Three Simple Animation Tricks in PowerPoint to Make an Impact Fast

1. Trailer: We often see animations, visual effects that are familiar for us from commercials, trailers, YouTube ads, and so on. We tend to think that must have been made by a professional video editor. Truth is, these are very easy to adapt and there are countless effects already that we can simply create in our PowerPoint. We don't even know that those we do editors could actually be us without using any video editing software. In this crash course, I will teach you three simple animation tricks in PowerPoint. You can learn literally in minutes. With these tricks, you will blow your viewer's mind. I promise you that you will be able to control or manipulate the eye movement effectively. And you can surprise, reveal hidden parts of any picture. Let's get started and I will see you in class. 2. Introduction: Let's have a brief overview what you are going to learn to be completely accurate. These are technically not animations, but transitions in PowerPoint. It doesn't look like animations. And quite frankly, it doesn't matter at all how you call it. However, it doesn't harm to understand the difference between transitions and animation. This will give you a strong foundation when it comes to the techie part in slides. It will just help you to adapt and apply your new skills easier. The three simple animation tricks are to magnify, reveal, and compare, affect. These three animations are pretty similar to each other, but all we different features. Let's start with the magnified. And within this category, I will cover three exact examples for you that you can practice. And in the first one we will see how you can create map magnifier. And this will be the picture that we will use. After this, you will be able to create map locations yourself, and large hidden details and hotspots. You could create a tour and you can control the focus much better. With an infographic animation. This is something that you probably have seen a lot of big info graphics with tons of information. And this is the problem itself that how can you, how can you create a clear difference between detail and big picture? And with district, you will be able to do it easily. And lastly, within the magnifying effect, I will teach you how to use it. This local store like trick. Here, I will use this picture and this could be useful for any kind of workplace training when you, for example, have a coffee shop or any shop where you sell to customers your products. How to analyze the work process, how to analyze customer behavior. And also with further animations, you can teach how to boost the purchase making decision. And this could be useful for a work place training pretty well. And with this will covert a magnifying effect. The reveal is pretty similar to the magnifying, is still kind of magnifying, but here with different purpose. For example, in the first one, enlighten. What do we mean by a lightening? We will focus on dark scenes so everything is kinda visible. There is no surprise in this picture. But you will manipulate the picture on your own way and you will enlighten different items which were there. But now you see exactly. And with this effect, you can create a kinda drama point or you can teach, explain any kind of process Pi that. The next one is exactly the opposite. Here you do coworker the picture, but you reveal some parts of it. So here, the most important part is the surprise element. You can build up momentum step-by-step, and there is always a surprise. And lastly, the third one is the compare. Here I will teach you one exact method, how you can create a den and now effect. Now this is a tricky one and this is the hardest one from all the three. Here we will learn how to highlight progress, the old and new. Typical example. When, for example, a fitness trainer or a coach shows an example from one of her or his clients who lost weight. And how was it before and how's it now? And this is exactly what we will use. Compare in a different way to conservative. So the old one to the modern state. And these are the three animation tricks that we will learn within this course. 3. Magnifier Effect - Map: From the classical magnifying tricks, the map is the most common sense, and I think the easiest one as well. This is the map that we are going to use. And let say this is a math for a driver, taxi driver, who has to map up the location. Where are the most important hotspots, areas where he can get he or she can get the most passengers. So here we start to map up location. And here, for example, we animate in three hotspots and we move on. And that's it. So once he opened up to your PowerPoint, you will need your picture. This one, of course, you can download from the source files. The first step is you have to duplicate this one. So click on the picture control D. Then you have to and cover exactly the same with the same position and same size. You can do it manually and then the guidelines will help you. But the surest way is always to go to picture format. As you see, I already have a line tools in my shortcuts. You can find it on picture format. You have to select both of them. Then you have to go to a line and go Align Top and then online left, and then they cover each other perfectly. Now the next step is you have to now click on the. And by the way, here is a selection pane just before I forget to save the selection pay you find from the Home tab and then you go to arrange and then selection pane and then it brings it up. This is also a really useful feature in PowerPoint and you see exactly the items, what covers, what? Alright, so we'll select the picture on top. Then. We go to picture format, then cropping. And I want to crop this to shape circle. And now you don't see it actually, but it's already the value C. So our ideas circle. But I want this circle a perfect circle. So I select the aspect ratio as one by one. So let's make it a little bit shorter. Yeah, something like that. So you duplicate this slide now and here is your little magnifier. First, we want to highlight it. And for that you go to right-click Format Picture and go to the line. So the first one, solid line, and let's pick white. And for the width, let's say five. Let's say six. Now I want to darken a little bit the other picture back. And for that you again go to click on the picture and Right-click format picture. You go to the fourth option, and then you go to picture corrections and make it darker by, let's say, minus 25%. Alright. So now you see where your magnify will come up. And what I want to make now I want to actually magnified so the magnifying effect will come by and large. I think this picture here, you can just drag and drop. And let's say it will pop up somewhere here. Alright? And now you go to, again to the second slide. Click on transitions and click on morph. Yes, this will create this morphing effect. And as you see, it's a little bit slow. So I will setup at 1 second as a transition time. And obviously it's faster. Okay, so this will be the first step that the moment when the magnifier pops up. And now we want to move around this magnifier. Again, you duplicate the second slide. And now you would think you would just grab it around. But no, that's not what we want because you see, in that case, you just morphing to the left side the same picture, but there's some pop we want for this. This is the trick here. You have to go to picture format again. Click on cropping. And we keep the same size and, but we changed the position. And we can do that in a way that you have to go exactly here on top. And once the vertical line is in line with the upper frame, then you can move it around. And then you just simply change the circle, the position of the circle on the same picture. So let's say I want to go to the car. And once your hair just zoom out a little bit and click away. And now you can always check if you go to the slide bar, there is this little star. Just click on it. And now you see the magnifying effect. So this, you can move around as, as, as much as you want. You can even change the size. Let's say I duplicate third one. And I want to change the size. And even you can change, reorder the slides. And since the transition effect morphing effect is already there. So here you see, it won't just change the position, but it will change the size of this magnifying size. And it looks really obvious that you're just magnifying the car. So, but let's go back. I don't want to use so much change. Just to make it simple. I delete this month. So once again, ER, here, let's say I want to move around again here. And therefore, I duplicate slide number three. You go to slide number four again, click on the magnifying picture, go to picture format crop. And again, if you don't go precisely there, then this is what's going to happen and this is really annoying. However, you can also do it like that. But it's not so handy since you want to grab a ride away yourself to the picture. So in this case, you move around the bigger picture. And on the left you see from the slide number three where you are and now, so here, exactly. And let's say I want to move to this port. Click away and tested. And it's because they're nice. So let's do that little hotspot area, what we have seen in the example, again, duplicate slide number four. Click on the magnifier and picture format crop. And we want to create that hotspot animation effect on the left upper corner. So once again, pay attention to grabbing the right part. And we go, well, we will see on there. But again here you have to go to this part. So again, it doesn't have to be a 100% precise, it just has to create the illusion. And then you can manipulate a picture. So this is the part that I want to highlight. And now you can, now you can grab wherever you are. But of course it doesn't make sense if you put it here, because obviously we see that this part is actually in that left upper part of the picture. So it has to be around, okay? And you're gonna always control yourself if it's realistic and if it is realistic, even if it's not a 100% precise. And here I will add three other circles. In order to create a perfect circle, you just have to hold on shift and then insert the circle. So I want to make this red with or without line and with a little transparency, let's say, let's say 50. Here. In the example, it wasn't 50, but it doesn't matter. And now I want to duplicate this to time. Another shortcut. If you click on the item and you hold control, then you can create also. You can duplicate an item that way too. All right, so let's sorry. Let's make it a little bit on that one. So this one a little bit smaller, this one bigger. And just like that. And now we go to animations. Remember now this is one example. One example. What was the difference between transition animation? Now I want to create just animations to these three items. And all at the same time for that, you have to select them altogether. Go to animation. And first, I want to make it appear like this, but the fading animation. And you see in animations for more categories, the entrance effects, emphasis effect and exit effects. And the fourth one is the customized so you can create a motion path by herself. So after they entered the room, I want them to grow, shrink. So this is the fact that I'm looking for yes, exactly, but I want them to make it much faster. And now, just as for the selection pane, there is also an animation pane. So first you go to Animation tab and then you will find animation pane. And now you see, and this is also just new feature from PowerPoint to organize this way, it's a super useful just to have an overview and you don't have to click on it again. So here's the animation pane and oh yeah, I forgot one thing. Lets, I will just delete it again. And this is a good lesson to demonstrate what I mean. So first, I want to select the three and make the fate animation. So, and if you want to add another animation, then of course you have to select again, but not going to the animation area, but the Add Animation. This is the big difference. And now you can go to the grow, shrink. The fact, Exactly. And now you see altogether what animations you have just created. And this timing 2.5th is fast enough for me. I want on the same side will just go to duration. Is be careful, be careful that you selected all of them. And you can just write in 0.5. Exactly. And now I want to repeat them. So you go to either you click on this one or just right-click and timing effects. And here you see a different setup possibilities. You go to repeat, selected, let's say four times, and click on rewind when Don playing, this is important. And now you have this effect. All right? So let's have a look right from the beginning how it looks like so far. So you just go with the right arrow. And now click entrance. Next click animation. And let's go back to the very beginning. And 11 big plus in PowerPoint that you already done many things in advance so you don't have to recreate it. You can just duplicate the first slide and then drag it, hold on and drag-and-drop to the last spot. So the six slide. And so here you still need a transition, just coated transition and morph. And you see without any extra work, you just have to duplicate this slide, place it to the end, and then you, you only need to set up the transition and it will go back just like that. And actually for the last step I light is kind of slow going back, but you can also change the duration if you don't, if it's too slow for you, let's say 1.5 seconds. Okay, one this time, let's check all together. Looks pretty nice. Animation. And go back to the beginning. And this was the magnifier effect for the map creation. 4. Magnifier Effect - Infographic: The second magnifying trick has a slightly different approach and it focuses on infographics. This will be the infographic that we are going to use. And as you see, it's already complex enough that creeks that we are going to apply here is how to highlight exact parts of the infographic. It can be a chart, a picture, a simple icon. And it's up to you how you move around the canvas. Let's say here, you can also implement different kind of animations. And this is the one that we are going to learn. And here we will use the magnifier and a different way than we did with map. Because here we will darken the picture a little bit earlier, which has its own purpose. And this is what we are going to do right now. So once you have downloaded to picture, it can just insert. At the first step is just like before, you have to duplicate the picture. And the same way, I will just do it manually. So it's fast. You go to picture format cropping. So I will speed up a little bit because now we do similar steps that we have done before. As you see, the original picture as well is already a cut version. If it disturbs you, it can just make a screenshot of this one and you can only work with that. I will keep it this way. So I select circle again and again, I will use the navigation pane. So here is my circle. And I want to of course, adjust T aspect ratio and I want to make it smaller. So the first thing will be is that I want to make the circle visible, still not enlarging. So it's still not magnifying. And I just, I just duplicated the first slide. I select the picture behind. And I will first go to, again, right-click to picture, format picture. And the fourth one, picture corrections, just like before. And this time I will only darken it by 20. And now you have to click on the second slide, go to transitions again, click on morph. And we have to speed up a little bit. Let's use 1 second transition time. And now you've duplicated this second one as it is. And now you enlarge this one. And let's place it a little bit to the left or right. And let's see how it looks. So I will now copy the first slide to save some steps that I have already made. Because in the first slide, you see circuit is already there. So I don't have to recreate it again. But now I have to click on transition again. So at transition to the slide number four morph again. And again, just PD it up a little bit. 1 second. Alright, duplicate again, the slide number four, Control D. Or you can just right-click and duplicates light. And now I remember it's here. Again. Go to picture format crop. And this time, let's say I want to highlight this part of that chart. So I grab it and exactly at one. Again, hold shift and make it a little bit. Zoom a little bit. And yeah, because I only want to show these three numbers with their visual. And let's say this is something important detail that I want to highlight. So zoom back a little bit, click away, and now duplicate slide number five. Go to slide number six and click on circle, enlarge it. Let's say like this. Exactly. And this time I want to add that highlighter animation. For that you have to go to draw. In case you don't have the row tab, you can always set it up. First of all, you have to have the latest PowerPoint version, but I assume you already had it here. You had to click on this tab and more comments. So you have to go to Customize Ribbon. And here you see your main tabs. And as you see to me, everything is checked. So you have to find the journal and it's check to me so you can't just ok and then you will see your journal tab. So go to Joe and I click on this one. Normally it's yellow. It's up to you Actually. Let's try with the yellow right now if you selected it. So let's say you want to highlight this port and you also want to create an explanation mark. Yes. And here is ink replay. Just click on it. You can close this one and now you have an ink animation. But to, in order to customize it, you have to go to the animations. And remember you had the animation pane, open it. And here, in case you created something with journal tool, you will have an additional animation replay, click on it. And this will happen. But again, this is really slow. So let's say 0.75. And I want to do the same for the explanation more. But first I have to group these two objects, click on Control G. And I want to copy this animation and paste it to this object. You can do that by clicking on the object which already has the animation. Click on animation painter and click on the group. And this way is going to look like this. Alright? So we have to now duplicate slide number five and then just reorder, drag it down and you see it will ultimately go back. This is a big advantage of this that we can do. We can save so many steps. Alright? And now you have to adjust back to the original state, the picture behind. So again, Format Picture, and click on the four-step as before, picture corrections. And you can also say one step if you just click on Reset and then it's going to be reset to the original state. So this is the info graphic animation trick. And you can already combine with the different animations that you have learned before. And now let's move on to the third magnifier trick. 5. Magnifier Effect - Local Store: And the last trick within the magnifying category will be local store sample. As I have told you before, it, this is for a case when, let's say this is a coffee shop training or any local store training. When you are the owner, you are responsible for your workers. Let's say this isn't a training for this worker. What are the things that he has to keep in mind? And let's say we have to analyze how he should read the customers this latest probably or at the boat something. So she is already a customer. But like let's say how to read facial expressions. When he when should he make a first step initiate like asking, How's it LC she doing or something like that. And you can also focus on different parts of the products like the potato, like how clean it has to be or something like that. And yeah, you can focus on other potential customers probabilities guy still hesitating. And this way, you can easily just take a picture and analyze different work processes and customer behavior. Once you download it, the picture again just inserted, and this will be the picture that we are going to work with. Click on it and duplicate. And just like before covert. Precisely the picture behind. Again, I will just get home tab, arrange and open selection paint. So you see the two items. Click on the picture on top. Picture format, crop. You can already select into beginning one-by-one and then go to the circle. Alright? So as I have to go back to this circle, because I want to read just a size. And I want to see this is what happens if you're not exactly shrugging dat. And I want to go to the lady who is probably already a customer. So click away and duplicate slide number one. Control D. Go to this one. And this time I want to use a line. So Format Picture, right-click on the picture, format picture. Go to the first step, solid line. Why does fine? And let's say five. Alright. Enlarge it. Let's say like this. Okay. Click on the picture behind Format Picture fourth TAB, brightness. And let's say in this case minus, minus 40. It always depends on the given picture, on the lights and, and how is the picture visually in this case, minus forties and I do one ad transition. So click on slide number two. Morph also, curation of the transition should be one. So it's not so slow. Alright, this time we will do, again a little bit different when it comes back. I want this to come back to the same spot as it was before. So again, I just duplicated slide number one, click on slide number three, go to transitions and click on More. So it has to go back to the same position. I want, of course again this 1 second. And now the next one, again, I can decide either I can pick another customer or potential customer. Since we also don't know if they did know each other already friends or they are complete strangers for each other. Let's say I want to highlight this part. Potatoes like how clean thetas have to be me or what else we have to keep in mind? Does it have to be always fool or just half or something like that? The next magnifying effect should be around here. Click on slide number three, duplicate. And now we work on slide number four. Again, click on the circle. Remember selection pane. So the item on top, click on picture format, crop. This time I want to make it a little bit shorter, dist. And remember, hold Shift button and you can resize it with the right ratio. And let's say this is only the circle part that I want to highlight. Click away. And this time I will do a timesaver again because I don't want to do to formating step-by-step as I did it before. So I will just go to slide number two. Click on this one and control C. So we copy it, go to back to slide number four and control V, paste it in. I will just click on this one format. And just like that, if you do it like five or six times, it's going to save lots of time for you. So that's why it's useful. And now I just want to enlarge it, say like this. And again, picture corrections minus. So now you duplicate slide number three, reorder. It will go back to just potato areas. So again, picture format, crop, like this. Alright, exactly, nice. And maybe another step I want to analyze this guy over here, isu, maybe he's hesitating. I want to teach the worker how he should behave in order to see this kind of, this type of hesitating potential customer in order to boost the possibility that he will also purchase something. So I duplicate slide number five, go to slide number six. Click on the circle where it's at the moment, and click on picture format. And you don't always have to be exactly within the slide area. You can do it like that, for example. And again, I just copy the circle from the slide number four. Unfortunately, you cannot do the same for the picture darkening for some reason. If you do the same like I know that our error would he have to darken this picture in the back. So the picture number six, if I go to slide number four, unfortunately, can not formating the darkening effect. So this one you have to do anyway, but let's go one by one. I just want to copy this format to this one. I can delete this one. I don't need it anymore. And now enlarge. But now you have to keep in mind that there is a little parts. So it has to be also something like this. So we create the right illusion. So once again, click on the picture, Format Picture and go to fourth TAB. Brightness is minus 40. And the last step we have to duplicate again slight numbers five and we have now slide number six. Click on the potato area, go to format, picture, format crop. And just like that. Alright, and now we will test it from the very beginning, what we just created. So first step, the already existing customer. Next step, how's the potato, how it should be? And the last step, a potential customer. And that was the local store training example. 6. Reveal Effect - Enlighten: By revealing something, we generate an a-ha moment which completely captures our attention. Let's see how can we make this happen with the enlightened trick. Here we have a situation where three men are playing a poker game. This is all obvious, even the scene, there's actually nothing that is not visible on this picture. Obviously, you can see that it's a dark picture. I dark and that of course, we can give new meanings for things. Details that are already there in the picture. We see them, but let's say we have seen that there is a cart in the left hand of the guy sitting on the right. Is he may be trying to cheat or it's just completely okay that he has a card over the air. You can build up momentum. We can build, you can build up also kind of story. Let's say you can just maybe explained the rules of poker game. And here you can, of course, highlight what is what courts He holds. And now we can have a closer look at the guy who is he actually? And here in the middle, we see that this guy actually looks at us. It has not been so obvious as long as we didn't enlighten the fact that he's actually looking at us. And again, you can just use your creativity. How can you move on, on this story line? What is the meaning? What is there behind AC angry or is he just trying to intimidate and so on. And again now we can see a little bit more facial expression from the other guy who is actually looking at the guy in front of him. And we might wonder, is he just analyzing Kim? Is he trying to read? Or we can put so many stories, new content behind it simply by enlightening it, it will, it has been already there. But now that we put the focus only on this guy, we can create so many new content. And it's really up to you just like before, but just an idea of reasonable. Now we zoom onto the table and we can see there's alcohol. And again, we could just go on by explaining the rules of a typical poker situation, for example. Now let's do it step-by-step. The picture, insert into your PowerPoint. And the first very important step is that you have to darken the picture, and in this case dark and by at least 50%. And now just as before, duplicated the picture, place it exactly on top of it. The first step is cropping again. Go to picture format, crop, hold Shift button and make it smaller. And just like before, I will start here with the car. If it's got the true key is just to zoom in a little bit more and then you have more control and yeah, like this. Okay, first of all, I want to duplicate this because now I just had to create my circle. So you have to circle on the slide number one, slide number two, click on the circle. And again, right-click Format Shape. And now you go to first of all, the last one and you have to create a line. It's really important here, it's no choice. Actually you read and need a line. So let's say white. And the width. Let's use maybe that's a little bit too much. Let's use maybe just for, all right. And you click on the circle again. And what you want to do is you go to the fourth tab and reset the picture corrections. Actually, you can even make it a little bit lighter. That does make sense in this case because we do want to enlighten the details on that part. But not to create too many reflections, for example, right? Now you know that as a next step, I could just go to transition morph. So it's like on the second slide. And let's see. Ok, looks nice. Now again, Just before I can decide what is the part that I want to highlight? What is my message, what am I trying to say? And now I want to kind of say that he's actually cheating. And how can he keep the keep the poker face while he's cheating? And why he has two other guys looking at him. So duplicate slide number two. You go to slide number three and click on the circle. Go to picture format crop. And again, try to be careful by dragging this circle. Zoom out a little bit. And here again, hold Shift button and with the right proportion, just place it on the right place. Alright. So click away outside of the slide. Exactly. And in this case maybe two seconds is not so slow. But still I would like to speed up a little bit. Again, the speed of the transition. So go to the slide number two are basically again, just select both of them and Dan go to transitions. And here you see the duration of the speed, let's say 1.75. Let's see how it looks like. It's nice. So duplicate the slide number three. And as before now I want to go to this guy in the middle and enlighten the fact that he's actually looking at us. Go to picture format. Click away. And what happened? It's still kinda slow. No, it is. Okay. Maybe, you know, when you do such a small step, maybe it can be even faster. Yes, that's nice. Alright, in the next step I want to highlight this guy too, but maybe this time I want to enlarge his hands. Why is he doing? Because obviously he's looking at him. But now actually I changed my mind because that's a really powerful moment and the way he looks. So that's what I'm going to do. First, duplicate the slide number four. We're seeing slide number 55. Go click on the circle, go to picture format, cropping. Click away. I want to create one more step on to enlarge how he looks actually. So good to slide number five. Click on now slide number six. Looks nice. Not how he looks, but the transition. So I want to go back to the same position. I want the circle to go back to the same position. For this, I have to duplicate slide number five and place it just behind the slide number six. So now we create slide number seven. And let's see how it looks like. Yes. Okay, one last step. I still want to go to the table. So click, sorry, click on slide number seven, duplicate slide number eight. Click on the circle. So you will have enough chance to practice and a little bit closer. Exactly this part, I still want to highlight and click away. And again here I will do an additional step. So I do a little bit more as I plan. But you see this is the huge advantage of these whole trick that you can be so creative and so flexible along the way, you just have a new idea and you just reorder the slides and it's just so simple. So I want to enlarge this. Therefore, I want to duplicate slide number eight, go to slide number nine and larger, maybe a little bit on the left. That's how it looks like. That's also nice. Alright, and maybe this is the last part of the story that I'm trying to present here. So let's see how it looks like. From the very beginning. The card cheating poker face. The guy looks at us. The other guy who looks at the other guy. And let's have a closer look at him. And let's see what's on the table. That's it. Now you can apply the enlightened trick in your own PowerPoint. 7. Reveal Effect - Surprise: The second reveal effect, surprise is exactly the opposite of the enlightened effect. Here, we intentionally Colbert a picture and only show the circle as you see it here. Let's see how it looks like. So the first woman is that you see there is a popcorn. You already assume you already have some associations what it might be, who is holding that popcorn? Maybe it's in a movie or something similar. So the second step, the second step is that you see the face of the person who's holding it still actually you cannot be sure, but this is also part of the game that you kind of guess at up by yourself. The rest of the picture which is missing. You reveal that there is also an other pop core held by another person, which you can already see it's a female person from this angle, so it's not a man. So there might be two, but now we see another man actually. So they are not just two of them. And there is one more woman. We didn't know that the net bonds, and this is the point of the whole game that you can build up the steps however you want. You can start with the two females, for example, or you can start with the guys. It's really up to you, add different messages. Let's say this is a commercial, of course, a really easy one. You want to sell the popcorn. Obviously, pecan itself is nothing exciting at the popcorn is just a tool to make a moment much more memorable. And in this case, it's not a movie stay or watching game probably. But you want to sell the tool that can create a more memorable moment for your customer. If you did a good job. By now, it's not even a question that o is just the popcorn. Should I buy it? Or I want to buy it because I want to have fun with my friends, then you can slide in the call to action. And of course the availability is. So this is really a very basic marketing treated many commercials use. Let's just go back to the very beginning. So once again, you have product, you want to sell it, you connect it to the customer right away. You want to strengthen this argument that it's not just a happy customer with your product, but it's more customers. Even more. Short message, like more than just the popcorn or something. And the last one is just business. Again, download the picture inserted to your PowerPoint. Here we start with the color. I already prepared this little shape just for the color, because we want to change first the background color. For that you click on the slide. Format background. I will just use the eye dropper. Go to this shape. And there you go. So I can delete this supplies to picture, right? Fit into the slide. And here we don't duplicate to basic picture because we will just play with the background and the picture which covers the background, of course. So we will crop always the picture itself and nothing duplication. We will duplicate a slides but not the picture. Click on the picture. Picture format. Crop, circle, just like before. Change the aspect ratio to one by one. The format hold Shift button. I get smaller. Similarly with closer so you can drag easier and yeah, just in a way that you can see the popcorn clearly and that someone is holding that book corner like this. Click away, and this will be the first picture. Now, there is one additional little adjustment that through at the same time can make huge effect simply using shadows. Just click on the item. In this case it's a picture, but you can also use that for shapes. Go to the Format Picture. So again, if you don't update an open-end up or the dentures go right-click to the picture and form a picture. But now you get to the second row, and here you see many options, but we will only use the shadow. And to make it easy, you just select a preset. This is generated by our PowerPoint. I would say use the 11. It's when the shadow is below the object. And then you don't have to bother. We will either because we will change it a little bit. But for you to understand the basics of setting up shadows, This is the one you see. It already makes it a little bit like 3D effect. Like it's not just 2D and that is, it creates a nicer effect. What want to do? I want to change the color of the shadow from black to white because it's, you see it highlights it even better and I want to enlarge it. So it's even more obvious that there is some shadow for that. You can go to this size. And you see now that would be too much. But as you see it's really hard line. It's not like a real shell. It could be reissued opened, not the shadow, so to speak. Go to the object, that picture again. What we want to do is to change the blur effect. You see, I zoom a little bit closer. This is 0. This is too much blur, and this is about the blurred or to want to use so 0.8. And that's going to be fine. Okay, we have the first moment of the picture, which is this. Now you can go to the slide number one to replicate. And we want to move this circle up to the head of the guy. This is the same procedure. Click on format picture. Again. Be careful. Go closer a little bit if it's kinda tricky. And this, Okay, but now I have to use and pick a little bit. That's enough. And as you see, the viewers still don't see, see what's over there. It's completely your power, your control, how you manipulate a picture. What do you want to show from the picture at the beginning? Click away, and just like before, click on slide number two, go to transitions. Click on morph. And again, speed it up a little bit. Slide number two, transitions morph 1 second, transition time, duplicate slide number two. And remember the next step is that we want to show the other popcorn held by one of the girls, click on a picture crop and I want to go here. Yet it could be also something if you place it like this, it's still actually not obvious that it's held by a girl. But if you go a little bit like this now it's a 100% hobbyists that, that must be a woman. So even this little slight movement can be lit room for playing. How much do you want to show? Click away. And this is the second one. Alright, now some duplicate slide number three. Slide number four go to picture format. And now we make it so duplicates Leiden before on slide number five, click on the picture, crop it. And this time I want to enlarge, hold, Shift button, click away. And the next one, I want to show all of them. So including the less girl, go to slide number five. Duplicate, go to slide number six. Go to click on the picture, picture format. And now you want to change the shape. Because until now we only used the circle. And now I want to use here the rectangular rounded corners rectangle. And now again crop. Let's see. It looks like, yes, nice. And now I want to create a kind of slogan that it's more than just the popcorn. So let us say more than a pop car. Before that, I will insert a text box. And we want to animate this little text box. So click on the text blocks, go to animations. And we will use the load n. Yes, that's a nice one. But duration 1 second is fine. Now, let's see. Yes, that's exactly the effect that we're looking for. Now the next one, I want to duplicate slide number six because this line number seven, again, click on the picture. Picture formats crop, change the shape back to circle. Again, change the aspect ratio to one-by-one. This time you can just enlarge it. For this, you don't need to hold Shift button. And you message, this is a period of business order now. And you just the dummy number, like 909. More important messages to order now, okay. And maybe this is also a little bit bigger. So as I told you before, it doesn't have to be necessarily in the middle. It's also little bit aesthetic decision on your own. And this has to be animated as well. Go to the textbooks. It has already an animation, but I want to use another one for this. I want to use the fly in, change the direction of the flying effect. Not from the bottom, but I want from the left. Exactly. And that we're almost ready. Let's see. Nice. So the first step you visualize, Of course, it's about popcorn. You showed happy customer. Okay, there is a company who is a girl. She's also watching the game. There's one moral guy, group of friends and one more person. And this makes the picture complete. It's more than just a popcorn. So why not buying the popcorn right away? Let's get the business order now. You see the number and we are waiting for your cool. So this was a surprise effect and you can apply it now easily in your own PowerPoint. 8. Comparison Effect - Then and Now: The last animation trick is to compare effect. This is also the so-called den and now effect and you will see what does it mean. And this is the hardest one. This is that requires the most time from you if you want to do it from a to Z, but I will make it shorter for you. However, I show you the way, if you want to practice yourself, you have more possibilities to apply. I give you the basics that will allow you to decide yourself. What kind of situations would you like to try out or present yourself? But the point is this is more complex, is requires more time, but you have all the tools in your hand to make magic happen. So here is an old picture with an old car. And first we will bring up our little circle, which already shows you that in the background there is already a colored picture showing the present. And we will go back behind the old car and showing that this is the future, this is the present or however you want to present it. This is the car of the future and the other one is the core of the past. And this is something you can also do if you have two exact same pictures with the same positions. This is something that you can also play with. And this is basically what we are going to do. But building up the whole set already requires a little bit more preparation and let's start with that. In this case, I collected everything in one place right at the beginning. So you have an overview. What are the pictures that I've been using? What is the necessary step trick that you have to prepare first? So we are talking about four pictures actually. First, we need the car that I just don't want it from Paxos, then you need this picture, as you see, it's originally a color picture and you will need the car as a cutout picture. So you would just place it on that other picture. And you also need the picture as a integrated altogether, so to speak, integrated. Which means you will just have to make it as a slide show and make a screenshot and that's it. So I will show you very briefly how the preparation goes, then you can do it on your own. After all, if you want, you can download all the pictures you will have in the source files. But basically the practice for this lecture is to start from here when you have everything altogether. So I will make one blank slide and let's start with this one. This is the first one. I just make a copy. And this is a very important feature. This is mini Photoshop feature in PowerPoint when you can cut out the background. And this is very useful for many other situations. The way you do it, it's as that you go to picture format. And here is the Remove Background feature. You click on it. And the purple is the area which is going to be removed. So I just click away. But here you always see in the slideshow how it looks like. Now this is just an ultimately generated, a result that's telling us what we want, but it gives you the idea how it looks like. So let's go back to the very beginning. Again, picture format, remove background. And this is of course the disadvantage of Barb and is not Photoshop. And if you really want to be sophisticated, you have to go to Photoshop or GIMP. So the free Photoshop, you always have three possibilities to do that. But for this, you don't need to, you just have to practice a little bit. And Photoshop will, sorry. Powerpoint will not always do the logical thing to you that you want to cut out. This part that you see, there will be some other part. So, so you have to do at the beginning quite, pretty much extra work to figure it out how it actually works. But if you really just put in the time, you can create relatively precise cutout picture. You see, I tried to start to get the picture that because you see there are shapes. And that's also the tricky part. Because of course I can tell power appended. I want only this shape, but PowerPoint only reads colors, areas, so he doesn't really understand what I am trying to do. But the more areas you mark like this, he will more and more kind understand that this is the area exactly how I want to cut it out. So this is a little bit annoying in the beginning, but necessary. Getting closer. You see this is also hard part because this is just a reflection. But of courts that still the window, It's not just the reflection. Needed, can load a little bit longer depending on the size of the picture. This is relatively big picture. And here you can always check yourself, how's it going with the cutting out process? And this is the other one. You can have two options. More carriers to keep, Mark Areas to remove, and you can always undo what you have just done. Again, not so precise, nibbled around. You see there is this line, I don't want that. This is the way you can cut out parts. Now this might not be the easiest tart, but now I would just leave it like this. And the next one is that I want to change the position of a car. For that, you have to go to picture format, rotate, and flip horizontally. This is also a very useful feature. I will just show you around how I set up the whole picture around that size other original picture. So this one, send it to the back. And now this is another picture. But on top of the other picture. And now you see it's like a car is just coming behind this car. So I want to make it maybe a little smaller. You see even the shadow is helping to create the illusion that the lights are behaving in the same way, just like with this course. So it's actually part of the original picture. And from this angle, you wouldn't even think is just a copy there. Alright. So the next part is that you have, you will need a picture where this is not just to picture altogether as a group, but one picture. For that, the easiest way is that you just make a slideshow and right now you just click screenshots and then you open up a new slide, insert. And now you see this is only one picture with the arrow picture grouped together. So this one you will need. And the other thing, what we still have to do, and again, little Photoshop work. Again, you go to picture format. And I'm sorry, you can just click on, right-click on the picture, format picture. And you can also do it here, but it's just easier to have a better overall overview because this is what we practiced so far. So picture corrections always go to the fourth tab. And here you go to picture color. And you can use this here and completely go 0. Exactly. And I made, it's still a little bit, right. It's really up to you. I would say if it's a little bit even brighter than it gives the illusion that it's haven in more in the past, but not necessarily. So this is the preparation, this you don't have to do. I just showed you how you can do it yourself if you would like to practice that. And now we move on to the actual work that we want to do in this lecture. And let's get started. Here are the two pictures that I'm going to need for the actual practice is copy them. And I'm going to do everything from the slide number three. Don't bother about the first T one, it doesn't matter. Here are my two pictures that I'm going to need. You will have to. But this picture first in front of the old picture. So first of all, this one we have to align, fit into the slide. And this one too. So they cover each other perfectly. First step is nothing unfamiliar. You go to the picture, crop it. Find the oval shape. Is the aspect ratio one by one. We will start from here. Click away, go to slide number three, duplicate, and go back to the slide number three. We want to make it transparent first, this is the first step. You click on the picture. Go to the fourth. Let's just make it a better overview. Go to picture transparency and make it 100. So it's completely invisible here. Go to the slide number four, click on the picture again, and now we will adjust it. First. We want to make it a little bit brighter or go to a picture corrections. So it highlights even better that it is a colored area. And we want to add a solid line as well. Let's say also with the with 6. And don't forget transitions. So slide number four, click on morph. Duplicate slide, and before, click on slide number five to the picture. And just like before, nothing new here, move it up exactly to the car. Click away. There you go. And speed up a little bit again. The transition duration to 1 second. Yeah, that's enough. Duplicate Slide number five. Click on the little circle on slide number six. And we want to just enlarge it and bring it to the middle. One of them I get even bigger, just like this. It doesn't matter if it goes out of this slide is just f to be big enough here. Alright? And then go back to slide number five. Duplicate it and reorder it. So it has to be the next one. If you just click again. And one additional fact that you can just practice it also, again, as I said before, if you have two exact same pictures, let's say you have the time and of course, the skill set to remove the car from here and position this car exactly the same with the shadows, lighting and everything else. That would be the real effect, but that could, that could be another course that requires way more preparation and Photoshop work. We'd now we can create other effects just like this. You go to slide number seven, duplicate. Go to the picture again and again, picture format, crop. Because we're now you also highlight them the colored version of the old car. And maybe duplicate slide number seven again, reorder it. And let's just go back to the nice car. So let's see how it looks like. Go to the new car. This is the future, is the president, however you would like to present. And now you can easily apply it in your own PowerPoint presentations. 9. Summary: If you made it so far, congratulations. You can easily impress now anybody with your modern PowerPoint skills. Let's recap what you have learned in this course. Now you can create magnifier effects easily on any map, highlighting any specific cations, hotspots, or simply giving a digital city tour. Complex infographics is not only about beautiful visualized information, but connections, overview details without noise and distractions, which you can deliver. Now, with the help of this animation, explaining, presenting a workplace situation is super simple. We, these magnifier tricks. You learn how to reveal different aspects of a picture. On a dark picture, for example, you can now manipulate the viewers attention. And with a slightly commercial approach, you can surprise and who knows, maybe you can sell a product easier. Lastly, with a comparing trick, you learned how to highlight old and new features of a car or anything else that you have in mind. Thank you for taking this course. I wish you big time success with your new PowerPoint skills.