Mastering Graphics In PowerPoint - Create stunning slides using shapes, drawing, 3d & illustrations.

1. Mastering Graphics - Introduction: Hi, I'm Alan. And in this course, I'm gonna be showing you how you can master the use of graphics in PowerPoint. Everything you need to create stunning presentations with amazing graphics can be done inside PowerPoint, and I am here to help you do this. I have been designing for over 20 years and I've helped hundreds of people and companies tell their story through slide presentations. In this course, I will help you gain an understanding of presentation design skills that took me years to learn and develop. By visualizing your slides and using well-placed and well-designed graphics. Your slides can engage your audience and make your presentation stand out. I will give you simple, effective advice to help you design better presentations by showing you how to use and why to use the PowerPoint graphics tools. By the end of this course, you will have learned how to create your own graphics from scratch to enhance your presentation by visualizing your slides. The course contains over three hours of easy-to-follow guide to mastering the use of graphics. We will cover the fundamentals of how to create graphics with PowerPoint shapes. Then look at how to modify shapes and graphics, as well as using PowerPoints, inbuilt 3D tools to create your own 3D graphics. Finally, I will show you how to use icons and illustrations by modifying them to fit into your presentation. My team and I have spent over a year creating this course to help you master the use of graphics in PowerPoint, which is designed for anyone who would like to produce beautiful PowerPoint slides. I hope you enjoyed the course and please feel free to message me with any questions. 2. Part 1 - Visualisation - Introduction: In section one, I will show you how visualization can improve your slides. Help you understand the difference between vector and bitmapped graphics. And I'll describe the typical formats for each. I'll also show you how to use the Quick Access Toolbar to speed up your workflow. 3. Visualisation with graphics: Graphics can be used to take standard looking text and bullets and turn them into visually engaging and impactful graphic slides. This is called Visualization. The process of taking text or figures and turning them into visual content. You can create your own visual slides by using the powerful but simple techniques that I will show you in this course. You can take agendas, bullets, slides, titles, and call-outs, and use quick and easy graphics to make stunning looking and more effective slides. A graphic in PowerPoint can include shapes, icons, illustrations, and charts. Using graphics will help your audience visualize and understand concepts you're presenting to them. It's also a great way to help engagement and add style to any presentation. 4. Graphic formats: Powerpoint can import and display many formats of graphic. These can be separated into two fundamental types. Images can be created as a bitmap, using pixels to make up the picture or by using vectors. Bitmap images or format such as bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and vector images of formats such as scalable vector graphic, windows, metafile, and enhanced metafile. Bitmap images are used primarily for photos. They can also be used for illustrations, icons and logos, and even charts and graphs that can be quite difficult to manipulate and adapt to your presentation, as well as looking low-quality with JPEG compression or pixelation. In this example, the image is a JPEG, which is a bitmap. Therefore, the colors can't be changed, the fonts can't be changed and it looks distorted. If possible. It is always better to use a vector graphic. 5. Vectors: Vector Graphics are the primary choice for printing logos, signs, illustrations, infographics, and creating animations. Any of the shapes, icons, and illustrations available in PowerPoint of vectors. And this allows them to be high-quality, scalable, and editable. So you can easily change fonts, colors, and any other part of the graphic without having to leave the application. A vector graphic describes the shape of an object as a series of points connected by lines. When you resize a vector graphic, the image does not to lose quality. A very small Vector Graphic could be resized to the size of the entire slide without losing any quality. If you try to enlarge a bitmap, the image will become blurred as the pixel sizes are increased. With a vector graphic, it's also easy to change the fill and the stroke. So I can take this graphic here. And we could right-click and choose convert to shape. Then we could right-click again and choose Group and then Ungroup. Now we have individual elements. So we can ungroup this once more and we have all the elements. So I can click on the center part of this that's yellow. Then I could go and for example, turn it into green and make it look like a line. That is a very quick and easy thing to do with a vector graphic. It is also possible to edit each part of the vector separately. So once it's ungrouped, you can change the shape or remove any unwanted parts, as well as all those benefits. A vector graphic can also be a very small file size compared to a photo. 6. Quick Access Toolbar: The Quick Access Toolbar can speed up your workflow considerably as some of the functions in PowerPoint or difficult to get to or find, you can download my toolbar or make your own. This helps speed up workflow considerably. So you can right-click on this and hit Customize the Ribbon. Then you can see the Quick Access Toolbar is here. Then you can go to Import, import customization File and then select my file that you've downloaded. This will then show you the quick access toolbar. One thing to mention is that when you first see the Quick Access Toolbar, it may be above the Ribbon by default here, which isn't ideal because it makes going to access all the options take a longer time because you have to go above the ribbon to get to it. So click on this arrow with a line above it and choose Show below the ribbon. And then not only does it look a lot idea that everything has a lot quicker to get to. And if there are things that you don't use very often, then you can just simply right-click on them and say Remove from Quick Access Toolbar. I will also show you how you can add things easily to the Quick Access Toolbar. You can right-click on this and choose more commands and then go through this enormous list. If you select this as all commands, you can see there's hundreds of things in here. And you can then add them by using this button into your Quick Access toolbar. That can take quite a long time trying to find them. So I'll give you an example here where I've just add a stock image. I can show you as we go. If for example, I wanted to crop this to 16 to nine, which is the screen. I can click crop aspect ratio and I can go down to 16 to nine. But before we click it, I'm going to right-click on this. And then you can see a little menu pops up with Add to Quick Access Toolbar. We're going to do that. You can see it's added a little icon to the Quick Access Toolbar. Now, whenever I click on that, it's going to crop the image that I've selected 16 to nine, which is an excellent way. Quickly being able to access any function that might have taken 234 even five clicks to get to. One click away. 7. Part 2 - How to create graphics with shapes - Introduction: Section two, I will show you how to use PowerPoint, basic drawing tools and add various formatting options. We will also see how the various grouping and alignment tools can save time and create a professional result. This section includes a couple of exercises where you can use your new knowledge to create a visual slide. I will also show you how I would create it from start to finish. The section ends with a number of examples to show how the techniques covered can produce some impressive and impactful results. 8. Standard shapes: Powerpoint comes with over 90 built-in shapes. You can go to Insert Shapes and they'll all be available. If you click on one such as this rectangle, and then click on the slide, it will appear at its default size. If you go to Insert Shape and add an oval, you can click and hold down the mouse and as you drag, it will expand the shape. If you want to keep the aspect ratio locked for something like a circle, you press Shift and hold it down. And that will keep the perfect circle aspect ratio. This will of course work if you're creating something like squares as well. After creating a shape, you can modify many elements of it, including size, color, rotation, and outline. You can adjust the size of these shapes with a side handles or the corner handles. If you want to keep the aspect ratio the same hold down Shift while you drag the corner handles to rotate, you can click on hold on the Rotation icon and drag. If you hold down Shift, it will rotate in 15 degree increments. This can be really useful for easily getting to 90 degrees. For example. You can get to all the settings for any shape in the Format Shape panel. If you right-click on any shape, you'll see the option Format Shape. When you click on that, the panel will slide out from the right. From here, you can change the colors, the size, and many more things. For example, we could make this six by six centimeters and then make the next shape next to it the same size easily. Just by typing in the numbers. There are also some good shortcut keys to know when resizing shapes. The first one is if you hold down Shift and press one of the arrow keys, it will re-size in the direction of whichever arrow key press by ten per cent. So you could also press the right arrow key at the same time, for example, to enlarge the shape. If you hold down Shift and Control and then press the arrow keys, you can enlarge it by one per cent with whichever direction you press the arrow keys in. You can also press the arrow keys at the same time. And to rotate, press Control and Alt and the left or right arrow keys. And the shape will rotate by one degree. On many of the shapes, you will see these yellow dots and these can be used to adjust them. For example, on this triangle, on this star and on the roundness of the corners on the rounded rectangle. 9. Text on shapes: All shapes in PowerPoint can have text in them. You just click and type. Let's stick two rectangles for clarity. If you click on the shape and then right-click and choose format shape, you will get a number of options. If you click the Text Options, you can change things such as the color of the text. If we click on the second box, I'll show you how you can also change the alignment by clicking on the third icon in the Format Shape section under text options. So for example, we could put this text at the top and then we could align it to the left. For this option. I'm going to show you how you can change the text direction. And in this case, we could write it up so it'd be rotated by 270 degrees. Underneath the text direction, there are three options. Firstly, do not auto fit, where you can see the text in this case is coming out of the box. Secondly, shrink text on overflow, which will make the text smaller. As the box gets smaller, automatically. Then resize shape to fit text. As you type some more text, the box will get bigger. And underneath those options are the margins. So for example, in this blue square, we could make the left margin 1.6 and the right margin 1.6. And at the bottom there is an option to wrap text in shape. This will be turned on by default, but you can uncheck it if you do not want the text to wrap inside the shape. As you can see here. With the Wrap Text in shape option de-selected. You have the choice of adding and returns and making the text wrap where you'd like it to. And finally, you have the columns option. If we click on this center square and press columns. In this example, we can choose two columns to go in here. And for any shapes that we've added text too, you can go to the right-hand side where it says Format, Shape. And you can either be in the text options or the shape options. And then either one of those, you can apply different effects and have different colors. So for example, if we go to the text options, we can now change the color of the text. And then if we click to the shape options, we can now change the color of the shape. 10. Grouping: You can group shapes to make them easier to move or easier to change. Here we have three shapes to select them all. We can either click and hold down shift and click the other two. Or you can draw a marquee over all three of them. Then to group, you can either right-click and choose Group. Or you can press Control G. Once these are grouped, you can do things like move them all around and that'll stay locked together. We can do things like change the fill color or any other style, color or effect. Now for example, we can resize these and they'll stay in the correct size in comparison with each other. You can also click inside this group individually if you want to change either the color or the size of the individual shape. So here we could click on the triangle. We could go and change it to a blue. And if we wanted to, we could also adjust the size. Note that I'm also holding down Shift to keep the aspect ratio locked. Here's an example of how you can use grouping with a more complex shape. So I'm going to pick the option here for a rounded corner rectangle. I'm going to click and then drag it out. The size I want it roughly where I want the corners a little less round. And I'm also going to go to home shape effects and just add some basic shadow. Now I'm gonna get a circle and click. And I'm going to make this circle fill white. And I'm actually going to write the number one on here and pick the color from the blue. Then I'm going to resize it a little bit smaller and place it on the panel. I'm also going to make the outline gray and I'm going to make it a bit of a bigger weight, probably two and a quarter. Now on my books, I'm going to write, this is box one. Choose the correct font, make the text a bit bigger. Then I'm also going to add two small lines to this. And I'm gonna go and make sure that they're white so we can see them. Then I'm going to duplicate this line down to here. And I'm going to Control G, Shift, select both of these, and check that I've actually align them correctly. I'm gonna do the same with number one. So now we can select the entire panel. We can press Control G. We now have a grouped, more complex graphic. Now, we can take this graphic which contains a group of a number of different elements. We can click on it and we can press Control D. And this will duplicate the graphic. Now if I drag it and align it with the other one, the next time I press Control D PowerPoint, we'll put it in the correct place. Now we can change the numbers and the text. We can also change the colors of the panels. First we click on the group item. Then we click on the object itself. We want to change the color of which is the panel. Then I can change the color. And finally, I can click outside and hold the mouse down, drag the marquee over all of them, and then put it in the center of the slide. 11. Alignment: When you have multiple objects on a page, It's really good to be able to understand the alignment and distribution. So the first thing we could do is to select all of these boxes and then go to arrange and align and check that it says a line selected objects and that it's ticked. Then we can align middle, which aligns them all to the vertical middle. If he now wanted to align these to the middle of the slide, this is the vertical middle. You'd go to a range, a line, and then you choose a line to slide. Now when you go back to the Arrange page, you can align them to the middle. Now we can change the distribution, which is the spacing between each item. You can see that the spacing between items 123 are correct, but between 3445, they're not. You can do this manually, but an easy and quick ways to select them all. Go to Arrange, make sure that they align is set to selected objects. And then when you go back to arrange, you can distribute horizontally. Now the spacing is correct Between every item. We could also choose to distribute these across the slide. So if we select them all, make sure that they align this time is set to align to slide. Then when we go back into the distribution and press distribute horizontally, they will align equally across the slide with the same gaps. If you choose to keep the spacing that was scenario. Then just want to align all of these in the center of the page. You can control G to group. Then arrange, align, center. Center is the horizontal center and middle is the vertical middle. When you select just one item, for example, I'll just delete these. This will be the one item I'm selecting. The aligned to slide option will always be ticked because it can align selected objects because there is only one. So if I now align this to the center, it will go to the center of the slide. 12. Smart guides: Smart guides can be very helpful when aligning items they turned on by default. But if you right-click off the slide in this area, you'll see it says grids and guides. When you click on that, you can see that at the bottom there's a tick where it says display Smart Guides. If we only have one thing we're aligning, I'll just move these off the page quickly. Then as we drag it, you can see the smart guides appear to show you where we are. That is the vertical middle, that is the horizontal center. If we want to align multiple items, move this one over here. We'll pick up box too. If I just hold my mouse there, you can see that it's put the smart guides on the top and bottom showing me that the vertical position is exactly right. If I now pick up box three and drag this in, you'll see that if I align it to the top and bottom and then drag it out. It will also show me the gaps between boxes 12 and now box three, all the same. We can do the same for box four and box five. You can also use guides and grid lines to help you align objects. To view the guides, you can right-click on the slide where there's no other objects or just off the slide. And then you can choose grid and guides and select the Guides option. This will show the center guides horizontally and vertically. The other way to show the guides is to select the view part of the ribbon. Then you can toggle them on and off in the section called show. Objects will now snap to these guides. For example, if we use the graphic that we created earlier, I can now drag this around and it will snap to the center part of each of the guides. You can also add more of these guides. We can right-click off the side of the screen and we can choose add vertical guide. You can then click on that guide to drag it to whichever position you would like. Note that there's a small tool tip to tell you where you're moving it too. If you wish to delete the guide, you can right-click on it and choose Delete. Under the right-click option. You also have the ability to change the color. For example, if you wanted to make it brighter. The grid lines, you can turn them on by again, either right-clicking and choosing Grids and Guides and then selecting the grid lines option. Or you can go to View where there's a toggle. If you would like objects to snap to this grid. You can click on the small arrow to access the settings for the show section. And then you can turn on Snap objects to grid. Now for example, if we draw a square that will snap to the grid, and also if you duplicate it and move it, that will also snap to the grid. You can also change the grid spacing. Again, we go to the Show section of the view part of the ribbon, and then we click on the settings. We can change the spacing of the dots. So I could change it to one centimeter. And that would make the spacing of each of the dots further apart, making it slightly easier when you're aligning things because there's not so many little dots to align them to. There is also a ruler that you can use. Again. To show this, you can either right-click and choose ruler or you can go to the view part of the ribbon, Show section and take the ruler on and off. There are two rulers. One is displayed horizontally across the top of the screen, and one is displayed vertically down the left-hand side of the screen. The ruler provides visual cues to help you place objects. For example, we pick up these three squares. We can now drag it into the middle and we can see where it says 0 is the center of the screen. We can also drag them down, and that will be the vertical middle. 13. EXERCISE - Agenda: So now for a short exercise where we can take a text slide such as this basic agenda and turn it into something like this. And to do this, we will be combining the techniques we've learned in the last few lessons. So firstly, I'm going to paste in the background I've already copied, and I'll do that by pressing Control V. I will then right-click on the background and choose Send to back. Now, we're going to make the text size bigger and align it in the center. We're going to make it white. This part of the text is a little bit smaller. Now we're going to change the font and make it all into Montserrat. This part was in capitals, and there's a shortcut to change to capitals. And it's Shift F3. This part wasn't in bold, but it's also in capitals. Again, shift F3. Next we're going to create the circles. The first thing I'll do is just move this text off the side of the screen. And we can get back to that later. We can click on the oval and then click and that will draw. Now we can go to the Shape Fill. Choose the nice light blue. Go to the Shape outline. Turn that off. As we showed you earlier. If you hold down Shift and drag the corner, you can keep the perfect circle. We can now drag this circle to the rough position that we're going to have our first circle. And press Control D to duplicate. Then drag the second one. Again. The smart guides have started there and we can see the top and bottom one. So the next time we press Control D, you'll see the other two circles come out. Now we can click on then type. If you want. You can copy and paste the text in there. We can change the fonts and we're using Montserrat on this occasion. I can change it to bold. I'm going to make each of the numbers size 54. We can now check the margins. If I shift click to select all of these and then right-click, I can choose Format Object. I can click Text Box, and then I can turn these all to 0. I can even turn off Wrap Text in shape. We're getting pretty close now. I also think the line spacing is a little bit too much. And I'd prefer it if it was slightly less. So I can go to the line spacing option, type multiple, then type in nought 0.8. Excellent. There we go. We've now gone from this to this in just a few minutes. 14. Fill options: Every shape you make in PowerPoint has fill in line options available. These are available in the home ribbon in the drawing section or the Shape Format ribbon in the Shape Styles section. You can also right-click and choose Format, Shape. And the menu to change all the fill and style settings will appear from the right. I prefer to use the Format Shape menu on the right here because it's easy to get to. And you'll always know where it is. Whereas the ones on the ribbon will change depending on which section you're in. The first option is to fill with a solid color. This can be set to any amount of transparency that you would like by selecting the items. And then either dragging the transparency slider or typing into the transparency box. Adjusting the transparency on shapes can be very useful if you want to use colors that sit well with other colors on the page. For example, if we just had this purple color in the center, I'll just delete the other two. I set one to be 0 transparency. You can see that both these colors would work well together on the page. Next, we have gradient fill. So if you click on the object and select gradient fill, it will default to white to black linear gradient. The first time you use it. You can select from preset gradients here. But these are based on the colors that are available in your theme. So if, for example, we go down to this color, we can select the recent color that we were using, which was this red. If we select it on both. And then just adjust the brightness of one of them, you can see you get a more subtle and nicer effect. I will now go back to the default black and white so we can see what the various options will look like easily. We can change from linear to radial. And you can also change the direction. So for example, with radial, You can come from the center. With linear, you can come from any direction. And finally, with rectangular, you can choose various options, such as from center or from top left or bottom right corner. To get certain types of effects that you might better use, that might look good in certain situations. You can also add as many colors as you like to the gradient using this gradient stop slider. If you double-click anywhere on this, it will create a new color and you can drag it about and you'll see that it changes the position. If you want to change the color, just select an orange here for an example. You can see what that's done is changed the middle gradient stop to an orange. And now you can just drag it to suit until you get the result you want. If you wish to remove this color or any other one of the gradient stops, you can click on it and drag it out of the gradient stops. You can also use these two buttons. This one to add a gradient stop, which will automatically add it in the middle. And this one to remove the selected gradient stop. There is also the path option for a gradient fill. This is where the gradient will be based upon the path of the shape. In this example, I've added three different shapes, so you can see how the path type of gradient can be useful. I will show you how this compares to the radial gradient. So the top three or the path gradient. I'm going to switch the bottom three to the radial gradient. And hopefully you can see how the path gradient is different and how for certain shapes it can be a very useful effect. Next in the fill options is a picture or texture fill. If we select this and then press Insert, we can choose from a file or stock images. I will choose from a file because I have some examples. And it's good to know that if you're putting something like this into a circle, ideally, you would want an image that is nearly square. You can also crop the image before you put it in the circle in PowerPoint. More information on that is in my mastering images in PowerPoint course, which we link to below. And we'll just quickly do the same to add images into the other two. The texture option is less useful. And this is because you only have a selection of these textures which are leftover from very old versions of PowerPoint. And most of them don't look very good and a quite low quality. My recommendation if you'd like to use a texture, is to click, Insert on the picture source, then go to stock images, and then type texture into here. These are high-quality textures and most of them should look good. Let's just quickly put a couple of textures in here. Great. There we go. Three textures that look really good. Taken from the stock images library. There is also the option to use pattern fill. Again, these are quite limited because you only have the available patterns and you can't change the size. You can only change the foreground and the background colors. Here are two more examples of the pattern fill. There we go. 15. Line options: Now let's have a look at the line options. You can get to these from home on the ribbon, in the drawing section, underneath shape, outline, or in the Shape Format section of the ribbon. In the Shape Styles area, where you can go to Shape outline. But my preferred choice and the easiest one I think for working with the outlines is to right-click select Format Shape than the menu will appear from the right. Then you can use this drop-down here for the line. Firstly, we can select solid line. In this example, I'll change it to white to show you how you can change the color of the line. You can also change the width to whatever you think suitable. Next, you can change the transparency of the outline. So we'll select 20, so it's the same as the box on the left. And then for example, we'll put in 50 per cent and you can see how that looks. Then there is the option gradient line. If we do the same again, here I put a width of 20 so you can easily see what it's gonna look like. Here's an example of a gradient line. As before in the Shape Fill lesson, you can adjust any of the settings for the gradient line, such as the preset, the type, or the direction. You can also change the colors and their positions along with the transparency and the brightness. In either solid line or gradient line. You also have a few more settings. Firstly, sketch style. In here, you can choose curved freehand or scribble. So if we choose curved for the first one, free hand for the second one, and scribble for the third one. You can see how those will look. There are four compound types available, and these are basically just adding more lines. So the first one is double jaw, just add a second line. The second one is thick thin. The next one is thin thick, that will effectively reversed that. And then finally, we have triple that will add a combination of all of them. Next week and show you the dash type, which is more likely to be used on a line like this than an outline of a shape. Powerpoint has seven different options for dash type. But most of the time, most people only use the first three, which are rounded dot, square, dot, and dash. Here we'll choose round dot. But you can see that they initially start off square. And this is because the cap type is set to flat. If we go into the Cap Type and choose round, they'll then be round. If you want to square dots, you can change the cap type two square. Then the dash type can either be round or square dot. If you want dashes with a space, you can choose the third option, which is simple dash. And then it's your choice whether you want to have them like this, which are rectangles with spaces, or rounded edge rectangles with spaces. The next setting is join type. There are three options in here, round, bevel or mitre. I've drawn in a thick blue line of 20 points wide. So we can easily see what difference is the different joint types make. The cap types are basically the end types. If we select round, you'll see that the end of the lines changed around the join types of joins in the middle of the line. If we select round, you'll see those change as well. You can use whichever combination you think looks good. But generally, I like to keep consistent. So for example, the one on the left uses round. The one on the right. I can set it to square and Mitre. There is also the option to set the join type to bevel, which you can see puts an angled bevel on the joints. Finally, we have the option of adding an arrow to either end of the line and making them any size we'd like. We have an option of five different arrow styles, which are basically three different types of arrow, a diamond, and a circle. Then we can adjust the arrow size in the option below. If you choose either a diamond or an arrow for the end or the beginning arrow type. You won't be able to adjust the size. The sizes are only for the arrows. The sizes that PowerPoint chooses for the circle and the diamond are relative to the width of the line. So if we now make it 10, scale with it. 16. Shadow: Powerpoint has a range of effects you can add to shapes. You will find these in the drawing section of the home ribbon in the Shape Format ribbon in the shape style section. And by right-clicking on any shape, choosing Format Shape, and then clicking on the effects parts of that. The most useful effect is probably shadow. This helps elevate a basic shape to give it visual depth, I would recommend starting with one of the presets in the outer sections, such as offset bottom. From here, you can change any of the six parameters. Below the preset. An object at a higher elevation has a larger, more blurred shadow. While objects at lower elevations have smaller, less blurred shadows. I will make a few adjustments to the parameters here to show you how that might look. Firstly, I'm going to start with a slightly more transparent circle. I've chosen a 75 per cent. Then I'm going to copy the effect, which I'm done using Control Shift C and Control Shift V to the next circle. I'm now simply going to change the blur to 20 and the distance to 20. You can see that the second circle now looks as if it's lifted off the page further than the first circle. I will now copy that effect to the third circle, again using Control Shift C and Control Shift V. And I will change the blur to 40 and the distance also to 40. Now you can see from this example how the objects on the right look further away from the page than the object on the left. Generally, it's a good idea to keep one style and use it throughout your slide. So in this example, I might decide that I liked the circle on the right the most. And I can just use Control Shift C to apply it to the other two. With Control Shift V, a subtle shadow is normally the best, such as the ones I've shown you here. But if, for example, I was to select this circle on the right and select something unsubtle, like 15% transparency. You can see that's quite a strong effect and may distract your audience from the content. We can also change the angle. Again, whichever angle you like, whichever works, your slide design. I would try and stay consistent so everything looks good together. You can also choose inner shadow from the presets. For the first example, I will choose in a inside bottom-left. By dragging out the blur and the distance. You can create quite a nice almost three-dimensional type of effects with the inner shadow. For the next circle, I will choose the center option. Inside center. And again, by dragging out the blur, you can create a nice effect. And for the last example, I will choose inside bottom. Again by dragging out the blur, in this case to around 50 and the distance. You can see again, how you can get nice 3D style effects from using inner shadow. As before with the outer shadow options. It's a good idea to be consistent unless you're looking for very specific effect. You can also apply inner shadow to photos to create some interesting lighting effects. Here I'll choose a similar example to the one we had earlier, where I'll select inside bottom and then I'll drag up the blur. I'll drag up the distance. When using inner shadow on photos. You can't copy the style from one photo to another because it would take the photo with it. So I will undo this Control Z. And then if I want to apply the effect from one to the other, I would do something like make it quite easy for myself by typing in something like 4070 here so I can remember. And then I'll click on this one. Go to the same effect, then type in the same numbers, 4070. And I'd click on the final one here. Go to the preset again, then choose 4070. The final preset option available is perspective. And you have these five options here. For this example, we'll choose upper right perspective below. And then upper left. The distance can be a useful parameter with the perspective auction. So you can adjust the depth or the height that something is off the page. Again as before, if you wish to apply that effect to one of the other circles, you can use Control Shift C, then Control Shift V. 17. Effects: The next shape effect is reflection. And in the available presets, we have three different amounts of reflection with three variations of spacing for each. So for the first example, we have a tight reflection, which is a small reflection which is touching the shape. Then for the second shape, we'll add the half reflection and the third shape, the full reflection. And in the other presets, the second row, basically just a four-point offset. So four points away from the shape. And the third row. And the distance and other parameters can be adjusted manually here. For example, if we wanted this to be twice the gap, we could enter 16. And you can also adjust the size and the transparency. If you decide that's an effect you like the look of, you can then look at the numbers, so 705016 and then apply them to other shapes. Now they will have a consistent look that you're happy with. You can also use this reflection effect with pictures. If you go to the pink bucket option here, and then select picture, insert from a file. Select the picture. You can see this looks pretty good. The next effect is glow. You can either choose a preset of a glow variation from these colors, which are based on the same colors that are in your theme. Or you can select a color from the standard colors, the recent colors, more colors. Or the eyedropper tool where you can pick a color from any object on your page. Then you can soften the effect with the transparency. To get the look you want. This example on the purple square. We can pick a black blow, make it a bit smaller than the other one. And again, adjust the transparency to suit the look you're going for. Um, for the third example, I'll just pick white and I'll expand the size. Then you can see three ways. You can use glow. Then we have soft edges. Here the presets are basically just how much of the size of the edges soft and points. The same as typing it into this box or adjusting the slider. Might be this one I'm five. Show you what it would look like. This one on 15. This one on Thursday. Now we're going to look at bevel in the 3D format section. There's a lot of options in here, but for these flat graphics in this section, we're just going to look at Top Bevel, and then we will look at the 3D formats in more depth in the next lesson. So for the first example here, we could just select this drop-down and choose a Basic Round Top Bevel. And as before, we can change the parameters as we wish. Here, I will select angle. Again, adjust the parameter slightly so you can see how that looks different. These are 45-degree angles and not rounded. And then for the blue square, one called divot. See you can get some nice effects just by adding a top bevel. So have a play around, see what looks good to you. 18. EXERCISE - Enhance Agenda: Let's take the agenda slide from the previous example and enhance it using some of the techniques we've just been through. So the first thing we're going to do is to make these circles the dark color, because the rings around the outside will be the light blue. We'll go to shape, fill and choose black. And then we'll right-click choose Format objects, then adjust the transparency. In this case, I'm going to choose 40 per cent so that let some of the blue from the background come through, creating a dark blue, each of the circles. Next, I'm going to create the ring around the outside. And for that, I'm going to use this shape here, which is called circle hello. You can click anywhere on the slide for it to appear. And then use the yellow dot. Adjust the thickness you want. Then hold shift down as you size up from the corner. Just kinda make it a little bit bigger. Quick tip, if you hold Control at the same time, you can expand it. Just wanted a tiny bit bigger. I think that'll be perfect. There is aligned, but to make sure it's aligned where I can just drag it. And when both guides appear, both cross guides, you can see that it's in the perfect place. Now we'll apply a gradient. So we'll go to Gradient, fill. The first color we'll choose as the light blue. Second color, slightly darker blue. And I'm going to change the direction here. This one on the furthest right called linear left. Now we can duplicate the rings to the other circles. And to do that, the quickest way is to press Control D. I will drag it and put it in exactly the right position because the cross hairs will appear. The guide, so you can see the top guide is there and the one down the center. And I drop it. I can now press Control D again. I will drag that in because it's very slightly out and Control D again. And now I have four circles all lined up correctly. We can now add the shadow to each of the circles. And to do that, we'll click on them. Shift-click to select them all. And I'll go up to Format, Shape and effects. I will click on shadow and then select the preset perspective below. From here, we can adjust any of the parameters. I'm just going to make the effect a little bit stronger. So we can say it 10% stronger at 75. I'm going to change the distance so it's a bit closer at ten AM. To finish off, we could add a little animation. I'm going to choose a zoom on the circle. So I'll click Animation, Zoom. And then for the actual ring around it, I'm going to choose a wheel, which is this one up here. And I'm going to set that to happen with the previous thing. If I click on animation pane now we can see what's happening. It's going to zoom in on the circle. Then the ring around it is going to appear with previous. I'm also going to make this a bit quicker, so it appears at the same time. So when we play that, great, I'm now going to apply that effect to the other circles. And the quickest way, when you have the item selected that's already got the animation on it. You can click animation painter. You can apply it to another circle. I would like each circle to zoom out after one another. So I will click on the first one and make sure it says after previous. Then I'll click on the second after previous again. And you can also Shift-click if you want to choose after previous. Now when I run it, each circle will come out. But I just have to do the rings as well. I'm going to click on the first one. Apply the animation painter. Click on the second one, apply the animation painter. And then the fifth one. Each of these rings should be dragged up to appear with this circle that they're in. There we go. 19. Presets: Powerpoint has 12 built-in preset combination of effects. You can find these under Shape Effects Presets. These 12 presets are a combination of the six effect types that PowerPoint provides. Shadow, reflection, glow, soft edges, level, and 3D rotation. I will briefly apply these to these shapes so you can see what they're doing. These presets can't actually be edited that pre-build into PowerPoint. But they may provide a good starting point if you like the general look of them, because then you can go in and tweak the settings afterwards. There is also the available option to choose no preset. So for example, if you've turned on one of these effects such as precept four, and then at a later date you decide you don't want this. You can go to Shape Effects Presets and select no preset. This has turned off most of the effects it's added, but for some reason, PowerPoint will not turn off the shadow. So you'd have to go and do that separately, which you can do by going shape effects, shadow and no shadow. And that returns them to their original style. If you apply a preset and you like the general look at it, but think you want to make some adjustments. You can always right-click choose Format Object. Go to the specific section you wish to change. For example, such as this Top Bevel and I can make this slightly smaller. So any of the individual elements can be changed. You can also get to these settings through the shape effects preset, 3D options selection, where it'll jumped straight into that section and then you can make your changes quickly. Under shape format, we also have a number of shapes, styles. You can show these by clicking this down arrow box here. You can also show these stars by right-clicking on any graphic and choosing style from here. These styles are built into PowerPoint and can't be changed. Though the colors can, because they're based on the colors from your theme. You can change those. If you go to design. The variant section on the ribbon, drop down this box, choose colors and then customize colors. You can see accent one to six are the colors that will affect these styles. The previews of these are quite small, but if you roll over them, you will also get a tool tip that tells you what effect it's adding. For example, this is a gradient with no outline. Generally, I like to make my styles of graphics manually by right-clicking format, shape, and choosing all the options from here. But sometimes the quick styles can get you started. If you're not sure what you're looking for. You can set the initial format for all shapes you draw in the deck using Set Default shape. And it can be a really good time-saver. Whenever you select File New and choose blank presentation and add any shape. This will be the default shape that it will start with, which is blue, with a slightly darker blue single-point outline. So for example, we could right-click on this, choose Format Shape. Just going to choose a six-point outline. And I'm going to fill it with a gradient. Just going to remove these. I'm going to choose the gradient to go from blue to this purply color. Now, I can right-click on the shape and choose Set as Default shape. Any shape I now add will come in with the exact parameters that we've just chosen. This can be a really great time-saver and speed up your workflow. And what's also good is that the set as default shape will include the font and the font color. So for example, if I try and add some text in here, this will come in at the default font, which happens to be Calibri. If in this case we changed it to Montserrat, you made it bold. And we made it 32 points. And now we do set as default shape. When I draw a new shape in and type text will have exactly the right font, the right size, and the right color. And anytime that you change the color of what you're working on. For example, I might decide that I want this a solid color. So I can just use solid fill, go to solid fill and pick the color. I can then right-click and choose Set as Default shape. Then any shape I add will come in like that. 20. Change Shape: If you decide you want to change the shape, but maintain all of the formatting and animation settings. You can do that easily by using the change shape option. In this example, I'll show you how you can change all of these shapes at the same time. Firstly, we will select them. Then we'll go to Shape Format. On the ribbon will look for the Insert Shapes section. We'll click the drop-down on Edit Shape, then choose change shape. So for example here, we can change them all to rounded corners. And notice that their color and their formatting, such as the shadow effect, all stay the same. Just the shape has changed. If you've added animation to any of these, that will also stay. For one more example, I'll change these into circles. Again, we'll get Shape Format and its shape change shape. Then select oval. If we right-click on one of these and choose Format Object, because they're still selected. I can go in and type the same height and width now become perfect circles. Change shape is a really quick way of doing this. Here we have an example that has a lot of formatting, animation and things grouped together. If, for example, we wanted to change these circles into rounded corner rectangles, we'd have to do is click once to select the group. Click again to select the circle with the image in. Again, go to Shape, Format, Shape, change shape, and then choose rounded corners rectangle. The grouping and animation is exactly as it was before, but with a change shape. So I hope you can see how useful the change shape function can be. Specially when you've got formatting or animation added to your graphic objects. 21. EXAMPLE - gradient sunrise: In this short tutorial, I'm gonna be showing you how you can use gradients to create this sunrise animation. I'm just going to paste in the two colors I'm using to save time. I'll right-click on the background, choose Format background. Then I'll go to solid fill. I'll click Color, and I'll use the eyedropper to pick up this color. This animation is made up of two layers. Firstly, there's a very big circle that's going to be a gradient of light. So we can right-click on this, go to Format Shape, go to the size. This one, I'm gonna make 40 centimeters by four centimeters. I'll zoom out a bit so we can see it will place it in the middle. Now, we'll go to Fill. Make sure it's got no line as an outline. And then we'll go to gradient fill. And I'm going to choose path. Then I will click on the left-hand side and choose white. And click on the right-hand side and choose white again. Now, for the right-hand side, I'm going to make sure that it's got a 100% transparency. And you can see this creates this nice lighting effect because it goes from a solid color to a completely transparent color. It creates a very smooth gradient. Now, I'm going to add the animation to this. So I'll go to animations. And I'm going to choose fly-in. Looking good. Just going to slow that down. So we'll go to the animation pane, click on the overload. We've got to start after previous. So it happens as soon as you go onto the page, then I'm going to set a 2 second duration. Finally, if we double-click on this, we can give a smooth end to make sure that it finishes smoothly, which looks nice. And this style of animation. Great. So that's the background layer. Now let's add the foreground. We'll click on oval again to add a second circle. Right-click Format Shape again. And for this one will have no line. We'll choose Gradient fill. And a radial gradient for this would look good. I'm going to choose the color from the background. For both of these. Then the gradient stop. On the left-hand side. I'm going to make 40% brighter. Now, we'll go to the size. And for this, I'm going to choose 20 centimeter circle or central. It's up and move it down a tiny bit. That's a good place for it to appear. And now I'm going to add the glow. So for that, we go into this effect section under shape options. We choose glow. You can select a preset. We can just choose a color such as white. I'm going to choose 100-point glow because I want a lot of glow on this. And I'm going to make it 50% transparent. Now for this animation, I'm going to choose a Grow Shrink effect. So we'll go to animations. We'll click this box here. You can see it says Grow, Shrink under emphasis. That's looking good, but I don't quite want it to grow that much. So if I click on this, it goes to the animation pane. I can then double-click and change the settings. I'm going to choose a custom grow size of 125 per cent and then press Enter. Then I want to make sure it's got a smooth end. And I actually want this to be very slow. So I'm going to type in 20 seconds and the duration. And then under the Start option, I'll choose with previous. Now, when we play this, the light layer underneath will reveal, while the layer over the top, We will grow like twenty-five percent. Excellent. So there's, there's Cooler King sunrise effect. That works really well. And I'm just quickly going to show you how you can make color variations of this. If we go to our slide and press Control D to duplicate, we'll right-click on the background, go to Format Background. I'm going to pick up the color that I pasted in earlier. I can now delete these as we don't need them. Then I can go to my foreground shape. In this example, for the step on the left, I'm going to choose a blue because I think that looks pretty good. So you can see by using simple gradients and simple shapes, we can get some very high-quality looking effects and animate them to add interests to your slides. 22. EXAMPLE - Video style animation effect: In this short tutorial, I'll be showing you how you can make these videos style animations, just using shapes in PowerPoint and adding multiple animations to them. In this example, we're going to start with a black background. So right-click, go to Format Background, solid fill, and choose black. For our first example, we're going to just draw a simple circle. So we'll get an oval. Click anywhere. Go to the size. I'm gonna make this ten centimeters. Align it to the middle of the page, then go to Fill. Make sure it's on no fill. And underline. I'm going to make this first one, this bright blue color. Now we're going to go to the effects and add a glow to this. Because I think that adding a glow, it gives it this nice blurry motion effect when it's animating. We'll go to Effects. Glow. Make sure we choose the same color as the line. I'm going to just select 5. In my example at the beginning, I just had this textbox that just said one. Now, let's add the animation. Will go to animations. And we'll choose wheel. You'll see this drawer out. When we go to the Animation Pane. We want these to start automatically. So we're going to select with previous. I'm going to make this 2.5 seconds. Then I'm going to add a second animation, this time an Exit animation. We'll again, this will remove it. Will go to start, choose width previous, change it to 2.5 seconds, and then make sure that there's a delay of 2.5 seconds. So this will mean that the wheel animation will reveal and when it's finished, it will do the Exit animation. So we'll select a 2.5 seconds delay for this. Now if I play this slide, you can see it will reveal round. Then wipe off. And then we want to add a third animation. And this is an emphasis animation called spin. So we'll go to Add animation. It's very important you got to add animation. Otherwise, if you click any of these, it will replace the animation. So we've got to add emphasis, which is spin, will make this happen with previous, and we'll drag it up to the top. I'm going to set the duration to 1 second. And then I can double-click on this. Go to timing and choose to repeat five times. What that will do is it will spend 1 second rotating five times. The reason I've done that is so that it takes five seconds in total, which matches the time of these two animations here, which were 2.5 seconds each. So now when we play this, we get this really fast, good-looking animation. Now, I'll show you how you can quickly duplicate this slide and make variations of it using the change shape feature. So we'll click on the slide. Press Control D. Type two in this box. Click on our circle, go to Shape Format, then edit shape, change shape, and choose rectangle that will create this square. Now we'll go and change the color. So we'll make sure it's selected. Go to Shape, outline, and choose our other color. And we also want to right-click Format Shape and make sure that the glow is also using that color. So go to color and pick the same color for the glow, then the same color for the text. Now when we run this, the effect will be applied automatically and you can change the speed to suit. And in my example, I wanted this to go a lot faster. So I can actually go to the animation pane and I could change all the timings, but I know they work. So to make this faster, I can just go to the first option, which is the rotation, and change it from 360 degrees to two spins, which is 720 degrees. So that's effectively just going to double the speed. So when I run that, I'll quickly just create the other two examples. So again, control D to duplicate Shape, Format, edit shape, change shape, and then select any shape you like. I used this x. And we can scale that up a bit. If you hold Control and Shift, it will scale like this from the center. And then we can change the number three. For this one. I just chose this orange color. And again, we'll need to do shape outline. And you can leave it like that if you wish, or if you want to have it the same color, you can go to glow and make sure that you change that to. Now when we play it, we get this cool fast animation. Now quickly the final one, Control D to duplicate, change this to number for this, we just used a green. I'll make sure that shape outline is green and the glow is set to green. Then Shape Format, edit, shape, change shape. We can change the shape to anything that looks good. For my example, I happen to use this cool plaque. This one, we can size it down a bit. Again. Click on the corner handle and hold down control and shift. And then we can size it from the center. Now, when we run this animation, it's fast. It looks interesting. It just is a clever way of using multiple animations to create interesting effects directly in PowerPoint. 23. EXAMPLE - Quotes: In this short tutorial, I'm gonna be showing you how you can spice up your quote design by using these quick and simple but impactful layouts. Save time. I'm going to paste in the three backgrounds I had. You can easily create these yourself by going to Format background, choosing a linear gradient, and picking two different color stops that you liked the look of. I'm also going to quickly paste in my text, align it to the middle. Now let's create the quote graphic. So for this first example, I'm going to choose parallelogram, which is this fifth shape in the basic shape section. I'm not going to click anywhere to add it. I actually want to rotate this. So I'm going to go to the circle here and hold down Shift, so it rotates and it will lock to the exact rotation I want. She is actually 90 degrees. Now going to flip this vertically. That's basically the shape I want for the quote graphic. Now going to stretch this out and stretch this out. Then overlay it so it fits nicely, enough space. It looks good. You can adjust the angle of it by using this little yellow dot. Now I'm going to give this no fill. And then a white 10-point line and align it to the middle. Now, we'll add the quote marks. You can either get vector graphics or icons for these, or you can just use a font that you like the look of the quotes in. So if I type quotes in there, I'm going to choose a font called the Language, which is available from Google to download. Going to make these white and very big, probably about a 120. And bold. Looks good. But now we need to make sure that the background is slide background fill. So this is just the background of this textbox, but we want to make sure it's background fill. So then it will go over the top of the white line that looks seamless in the background. We also want to go to the textbox options and make sure that it's on do not auto fit. And that will allow us to size it as we wish. And finally, I'll align it to the center. Now we'll click on this one and press Control D. And if I hold down shift, you can see we rotate it all the way round. Then put this down here. Again because it's on slide background fill. When I drop it, it will update. Great. Now I will just add in the person's name that made the quote. Going to make this white. And 16 Then just wanted to rotate this. So it's about in line with the line above. That's about right. And finally, we'll add a little bit of animation to reveal the quote. I think something like this looks good. But we can go to animations and choose fade. But instead of it all fading up as one single fade, if we go into the animation pane, Double-click on the animation settings. Choose to animate by letter with about a 5% delay between letters. The letters will all fade up, which I think looks really good for a quote. Let's play that. Great. Now let's add a second example. Again. To save time, I'll quickly paste in the text. For this quote. I went to insert icons and typed speech in the search box. And I decided to use this icon here. So I'll click on that and choose Insert, hold down Control and Shift to scale it up. It was good. Actually flipped it horizontally and rotated it six degrees. So we can go to Format graphic and then choose size and type in six degrees. I'll apply the same rotation to the text. Six degrees. Just going to drag this into the middle. Drag this to where I want it. And as before, we can add the quotes. But I'm just going to make this white start with. To make it quicker. I'm just going to copy and paste these quotes. From here, remembering that you can use any font you like or icon. But it's important to choose slide, background fill so they fit seamlessly on the background. So I'm going to make these a little bit smaller for this one should do. And again, I'm going to rotate this and this by six degrees. Make sure that this one's rotated all the way round. So it looks good. If you want, you can make this box a little bit bigger and it will cut into the white box a bit more. Then we'll just move this. Just the name of the quote. Great. Again, as before, we can add animation to this. We'll go to Animations. Choose fade. The animation pane. Click on the text box. Make sure that the animate texts is on by letter. Because that's consistent with the first one. Under 5% delay. It just fades on like that. Brilliant. I'll just do one more very quick example. I'll paste in the text, paste in the quote graphic, and then just align it to the middle. And then I'll just use a standard rectangle. Make sure it's got no fill the ten white outline. Then we'll send to back and move the quote up a tiny bit. You'll notice that where the text is here of the person that said the quote. Even though it's on top, we can't see at all. And that's because we need to choose a slide background fill as the fill option in the textbox. Great. Finally, as before, we will quickly add the fade. Double-click on it in the animation pane. Percent delay. There you go. Nice way of quickly and easily improving the design of your quotes and making use of slide background fill. 24. Part 3 - Creating custom shapes - Introduction: In section three, we will go beyond the basic drawing tools and see that you can draw virtually anything by refining shapes, combining shapes, and drawing custom shapes. There's also a step-by-step exercise to draw an impressive looking light bulb graphic. As before, this section contains a number of examples to show how you could use these techniques in your slide designs. 25. Refining shapes: Every shape has the anchor points within its outline connected by lines that you can edit to change the appearance of the shape. If we click on the shape, we can either go to Shape Format on the ribbon, and then Edit Shape and choose Edit Points. Or you can simply right-click on the shape and choose Edit Points from there. You can click on any of the black squares and drag these points to make your new shape. And to create new points. You can right-click where you want these to be and choose Add Point. And now you can drag the black dot of the new point. To delete a point. You can right-click on it and choose Delete point. Or I'll just undo that there. You can hold down the Control key and you'll see when you roll over a point, the cursor changes to a black X. And now, when you click that will delete the point. When you click on any point, you will see two white squares. These are known as Bezier handles. You can drag these handles to edit the way the path looks. For example, if we drag this up here, it will create this curve. If you click on the Bezier handle and drag it, you will see there's a dashed line. This is a preview of where the line is going to end up. Once you let go. There are three types of anchor points, which are these black dots. If you right-click on them, you will see the three types of points that you can have. Smooth point, straight point, or corner point. So to help explain the three different types of points you can have in a shape. Let's take a rectangle and add a point along the top edge. We'll right-click, choose Edit Points. And when I move the cursor over the middle part of the line, you can see that it changes. Now, we can right-click and choose add a point. When I click on this point and drag it up, It's a corner point. Because by default, when you add a point, it will first be a corner point. Now, we can right-click on this. And if I change it to a smooth point and then adjust these white Bezier handles. You can see that the points are in a straight line and both Bezier points are the same distance from the center point. If we make the curve larger on one side of the point, it will be mirrored on the other side of the point. If we now change this to a straight point, so we'll right-click and choose straight point. You will see that the Bezier points are still in a straight line. But you can alter the distance of each Bezier point to the center point independently. So the curve can be larger on one side and smaller on the other side. If we now change this to a corner point, you can see that the Bezier points move independently. When the Bezier points join at an angle, a corner is created. You can turn an open shape to a closed shape and vice versa. This is also referred to as an open path or closed path. So if we click on the shape, we can right-click and choose Edit Points. From here, you can right-click on an anchor point. And there's the option to open path. You can now click on the anchor point and drag it to where you wish to close path. If you wish to do so, you can right-click on the anchor point and choose Close Path. Powerpoint calls each line in-between an anchor point, a segment. You can add or remove segments. And you can also convert them to curves if you wish. Will right-click, choose Edit Points into add a segment is just like adding an anchor point. You can hold down control and click. We can now drag our anchor point out. So now we've created two segments where there was only one. If you wish to delete either of these segments, you can roll over this until the cursor changes into the black square with a crossover it. And then right-click and you can choose delete segment, which just undo that and show that if you want to turn into a curve, you do the same thing. But when you right-click, you've got the option to choose curves segment. You also have the option to revert it to a straight segment if you wish. So you can see that by using anchor points, you have some very powerful tools that you can make your own custom graphics with. 26. Drawing custom shapes: Powerpoint has three tools to help you draw custom shapes. Curve, free-form shape, and free form scribble. Powerpoint shapes can be closed or open. This is also called a closed or open path. A closed shape, such as this has no start point or end point. An open shape has a beginning and an end. If we right-click on the shape and choose Edit Points, and then go to one of the points and right-click on that. You can see there is an option to close path. Now, if we right-click on this, there's an option to open path. And we can adjust this as needed. If we select the curve tool, we can click to start the drawing. Drag to where we want this to go. Click again. And as we move, it will create the curve. And every time we click, it'll add another point. If I go all the way back to the starting point, can see that it's previewed. The entire shape has a closed shape. If I click to end, it will fill it in. Again. You can right-click on this and choose Edit Points and click on any of these. And it will allow you to edit the points and adjust them as needed. And you can also use these handles to adjust the curves. If you wish to add another point, you can right-click and choose Add point. Again, you can now drag with the black handle. We'll use the white handles to adjust the curve. If you want to get rid of this point, you can right-click and choose Delete point. Or you can hold down the Control key and click on this. While you're drawing your curved line. If you actually want to put in a straight line, you can hold down the Control key. So this will give you flexibility to add curves where needed. And also straight lines. Again, if you go to the very start point and I hold down control to get the straight line and click that will finish the shape and fill it in. When using the curve tool, you can double-click or press Enter on the keyboard to create an open shape. Rather than going back to the start to create a closed shape. Now we'll look at the free form shape. So every time you single click on this, you'll get a straight line. Again. When you go back to the very start point, it will preview the closed shape. If you click again, it will fill in the closed shape. As before. If you'd like to edit any of these points, you can right-click on the shape, choose Edit Points. You can also do this from the Edit Shape option under the Shape Format section of the ribbon. Edit points. From here, you can drag any of the black squares to adjust the position of the points. You can use the handles to adjust curves. So in this case, make each one of these a curve if you wish. And you can also right-click on the black dots to change the type of points they are. Smooth point, straight point, or corner point. As we mentioned on the curve tool. If you want to get rid of these, you can either right-click on any of them and choose Delete Point or hold down the Control key. And then little x pops up when you roll over them and then click to get rid of them. For the free form shape tool, if you hold your mouse down, you can draw freehand. If you release the mouse and then move. Powerpoint will draw a straight line. When you finished. You can either close up the shape and it will automatically fill it or leave it open by double-clicking to finish or pressing Enter. The third customer shape drawing tool is the scribble. If we can insert shapes and choose free form scribble. This will work in a similar way to the free form shape tool. It will all be completely free hand. You just hold down the mouse. And once he finished the scribble, you can just let go. 27. EXAMPLE - Flower graphic: In this short tutorial, I'm gonna be showing you how you can create these flower vector graphics from scratch in PowerPoint and animate them. The first thing we'll do is go to a blank presentation and choose Layout blank. Now, let's create the petal shapes. Just going to paste in the two colors I'm going to use and pull them off the screen. We're going to start with an oval shape. Now, if we right-click on the shape and choose Edit Points, you'll see these four anchor points appear. To make this a good shape for the flower. I want to make this top point a corner point. So if we hover over it and right-click, I can choose corner point. Now we've made this a corner point. We can grab these Bezier handles here. If we pull this down, and then if we pull this down, you can see that it has made a point. You can adjust it until you're happy with the look of it. Then we'll make this a bit thinner. We will now add the outline. So we'll go to Line, choose black. And I'm gonna give this a four-point outline. Now, we're going to add the middle part, which is basically just a very slim, very small triangle. I'm going to make this black with no outline and drag it into the middle. Make it very slim. I'll just align this to the middle. Will go to this option here for effects. And select the drop-down for shadow, and choose Inner Shadow. Any of these will be fine. We'll just start with a preset and then adjust it to get it looking right. So the default is a small, blurred shadow. But for these vectors, I don't think we want any blur, so we'll turn it off. But we will want a big distance. So I'd say about 30 points might do. And then we'll put the transparency on nought per cent and go to the Color Picker. Go to more colors and just make a darker version of this for the shadow. Now, we can just adjust the angle to suit. So let's start off with that. And as we make the rotated petals, we can change the angle, whatever looks good. Now press Control G to group this and align it to the middle. I'm now going to press Control D. Hold down shift while I rotate. This will be the second one. Again, we can click on this and adjust the angle as necessary to whatever we think looks good. We'll press Control D again, hold down shift while we rotate. Then Control D again for the last one, and hold down Shift while we rotate. Now let's add the center part of the flower. For that, we'll just use a circle. Size will be fine. But I'm just going to fill it with a gradient fill. Just pick this gold color and white for this. And again, the same thickness line on which was four, and make it black. Now let's align it to the middle. And I'm also going to group these petals and align them to the middle. Now let's make the pink variations. And there's quite an easy way to do this. If we hold down Control and Shift and then drag this, it will make a duplicate. And then if we hold down shift and rotate, it will rotate exactly the right amount and that we want. Now, I can just click on each one of these and make it the pink color. So now we can go for the inner shadow color. Again. We can choose the pink, then go to more colors and just drag this down a bit to make it a bit darker for the shadow. It's quick here, apply that to the others. Then we'll right-click on this middle section and bring to the front, and then drag in our pink petals to go over the top. Now let's select everything. Hold down, shift and move it up a bit. Now, draw a line down from here to the bottom. And again, make that black and four-point width will quickly add a background and then we can animate it. So if we right-click Format background, I can just put a gradient fill on this. And I'm going to choose the two colors here. This blue. Then for the second color, and choose the pink. Now, let's add the animation. So firstly, we'll just add a wipe up for this. So we'll go to Animations. Choose wipe. Then we'll add a Zoom out for this. So in click on it and select Zoom. I'll change this to with previous happens at the same time. And I want these four petals, the pink ones, to reveal one at a time, but quite quickly, because I think that looks best. So let's ungroup these Control Shift G. And then we can add the animation to one of them and simply use the animation Painter to copy it to the others. So firstly, we want to add a fade will appear nicely, not be on the page when it starts animating. And then we want to click on it a second time. And this time go to Add animation and add this motion path. You can see that's the default direction. We just wanted to pick this up and move it about here would do. I'll click on the animation pane, Double-click on the item. That is the motion path, and make sure it's got smooth end and press okay. I also want it to go the other way so I can choose reverse path direction from the Effect Options. And that's looking good. Just want it to be quite a lot quicker side say 2.5th for each of these. And rather than onclick, we want this to start with previous. And we also want to click on the fade. Jews after previous. Now. Stalk will come up, the center will reveal, and the leaf will appear. Now, let's show you a quick way how you can add that effect to the others. So we'll make sure our petal is selected, go to animation painter and then paint it onto this one. Now all we have to do is make sure that this little circle here is dragged into the position you want to start the animation. Now, we'll go back to the animation painter, making sure that one with an animation is selected. And click on the third petal. Again, we want to click on this little green arrow and drag the red dot to where we'd like our animation to start. Finally, we'll add the animation to the fourth petal. Click on the green arrow end. Then drag the red dot to where we want the animation to start. So if we play that, it's looking good, we'll just quickly add it to the blue ones. So we'll click on the blue petals, Control Shift G to ungroup them. Click on the pink petal animation painter, then on the blue. And I'm just going to quickly apply it to all of these and drag the start positions into the right place. So that's all of the motion paths copied. Let's have a look. We just need to adjust this to make it go right to the center. Then right-click on it and choose Send to Back. I want that to be a tiny bit faster to in the animation pane, you can shift click to multiple select. I'm just going to turn this duration down to quarter of a second, and that will speed it up to make it twice as fast. That's great. So now you can see how you can take standard shapes in PowerPoint. Easily change the anchor points to create your own custom graphics, use inner shadow to add an extra dimension to your vectors. And finally, add animation to bring it all to life. 28. Merge shapes: You can make new custom shapes by combining shapes in various ways using the Merge Shapes feature within shape format. These features work with any number of shapes. We'll use just to, to clearly show what's happening. In each case. You can press and hold the Shift key while you select each shape in turn. Once you have selected more than one shape, you can go to Shape Format. And then the option merge shapes will be available. Under the drop-down that we five options union, combine, fragment, intersect, and subtract. In each case, the new shape will use the format of the first shape you selected. In this example. I selected the green circle first. So in this case, if I went to Union, which joins all the shapes together to form a new shape, It's taken the format of the green circle I clicked on first. If I was to select the blue circle first and then shift click to select the green circle. And then went to merge shapes and chose Union. It would make the new shape blue. As you roll over any of these five options, you will see that PowerPoint gives you a preview of what is going to look like. On the Intersect option. It will only keep the areas that intersect each other. The combined option is the opposite of intersect. The intersected section is removed from the shape. If we choose fragment, the intersecting and non-intersecting sections are separated to produce different shapes. You can see if I move this shape out here and this shape out here In three shapes. And finally, if we just revert back to the original shapes we had, we can have a look at Subtract. So if I click on the green circle first and then the blue circle while holding down Shift. And now go to Shape Format and choose Subtract. Powerpoint has subtracted the blue shape from the green. If we would like to do this the other way round, I would just control Z to undo that. If I select the blue shape first and then the green shape and wedge-shaped format. And Joe subtract. You can see it would keep the blue side. You can use merge shapes with any of the shapes you have in PowerPoint. And with it, you can create some great looking custom shapes easily and quickly. Here, I will show you some examples of how you can use merge shapes to create your own custom shapes. For the first one, I've just layered two circles over the top of each other. If I select them both, go to Shape, Format, mode shapes, and choose intersect. Here, we've created an eye shape or a lemon shape. This shape is not available in the standard shapes inside PowerPoint, but you can see how quickly you can create it just using merge shapes. For our next example, I'm going to cut out the wheel arches of what could be something like a truck. If we select the blue, then select the green. Go to Shape, Format, Merge Shapes. Subtract. If we actually want to include these wheels in there. I'll show you a quick way on how you can make them smaller. So I've just taken a copy of those logo, shape format, Merge Shapes, subtract. Then if you hold down Control and Shift, you'll make this smaller and you can just drag them up. For our next example, I've just used a triangle and two rectangles to make a basic house. And we're going to use subtract to cut the door out of this rectangle. So I'll click on the green first, then the blue door, then go to Shape, Format, Merge Shapes to subtract. Now I can shift click on the roof to select both of them. Shape, Format, Merge Shapes and combine. This has now created one object. For our fourth example, we can use for circles and a square to make a jigsaw piece graphic. Firstly, I'm going to click on the square. Then shift to select the circle on the left, and then shift click to select the circle at the top. Then we'll go to Shape, Format, mode, shapes, and choose union. For these two circles, the one at the bottom and the one on the right. I'm going to cut these out. So I'll click on the jigsaw piece. Shift click to select the first, and shift click to select the second. Then we go to Shape, Format, mode shapes, and choose subtract. You can see how we've quickly created a jigsaw piece, custom graphic from just five easy shapes to create in PowerPoint. Because this is just a shape in PowerPoint, we can change it to any color we like. 29. EXERCISE - light bulb: This exercise, we can combine some of the techniques we've learned in previous lessons to create this piece of custom vector art directly in PowerPoint. See how you get on creating this light bulb. And then I'll show you a step-by-step guide of a way you could do it. So we'll start off with a circle. So we click on oval here, click to add it to our page. And then I'm gonna go to the size. Now I'm going to choose to make this eight by eight centimeters. I'll now align it to the center and hold Shift to move it up a bit, which will keep it locked to the center. I can now use shape fill to make it the color I want. Next, we'll add a rectangle. We'll click to add it anywhere to the page. And we'll align it to the center as well. Then we'll need two more circles. And an easy way to do that is to press Control D on this circle. Now I'm gonna make this a little bigger, say ten centimeters. Drag them into position and you'll see the smart guides appear. Press Control D to make a second one, drag that into position. You will see the smart guides appear again. I'm basically adjusting it and dragging it so it just touches the rectangle edge. Now for the light bulb shape, we can make this rectangle shorter and wider. And again, center it on the page. Now we can use the first of the mode shapes, where we click on the circle and the rectangle shape format and choose a union. If I just move these circles out of the way, you'll see what we've got, which is the first part of the light bulb by actually want to leave these circles there. Because I'm going to use merge shapes again. And this time we'll be using subtract. So we'll click on the light bulb that we want to select first. Double shift, click on the second circle and Shift-click on the third circle. Now we can go to Shape, Format, merge shapes, and choose Subtract. And for now, we don't need the outline. So we can say No Outline. You can see there's a small bit of imperfection where the shapes were joined. But we can fix that by zooming into it and using Edit Points. So we'll right-click choose Edit Points, and then just hold down the Control key. And I'm just going to delete these points here that I don't need. Then on this side, again, control. Control. That's looking pretty good. So we'll just zoom out. Now, we can add the bottom rectangle. And for that, we're going to use a top corners rounded rectangle. From the shapes along the rectangles here. You'll see that this option, one infant, the right, says top corners rounded. I'm going to choose a gray color for this. I'm going to then rotate it. And by holding down Shift it rotates in equal amounts. Then you can use the yellow dots to adjust the roundness. Think about there looks good. Then I'm gonna go to Shape, outline and say Now outline. And then just drag this up. If we zoom into it a bit, we can then make sure that it's perfectly aligned by dragging out these corner handles. Now we can press Control D. This is gonna be the bottom section. We can choose a slightly darker color for this if we want to get into more colors and just pulling this slider down. Now we'll add three rounded corner rectangles. You can go to the drawing menu again. This time. We want to choose the second in from the left, which is rectangle, rounded corners. And I'm going to choose no outline. And use the same Fill. Use for the bottom section which was light gray. Then make this more rounded by dragging the yellow dot and hold down Shift to move it up a bit. Now I can hold down control and shift and drag down, and then Control and Shift and drag down again to make the copies. Now I'm going to use the line tool to draw the filament inside the light bulb. Will pick up the line tool here. We can click and click again. This time we want this one at a slight angle. Then I can shift, select to click both of these. Hold down Control and Shift and drag them, and then group them with Control G, and then choose to flip them horizontally. Now I can position this where I want to. And I'll also select the other side Control G, and then align it to the center. Finally, we just need to draw a line across the top. So I can zoom in a bit by holding down Control and using the scroll wheel. Select the line. When you roll over the edge of the line, you'll see the circle up here. And I can hold down until I can draw it, join it up with this side. Now, select all of these lines, groups and make them the same color as the dark gray at the bottom. And a tiny bit thicker. 1 to look good. Now we're going to create a thick white outline that we had around the whole thing. And again, this will be used in the merge shapes. So we can select absolutely everything. Press Control G to group it, then Control D to duplicate. Now, we can choose Control Shift G to ungroup everything. We can delete the lines. We can select absolutely everything here on this side, go Shape Format, and then choose union. Now, we can give this a solid outline of white. 15. We can also add a small amount of drop shadow. So we can go to presets and select any preset here. I'm going to type in North percent transparency for point below 90 angle three distance. Then go to fill and choose no fill. Right-click and choose center back. Then, align this into place. That's aligned into the middle. I'm just going to use the cursor keys to move it down to the right place. And finally, we can use an oval with a gradient to give it some lighting. So we'll click on oval, will roughly draw it into place and rotate it. This can be adjusted to suit. This seems a good place to start. I can turn off the outline and then go gradient fill. We're going to use the type path. And we're going to choose the yellow on the right, on stop to where it says color gold. And onStop one on the left, we're going to choose white. Then you can adjust the gradient stops to whatever you think looks the best. Finally, we had a bit of a gradient on the actual yellow light bulb itself. So we can click on the light bulb, Control Shift G to ungroup. And then we can just click on the yellow. Go to Gradient fill. This time, we're going to choose a linear gradient. Will make sure that it starts from the yellow. And then as it moves over it, it goes to a slightly darker yellow. So here I'm just picking the gold colors. You can see this adds quite a nice color variation because it gets darker as it goes away from the light. So there's your light bulb drawn from scratch in PowerPoint. And using the inbuilt drawing tools and PowerPoint and Merge Shapes gives you a lot of flexibility to create your own great looking vector graphics. 30. Fluid photo cutouts: In this short tutorial, I'm gonna be showing you how you can make these fluid image cutouts directly in PowerPoint with PowerPoint and shapes and the Merge Shape Tool. The first fluid image shape will be based on a triangle. So we'll click on triangle in the drawing section, click anywhere and enlarge this triangle. Now we right-click on the triangle and choose Edit Points. From here, we can right-click on each one of the squares and convert it to a smooth point. From here. It's just a case of grabbing these Bezier handles and converting it to something you think looks good. If you wish to add a point. You can hold down the Control key and click when you're on the line and the icon has turned in to this crosshairs with a small square in the middle. So I'll move over the line. It turns into the little crosshairs with the square in the middle. I'll hold down control. Click. And now I've added a point. From here. The black candor will drag the point. And the white Bezier handles allow you to adjust the curves either side of the point. It's just a case of getting something you think that looks good. I'll go with this. Now. Let's get the picture. So to save time, I'll just paste in the picture I had. These are all available. I'm going to insert and then choosing pictures and stock images, and then typing the keyword of your choice and choosing the image. So if we go to the corner point and drag it in, we can make it smaller. And ideally, we want to make it about the size, the shape that we're going to cut it out from. I'm gonna go with that size. Right-click send to back. And you can see the area that we're going to get. This looks about right? So now we click on the image first, then the shape with shift click to select both of them. Then we go to Shape, Format, merge shapes, and choose Intersect, which is the fourth one down. There's our fluid image cut-out. For the second one, I started with an oval. So we can just click on oval and drag this out onto our canvas. Right-click, choose Edit Points. Now, we can adjust these as we wish. Again, if you want to put in any more points, you can go to where the icon changes. Hold down the Control key and click. Now, we can drag in these points as needed. If you have a wish to delete any points, you can hold Control as you go over the point and click will remove it. You can also always right-click and choose smooth point if you wish to turn the point into a curve. So that's looking pretty good. I'll just paste in the image is the corner points to resize it. To archetype of the top right-click and send to back. Now I'll make sure I've selected the image first. Then shift select the shape. Go to Shape Format. Mode shapes again, intersect. Great. Now let's quickly create the panels that I had behind it. For those, I've used a rounded corner rectangle. I wanted the corners to be slightly less rounded. So I'll click on this little yellow dot. Pull this hand here. Now I'll right-click on it to center back. And to get the color, I'll go to Shape Fill. I'm going to select a color from this image first. I'm going to select no outline. Now I'm going to go to more fill colors and just pull up the lightness of this somewhat by dragging the slider straight up. It's about right. Great. Now I can click on this, press Control D to duplicate. Right-click, send to back. Track this to wherever I want it. Then I can click on this, go to the eyedropper tool, select this color and go to more fill colors and do the same thing. Just drag this up slightly to get a lighter color. I'll quickly paste in the text that I had and align this. That's looking good by one, the whole thing to be a little bit smaller. So I can control a to select everything. Control G, then hold down Shift and drag the corner handles in to make this smaller. That's about right. Now let's align it to the middle and the center. I'm just going to put solid background. Just a light gray color, looking good. So there's a really quick way of breaking out of the traditional use of photos in a rectangular shape. You can use any shape you like, that looks good. You can also copy and paste these shapes to keep them for future so you can cut them out exactly the same again. Now, just going to quickly show you how you can add some animation to this. We'll go into the slide Control D and make sure that under transitions we have morph turned on. Now we'll go to the first slide. We need to make sure these are both on groups. So I'll click on both of them. Press Shift Control G. Now on the second slide, I can move this to wherever I want and rotate it as I want. And the same thing with this one. And then Control D again. Just to make a third part of the animation. Track this to wherever you want. Rotate as needed, and pull the text into wherever you want. Now when you run from the beginning, it will animate nicely between the slides using the more function. You can use this for any animation you like. So by using Edit Points and merge shapes, we can create some more interesting looking ways of using photos. 31. Long shadow: In this short video, I'm gonna be showing you how to make this cool shadow effect. You can apply any color too, and we can start with any words. We're gonna be creating this directly in PowerPoint. The first thing we'll do is create our text. And I'm just going to write shadow. I'm going to make it a 100. And Montserrat Bold. Now align it to the middle. Now the part that you might think you can't do in PowerPoint, but there is a way we are going to make the long shadow by selecting this. I'm pressing Control D to duplicate. Now, we have to carefully drag this back so it snaps on top. There we go. Now. We have to press the down arrow once and the right arrow once. And that's very subtle, but it's basically moved it down one pixel and across one pixel. Now, if you press Control D and leave your hand on it, after a while, you'll have all the duplication is you need to make this long shadow effect. Soon as we're completely off the page, we can stop. Now we need to view our selection page. So we'll go to Home on the ribbon, go to arrange and choose selection pane. There are all our copies that we're using to make the shadow, 823 of them in total. So we'll go down to the very bottom, which in this case is called textbox three. It could be called anything, but it's basically the first one that says shadow, will click on it, will now bring it to the front. We're now gonna go to textbox three and turn off the visibility. I should add that editing at this point because there's 823 symbols on the page, might be a bit slow. We're going to select everything that's visible, which will be our 820 odd copies. We're gonna go to Shape Format. We're gonna go to Merge Shapes. And we're going to choose union. Now we have our long shadow and it's all one shape. So it'll be very quick. I'm going to turn on the visibility of the textbox that was on top. And I'm going to select that. I'm going to make this a better color. I'm going to start off with a red. We might need to adjust this later to get the exact look we're going for. Now we can select the shadow, we can go to Shape Fill more gradients. And we can select a linear gradient. I'm going to use this one. I created this earlier. It's basically a 100 degree angle, starts off with the red, and then on the left, it's a minus 45 brightness. On the right, 61% plus brightness. What I'm going to do for the shadow text, click on it. Choose the recent color, then go to more colors and just make it a bit brighter so we can see it easily. I'll start with this and see how it looks. That looks pretty good already. Just going to create the background. So I'm going to create a rectangle, snap it to the top. Going to make it full-page. Center back. I'm going to use a similar gradient fill. But in this case, just going to choose a slightly different direction from the bottom-left to the top right, which is 315 degrees. So when I play this now, we've got our long shadow. Can see on the W there is a tiny, tiny bit of a line. So I'm just going to adjust that by one pixel. So I'm going to click on the shadow. Click right once and then play it. Excellent. There's our long shadow effects. And just as a bonus, I'm gonna show you how you can now easily change the color of this. So we'll just duplicate the slide. Gonna go to our middle color here. And I'm going to choose something like this, blue. Set them all to the blue. Then I'm going to add the gradient because this was about minus 30. This was about plus 60. I'm going to apply the same gradient to our long shadow on his 30 here plus 60 on this side. Now I'm going to change the text. Do what did earlier, or as I make it blue, then I go to more colors. Make it a bit brighter so we can clearly see it. Okay, With something like that. Press play. Excellent. There's our long shadow effect, works really well. You can start it off with any text. You can change it into any color. 32. Part 4 - 3D in PowerPoint - Introduction: In section four, we will go through the various 3D capabilities in PowerPoint and to create a 3D graph in the exercise. We will also look at the options for rotations, bevels, and lighting, and see what effect they have. At the end, I will show you how to make some stunning slide examples with clever use of the inbuilt 3D options. 33. 3D Rotation: Here I will show you how to create a 3D shape. We'll start with the basic 2D shape. Then we can use a combination of 3D format and 3D rotation to make some different shapes. The easiest way to start with the 3D rotation is just to use one of the presets and then tweak that. So we'll right-click choose Format, Shape will go on to this second icon here called effects, and then 3D rotation will be in there. The first one I'll select is going to be called isometric. Left down. You can see it adds the 3D rotation to the two-dimensional shape. When we go to 3D format and add some depth to that, you can see the 3D shape a lot better. So for example, I'm going to leave these all on Thursday and then show you some examples of different rotations. On the second example, I'm going to use the preset isometric right up again at some depth so we can see what it's doing. The third one, I'm going to choose top-up isometric game. I'll add some depth to the fourth top-down. Then for the last two, going to use off-axis top and off-axis, right? Finally adding the depth so we can see the shapes. I'm showing you all of these as examples of the presets in 3D rotation. But generally, when you're creating a slide, you'll be wanting to use the same 3D rotation for everything that's on that slide for consistency. So I'm just going to reset these 3D rotations and we'll show some more examples. If I shift select all of these. I can click either reset in the 3D format section or reset in the 3D rotation section. And they will both do the same thing. They will remove all the settings we've made from 3D format and 3D rotation. So here's some examples of the presets that are in the perspective section. This one is called below. Again, I'm just going to add depth to these as we go so you can see exactly what it's doing. About 40 is a good start. For this one. I'm going to choose left. Then we're gonna go through and choose contrasting left. Contrasting, write tan, left, tilt it up. And finally in the perspective section, dendrite tilted up. Lastly, there are the oblique presets. Top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. What the 3D rotation presets are doing is they're effectively just putting in numbers into the x, y, and z rotation. You can do this manually. By, for example, typing into there. Again, I'll just put some depth so we can see what it's doing. Or you can click one of the arrows to rotate the x rotation in the direction you're clicking. In this example. I'm clicking left. You can see the shape rotating and it will just keep going. Here we'll apply some y rotation. Then for this last one, we'll apply some set rotation. Again. I'll just reset these. Because I also want to show you that if you select a perspective option, then you'll bear to actually adjust the perspective. If I just give these some depth. You can see I can now adjust the IT perspective to widen the field of view. And just below the perspective option is the option to keep texts flat. I'll show you what that will do. If I just write some text on this shape. You will see it will appear in the perspective of the actual shape. Where that text appears is in the vertical alignment section. So I'll put it in the middle. You can see that it's displaying out the perspective of the shape. But if I wanted to keep it completely flat, just tick this box. The very last setting in the 3D rotation section is distance from ground, which is how far above the background the object is positioned at. To show you a good example of this, I will just reset these three. Remove the text. And I'm just going to choose a preset such as off-axis top and add a bit of depth. Now, if I line these up next to each other, just send that on to the back. So these are all now lined up in the three-dimensional space. And I can now go to distance from ground. For example, if I put 40 points on this one, you'll see it's lifted up above the other two. If I put a T on this one, you'll see how that works and what distance from ground means. 34. EXERCISE - 3D Graph: Now it's time for a quick exercise where you can take the knowledge you've gained from the last section about 3D to create this custom 3D graph. This is a good way to use basic shapes with 3D depth to create something more interesting than the default Powerpoint graph types. So the first thing we'll do is add five squares. Go to rectangle and the drawing menu. Click somewhere about here. And if we right-click on this and choose Format Shape, you can change the size and properties. And I'm just going to use a three centimeter square. We can click on this now and press Control D to make a duplicate. Drag it into a place that's aligned with it and you'll see the little dashed lines appear. And then when we drop it and press Control D again and again and again, will now have our five squares. And if you wish to space these out a little bit more, you can click on the far right one, hold down Shift so it stays in line. Select all of them, and then go to home, arrange, align, distribute horizontally. Now we can turn the outline off. They're all selected. We can go to Shape, outline and choose none. Then we can do the 3D rotation, will go to Format Shape Effects. 3d rotation. From the preset menus. We're going to choose Isometric Top up. I'm now going to add some example figures to each one of these. And we'll make these all Montserrat font and bold and 28. And we actually want the text to be flat on these robin rotated with the 3D. We'll go to Text Options. Text effects, keep texts flat. You can also change this in the shape options. And to help the text standout a little bit more, we can add a shadow, will go to Text Options, effects, and then choose shadow. And choose this one here, offset bottom right. I want these to all have a range of colors. So I've just got this bar here that I'm going to take them from. And I can click on each one, go to Shape Fill, choose the eyedropper tool, and then take a color from below. Now, we can add the depth to each of these. And I find that a good way to do it is to right-click on this choose Format Shape, go to the 3D format section. Then actually input the depth that is the same as the percentage in this case. So 25. Doing it this way will mean that the three-dimensional columns will be relative to each other and will correctly follow their percentage numbers. Now in this case, I'd like to make the graph a little bigger. So I could, for example, double the numbers in the depth size or triple them. And we'll try it on the 84 first to see if it's the right height. So tripling this would be 252. That looks good. So we'll just do the same to the rest of them. Now we need to align to the bottom of these for the graph. But because PowerPoint will only aligned to the shape, not to the depth of the shape. We will need to use. Another method. I find the easiest way to do this is just to draw out a line underneath them all. And then hold down Shift and drag them until they're roughly in line. Again. You can also use the cursor keys up or down to a single pixel increments here. That looks good. Now we can add the shadow. We're going to select all of these. We'll go to Format, Shape, Effects. And under shadow, we're going to choose offset bottom. I'm going to choose 70% transparency, a 115% size, 20 blur, and a 180 degrees angle. Finally, a five-point distance. Now, we just need our categories and I'll just paste them in from the version I had earlier. Great. So there's our 3D graph may directly from shapes and using depth. Now, we can just add a little animation for a final touch. Select all five of these. We'll choose fly-in with previous, and we'll select a duration of 1 second. And then we can right-click on these Effect Options. We can give them a smooth start and smooth end, which is a nice effect. And just so we can stagger how they come in, which is an even better effect. I think we can click on the second one, which is this one here, the learning one, and put a tiny delay, something like nought 0.1. Then for the next one, which has continued to go up, nought 0.2.3. No point for. This just puts a tenth of a second gap between the animations. Are now play that and see what we've got. That's looking really good. Just want to fade on the text as each of the blocks comes on. So firstly, we'll select all of these categories, right-click and send to back. That will make the three-dimensional blocks come in over the top of them. Then for these we can choose fade. Again. We'll select with previous for all of them. And then we'll put in a small delay. So effectively, if we put in a delay of 0.5 and then go up by tenths. The categories will come in immediately. The blocks finished coming in. Let's have a look at that. Excellent, That's really good. 35. 3D Bevels: The next option we're going to have a look at in 3D format or bevels. Using the settings in top and bottom bevel, you will be able to create bespoke shapes to use in your presentations. So let's show you some examples of these. Firstly, we'll need to go and add some 3D rotation to the square. Again, we'll start with isometric top-up because that's an easy one to see these examples. Now instead of adding depth, we're going to add the height of the Top Bevel. We're going to set this to 200. At the moment. This looks the same as adding 200 depth. We'll show you how you can now change the Top Bevel to get different effects in different shapes. Firstly, we'll add some drop shadow to enhance the effect. And for this, I'm just going to start with bottom-left. That increase the blur and the distance. Excellent. I'm now going to make to duplicate this shape so we can see the different effects. The Top Bevel has. So for the first cube, I'm going to set the top bevel to angle, and I'm going to type in 30. This has now created a frustum or a pyramid with a flat top. On the second cube, we're going to select Top Bevel round. We're going to type in 200. This is now made a rounded pyramid. I'm for the third example of using Top Bevel, I'm going to make a normal pyramid. So I will select this and choose angle. Then I'll type in something like 90 here. I'm now going to show you some examples of using bottom bevel to make bespoke shapes. Firstly, I'll quickly reset these shapes by pressing the reset button. And I'll just apply an isometric top up. For the first shape. I'm going to make it upside down, hollow pyramid. To do that, I'll apply angle to the top bevel, an angle to the bottom bevel. Then I'm going to type in 100 for each of these. And for the bottom bevel, 100 for the width, 200 for the height. On the second example, I'm going to create an upside down rounded pyramid. For the bottom bevel, I will choose round. And then for the width, I'm going to type 100. For the height, I'm going to type 200. And for the final example, I'm just going to use Top Bevel and choose hard edge. Then I'm going to type in 5050. And this creates what I like to call a chocolate bar style 3D piece. 36. 3D Materials: I'm now going to show you about the different 3D format options and what they look like. A good way of doing that. So you can clearly see the differences in some of the settings is to use something like a circle. So to get into the 3D format settings, we right-click choose Format Shape, go to the Effects part of shape options and then dropped down 3D format. I'm now going to add a Top Bevel, and I'll click on this box here and then choose the first option, which is called a round. And if I change the width and height, something a lot larger because the circle is quite big. For example, in this case, I'm going to change it to Sixty-five. Sixty-five. We can now see that it's created a 3D sphere effect. And using that, we can see what the material and lighting are going to do to this sphere and how it will look. By default. Whenever you add a bevel, depth or contour, the material will automatically select warm mat and the lighting will automatically select 3-point. The default material was warm Matt, I'm just going to use Control and Shift to drag it. Duplicate of this circle. I can go to material. Now choose mat. I'm going to create another copy of it. And choose plastic. Then a fourth copy, and choose metal. So these are the first four materials in the standard section. And you can see from left to right, effectively get shinier and brighter. In a lot of cases, these may be the only materials you need to use as they can provide you with quite a variation in styles. Here, I've shown you every single one of the 11 different materials in the three categories, standard, special effect and translucent. So you can see how different they look and which you may want to use in your design. This reference slide deck of the look of different materials is linked to in the course. In case you wish to use it as a reference. Under lighting, there are a lot of options in four different categories, but many which you might never even need to use. However, again, I've created some examples here with the circle I used earlier to show you what the lighting options will look like with the different materials. Here's a selection of ten different lighting options with material Matt. Here's a selection of ten different lighting options with material warm mat, then with the same material plastic. And finally with material metal. Again, I will link to this reference PowerPoint so you can download it and have a look through just to see what the different 3D effects, material and lighting are doing. 37. 3D Options: Let's look at the other ways that you can change how 3D objects look. I'll start with three cubes, so you can see how these settings look and compare them against each other. So firstly, we'll add a gradient, will go to Gradient fill. For this, I've just selected a linear gradient with a 90-degree angle. From the gold to the red. You can see from this one if I change it to degrees. And on this one for go to Gradient fill, I'll put it at 180 degrees. C. You can apply any gradient you'd like to a 3D shape. And the gradient will be applied across the entire object. As mentioned before, if you find a gradient you like and you want to apply it to the other shapes. You can either use the Format Painter or press Control Shift C. Then click on the object you want to apply it to and press Control Shift V. You can also apply a pattern fill. So if I click on this and choose pattern fill under the Format Shape option, and then pick a pattern. You can see how it basically just takes the edge pixels and repeats them down the side. You can also apply a texture. For this. I'm going to click on picture or texture fill, insert from a file. We just apply a texture to this one too. So go to picture a texture fill, insert from a file. These textures look okay, but you can see that rather than apply the texture across the entire shape as the gradient did. This, we'll just stretch the side pixels down across the depth in a similar way to the pattern. If you apply the textures to 3D shapes such as these, they will often look better. This is because these shapes use bevel, width, and height instead of depth. So I'll just quickly add the texture to all three of them. You will be able to see that the texture has actually been put on the beveled areas. Whereas in the previous example, the key pair, it was just the edge pixels that ran down the sides where the depth was in the 3D shape. So if we selected all of these and just added some depth, 50 points, you can see that in the depth area, it just takes the edge pixels and copies them down besides. But without depth and using the bezel, the texture will appear on the panels. You can also use a photo as a texture. So if I go insert here from a file and just pick this, you can see that it's actually added the photo, but it will only apply it to the top and then stretch the side pixels down. If you wish to get rid of the side pixels, in this case, you could go to Shape, Outline, and use our eyedropper and just pick up the yellow. Then you just see the photo on the top. Finally, let's talk about the difference between contour lines. So if we go to the 3D effects on the left-hand cube and add a five-point contour. I'm also going to make it this golden color so we can see it clearly. You can see the console. We'll put a line down each edge. Now, if we change it to shape outline on the one on the right, you can see the difference. The shape outline will effectively color in the complete debt the 3D shape, whereas the contour, we'll just do the edges. Again. Either one is absolutely fine depending on what you're looking for. Good to know the differences and why you'd use each one of these functions. 38. EXERCISE - 3D Graph variations: This exercise, I'm gonna be showing you how you can create variations on this graph that we created earlier by making some quick changes that I'm going to show you in this exercise. We can make considerably different looks for this graph. So firstly, we can use the change shape feature. So if I click on all of these by holding down Shift and clicking on them, I can now go to Shape Format, edit, shape, change shape, and then select a different shape. For example, oval. Now, this graph has a completely different look with just a few clicks. And we might decide that we want this a little bigger. So we can shift click to select them all. We can grab the corner handles, hold onto them and enlarge these. They're looking about right now. I can realign them. I can hold down shift and move this one so it's over the middle of security. Hold down shift and move this one so it's over the middle of purchasing. And then when I select them all, I can distribute them. So I'll go to arrange a line and choose distribute horizontally. We could also add a bevel to all of these. So I'll select them all. Right-click and choose format object. Then go to effects, and then choose from the top bevel menu, this preset down here, soft around. And we can also make interesting variations by changing the lighting. For example, if I select glow from the special section. And you can also change the material to anything that you think looks good. If we go to the second line down and choose dark edge. You can see how making few small tweaks in the 3D section can provide you with a lot of unique looks. We can also use gradients in our shape. But it's important to remember that because this is the depth. The shape itself is up here. That we want to add a gradient to the Shape Outline rather than the shape fill. So if I wanted to add a gradient to all of the depth parts of these 3D shapes. I could click them all. And then underline, I could go to gradient line. Then we can just drag these out the way until we're just left with two gradient stops. I can change this one, for example, this blue, and this one, this red. Then I can also change the width to take off the blue outline at the top. That's quite a good way of making things look consistent, but allowing variation for the colors at the top. So you can still fill these in any color you wish. And as a final example in the graph variations exercise, I'm going to change these two octagon. So as before, we go to Shape Format, edit shape, change shape, and choose octagon. And the reason why I've picked that shape to show you how you can easily adjust the lighting angle to get different effects with the different shapes you use. So if we go to our effects are 3D format. And in the lighting section, you'll see there's an angle parameter. And if we type in something like 45 degrees, you can see how it changes the lighting to suit the shapes you're using. 39. 3D Text: The 3D options also let you create this great looking three-dimensional text, which can be animated using the Morph transition. To create 3D text. We'll start with this text item here. We can right-click on it and go to Format Shape. And then you will see these options. Both the shape options and the text options have an effect section in them. This is because you can apply effects to either the shape or the text itself. Every time you add text, it's actually text in a transparent box. You can see with this line around it here. If I fill this in, in white, for example, you can see this is the shape and the text or the letters themselves. So any 3D effects that are applied to the shape will affect this whole rectangular shape. In any 3D effects that are applied to the text will affect just the letters. Here. I will show you an example of how this works. So I'm going to select both of these. I'm gonna go to my 3D rotation and I'm just going to select off-axis one, right? So I'm first going to apply the effects on the shape. So you can click on this. We'll go to Effects. Will add 20 depth. And you'll see that you can't actually see what that's doing because it's applying it to the shape which at the moment is transparent. And I'm also going to add one contour, which is the edge. So now you can see where it's applying the depth two. We're now going to apply the 3D effects onto the text. So we'll click on this. We need to make sure that we go to text options rather than shape options. And then under Text Options, we can click on the Text Effects section. From here, we can go to depth and at the same depth, 20 and again one contour. So it shows the edge because this shows a good example of what 3D effects on texts does on the left compared to 3D effects on shape. So now let's make some 3D animated text using the Morph transition. Firstly, select the texts, right-click Format Shape, go to text options. From here, we can choose text effects and add the depth 20. You won't get a C that yet because we haven't rotated. So to do this, we'll go to Format, Shape will go to effects. And then we'll just pick one of these presets, perspective, contrasting right, topic. And then I'm going to make all of these zeros, x, y, and z. And this is going to be my starting point for the animation. We can now click on thumbnails, Control D to duplicate a slide. Then we'll make sure that this second slide has transitions set to morph. So we can now go to the second slide. Click on the text, go to the rotation options. And I can put something like 180 degrees. So now when I play from the first slide and click, it will rotate. If we want to rotate it the whole way round, we can duplicate the slide again. Click on the text, and put something like 359. Now when we play from the start, it will rotate and then rotate again all the way round. You can also change the color as it rotates. So if we go to this second slide here, click on the text and make the text something like green. Then on the third slide, we'll click on the text. Make it orange. And then we'll play from the start and you'll see the Morph transition changes the color as it rotates. There are many other 3D options that PowerPoint can't morph between. Say, for example, if you change the depth on one of the slides from say, 20, then 40 on the next slide, PowerPoint would not move seamlessly. It would just fade between them. But things like color and rotation do work when they used with the Morph transition. 40. 3D Models: You can insert 3D models either from your desk in a range of popular formats or from the inbuilt library. If you go to 3D models, this device, these are the formats you can add to your PowerPoint. To add them from the inbuilt library. You can either click this drop-down and choose stock 3D models, or just click on this icon. If we go to all animated models for this example, I'm going to scroll down and click on this rhino. And when you click insert, it will download it and add it to your presentation. And you can see as soon as you add it, it will play automatically. So you can see the animation. You can use this 3D control in the middle by dragging it any direction. To tilt and rotate a 3D animated model. This, you just click and hold and drag. You can also click on the corners or the sides. To make the 3D model bigger or smaller. As it's a 3D model, you can actually stretch it, which is a good thing. You can just use the corners and the sides to drag it up to any size you like and PowerPoint or stop it from being stretched or squashed. The 3D models section of the ribbon will now be available. And on this has a number of settings, including 3D model views. So if you click More here, you can see that it's got a number of preset views. And just by rolling over them, it will show you which views those are. So for example, if we wanted a view just to the left, we can just click left here. These settings are also available by right-clicking and choosing format 3D model. And there'll be in the format 3D model section of the sidebar. You will also see the option to pan and zoom. When you click on this, you'll see a little magnifying glass up here on the right-hand side of the selection. Pan and zoom gives you control of how your 3D image fits within the frame. So if I click on this plus here in the little magnifying glass and hold my mouse down. By moving up, I'm bringing the object closer. And by moving the mouse down, I'm taking it further away. Because we're still in pan and zoom, I can click anywhere in here and move the objects about the frame. Note that if you actually enlarge it larger than the frame, it will just be cropped. And if you ever want to reset the model as it was when you added it to your slide. You can just go to Reset model. You can either choose reset 3D model, which takes it back to the original position, or reset 3D model in size, which would take it back to the original position, the original size when it was first added. Because we've picked an animated model. If we go to animations, you will see that PowerPoint has automatically added specific animations just for the 3D model. Every animated three-dimensional model will have the options arrive, turntables, swing, jump in turn and leave. But these scenes can be specifically added and embedded in the model animation. For example, s2, which is walking, seeing three, which is running. So I'm just going to turn this to the left so we can see clearly what's happening. Get back to animations. Now for example, we can add an arrive animation. We can go to Add animation. And I'd seen two, which is the rhino walking. Then we can add a third animation which is leaving. So now if we play this slide, we will see that the rhino arrives, walks and leaves. These will just be put in the animation pane as usual. If I set these to after previous and after previous, this will happen automatically. She can get some quite powerful and good-looking animations by combining the animations that have been embedded into the animated model. You can also use the Morph transition to morph between different rotations of the 3D model. So in this example, I can duplicate the slide with Control D. I can go to Transitions, Select morph. Then I could click here and rotate this. The even enlarge it if I wished. Now, when I run from the first slide, it will rotate and enlarge. Again. You can use the Morph transition to create some powerful effects with 3D models. 41. EXAMPLE - 3D Book: In this short tutorial, I'll be showing you how to make this isometric three-dimensional book graphic directly in PowerPoint. Just going to paste in the colors I want to use for this and move them off the screen. We're going to start with our book cover. That's going to be a rectangle. So I'll click rectangle and I'll click anywhere on the page. Now we can right-click, go to Format, Shape, size, drop-down here. And I'm going to make this eight by five. I can then go to the effects option and choose 3D rotation. From this preset menu. I'm going to choose Isometric Top up. And that is our book cover. Just going to align it to the middle. And I'm going to fill it with one of my colors from my color scheme. So go to the eyedropper and choose this purple. I'm now going to make sure it has no outline. Now we can create the side of the book. Again. We'll go to rectangle, click anywhere on the page, go to our size. This is going to be one by eight when I go to the Effects 3D rotation. And for this one, we're going to choose isometric. Left down the first option under parallel. Again, we'll go to line and make sure it has no line. I'm just going to actually fill these in a black. Now we can click and drag and it should snap. Perfect. Now let's create the bottom. Again. We can click on a rectangle, click anywhere on the page. I'm going to go into size. I'm going to make the bottom one by five. Go to the Effects section. Drop-down on presets. For this one, I'm going to choose Isometric right up. There is the bottom line and select no line. And I'll drag it to the right place. You can use the cursor keys to align it absolutely perfectly. Now, I'm gonna go to picture or texture, fill and choose, Insert and then stock images. We'll just get a texture from here because the quality is better than the inbuilt textures inside PowerPoint. So I'm just going to type texture. I'm going to use this one here. Great. So we'll click on Text Box will type anywhere. I'm going to type book cover. Make it Poppins 32, bold. Drag it roughly into the right place. I'm going to make it white. Just going to reduce the line spacing a little. So we'll go to line spacing, line spacing options and choose a multiple of nought 0.8. So it make the lines a bit closer together. Now we can rotate it. So it will go to the Effects section, 3D rotation. And we'll choose the same 3D rotation as the top of the book, which is isometric. Top up. Great. Just align it where we want to. Now we can control D to duplicate, to make the second bit of text underneath. And this bit was going to be black. And I'll just move it down slightly. Then type Power Point. Great. Now let's add the text on the spine. So for this, I just wrote by Alan Lomax. Drag it down to here. Make the text this gray color. Type Poppins, make it bold. Make it 12. Now at the rotation that's on the spine. So we'll go to Effects. For this. We're going to choose isometric left down and then drag it into place. Again. You can use the cursors to align it exactly as you want. Now if I last sue over everything and press Control G, it will group it as one item. Now, we can make the color variations. Press Control D to duplicate and drag it. And Control D again. And you'll see that it will align it automatically because we used Control D and we dragged it to where we want it PowerPoint that makes the second duplicate in the right place. Do one more below. Now we can easily change the colors. We can click on this once to select the whole thing. And then a second time just on the top purple shape. And now I can go to Shape Fill eyedropper, and choose a color from my palate at the top. And we'll do the same thing again on this one. Shape Fill eyedropper, orange Shape Fill eyedropper. Think, I'm just going to make a couple more duplicates and then we can add our animation. So Shift to select all these three and Control D. Now I can drag these down to here. Control D again. And I drag these up to here we go. That looks good. I'm just going to add the background. So I'm just going to right-click Format Background, solid fill. And I'm just going to take this gray color here. I can delete my palette snacks. We don't need it anymore. Go full screen. See what we've got. Now, let's add the animation. So we'll click on the slide. We'll click on Control D, which will duplicate this slide. And then we'll make sure that on the second slide, morph is selected under the transitions. And that will automatically animate anything we've moved from the first slide. If I zoom out on the first slide. Now, we can just take these and move them anywhere, and then it will automatically slide in. On the second slide. Should be a really nice effect. Just moving sum up to the top left and some down to the bottom right. It doesn't really matter. It's whatever effect you like, the look of the ones that are further away will take longer to come in. So if I pull these down to here, it will create a nice staggered effect as we come in. 42. EXAMPLE - 3D Menu: I'm gonna be showing you how to make this 3D interactive and animated menu. Firstly, we'll start on a blank presentation. Then we're going to create our three tiles. I'm going to click on the rounded corner rectangle and then click on the slide. I'm going to make it a little bit less rounded using this yellow dot and a bit bigger. Now I'm going to change the shape and the outline to this standard blue here. I'm going to right-click. I'm going to choose Format Shape. Then when I go to this effect section, there's 3D format and 3D rotation. The first thing I'm going to do is from this preset menu, choose Isometric Top up. Then I'm going to add 10 to the depth. And I'm going to change the lighting to this second option here, balance. That's the tile style I want for this example, I'm going to click on it and then type option one, just going to change this font. Make it bold, make it a bit bigger. Then I'm going to stretch up the tile a little bit more by holding down Shift and dragging the corner handle, just going to make the font a tiny bit bigger. So there's the first Tylenol menu. And if I press Control D, that would duplicate the second tile and our menu. And if I press Control D again, it will duplicate the third tile. I'm going to make this one orange and make the outline orange the same. Then I'm going to make this one green. Make the outline the same. Then going to type option two and option three in those boxes. I'm going to select them all, group them, center, align them. So the first thing I want to do is animate them coming in. And to do that, we're going to start off with a duplication of the slide. So I'll press Control D to duplicate the slide. To zoom out a little bit here. I'm gonna go to the first slide. I'm going to ungroup them first. Then I'm going to drag them up off the slide. You can choose wherever you drag them to. The higher ones will come in last. In this example, I might want the first one to come in, then number two, and then number three. Then we click on slide to go to transitions and select Morph. And you can see them come in there, which look pretty good. But I'm also going to add a tiny bit of rotation. So we'll go into these first ones on slide one. And we'll go into the 3D rotation and we can use something like isometric write-up. Just going to drag them off a bit more. And you can see that when that comes in, it will then rotate them down. I think that looks good. Now we're going to build the interaction. So the first thing we do is Control D on slide two. I'm gonna move option to add the way that option three out of the way because it's still set to morph, those will animate. Then I'm going to drag option one into the middle. I'm gonna go to the 3D rotation. And I'm just going to rotate them a bit just so you can see option one and it gives it a nice effect. That's about what I want. So we'll just go to Slide two and check this is working. Excellent. Looks good. 21 thing I'm going to change on here. Just make sure that the duration is only about a second. So it happens a bit snappier. And finally, I'm going to right-click on this and choose Link place in this document and then make it link to slide three. I'm now going to duplicate this slide again with Control D. And this is going to be our option two. So I'm going to move option one over here, option three over here. And I'm just going to rotate option two in the same way that I did the last one or two ways of doing this, I can click as I did before. Or you can actually press Control Shift C, then apply it. The thing is, this will apply the color as well as the rotation. But sometimes it's easier to do that and quicker because now I can just easily go back and change the color. And it means that if you've got some complicated rotation settings or 3D settings, you can just apply them with Control Shift C and Control Shift V. So now I'm gonna go to slide to right-click choose link, link to my option two. Then finally, just going to quickly do Option three in the same way. I'm going to move option 12 off. Bring option three into the center. I'm going to do what I did last time, which is to go to the one with the correct rotation and press Control Shift C, and then press Control Shift V on this, and just quickly change it back to green. Finally, put the link on oxygen three. Let's go to Slide five. There will have an interactive animated menu that goes to each of these. There's one last thing we need to do, and that's just adding a button to go back to the menu. So I'm gonna go to the first one here. Click on rounded rectangle again. Just gonna make this back button a bit more subtle with gray outline. I'm going to type back, change that to the font. Drag it into the bottom corner. Right-click. Link it back to the menu, which is slide to Control C, Control V. And Control V again, sets on all of the slides. I can come back. Now I'm going to play it from the beginning. Option one. Option two. Option three. Brilliant. There's a three-dimensional interactive menu with animation. 43. EXAMPLE - 3D Folding phone: In this short tutorial, I'm gonna be showing you this great looking three-dimensional folding phone with a screenshot. The shape of my phone is going to be a rectangle with rounded corners. So we'll click on this and then click on the slide to add it. And if we right-click and choose Format Shape, I'm going to adjust the size. And I actually want this to be 11 by 12 wide. So if I click on this little yellow dot and drag, I'm going to adjust it until I've got the right sort of rounded corners my phone. And I think that's perfect. Now align it to the center. As we want two parts, I'm going to click on the slide and press Control D. So one slide obey the left-hand side. On one side would be the right-hand side. And then we can copy them both onto the same slide. So let's show you how to do that. I'm going to click on rectangle. I know exactly cover this half. Then I'm going to make sure the first thing I click on the phone shape and the second is the cover. Then I'll go to Shape, Format, merge shapes and choose Intersect. And there's our right-hand side of the phone. On this one, we're gonna get our left-hand side one. So we'll draw our rectangle exactly over the left hand side. Double-click on the phone shape first, rectangle, Second, go to Shape, Format. Merge shapes, and choose Intersect. There's the left-hand side of our phone. Now we can press Control X, Control V. Now, we've got two sides of the phone. Now let's get the photo in there. So for this, you can grab any screenshot you like, I've just taken one from a website. And the important thing to do with this is going to Picture Format, crop, Choose Aspect ratio square, and choose 12 by 12. This will mean it will fit perfectly on the phone. So now we can just click Copy and that will copy it to the clipboard. We can now go to our phone. I'll select the left part. And if I do picture or texture fill, there's an option to choose clipboard and that will add it straight in. You can see what it's done there. By default. It squashes it all into the half where we don't want that. So if we click tile picture is texture. The alignment defaults to top-left scale x and y should be a 100 because we've made it the right size already. And you can see that's looking good. We just do the right side now. Again, picture or texture fill. It, puts it in already because we've just chosen it on the previous side. But here will change alignment to top-right. Just about time to add the animation. But before we do that as a really important part that we have to do so it will animate correctly because these are halves here. I will just draw a rectangle where that is the rotation point. When we convert it to 3D, that PowerPoint will use and we actually want it to be here. And I'm going to show you a clever way of doing this. So we'll just add a rectangle. I'm gonna go to the size and I'm going to type in 11. And I want this to be half the width just to cover one side. So I'll type six. That's exactly the right size. Now, I'm going to snap it to the right place. And then I'm going to shift click to select her left and control G to group. Now we have a site that will rotate from the right place. And we'll just move it out of the way and do the other one. So we'll just draw another box in 11 high, six wide. Snap it to the right place. Select both and Control G. Now we don't want to see these blue boxes. They're just there so that the 3D will rotate in the correct place. If you click on the group once and then you click the blue box, we can now go in and make sure that the Shape Fill is no fill in the shape outline is now outline. And we'll also do this on the other side. Now we'll hold down shift and move this back up to snap. And now we're ready to add the 3D. So if we right-click on this and choose format picture, we can go to 3D rotation. We're going to choose a preset. And it's going to be this one down in perspective. Cooled, turned right, tilted up. That's partly correct. We just don't want any y or z rotation. So I'm going to turn those to 0. Excellent. Now we'll go to 3D format and we'll give it some depth. And we'll give it a bottom bevel of six, which is the default. I've just seen that this has got a blue outline on it. But that's quite a nice effect. But if you just want the actual image to bleed through on the side of the phone, we can click, click a second time and choose Shape, Outline, no outline. We'll do this on the other side as well. So I'm not going to make the other side with the same settings, but just the reverse perspective. So we'll click on it, will go to 3D rotation, Hutus perspective turned left, tilt it up. Again. We'll set y and z to 0. Then we'll set depth to ten. Then we'll set bottom bevel, the round option, and it just adds a six. Excellent. So here's our base 3D folding phone. Now we can add any animation we like. In this example. I'm just going to add an opening and closing animation, the whole thing. And then one side, just like I did in the intro, I'm just going to duplicate this slide. And then I'll show you how that works. So we'll click on the slide, press Control D. I can now go to the rotation and change this to anything. So if I wanted it to open, I'd press 0 degrees. Then the important bits will go to transitions and make sure morphs turned on. And you can see that working straight away. I also like to take the duration down to one to make it a bit snappier. Now, we can just Control D to add another slide. We can select the left side of the phone. Then we can make x rotation 0. Now if we play from the start, you can say it will open on one side and then the other side, and now we'll close it. So we'll Control D. Then when we go to the x rotation, if I just keep clicking this, you'll see a close. I can stop at anywhere I like. I'm going to go completely closed on this one. Control D again. Now go completely closed on this side. So the right hand side or close and then the left. Looking good, just gonna do one final open and close. So I'll set this to 0. And then I can actually just duplicate the closed one. Let's have a look from the start. There we go. A way of using 3D with simple shapes to get a really powerful effect. 44. PART 5 - How to create Graphics with icons, Illustrations, and Smart Art - Introduction: In section five, we will check out PowerPoints, inbuilt icons. I will show you how to modify them to suit your designs and color schemes. We will also look at illustrations as well as some good uses for SmartArt. 45. What are icons?: Icons. These are easily understandable symbols of a specific idea, thing, or category. They are an effective and powerful way to visualize concepts and ideas. Icons can be used to draw attention to your message and content. As simple, they create major impact and they can help visualize your slides to be more impactful. 46. Icon library: Powerpoints comes with its own built-in icon library. We can go to Insert on the ribbon and choose icons. These are available to all Microsoft 365 subscribers. There are different categories you can click on to select, or you can just type in the search box. And the related icons will be shown. Most icons are available as outlines or filled in. Both can look good in any presentation. However, it's important to be consistent. So if I was making a presentation with outlines for some icons, I would like to use outlined icons for the whole presentation. In this example, we're going to pick five filled in fruits and show you how you can easily modify them. So we're going to select the strawberry, the slice of what looks like a lemon slice of Melon. Yeah, avocado, and finally the grapes. And you'll see that on the Insert button, it will say how many you're going to be adding, which is five. It will just add them all next to each other. And here I'll just drag them quickly into place. Now quickly align them. And we can size this up if we wish, from the center. Going over the corner point and holding Control and Shift and dragging up. Now, we can change the fill colors if we wish. And you can also add outlines by going to shape, outline, and choosing an outline. Or any other effects such as drop shadow. I'll just quickly undo those two. If you right-click on any of these, there's always the option to change the graphic where you can go to the icons and select a different graphic if you wish, or to choose convert to shape. Now, this has converted it into PowerPoint shapes, which will give you the ability to change the color. Different parts of the graphic. Right-click convert to shape. That will select it and break it into PowerPoint shapes. And then you can just click on any parts of the image you want and change the color of just that part. As they are now converted into PowerPoint shapes. You also have the option to either move them or delete them or edit them as you wish. You can also combine these shapes with other PowerPoints shapes, for example, to make a cutout. In this case, I've created a white circle. Just align it to the middle. And then the strawberry. And align that to the middle. Then I can select the circle, Shift, select to select the strawberry second, go to Shape, Format, Merge Shapes, subtract. I can do the same again with the top part. Click on the circle first, then the top part of the strawberry with Shift select. Then go to Shape, Format, mode, shapes, and subtract. Now, this has created a cutout into a circle. Just by using the icons built into PowerPoint and the Merge Shapes tool. You can also add effects presets to these. So if we make this a bit bigger and go to Shape Effects, Presets to something like this, which will give it a 3D type effect with some embezzling and lighting. And we can even rotate it if we wish to Shape Effects. 3d rotation, something like isometric top up. You can see once these icons are broken into shapes, you can apply any PowerPoint, colors, lines, styles, and effects to them. 47. Icon resources: I would always recommend using the PowerPoint built-in icon library if you can find an icon that you like in it. However, there are a number of other icon resources available on the web, where some are free to download, some cost and some require attribution. Here are a few examples. Flat icon.com is a great resource. There is also free pic.com, the Noun Project.com, and also icon finder. Generally, these will be available in a number of different formats. So for example, if we liked this apple, we can click on it. And you can see that it will allow us to download a PNG, which is actually a bitmap format. And then SVG, which is a vector format, which is generally the one we want. If it's available, it will go straight into PowerPoint. So if I download it as an SVG, I can then pick up Apple SVG, drag and drop it into PowerPoint. And there it is. As before, we wish to color any of it. We can right-click convert shape. Then we have access to pick up any of the individual elements and change the color as we wish. So when using icons, I would always recommend using a vector format such as SVG, which would be the main one if it's available, but also WAF and EMF, which are Windows metafile and enhanced metafile, will also work. 48. Emojis: Another more unusual source for icons is to use emojis. Emojis can vary between systems and platforms. Here you can see how emojis look different between Windows ten and Windows 11. And to use them in PowerPoint, the first thing we'll do is bring up a text box. And then if you hold down the Windows key and press dot or full stop, you'll see the emojis pop up. And from here, you can either use these cursors and scroll through to pick anything you like, or click on one of the categories or type. Now if I click this, it will reveal in the text box. So I can close this down. I could make it a large size such as to 50, just going to align it. And because this has come from an emoji, we can't actually right-click and choose to convert to shape. There is a good way that we can do this. And it's by cutting and pasting. It is a different format. So we can cut this with Control X. And when we go to Paste, we can choose Paste Special. And inside that, there'll be the option to paste as an SVG, which stands for a scalable vector graphic. And the reason we're choosing that, It's because we can now right-click on this and press convert to shape. Now that we have it as a shape, you can change any of the colors or edit the points, removed sections, or apply any shape effects you like. For example, we can go here and apply something like 3D bevel. Or you can click on individual parts of it and adjust the colors as you choose. And as mentioned, you can even click on other parts and remove them and edit them and change them as you wish. So by using emojis, it gives you a really good base to be able to take high-quality graphics and adapt them to fit in your presentation. 49. Icon styles: There are a number of different icon styles that you can use. All of these can look good, and it's best to use whatever is suitable for your presentation and whatever you think looks the best. It is however important to be consistent. If you use one icon style, it's better to use it throughout your slides in that particular deck as consistency is key. Here are some examples of different icon styles. This is filled. This is outline. This is multicolored outline, color, gradient, outline, sketch, and stylized. Again, any of these styles may be suitable for your presentation. Consistency is key. Sometimes that may not be possible. So let's look at a few examples of ways you can change the icon style. In this first example, we have four similar icons in an outline style, but the fifth icon in a filled style. So to make this look similar to the others, we can right-click, choose, Convert to Shape, go to shape fill and select no fill. Then go to Shape, outline, and select white. And then go to the weight and adjust it. So it looks similar to the others, which I think is about 3.5. Now we can just make it the same size by holding down Control and Shift and dragging the corner. This will resize it from the center of the object while keeping the proportions the same. I can line it up and drag it into position. Now, it looks consistent with the other icons. In this second example, we have four similar icons in a two-color outline style, but the fifth icon is in a single color. So firstly, we could resize this to match the others again by holding down Control and Shift. Again, we can right-click and choose convert to shape. And now there'll be two shapes. We can click on the cloud, go to shape fill, and choose white. We can click on the arrow, go to Shape Fill, Select Eyedropper, and then rollover the color that you want it to be. In this third example, the fifth icon is in a consistent style, but the thickness doesn't match the others. There is a clever way to adjust this using an outline. However, this only works for some backgrounds without too much color variation, such as this one. If we click on the Cloud as before, we right-click and choose Convert to Shape will go to shape fill and make it white. Now, the clever part, we can go to Shape, Outline, eyedropper, and pick this gray that's right on the outer side of the cloud. And now we can adjust the width until we get the thickness of the cloud looking similar to the other icons, which I think is about they're using outline. The background color is a really good way of making your icons consistent. Because often the ones that you download from different places will have different thicknesses. In this final example, we have or stylized icons. And one icon that's just an outline. Using stylized icons can make it harder to match. But I will show you ways that you can change this fifth icon to look like the others. We can right-click and convert to shape. Now, I'm just going to go to the shape tool and draw a square behind it. So there's my square here. We'll make this white with no outline. Then right-click and choose Send to Back. Now I'm going to click on the Cloud, ungroup it by right-clicking and choosing ungroup. Hold down shift and select the white panel, and then go to Shape, Format, Merge Shapes and fragment. Now we'll just click on this square that we put in and delete that. So what that's done is it's actually filled in the empty parts, such as this cloud, which allow us to change the filled-in parts to the colors of the other icons to make them look similar. So we can fill this in white, for example, and then go to the outside and choose the eyedropper tool to fill it in with this blue color. If you hold down control and roll the mouse wheel forwards, it will zoom in, which will make it easier to work with these smaller shapes. Again, I can just go to Shape Fill eyedropper, and just pick up these colors. You can choose whichever ones you like. Because whichever colors you pick will be exactly the same colors to these other icons. But these colors in the center here, I will pick the color that I had and then go to more colors and just drag it down a bit so they appear darker. Again, we'll go to the Eyedropper Tool, pick this color, then go back and choose more colors and just drag it down. I finally, we can change these circles. Again. They can be any color. So I'm just going to pick them randomly. Each time using the eyedropper picks the exact color. You can see that there are a number of ways that you can modify icons to keep them consistent and to make your presentations look more professional. 50. Refining icons: Here I will show you how you can refine an icon that you've downloaded from another resource. In this example, I've taken this icon from flat icon. And if I want to change the color or do any other manipulation, the first thing we need to do is convert it to a PowerPoint shape. We can do that in two ways. We can either right-click and choose convert to shape, or you can ungroup. And the shortcut for that is Shift Control and G. Then it will say, do you want to convert it to a Microsoft Office Drawing object? So we'll say yes, and it's now a shape. So if I wanted to make the cloud or single color, I might click on the left side and go to the eyedropper tool and pick the color on the right. I can also do Shape Format. Select both sides. Merge Shapes and union. Now, I've just got one shape that is my cloud. I could do the same thing with the arrow. I can select both sides, shape, format, Merge Shapes, union. Now I can easily change the color or other parts of the icon. If I just picked, for example, this blue, I can now make the arrow bigger or smaller by clicking on the corner handle and holding down Control Shift. Or I can go to the rotate option and hold down Shift. In this example. I've now made an icon that represents uploading from the one that looked like downloading. If we just hold down shift and put this over here, and then Control Shift and drag this. Then rotate this. We could have downloading and uploading. So you can see how we can easily manipulate icons that we've downloaded. 51. EXERCISE - Animated timeline: So here is an example of how you can use icons in an animated timeline. Have a go, and see if you can create something similar yourself. Now, I'll show you exactly how I would create this. We'll start by deleting everything off the page. I'm quickly going to paste in these panels to save time. You can recreate this yourself by creating a rounded corner rectangle. Using the small yellow dot to reduce the radius of the rounded corners. And by then applying a linear gradient by one side of the gradient or the gradient stop as it's known in PowerPoint, is transparent. So this one is on 100 per cent. So this fades off nicely into the background. I'm also going to paste in my text. Now I'll show you how I added the icons. You can go to Insert Icons in the search box, or I can type money. Click here, click Insert. Get back to icons again. I typed brain for this one. Graph for the third one, dashboard for the fourth. I'm choosing all the outlined ones so they're consistent. Then Cloud for the final one. These were all a pretty good size just at their default. But I do want them to be white and a little thicker. So I'm going to Shift select, to select them all, change the solid fill to white, and then add a line. There's also white. That will make it a bit thicker. I'm now going to create a shape for the timeline, which I'm going to use an oval. Click. Draw a perfect circle. And I'm going to set the outline white. Ten points in the NFL. Just going to use the eyedropper and pick the background color, hold down Control and Shift and drag from the corner to make this a bit smaller. The line to the middle. Now, if you select the circle and hold down Control, Shift and Alt, it will allow you to make a copy every time you drag it. While keeping the y position the same. Now, we can just use a rectangle. The line. We'll make it white with no outline. We'll click on all the circles and bring them to the front. So they're in front of this line. Will shift click to select the white line, control G to group. So now we have all the graphics done. We can add the animation, will firstly click on the timeline, go to Animations, choose wipe, then go up to Effect Options and choose from left. I'll also change start to after previous. Give it 1 second duration. So after previous means that as soon as the slide comes up, the timeline will wipe from left to right in 1 second. Now we can bring in each of the panels. So click on one of these. I'll go to fly in step after the timelines animated, the panel will fly in. Now we can click on the icon. This will be a Zoom and happen with previous. When I quickly copy this effect to the other panels. So we can click on the first panel, go to animation painter. Click on the second. Then do the same with the icon. Click on the panel again, apply this to the purple, then the icon. And then we'll just apply it to the last two. I'm just copying the animation from the icon to the other icons and copying the animation from the panel to the last panel. So we'll just run this to see where we're at. Great. Now we'll finally just add the last effect on these. So I can click on the first one and then shift click to select the others. For these, we use the float in at 2.5th duration and after previous. So these all happen one after the other. So by adding icons and some simple animations, you can bring the slide to life. 52. EXAMPLE - Animating icons: In this short tutorial, I'll be showing you how you can add interest to your presentation by animating your icons directly in PowerPoint. To save time, I'm going to quickly paste in the icons that I had along with the text. And if you want to know how to get your own icons, you can either go to Insert and choose the icons or you can go to another resource, such as flat icon and pick them from there. Or as I've done in this example, I've actually drawn them manually with shapes in PowerPoint. So let's animate these. For this tone one is quite simple. We go to animations and we choose fade. Then we go to Add animation. And I'm going to choose teeter than the emphasis. And I also want to make this just 2.5th duration and happen with previous. So if we play that, it will fade and teacher at the same time. And I'm just going to fade up the text the same time. By choosing with previous. That's great. The pitch one is even easier. Here. I've just chosen a wipe up because it would make more sense going from left to right. We can go to effect options and choose from left. And I just wanted to make sure this happens after the previous thing. So it will display tone and then pitch. We just need to fade the text with previous. So it will be tone, pitch, nice. The volume. I've used a fade and a spin. So we'll choose fade first. Then spin will go to Add animation, which is spin from emphasis. Would choose this to happen with previous and then double-click on it with the settings. And I just wanted to make this have a smooth end. So I'll drag that all the way to the right and then press Okay. I only want this to take 1 second. So I'm just going to click the duration down to 1 second. And then we'll click on the text and fade that with previous as well. I just wanted to make sure that the start of the volume animation starts after the pitch one. So I'll select after previous. Pretty simple so far. Now let's do the speed one, which is a little more complicated. So here we'll add a fade as before. We also need to add a fade, the semicircle that's above it. And we'll make that fade happened with previous. The first one we'll put after previous. That means after the volume is finished, this one we'll fade up the speed. Now we can add the rotation using spin. So I'll click on this and then I'll go to Add animation and choose spin. It's important that we click Add animation. Because if you click any of these, it will replace the animation. So it would replace the fade. But we want to add animation. Now I've added the spin, but at the moment it spins the hallway round. And the trick with this one is to actually put it inside a circle and rotate it as a group. And I'll change the color of this just so you can see where it is. So here is the circle I'm rotating. But basically the reason is the spin will only work from there very center. If you just had this pointer here, it would spin from the center. Whereas I've put it in a circle and group to settle spin nicely in the middle part where I want it to here. So now I just want to make two changes. I'm going to go into my animation pane. I'm going to choose with previous. And then if we double-click on this, go to a mount and type in 140 degrees because I don't want it to go all the way round and then we press Enter. Otherwise it won't save it. And I'm gonna give it to bounce end of nought 0.5. And I'm going to select Auto reverse. So it will rotate a 140 degrees, bounce slightly and then come back. So I'll press okay on that. And I'm just going to turn the duration down to three-quarters of a second for that one. Then click on where it says speed. Put a fade on that and say with previous. So now we've done the first four. I've just seen that it's taken the bounce timing down. So I'll just double-click on this group 67 and I'll type 0.5 in here. That was just because we took down the entire duration. It took some off the end, but I want it to be nought 0.5. Now let's do the pores, which is pretty simple, and then I'll show you some motion paths. The emphasis for the pause. Again, we add a fade. Then we go to Add animation. We choose Grow Shrink. We set the first one to after previous. We set the next one to width previous. I'm going to take this down to 2.5th and then double-click on it and type in 90 per cent. Press Enter and choose auto reverse. What that's gonna do, it's going to size it down by 10% and then back up by ten per cent. Effectively given the impression that the button is being pressed. In this case, we just add the fade on this and choose with previous. Now, the final one, emphasis, I'm going to show you it can do some motion paths. So the first thing we'll do is fading these three lines. And you can hold shift, click on all of these to multiple select, and then click on fade. And that will fade them all up. On the very first one. We will choose after previous, as we want that to happen, after the pause is one has done. Now for the small circles, we'll do this left 1 first. I'll click on this. Motto is fade. I'll set this to happen after previous. Then we'll add the motion path will go to Add animation. Then you can see motion paths will choose lines. So this green dot is the beginning of the motion path and the red dot is the end. I'm going to hold down Shift and drag this up and position it about there. Because I want the left one to go up, the center one to go down slightly, and the right one to go up. And I'm going to make sure this happens with previous and set it to a 2.5th. And then if we double-click on this, we can choose it to have a smooth end. Great. For these next two, we can click on this once. Go to where it says animation painter in the advanced animation section. Under the animation section of the ribbon. Click on that. Then I've got the paintbrush as my cursor. When I click on this circle here, it will add the same effect. And all we need to do is click on this. Then drag the red dots down to where we want it to go to, I think is about there. And then we can click on the first one again and choose animation painter, apply it to this one. So it's a really quick way of copying the animations that we've added. If you want to adjust where this goes to, you can just click on the triangle. Hold down shift and bring it down slightly for variation. And now all I want to do is make sure that these all happen at the same time. So I'm going to click on the very first animation of the second dot. Hold down, shift, click on the bottom and choose with previous. Finally, we'll click on the emphasis texts, fade and choose with previous. Quick way of using the inbuilt animations in PowerPoint to give your icons more impact and engage your audience. 53. Illustrations: Powerpoints contains a large selection of illustrations that you can use and modify for your presentation. These can be found by going to insert icons and then choosing illustrations. Most of these are partly colored with a highlight color, and they all have a consistent style. You can either search by one of these categories or type into the search box. For example, if I type laptop, these two laptop options will appear. We click on this and click Insert. It will add it directly into the presentation. I'll just hold Control and Shift and drag the corner to resize this a bit. Then if we go to colors under the home menu Shape Fill, we can use any color here and all it will change is the highlight color. This is really good because it easily allows you to adapt these illustrations to fit in with your color scheme. Just go and add two more. And again, we can change the color of the highlight. Whatever we want that fits in with our color scheme. Again, we'll go to Icon illustrations and choose one more. Again. If we go to Shape, Fill and pick the color, it will just adjust the highlight color for us. If you were to go to Insert Icons, illustrations, and just pick something without a highlight color. If we went to Home and chose a color, it would actually just fill the whole thing by default. But the highlight colors, a really quick way of getting something to fit in with your design. If you wanted to add any more colors or do any editing to the shapes, you can always right-click on any of these. Choose convert to shape. And then these will go from an illustration to a collection of PowerPoint shapes. From there. We can re-size it any of these, or remove any of these if we don't want them. Or we can click on individual parts and change the colors as we wish. And because these illustrations are all vector graphics, they will look high-quality at any size, and you'll have the ability to edit them however you wish. If we right-click on this example, choose convert to shape. In this case, for example, I could click on this calculator and decided I didn't want this. And click on the paper and the pencil. And then we'd just be left with a laptop and the phone. Because this is all broken up. I could choose to click on any individual part of this and change the color as needed. 54. Other vector graphics: You can add other vector graphics to PowerPoint that are freely available on the web. I'm going to show you how you can go to a site like Pixabay for example. Download a vector, add it into PowerPoint, make some changes, and add some animation. So if we go here to pixabay.com, I'm going to type in Desk notes, and then I'm going to choose vector graphics. I'm gonna pick this example here. Go to Free Download and choose SVG, which is a scalable vector graphic, which is what we want for PowerPoint. I'll download this. And tonight I'll drag it into PowerPoint. So here we have our vector graphic that we just downloaded. We can convert this to a shape. And I'm going to delete the yellow background. So that's a good start. We've got a nice-looking vector graphic, and it now looks part of our presentation. If you right-click and choose Ungroup. Now, we'll have separate elements, will have this pencil depends quite a lot of separate elements that we're going to group in a minute. Then the notebook. So I've made sure their notebook selected and I'm going to right-click and choose Group the pencils, okay? And I'm just going to draw a lasso over the pen. Right-click and choose Group. So now we have the four elements. So if I go to animations and something like a Zoom on this, add something like a fly in on that. Give it a tiny bit of bounce end. Say 0.3 of a second. And I'm going to copy this animation using the animation painter to the other pens and pencils. So you make sure you've got the item selected that you want to copy the animation from. Click on animation painter, and then click on the item you want to add it to. So I'm going to make this all happen with previous. And to do that, I selected the first one, Shifts selected the last one and made sure that with previous was turned on. I'm just going to put a small delay for each of the pens. Now. Text or come on. The notebook will come on. And then each of the pens will come on a quarter of a second later. If we had a color scheme that we are working to, we can of course go in and change any of the colors of these because they're all using How point shapes. And that gives us the flexibility to modify them as we wish. So you can see why using vector graphics that are freely available from the web, you can create high-quality animated graphics and modify them to fit inside your presentation and make it look professional. 55. Smart art: You can use SmartArt to create some graphics dynamically that would take a lot of time or be hard to do manually. If you go to insert on the ribbon, you'll see SmartArt in the illustration section. There are lots of options available in SmartArt. And I'll show you what I consider to be some of the most useful ones. Every option will be provided in this list by default, we can click on the left to go into categories. For my first example, I'm going to choose pyramid. So in click here to choose basic pyramid and then press Okay, this is a good option to use SmartArt fall. Because if you were to create this pyramid manually, it would need some complex adjustments and shapes. So I'm just going to scale it down a bit. Then you can type whatever you like in these textboxes. And if you wish to add another layer, you can see the options available at the top. So you can choose a shape which will add another layer. And then I could click on that. And for example, you can also move this down. I'm just going to change the font on all of these to Montserrat and make it a bit smaller. And we can also change the color of the levels to whatever we want. If you are happy with the design and you want to, for example, animated one step at a time. If you go into animations and choose something like low tin, you'll see that the default option is to float the whole thing in at once. But you can also go to effect options and do something like one-by-one. If you've wished to break up any of these SmartArt and use it as an individual Powerpoint graphics. You can right-click and you can choose Convert to shapes. Now, you can right-click and choose Group, Ungroup. And now you'll have full PowerPoint shapes so you can adjust them, change any details to them, or any specific animation you want to apply to. These can be done. For my second example, I'm going to choose a process. So again, we'll go to Insert. Smartart, will click on the process section. And then we can choose any one of these. In this example, I'm going to choose a circle process. And again, this will work in the same way. If you want to add a number of these processes, you can just click Add shape. For each one of them. You can add text. Because this is still SmartArt. You can click on it. Go to the SmartArt section on the ribbon. You can choose to move them up or down. So this would change the order as he do it. For my next example, if we go to Insert SmartArt and choose cycle, I'm just going to choose the basic cycle. So these are a number of circles joined by arrows. Just make this a little bit smaller. Again, this is good to use a SmartArt because it can take quite awhile to create these manually, especially if you have to add in other options. So I just quickly type some text in these. If we wanted to add a sixth. I can just press return on there or is before you can go to add shape on the ribbon. So as you add or remove shapes, you can see how it easy it is because PowerPoint dynamically creates it for you. If you had to manually do those graphics, it would take quite awhile. We can go and change the font as we wish. We can click on any of these to change the colors, whatever we like. We can also right-click, choose Convert Shapes. And then we'll have a group set of PowerPoint shapes so we can right-click and choose Ungroup. Now, if you want to edit them individually or apply complex animations, you can do that as they are now, ungrouped shapes. These can be moved manually anyway you wish, or animated in any way. The only thing to remember is that once you've converted them to shapes and ungroup them, they aren't the dynamic SmartArt, but they were. So if we decided that we didn't need point number seven in the circular process, we deleted it. We'd have to manually move each one. So generally, the approach I like to use is to create it exactly how I want it. Create a duplicate slide and then break it up if I need to, I can leave it as SmartArt. I will do that. For my next example, I'm going to show you a Venn diagram. Again, we'll go to Insert SmartArt or go to the relationship section. And then at the bottom is a basic Venn diagram. Make this a bit smaller. Quickly change the font. One of the reasons using SmartArt for a Venn diagram is good is because the way overlays and creates the transparency variations automatically. And while it is SmartArt, we can always click on it and then go to SmartArt Design on the ribbon. From there, we can even change the layout if we feel it's needed. My final example, if you ever want to quickly convert some basic looking bullets into something more visually interesting, you can use SmartArt for that. So here we have four basic bullets. If we select them and right-click on them, there's an option to convert to SmartArt. And if we go to more SmartArt graphics here, in this example, you can choose any of these. I'm going to just choose a basic block list to show you what it can do. So already, that's turned it into four shapes. I'm just going to drag this out here. Shut this down. Once I'm happy with the layout of my shapes as Smart Art, I can right-click choose convert shapes. And now this is just for texts rectangles that I can adjust as needed. So I can take the text size down a bit and make the colors anything I wish. I can also ungroup them and add things like animations, where just by adding an onclick, one of these would come in on each click. So there's a quick way of using SmartArt to turn some very basic bullets into something a bit more visually interesting. 56. Word art: You can use WordArt styles transform option to create some texts effects that you wouldn't be able to create otherwise in PowerPoint. You can see the word art styles by going to Insert. Then along to the text section of the ribbon. There you have Word Art. When you click on the drop-down, you'll see the 20 different presets, and these will be based on your color theme. Reminder that you can see or change your color theme. I going to design the variant section of the ribbon. Clicking the drop-down, and then going to colors. You have the presets are the ones you've used before, and then underneath customized colors where you can change them. Most of the 20 Presets under here aren't really have that much use as they're quite random connections of different effects. But there are some Word Art options that you can use to create particular effects that can work well. If I click on the text box, draw it out here, and then paste in some text. And go to Shape Format under text effects in the word art style section of the ribbon, I'll now have the Transform section. While the other text effects such as shadow and reflection and so on, they're available. When you right-click and choose Format Shape under Text Options here. You'll see that the transform option is only available under the word art style section in the ribbon. This will allow us to have either the follow path and adjust that and have your own styles. Or you can pick from any of these warp options and then use the yellow dot to adjust those. Just undo this. And now I can show you an example of how you might use either follow path or warp. If we go to Text Effects, transform and just choose something like this circle, this will actually, but all the text round in a circle. And for this, I'm gonna go to the shape size. I'm going to make sure it's an exact square or circle in this case. Then you can see how that looks good and how you could use that in your design. When you click on it, you can also use the little yellow dot to change its start and end position. And you can always go back to Shape Format, text effects. For example, you can choose it to arch at the top or at the bottom, or just go completely around as we had before. For our second example, if we go to Text Effects, go to Transform and choose deflate bottom. I'm going to type something a little smaller in here and stretch this out. And again, there's a little yellow dots. We can make adjustments in this case to the curve of the bottom, which is called deflate in PowerPoint. So by going to Shape, Format and text effects in WordArt styles, you have the option to transform where you can apply, follow path or warp and make adjustments. And these can be helpful tools for your designs. 57. Drawing tools: You can use drawer to manually draw lines, shapes, and text, which you can then either animate out in the way they were created or convert to standard PowerPoint shapes. I wonder draw on the ribbon. You will see the drawing tools and then some other options. These are just two pens that can be set up in any way you want. And if you click on them, you can get a drop-down where you can adjust the thickness and choose the color. For this example, I'm just going to use black with a medium thickness. So once enabled, everywhere you click will reveal the ink of the pen that's selected. The draw function can be a good time-saver if you have ideas for a slide, but with rather sketch them out. And it can be very useful if you have a touchscreen, tablet or stylus. Here, for example, I'm going to just sketch three shapes, very roughly. Just with a mouse. And then I'll press Enter, select them all, and then go up to convert and choose ink to shape. That will now convert them into the shapes that PowerPoint thinks you've drawn. From here. You can actually click and modify any of these as you wish. Including changing fill colors, transparency amounts, and outlines. So it can be a really quick way to sketch some ideas, withdraw, and then convert them to shapes. There is also a pencil which is thinner and a highlighter that's available. You can press Control Z to undo those, or you can go to the eraser and erase parts of them. So if I drew on that, I could just go to the eraser and click on it to erase. There's also a ruler. And you can drag this any way you want. When you draw, it will snap to the ruler. So for example, this will be a perfect 45-degree line. If you wish to rotate, the ruler, can use your mouse wheel to rotate it one degree at a time. You can click on the ruler anywhere you want to drag it. Draw a line, and it will snap to the ruler. If you want to exit the touch mode, you can either press return. We'll click here on the draw with touch option. In this section, there's also Ink to Math. Two options in here are Ink to Math and open ink equation editor. This would allow you to scribble some maths and PowerPoint would convert it for you. Say for example, it'd be super rough because I'm using a mouse. If I now press Return, select all of this, and then say Math. Size this down a lot. You can see it's converted it to math. There's an equation section in the ribbon now where you can actually add and remove things. And you can do things such as change the color of the font. It's also change the font to the specific Cambria Math font, so the symbols will show up correctly. 58. EXAMPLE - Reveal animation with draw: In this short tutorial, I'm gonna be showing you how you can create this writing text effect. You can change it to any color and you can use any font. We'll start with file, new, blank presentation, layout, blank. I'm going to click up here to create a textbox. I'm going to type some text. I'm going to choose meow script, make it 180. I'll align it to the middle. You can just visually align it until you're happy with where it is in the middle. And that's about right. So to make it easier to work with, we'll go to Format Background, and we'll just choose a gray color. And the way we get this to work is we actually draw over the entire text in the order we wanted to reveal and reverse it will go to the Draw section of the ribbon. And here you can choose a pen. If you go to the drop-down, you can make sure that it's the thickest one possible, which is 3.5 millimeters. White is fine. Now we can draw over it in the reverse of the way you would expect it to write out. So I'm going to go from the bottom right and then draw over it in that way. So I'm going to click to start. And then I'm going to hold the mouse down. Which is important that you keep your mouse held down. As you draw over this, you can actually let go of the mouse. But if you do, it will create two animations. And ideally it's easier to use. This is just one animation. And we'll want to continue until all the black of the texts lettering is covered. Now I can let go of my mouse. So if we go to the animations pane and click on our ink, we can choose replay. And generally, this will be the option that you use for drawing out animations as you drew them with the pen. But in this case, because we want to reveal the text, we're going to choose rewind, which plays the drawing of ink strokes in reverse. If you haven't quite covered all of the black, you can right-click on this and choose Format ink and change the width that will make it thicker. And you can also change the color. So we're going to change the color to the blue that we're going to use for the first background. So we'll choose light blue. Then we'll right-click on the background and choose Solid fill and choose light blue for that. Also. You can adjust the time it takes to write on by clicking on it, going to animations and changing the duration. I'm going to set mine to three seconds. You can see that even though the text is blue, it will actually show white when you click on it so you can see where it is. Now let's play that. See what we've got. Great. We're just going to make the text white. And to do that, I can either click on this and send it to the back first so I can get to the text I want to make white, or I can choose it in the arrange panel. Just for reference. That's in the selection pane. And you can change it here by clicking on it. Just textbox three. So I'm going to make this text white. Now. Then right-click on this center back. And now it will write out as at the beginning. In my example. Great, I'll just show you how you can make the color variations. So if we click on the slide and press Control D to duplicate, I can right-click on the background, Format Background. This one, I'm going to choose gold axe and four. And then I can click on the drawing that's covering it. Go to Shape, outline, and choose the same color as the background. So I'll just play that. I'm just going to do the final color that I had in the example at the beginning. Control D to duplicate the slides right-click Format background to the solid fill. And we'll choose the standard color, light green there. Then we'll click on the drawing and go to Shape, outline, and choose the green there. Now when we play this, you'll see the exact example. How did the beginning, and remember, you can use this with any font and any text you like.