert Shapes. Obviously this is going to be an oval. And once again, we're going to try to match it to this. But no fill. Outline should be bigger like over the size of that thing. And now we're going to edit the points. Let me get closer here. It, it, it, it points. So I'll try to match this. Think as closely as possible. Okay. Not bad. Yeah, this is good. I forgot to make it transparent, but if I hadn't made it transparently would have been easier. So yeah, I think I want to keep it like this. Alright. Now let's make this of that color, shape outline by dropper, end here. And now let's add some effects on this. So first of all, a right-click Format Shape. And here you can create some settings for this whole ring. So here you have thinks like sketched style, compound type, or dash type, and you can play with them. So this one, we don't need this, right? It's when you make straight objects. And then the PowerPoint software tries to make it sort of like a sketched style, but that's not what we are doing here. So rather click on compound style and let's see what this can look like. Some of these things do look a little bit like that other thing here, maybe this one, I don't know. Alright, so in order for us to assess this better, now once again, I would like to bring back the main shape and this and see how it looks. It looks bad, right? It really looks bad. Doesn't look interesting at all. So, how could we make this better? Let's see what happens if I make some shape effects and soft edges disappears completely up. Okay? Maybe we can try this. B will are beautiful. I don't know how you pronounce this. So this creates some interesting stuff. Okay. Let's try it with this. Shape effects. You will 3D options. Let's see what we got here. Actually like this one. If we change this to make it smaller. Material. Interesting. Maybe this convert, this organized, this is standard, actually didn't choose anything. So yeah, whatever, let's leave it standard lighting. Yeah. And I'll choose whichever one you like. And let's see what that does. Now the thing here is that it shouldn't be seen behind there, right? This does not make sense. It kind of goes behind there. So it has to be visible here, but it has to go behind there. So I think it should be simple enough to just put this thing here behind that one thing here. So let's do this. Right, already looks a bit better. And maybe we should just make it bigger, right? So you clearly see it here and not behind there. Alright, this, it look anything close to it? It's not bad. It's on bad. Ok. So you understand it, you have to play with it until you arrive at a satisfying result. So I wouldn't say that this is like the best feature that I reproduced on this capsule. But let's keep it. Okay, let's keep going. And let's see later how we arrange all of that. 14. Creating tiny custom shapes: So before we recreate this upper part here, let's finish creating all the little features that we see here on this side. So let's hike this again. And let's for example, a redo. This rounds here, the window and this things here. So you can zoom in. Let's start with this because these are easy. Okay? So insert shapes, and here you choose this rectangle with rounded corners. As usual, you take out the outline, no outline. Your rotated as you prefer. Make it bigger. And if you don't manage to set it correctly with the mouse, use the arrows on the keyboard. And this yellow point here, that's when you choose how round the corners. Alright. Okay. Now let's make a right-click Format Shape and make it transparent. And let's create this little dots behind here as well. Alright, I know this is very detailed work, but this one is actually easy. Like if you can add a feature on your image, but that will make a difference. But that is easy to do it, that is easy to reproduce. Then by all means, go ahead and do it, right? So insert shapes and choose oval, but it's going to be big of course. So take out the outline, no outline. Hold, Shift while you're resizing it. Otherwise, if you don't do it, it will do all kinds of weird things like that. So if you want to resize it and keep it, keep the same proportions, then you should hold shift when you do this. So make it as small as possible. Although I cannot make it smaller than this. If you can't make it smaller, you can go here, Shape Format, and then you can write it here yourself. So let's say that this should be like 08. And here, 08, ok. It's more or less the same size as this rounds here. So let it let's put it here. Okay. Yeah, that's correct. Okay. I'm not moving the right thing. All right, now let's copied. So control C, control V. And now you place this exactly at the place, places where it should be on top of the existing arounds they're except this one. This one doesn't look perfectly aligned, so I will put it here. I think it looks better. Here. Control V here. Another one here. So I'm using the arrows of my keyboard now. Okay? So now let's set the colors. So select all of them, right? You're gonna do that by holding Control. And then you select all of them. Oops, should not select the actual rectangle behind. This is not easy. This is a bit annoying, was Powerpoint, it's not easy to select stuff. So once you selected all of them and go and cheap fill eyedropper and choose this color here, right? And then the same for the rectangle shape fill. I dropped her here. Okay, now we need to take the transparency, a wave from this. Actually there was no transparency. All right. I yeah, it's because when you change the color, the transparency automatically goes away. So now select all of that and make a right-click here, group, group. So this is one object. You can also press Control G on your keyboard. Now, do Control-C, Control-V, and copy that thing and place it exactly on the other side. It doesn't matter if it's not the same one. Okay? So if I look once again at our main shape, again, we can see that the color is probably not the best one. What I would do here is I will change it myself. What I think looks better. So let's click on the rectangle. So if it's grouped, you need to click twice to select the object within the group. If you click once, you select the whole group, and if you click again, now you selected the rectangle in that group. So I would change the color here, the shape fill. I would are you know what, no, let's not do this. It's actually easier to make a right-click Format Shape and maybe make it more transparent. Make it more transparent. Maybe it will fit better. I don't know for now, we will do like this and then we'll see maybe will change color. You have to stay flexible, right up to stay open-minded here, because thanks might change. If this does not look perfectly for now. Actually, what would have been wiser is to not copy this one until you finish the first one, right? So once you've finished the first one, then you go ahead and then you crop it. Select, selection, pane, height, this thing. And now you try to put this one where it should be like this, okay? Now you see, so this is a detail, but it's probably better to do it that way. Okay. Maybe more like this. 15. Creating a 3D perspective for image and shapes: Now the other easy things that we can do is add the American flag and nasa logo here. So as usual, you just go on Google and you type Nasa logo. And here again, you choose big images and ideally you choose transparent. So you have color and you choose transparent. This is important and the same for American flag. Okay? I'm gonna try to take something. Okay, maybe it's not the best idea for the flag to put a transparent. So let's say all colors. Yeah. And you take any one like this. Once you have them, go back on PowerPoint, insert, and you now click on pictures. Vis device. You take first American flag. You kind of resize it. And you know what? Let's even try to put it exactly as it is on the main picture. So hide this once again, select selection pane. Okay, take the flag stated like this. Let's put it here. And let's probably rotate it a little bit. Okay, that's good. And now let's take Nasa logo here. Also rotated. Resize it. And I will need to 3D rotated if you remember how we did the previous time. So picture Format, Picture Effects, 3D rotation and 3D rotation options. So let's close the selection pane so it doesn't bother us. And here is 3D rotation, right? We don't need 3D format. We need 3D rotation. Again. It's not easy to understand what x, y, z correspond to. So just guess it for now and see the result, okay? Okay, I think this is, this is actually correct. It seems. Alright. You have to play with this yourself, right? It's not easy to understand, but I think this is how it should be. Alright? So I found the correct rotation just by doing it. So selection pane, let's see. Okay, it starts to look better already. I also feel like this shadow should be as long as this one. So let's make, let's make this one bigger. Okay? Alright, like this. As I said, there will be a rearrangements here and there. 16. More custom shapes and window reflection effect: Now let's just finish all the details that we see here that I wanted to display. So selection thing. Okay, let's do some of this. Circles. For example, the window, Insert Shapes round. And here I'll show you how to do this window. Use the arrows. Take out the outline. And Let's put the color white. Okay? Now let's do right-click or rather not. Let's Shape, Format, Shape effects, shadow, and now we create inner shadow. Okay? So how does it look in the real picture? Okay, it looks like this. So should be the other way around. Shape, Format, Shape effects, shadow, shadow options. So first of all, let's rotate the angle here. The other way around. It's like this. Distance probably shouldn't be like this. And yeah, this looks like a window, right? Let's try to adjust it. Less blurred, more distance. Is this maybe up ok, with it less transparent? I yes. And maybe let's make the color white here. This may be like this. Let us see how it looks. Okay? You know, what we can also do is this color here. Let's make it actually shaped, Phil. Let's make it the gradient field. It's going to be a bit better. So gradient field, a little bit like this. So make one color white and the other making gray, like grayish. And maybe a bit less like this. And now it looks sort of like a window, I guess. So let's keep doing that and make this three other circles here. So like this, by the way, let's make it faster by not repeating it from scratch. So let's do like this, like this, and like this. Okay, let's do one. Sheep fill the right color. Control C, control V. And the other one. Okay. Control-c, Control-V. Let's do it here as well. So if you forgot how it is to zoom in, you have to hold Control on Windows. It's super useful. Okay? And now we're going to apply some common effects on all of them. Okay, let's select all of them by holding Control and then going to shape fill. And once again, gradient and more gradients. Gradient here. And choose one color, black. So it looks like on the picture here, you know, it's, it's slightly gradient, right? Choose one black and the other one leg grayish, I guess. Yeah, like black here. Grayish here. And move it around as as you prefer. You can do it exactly like me. It doesn't really matter. 17. Line shapes: Okay, so now we have this things here. Let me see the selection pane and you know what, let's add a few other details. I didn't think about this line here and this length here. Okay. And that will be it for this big part, the main part of the crewed dragon. So I shouldn't have done that. Let's hate this. And let's reproduce this line. So in order to reproduce this line, you already know how to do it. You click on Insert Shapes and you choose here, free-form. Ok, here you go here. Like this, like this, like this, like this, like this, and like this. And you will be able to edit it to make the coordinators more round. So shape fill, No phil, shape, outline. We will do it right afterwards. So Edit Shape, Edit Points. So try to make them a little bit more around that. Oops, you see that's the danger. You move an object that you don't want to move and then all hell breaks loose. So just watch out for that. All right. I think it's more or less like this. Now let's just move it slightly so we can pick up the color, shape, outline, eyedropper here. And let's position it here. Now let's do the same for this one, and that will be it. For this part. Here. No, fill the cheap and it points. This is not what I wanted to do. By the way. It's a good occasion to explain it, but you can also right-click and delete a point. Okay, so now you know, alright, this is good and the color and probably should be the same as here. Okay? Now let's see how it looks. Our main object. Okay, well that's not ideal, so I guess we'll apply some more effects on this to make it look better. Maybe I'll choose a different color. Actually not first of all, what I see is that the shadow here is on top of the line. So this is already weird by itself. So I'll guess I moved the shadow like this. And then I'll move that line will not reproduce it exactly like on the picture. And I'll move ever sink because either the touch each other, it doesn't look good. Okay. Now it's a bit better. And I'm going to change the color of this line. Something that is barely perceptible maybe will be good. Not, I will just make it more transparent. Right-click Format Shape. Let's make it more transparent. All right? Yeah, let's 63% transparent and this one to 63% transparent. Okay, so now the lines are there. You see them a little bit. It's not ugly. It's okay. And there is something, right? Otherwise, that part stays a bit empty. So in order for it not to stay empty, you can do this. By the way, you still see behind the original picture. So if you want to see how all of this looks without this picture, you can do like this, format, background, solid fill. And here you choose like some grayish color like this. Alright? And the darker line. So it already looks like something, right? It looks like a capsule, but obviously many things are missing, so this is not aligned. This thing does not have the lines that they create it, which makes it look like this, a bit more realistic. And obviously there is no hatch, sold a hatch. We also have to do it. And once we have all of this, we are getting closer to the actual resemblance of the capsule. 18. Recreating the Hatch: Alright, so now let's create the hatch, this one here, before we go on and finalize all the little details that remain. So since I changed the background, I would like to have that background again. So if you don't remember how to do it, he put it full screen and you print the screen. Okay. And go out, go on that slide. Right-click Format, background, picture Dexter, fill in, clipboard, OK. That way you'll have your background picture and you cannot move it. So let's start with the hatch. First of all, we are obviously going to do this around here. Okay? So Insert Shapes oval, and let's reproduce this one here. Rotated a little bit leg of this. They think we're good. So I'll take away that outline, make it transparent. And now I'll create this upper part here. Insert shapes. So you do it super easy to just go like this, like this, like this, like this, and like this. This looks weird. So you take out the outline, let's make it another color like this. Right-click Format, cheap, transparent. Now you know how to reproduce the shapes. So now let us zoom in it, it cheap and it points. Right click on this one, smooth wave here. And let's see how we can arrange that. Okay, now we already have that shape here. What about this right-click? Smooth, okay? And get them close, right? We're more or less there. And this one here. Oops. Hate it when this happens. So why does it do it? I don't know. So I would love to over that point here, but it destroys everything. So I'll just keep it like this for now and I'll decide later what I do with this. So we have the DOM part, we have the upper part. And now let's recreate that metallic thing here, whatever it is. So insert shapes again, circle. But we're going to do it yet the bit differently this time. So let's do it like more or less like this, but not exactly shaped Phil, No Fill and shape, outline. Let's make it a much wider. And actually, you know what, we can hide this part for now because it's unnecessary. This part. So go back here and shape, outline, weight and more lines. So first of all, let's make it even wider, right? Until it feels like all that circle there. Make it large, much weather like this, will arrange it later on. Now let's make the color of this great, as it's supposed to be like this. The, oops, no. Not shapefiles, shape outline. Even I still confused most of them all the time. So here, now, what you can do is play with Dash type. Let's see what we have here. Okay, no, no. Actually we can do both. We can do dash type, M compound types. So let's see compound type. Okay? Not bad. Not bad. Let's actually looks more or less like this one about Dash type. Okay. If you don't see it well, let me make it white so you see what I'm talking about here. So this is the dash type. I'm trying to just create anything that resembles this other thing behind. This is not going to change anything yet. No. Okay. I think I'm satisfied with this. So we'll just put back the color that I had before. And so now, so we kept the upper part. We have this inner circle and maybe let's just create some random shape for that thing here. So Insert Shapes, free-form, and I don't know, do something like this. Okay. Take all the outline. Outline and the color should be the same as here. So shaped feel, I guess is this. And in order to make it look a bit better, go and shape affects and make soft edges, right? Soft edges like this. And not make it a bit bigger. We don't need to see it. We just need to feel like there is something there. And that's all. And it should be behind that circle. So selection pane, which one is this? Okay. I made a little mistake. I didn't tell you about it in the beginning, but if you want to do it super seriously, you can also name the things here, right? If you name the objects here, it will become a bit easier for you to rearrange them later on. But if I know that they want this thing to be behind that thing. So I gone selection beam, I click here. I know that this is free form shape 60 and this is all 13. So what I need to do is take this and put it below oval 13, and that's it. It's behind. Okay. Now, let me see again that, that thing that they hit before. Now let's apply the correct colors. So I don't want to move it anymore. So I'll go here. I'll copy this image, right? I'll put it next to me, somewhere here. And I'll click on that circle, Shape, Format, Shape, fill, eyedropper. And I'll select this color. And for that one, I'll select this other white sheet fill eye dropper of this white color. So where is my object that was here? Okay. This thing is covering it. So I need to so I can take out this notch, let live it. So this is in front of this. So this is not correct. I need to put this on the Oval 12th. I'll say oval 12. Actually under 13 in my case. Well, I still don't see that other thing. Okay. It's here. This should go up like this. Ok. So how does it look? Okay, we need to create some shadows in this one. Ok, I moved it because as you can see here, it's darker here and event here. So either shadows or gradient. So click here. Ship Format, Shape effects shadow, again this inner shadow. And then shape effect shadow. Once again, shadow options. Let's make a distance further away like this, more blurry. And I think we're good. Actually says what I wanted to do. Right. Now. It feels like there is depth in this hatch. And maybe to make it even more dramatic, you can also place shadow on that ring here. Like this, whichever you want. And you know what? Actually, let's add outline to this circle here. Cheap outline. Let's add like any grea, great outline and make it more thicker. Like this. Okay. It makes it feel, you see, you can see this sort of border here. You can feel that depth better. Now this thing has to go behind this obviously. So Oval 67. Well right now we're good and need to move this little bit so it's right behind. And as you can see here, these are the details that you'll have to orange later. It gets out here a little bit, so I don't need to move it or to make it smaller. Make it smaller. And now it looks better. 19. More little details: So now what I'm missing here, I think I'll also reproduce these three circles here. And I'll height both of these things because I think they will make slightly better impression. So yeah, let's just create this one's real quick. You know what? I can actually just copy this, whatever, right. As long as it looks somewhat like this. See here, just copy stuff that you didn't already to go faster. And you copy this here. And this here. It should be behind that ring, obviously. So all 64. I don't know what this one was. Ok. Right behind that with hey, let's see what it looks like. I have no idea. Just related it super fast. So selection thing. And this I yeah. Okay. So this shouldn't be behind one thing. Okay. Yeah, that's better. So you rearrange that as it supposed to be? Probably I'll just make it smaller here. Awaits. It looks strange. Ok. We're not far from the actual thing here, right. 20. Improving empty spaces: So now let's add some final cool stuff on that area here because I think that it's a bit too simplistic. Although here you have shadows, you have these lines. So I'd rather yet do something here. And we'll see, I don't know, maybe it will look good, maybe not, but let's try anyway. So let's make this transparent a little bit. And let's try to reproduce some of these lines. Not necessarily all of them, but some of them. So you're going to shape. And here you go on line, simply put. And you do like this. And then do Control-C, Control-V. And try to place them as nicely next to the border here as possible. But once again, we'll rearrange that. Most likely. So here we go. Sometimes he doesn't want to let you do it. And why is that so annoying to me that I should choose a different color so you can see what I'm doing here. Table this definitely not transparent enough. I didn't make a discolored transport. That's why I'm not I don't see it. Okay. Go this like this. As usual, this is tedious work, but you can do it fast enough once you get more experience. All right. I have some of the lines here and what I'll do our take away that transparency here and tried to make it look good. Obviously, I'm not going to just leave these lines. So the first thing to do is that now that you have your own object, not the actual picture, but your own object, now you should put this line as correctly as possible so that they touch the borders here and don't go beyond them. Okay. Try to do this in such a way that it looks nice and see as precise as possible. Okay. Almost done work. Alright. Okay. Or it's something, it's not amazing, but let's try to apply some effects on them. And I will select all of them, each single one. That's right. You see what I can do if I change like color or something. So Shape, Format, Shape, outline, more lines. Actually let's do a gradient client first. Gradient line. And let's say that this color should be something like this. And this one should be something like this. So one that should be a bit more grey, blue, and the other one should be a bit more white or something. Okay. Some of that can be can be more transparent, for example, right. Alright, so as you can see, I'm playing, I'm just choosing slightly different colours that are buried perceptible, right? You can't see them, but they're also not so striking. That's what I'm trying to do here. So that's why increase transparency on each of these colors. And I will just leave it barely visible, right? Something like this. And I think I'm okay with this. Let me just take out the background so I can see exactly what I'm actually doing here. All right, that would be my actual picture. So I'm okay with this lines. I think I'm gonna keep them. This obviously is not aligned at all. So now let's move this correctly, right? So this angle here aligns with the actual sheep there. And also, you know what actually don't like that, how the shape is, it's not vary around here. So let's repair it. And all this comes a bit late, should have done this before. But this is more for me. It's really up to you how yours look. So edit points and not feel like it's not very wrong. Think right, right now it's more wrong. Ok? So of course, it made my lines move places, and now it will be a bit more annoying for me to do, but I'll just replace it. And don't worry, I'll accelerate the video for you. So you don't have to look at this. Okay, so I made the shape a bit more on for me. And now I want to please this things correctly. So the angles here are exactly where they're supposed to be. Okay? So this is like this and this one. And let's zoom in like this. And one thing I would like to add here is when I look at this picture, I see this shiny part here. So what I'll do is I'll just add white lines, whatever. Let's see. So Insert Shapes, line. Zoom in. Here. You don't see its shape, outline White. And I'll copy this line and I'll just put it here and outline. I'll make it stronger here like this. And this one tonight it's a bit too strong, I guess 1. I'll rather put 1. All right. This looks a bit, whether should I do it on the bottom one as well? And let me take a look at the bottom one as well, but maybe not so white. I'll do it smaller. So let me actually copy this one. Let's just go like this. And like this. And the Format Shape outline, I'll just make it lighter. Like this. Here. And here. Okay. This gives it some perspective. I think it looks good, looks nice. So what you can also do here with the lines, let's see, let me try something. It's always going to select them, but you gotta do what you gotta do. So right-click Format object. What I can also do is change the type here, the dash type, right? Something like this. Leg, this. Let's make some difference, right? It's not incredible, but I'm just playing, was that the randomly right now? And I find that maybe this, for example, is not so bad right? Now, I'll just leave it like this. You can also try different types of lines that you find Gibbs just some perspective to the area here. So it's not so empty. That's the whole point of this. Nothing else really. 21. Fixing mistakes and finalizing: So I think we're getting towards the end of this capsule. Now what you need to do is just to arrange the little details. For example, as you can see here, I'll delete this picture up there so it doesn't bother me. So you can see here, there's actually a mismatch of shapes. Ok? This black line there is actually a hole. It's the background. So I will probably repair it by making that thing a little bit bigger. Let's see. Just move it slightly here. Okay. That allowed me to hide that. The problem is that this one is not looking very good now, so I'll just make it bigger. And that's how you play with these things. Of course, it created the line problems once again. So it's not ideal. But yeah, this is precise work. Alright, so I'm making a mental note to myself to maybe check this little problems before I create tedious, complex things like this lines so I don't need to change them all time. Maybe what I can try to fix is just that part here, this angle, which is not perfect, but every time I do this, everything breaks. So I don't know. Let's see if I can do it like this. Somehow. This is better. Slightly better, yeah. Except this line of course, has to be repositioned. Oops. And this one to, this one is, well, okay. This looks better. So here is our capsule. I think it looks good, right? If you look at it from the first time or like a bit far away, it might not even realize that it's actually just a drawing. And it's absolutely enough as an illustration. So now we took quite some time to do it. But as I said in the promo video, it took me like half an hour to do something like this. And you obviously don't need to make it so complex, right? It's really up to you to decide how many details you are going to add here or not. And what I realised that actually I can also take this thing here if I make it slightly darker here at the bottom. But I just want to try a slightly different color here because I think it can look even better. So I'll take the eyedropper and that'll shoes maybe this color like this. Yeah. Actually, funny enough. There's one detail that changes a lot. I don't know for me, it changes stuff like from this to this kind of field that this looks better. I don't know why. So as you can see, you can really try to then get as much into details as you need to make it look as perfect as you want to write. So somethings I don't necessarily like are at least shrink here. This stuff here, maybe I'll just move it around closer here. Maybe it will look a bit better. Alright, but generally, yes, it does the trick. 22. Saving the final model and animating it: Now let me show you one last thing that you might want to know. So if you want to use this whole thing, but you created as one object, what you can do is that you select everything, okay? Let me create another slide, just so I don't screw up things. So you select everything and then you grew up this right-click group, group or just control G. And then you can right-click and save S picture. So I already did this previously, of course, when I tested this things. So now let's say that you want to animate it. You can create a new slide, okay? For my background. You know what? Let me actually put the picture of the Earth here. So I took a picture of the earth on Wikimedia Commons. And let me show you some cool stuff. So you do like this. And then you insert that picture of the dragon that you create it. Okay, here, what you can do, I don't know if you followed my previous courses, you can use a really cool feature which is called the Morph transition. For example, you put this here, right? But then you duplicate this slide. Make that think a bit bigger, right? Like this. And this one, you bring it to size that you want to. Okay? All right. And now transition, you select the Morph. Transition is like most transition here. And duration, you put like ten seconds. And let's see the result. Yea, that's really cool. I love it. I just really, really love it. And I hope you love this too. So that's how you can draw anything in PowerPoint. And I just showed you most of the techniques that you need to know and we'll see in other projects, if I can find yet more interesting stuff, more interesting things that you can do like this. More interesting features of that we maybe did not explore while creating the Crew Dragon. Let's do this one more time. Just for the pleasure. Was nice.